PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners – promotions


City and south-east firm Charles Russell promotes five, taking its total number of partners to 94. Those promoted are Helen Brooks (employment and pensions), Edward Craig (litigation dispute resolution), James Hyne (corporate recovery and insolvency), Tanya Roberts (family) and Sarah-Jane Turcan (employment and pensions).


Reynolds Porter Chamberlain promotes commercial and insurance specialist Mark Kendall, taking its total to 62.


Olswang promotes three: Susan Draper in banking, Jeremy Mash in commercial litigation and Matthew Phillips in the media, communications and technology team. It now has 80 partners.


Elsewhere in London, Peachey & Co promotes mergers and acquisitions specialist Clare Brennan, bringing the total number of partners to five.


Stringer Saul promotes Chris Chrysanthou in its corporate practice, taking its total to 17.


Pierre Thomas & Partners promotes insurance and personal injury specialist Roman Rataj. It now has three partners.


Surrey firm Crellins promotes family law specialist Lyndsay Wishart; she becomes its fourth partner.


Blake Lapthorn Linnell promotes three: in Oxford, Chris Alder (professional regulation) and Chris Potts (litigation and dispute resolution); in Portsmouth, Manoj Styche-Patel (company and commercial). It now has 91 partners.


Two promotions at Bristol firm TLT take the partnership to 53: Mark Routley in the real estate team and Sasha Butterworth in pensions.


In Birmingham, Shakespeares promotes mergers and acquisitions specialist Andrew Cowan, taking its partner total to 24.


Also in Birmingham, Blair Allison promotes family specialists Rayner Grice and Harriet Moat; it now has four partners.


Yorkshire firm McCormicks promotes corporate recovery specialist Ryan Millmore. The firm now has 13 partners.




Partner – hires


James Crabtree joins Taylor Wessing’s litigation and dispute resolution practice from Pinsent Masons.


In Liverpool, Silverbeck Rymer appoints Laurence Brown as associate partner and head of its defendant business development practice; he joins from Halliwells in Manchester.


Yorkshire firm Keeble Hawson expands its corporate and commercial team with the hire of Rupert Nevin. He was previously at Gordons.




Associates/Assistants


Charles Russell promotes nine to associate: Pervaze Ahmed and Henry Fea (private client), Bernadette Bailey and Emma Humphreys (litigation dispute resolution), Louise Dyke, Simon Ewing and Eleanor Newton (real estate), David Thompson (family), and Andy Williams (employment and pensions).


Travel and insurance litigation associate Julie Straughan rejoins Pierre Thomas & Partners from Irwin Mitchell.


Blake Lapthorn Linnell promotes three to senior solicitor: Nicola Fillery in the corporate team in Oxford; Martin Hirst in the Portsmouth real estate team; and Joe Johnson in the corporate team in Southampton.


Bristol firm TLT promotes ten to associate: Emma McLennan and Nicola Boyce (employment), Jane Fitzgerald, Adele Lawson-Freudenthal, Ben Tarrant, Laura Small and Gerald Sheriff (real estate), Alison Deighton (commercial), Julian Wintle (banking and lending services), and Nicola Clarkson (family).


Family assistant Kelly Davies joins midlands firm Higgs & Sons from Pontypridd firm Spicketts Battrick.


Moving north, Yorkshire firm McCormicks promotes eight in its Leeds and Harrogate offices. Corporate finance specialist Christian Hunt and Lynsey Harrison in the commercial dispute resolution team become senior associates. Liz Power, Rachel Dean and Jonathan Simms (corporate and commercial); Estelle Oates and Kerry Waters (commercial dispute resolution); and Peter Byrne (corporate crime and risk unit) become associates.


Yorkshire firm Rollits recruits two to its property team: senior solicitor Richard Stirk joins from the College of Law in York and solicitor Alison Barr moves from Pinsent Masons in Manchester.



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Sir Hugh Laddie, formerly senior judge of the Patents Court, has been appointed to a newly created chair in intellectual property law at University College London.