PRIVATE PRACTICE


Partners



In the City, Davies Arnold Cooper promotes four in its real estate group to equity: Ashley Dewar, Tim Johnson, Paul McCartney and Crispin Tomlinson.



Berwin Leighton Paisner recruits tax partner Neal Todd from Linklaters.



Tax specialist Stephen Lane joins Fox Williams from Pinsent Masons.



Cam Brockie moves from Simmons & Simmons to join the banking and finance group at US firm McDermott Will & Emery.



Oury Clark promotes Martin Reid, who heads the corporate and commercial department.



Capsticks promotes projects specialist Justin Alford.



Conveyancing specialist Suzanne O’Sullivan joins south London firm Anaysse-Jacobs from Adams in Mile End.



Elsewhere, Paul Oyemike moves to Essex firm Samuel & Co to head the criminal department from Stratford firm Abiloye & Co.



Stephen Barker joins the European litigation group in Reed Smith’s Birmingham office; he moves from Evesheds.



Jenny Gemmell joins the commercial department at Lancaster firm Oglethorpe Sturton Gillibrand from DWF’s Liverpool office.



North-west firm Brabners Chaffe Street boosts its Manchester employment team with the appointment of Marcus Difelice, who moves from Eversheds in Birmingham.



Property finance specialist Tom Whiteside joins Leeds firm Lupton Fawcett from Pinsent Masons.



Associates/Assistants



Stephenson Harwood appoints Martin Fleetwood as senior associate in its banking and asset finance practice; he moves from Nabarro Nathanson.



Senior associate Emma Copestake joins Withers’ residential property team from Farrer & Co.



Employment associate Luke Hinchley leaves Norton Rose to join Taylor Wessing.



Seddons promotes two to associate: Rebecca Lake in the employment department and Adam Miller in the property team.



Three join Howard Kennedy: Rebecca March-Taylor from Adams Remers in Lewes and Sukina Dhillon from Russell-Cooke both join the commercial property department, and Gavin Birchall from Kingston Smith joins the tax department.



Angela Armar joins the employment team at Plexus Law from Lyons Davidson in New Malden.



Assistant Adam Witkover joins north London firm Bross Bennett’s family team from Freedman Sharman & Co.



Criminal assistants Emma Judt and Melanie Wotton move to Walthamstow firm Wiseman Lee from local firm Gilbert Turner Coomber.



Essex firm Palmers appoints Tom Lawrence in the commercial litigation department on completion of his training contract with the firm.



Pitmans in Reading appoints intellectual property solicitor Sarah Hadland from Eversheds in London.



In Southampton, Mario Montana joins Moore & Blatch’s commercial property team from Slough firm Barrett & Thompson.



Hammonds in Birmingham appoints Sarah Nicholson in its tax team from Eversheds.



In Wales, Frances Blomeley joins the Cardiff office of Leo Abse & Cohen as an associate and head of commercial litigation; she moves from local firm Capital Law.



Moving north, Manchester firm Neil Millar & Co appoints commercial assistant Danielle Clements from Stockport firm O’Neill Patient.



Assistant Alison Melling joins Lancashire firm Napthens’ family department from Inghams in Preston.



Criminal solicitor Fiona Newbould joins Hull firm Myer Wolff from the Stokoe Partnership in London.



Family solicitor Chris Evans moves to Driffield firm Iveson Atkin Williamsons from Sheffield firm Graysons.



In Leeds, Keira Hart joins Emsleys’ commercial property department from Eversheds.





CONSULTANTS



Mary Bonar moves from Nabarro Nathanson to join Stephenson Harwood’s banking and asset finance practice.



In Birmingham, mental-health specialist Jon Lloyd joins Anthony Collins’ personal planning and management department; he moves from Reid & Co.