Private Practice


Partners



Movement among the London offices of US law firms kicks off this week’s round-up.


White & Case
reinforces its financial dispute resolution team with the appointment of John Reynolds from McDermott Will & Emery, where he was formerly head of the international dispute resolution group.



Jones Day boosts its business recovery and restructuring department with the recruitment of Andrew Rotenberg from Bingham McCutchen.



City firm Lovells has hired private equity partner Tom Whelan from DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Carey. Also appointed partner is Stephanie Keen, formerly a senior associate at US firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson.



Elsewhere in the capital, Peter Brown moves from Michael Simkins to join the intellectual property team at Hextalls.



Dawsons brings in partners Corinne Vincent, who headed the real estate asset management department at Linklaters, and employment specialist Phillip Wood from Maxwell Batley.



Davies Arnold Cooper promotes two construction specialists, Elliot Lewis and Jonathan Pawlowski, to associate (salaried) partner.



Kent firm Thackray Williams has recruited residential conveyancing partner Kavitha Rajah from Bromley’s Tinklin Springall.



Reading firm Blandy & Blandy announces two promotions: Debbie Brett (dispute resolution) and Karen Jones (planning). It now has 17 partners.



Nearby in the Thames Valley, Newbury-based Gardner Leader promotes Derek Rodgers (employment and corporate/commercial), Alastair Goggins (personal injury and dispute resolution) and Greg Humphreys (corporate/commercial).



Also promoting three is Leamington Spa firm Wright Hassall: Mark Miller (commercial property), Gill Worthington (retail property), and Justin Creed (family).



In Wales, Jonathan Rees is promoted to partner in the Merthyr Tydfil office of Hugh James. He heads the firm’s Claimselect unit.



The Manchester office of Pinsent Masons has brought in corporate finance specialist Chris Moss from Halliwells.



In Leeds, David Coates and John Barker have left Brooke North to join Fox Hayes as head of commercial property and as a commercial partner, respectively.



Associates/assistants



City firm Denton Wilde Sapte has grown its planning and public law group with senior solicitor Jeremy Swain from the Government Legal Service.



James Hutchinson has left Pinsent Masons to join the corporate team at Beale & Company as an assistant.



However, Pinsent Masons also brings in four senior associates: litigator Tom Pincus to the London office from Olswang; Tom Stocker from Kennedys and Sean Elson from Eversheds join the corporate defence and regulatory team in Scotland and Birmingham, respectively (Mr Elson heads up the Birmingham unit); and Emma Flower, also from Eversheds, is to advise on commercial claims in Manchester.



Dawsons brings in four solicitors as well: Anne Petersen (employment) from Stephenson Harwood; James Riddoch (property) from Winckworth Sherwood; Rosa Sanchez (corporate commercial) from Dundas & Wilson; and Andrew Suggitt (private client) from Witham Weld.



Conveyancing assistant Ziad Al-Rawi moves from west London practice AR Legal Solutions to Hatton Wyatt in Gravesend.



Julian Waldon returns from the US, where he was admitted in California, to join the family department of AK Gulati & Co in Sutton.



Nick Southwell has qualified at Havant-based Dyer Burdett and is working in the employment, commercial and litigation departments.



Commercial property specialist Julia Turner joins the Bournemouth office of Horsey Lightly Fynn from Paris Smith & Randall along the coast in Southampton.



Reading firm Blandy & Blandy has promoted three to associates: John Evans (company and commercial), Caroline Casagranda (wills and probate) and Emma Banister Dean (dispute resolution).



Two associates are welcomed to the Newbury office of Penningtons: dispute resolution specialist Andrew Jackson from the London office of Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens, and family lawyer Sarah Speed from London firm Manches.



Also leaving Manches, this time its Oxford office, is assistant Nicola Daybell, who has joined nearby specialist employment firm Julian Taylor.



Further west, Bristol firm Wards has hired commercial property specialist Emma McParland for its Bradley Stoke office. She leaves Cotswolds firm Ouvry Creed Scott.



Also in Bristol, Digby Hebbard leaves Beachcroft to join the construction and engineering department of Pinsent Masons.



Wills and probate solicitor Nelissa Hicks has joined east midlands firm Flint Bishop & Barnett from Ellis-Fermor & Negus.