PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners


National firm Pinsent Masons appoints two partners in its banking and finance group: Seamas Gray joins the restructuring team in London from DLA Piper, and Matthew Heaton joins its Birmingham banking group from Eversheds.


Leaving Pinsent Masons is Peter Stockdale, who joins London firm Campbell Hooper’s new regeneration group.


Martin O’Donoghue joins the property department at Lincoln’s Inn firm Hunters from Sheridans.


Specialist London maritime firm Winter Scott promotes James King to partner.


Jane Hall moves to Cogent’s catastrophic injury team in Croydon from Kennedys, where she was a partner.


To Surrey, where Herrington & Carmichael promotes three: Andrew Annette and Tim Hardesty in the commercial property department, and Yavan Brar in the corporate team. The firm now has ten partners.


In Wales, Cardiff firm Berry Smith promotes Stephen Moore in the employment team to partner.


Berrymans Lace Mawer promotes two personal injury specialists to partner: James Harvey in Birmingham and Sara Wedel in Leeds. It now has 104 partners.


Harrogate firm Raworths appoints Ian Shuttleworth in the commercial property team; he moves from Gordons in Leeds.


Manchester firm Glaisyers strengthens its commercial property team with the appointment of development and investment specialist Eric Quirk from Cobbetts.


East Lancashire firm Farleys promotes corporate specialist Debbie King to equity partner.




Associates/Assistants


Eversheds appoints associate Dominic Collier to its London insurance team from Simmons & Simmons, and Diana Newcombe, former legal advisor to General Healthcare Group, to its regulatory department.


Elsewhere in London, sports law firm Couchman Harrington recruits sponsorship specialist Andy Korman from Hammonds.


Hextalls promotes commercial litigation and dispute resolution specialist Kamran Rehman to associate.


Litigator Ken Morrison joins WGS as an associate from Seakens in Surrey.


Commercial litigator Guy Wilkes moves to Osborne Clarke’s London office as a senior associate from Allen & Overy, and associate Katrina Mulligan joins the litigation team in the Reading office from Olswang.


Assistant Helen Edwards moves from US/UK firm Jones Day to join Russell-Cooke’s commercial property team in south London.


Two recruits for TLT’s private business group in Bristol: associates David Wheeler and Maureen Morgan join from Lyons Davidson and Osborne Clarke respectively.


Tom Bray joins the employment team at Cardiff firm Berry Smith from the local office of Eversheds.


Sally-Ann Evans joins the civil litigation team at Cardiff firm Morgans from Keppe Rofer in Brecon.


In Shropshire, family specialist Beth Tutchener-Ellis joins the Dawley office of PCB from Telford firm Elliott Bridgman.


Flint Bishop & Barnett appoints Ross Matthews to its corporate and commercial team in Derby; he moves from HLW in Sheffield.


Leeds firm Langleys promotes five to associate in the finance and insurance groups. They are: Jonathan Finn, Samantha Gray, Hazel Leeson, Lisa Sheriston and Carol Dalton.


Commercial litigator Matthew Hill joins Harrogate firm Raworths from Northampton firm Turner Coulston.


Also in Harrogate, Berwins appoints Claire Armer to its commercial property department from Grahame Stowe Bateson.


Richard Whittaker joins the private client department of Rollits in Hull as a senior solicitor from Walker Morris in Leeds.


Matrimonial associate Jo Whitfield moves to Newcastle upon Tyne firm Sintons from local firm Hay & Kilner.



IN-HOUSE


Sally March, former head of legal for the BBC Technology Group, moves to communications and technology company Nortel as director of compliance for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.


Jeremy Myers moves to Birkenhead-based cost drafting company Law Costing as its in-house solicitor. He moves from Freemans in Liverpool.