Private Practice




Partners





Starting in the capital, Mishcon de Reya has boosted its corporate finance team with the capture of partner Joel Adler from Speechly Bircham.



Trefor John moves to Clyde & Co’s tax department from Lovells, where he was head of tax knowledge management.



The London office of Maclay Murray & Spens has hired commercial litigation partner Simon Colledge from Orchard Brayton Graham.



Olswang appoints media corporate specialist Mark Bertram, who moves from Harbottle & Lewis, where he was head of corporate finance.



Bevan Brittan boosts the TMT practice in its London office with the appointment of IT and digital media partner Sherree Westell from Lewis Silkin.



Specialist employment law firm Doyle Clayton promotes Jessica Corsi as its fifth partner.



Among the 16 partners promoted around the world by US-based Paul Hastings, one is in the London office: tax specialist Justin Hamer.



The same story at US firm Sullivan & Cromwell, for which London-based EC competition specialist Juan Rodriguez is one of eight worldwide partnership promotions.



Just south of the River Thames, immigration specialist Wesley Gryk promotes Alison Hunter and Barry O’Leary to partner.



Leaving the City is James Herbert, formerly a senior associate at Allen & Overy, who joins the corporate and commercial team at Tunbridge Wells firm Thomson Snell & Passmore as a partner.



In Salisbury, Wilsons appoints Matthew Bennett as a partner in its private client team. He joins from Osborne Clarke.



Reading firm Pitmans promotes Sue Crowther to partner in its planning and environmental department. It now has 25 partners.



Derek Ching, the head of commercial property at another Reading firm, ClarksLegal, has moved to Bristol to join

Veale Wasbrough.



Duncan Nicholson joins Tollers as a partner and head of business unit within the business recovery team, based in the Milton Keynes office. He was formerly at Shoosmiths.



Joining Shoosmiths in Birmingham, meanwhile, are corporate specialist Alastair Peet and property litigator Darren Clegg from Eversheds and Wragge & Co respectively.



Simon Bates joins Leicester-based Harvey Ingram as a partner and head of the commerce and technology team from Cobbetts. Solicitor Dale Williams moves with him.



Leaving Harvey Ingram is Matthew Talbot, who has joined fellow Leicester practice Howes Percival as head of intellectual

property.



Nottingham firm Berryman promotes corporate finance specialist Roger Harcourt, its 16th partner.



Ipswich firm Kerseys promotes family lawyer Ruth Balaam and commercial property specialist Kimat Singh to partner.



In York, Langleys has brought in employment partner Jeremy Emmott from DLA Piper.



North Yorkshire firm Harrowell Shaftoe promotes residential conveyancer Elspeth Harrow, taking the partnership to 20. She will also be taking over responsibility for the firm’s Haxby office.



Commercial property specialist David Coleman joins Leeds firm Lee & Priestley from Cobbetts’ office in the city.



Across the Pennines, Preston-based Ricksons promotes Anand Raghupati to partner in the insurance

litigation team.





Associates/Assistants





Three new faces at London firm Kingsley Napley: barrister Charles Kuhn joins the criminal litigation team on a year’s secondment from the Crown Prosecution Service, assistant James Caswell (property) joins from Hertfordshire firm Nockolds, and assistant Chris McIntosh (family) moves from Dawsons.



Elsewhere in London, Steven Friel joins Davies Arnold Cooper’s commercial litigation team as associate partner from

US firm Debevoise & Plimpton.



Joanna Atkinson joins the London office of niche employment firm Doyle Clayton after taking a year out to travel. The firm also promotes Tina Wisener to associate in the Reading office.



Corporate associate Deborah Grim moves to the London office of US firm White & Case from Richards Butler.



Hextalls hires Anthony Thompson as an associate in the employment team from Wellers in Bromley.



Pensions specialist Sacker & Partners hires Naomi Brown and Nigel Cayless, who move after completing their training contracts with Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw and Landwell respectively.



A double hire also for the London office of Bristol-based TLT. Lucy Mewse and Peter Richards-Gaskin join the financial services litigation team from Anthony Gold and Penningtons respectively.



The same story in Surrey, where Pearson Maddin strengthens its property teams with Tariq Mubarak from Freemans in London and Ali Halil from Palmers in Kingston.



There has been a lot activity in Kent. In Tunbridge Wells, commercial property associate Richard Ellard joins Thomson Snell & Passmore from Warners in Sevenoaks.



Orpington firm Clarkson Wright & Jakes takes on Sophie Pelham (employment) and Stephen Callender (corporate and commercial), both after completing their training contracts.



Family assistant Natalie Stokoe joins Gravesend firm Hatten Wyatt from Stantons in Strood.



Crawley firm Rawlison Butler appoints four: newly qualified Kathryn Hulmes (private client) from Herrington & Carmichael; Claire Webb (employment) from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert; Diane Carlin (residential conveyancing) from Allen & Glaysher; and Seiji Shibasaki (corporate) upon qualifying with the firm.



Moving to the south coast, where Southampton-based Lamport Bassitt hires Alison Melton for its employment team on completion of her training contract with the firm.



Property litigator Sara Bryan joins Glanvilles in Fareham from Blake Lapthorn Linnell in Portsmouth.



Plymouth firm Wolferstans appoints corporate associate Roger Sands from nearby Foot Anstey.



Reading firm Pitmans has hired commercial property solicitor Karen Lee from Glazer Delmar in South London.



Ipswich firm Kerseys promotes private client lawyer Zoe Hodge to associate.



As well as new partners, Shoosmiths’ Birmingham office has grown with corporate assistant Emma Dolphin from Wragge & Co and commercial assistant Lucy Clark from DLA Piper. Property assistant Laura Machin joins Shoosmiths’ Reading office from Stanley Tee in Hertfordshire.



HBJ Gateley Wareing hires associate Rory O’Byrne in the Birmingham urban regeneration team from the local office of Cobbetts.



Up to the north-west, where Walker Smith Way takes on four solicitors who have completed their training contracts with the firm: Rachel Price and Paul Edwards in the personal injury and employment team in Chester, and Lisa Jones (wills, trusts and probate) and Stephen Watling (personal injury) in Wrexham.



Five new recruits for Mace & Jones: Ross Meadows joins the Liverpool employment team after qualifying at Brabners Chaffe Street. Commercial litigator Josh Conroy joins the Manchester office from Pannone; and in the Knutsford office, Paul Bricknell (private client) leaves Addleshaw Goddard, Helen Jaidy (conveyancing) moves from Eversheds in Manchester, and Charlotte Tyler (family) joins from Manches in Oxford.



Criminal law specialist firm Tranters promotes five to associate: Avisha Gulhati, Michelle Denney, Rebecca Tanner, Shirlie Duckworth and Philip Barnes.



Personal injury assistant Paschal Kelly joins the Connexions Partnership in Manchester from local firm Pabla & Pabla.



The Manchester office of DWF appoints Jonathon Close as a corporate associate from the local office of Hammonds.



Also in Manchester, the Hardman Partnership welcomes employment and commercial litigation assistant James Pike on completion of his training contract with the firm. Senior solicitor Zoë Thomas joins the employment law group at the Leeds office of Watson Burton from Addleshaw Goddard.



Caroline Hawcroft joins Taylor & Emmet’s commercial property department in Sheffield from Doncaster firm Richmond.



In Hull, two join Williamsons after completing their training with the firm: Amy Jackson (commercial property) and Leanne Bucknall (criminal).





Bar and Bench





Solicitor Frank Appleyard has been appointed a designated immigration judge of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.





Other





Christopher Preston joins Stephenson Harwood as a consultant to the banking and asset finance group; he was formerly managing director of New Boston Partners, the UK lease arranging arm of Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi.



Midlands firm Browne Jacobson welcomes Professor Paul Torremans as a consultant to the intellectual property team. His role will be to provide training on emerging international intellectual property issues.