private practicePartnersA number of recruits for Barlow Lyde & Gilbert in the City: Andrew Giverin joins the commercial team from US firm Latham & Watkins, while Maurice Kenton leaves Allen & Overy to join the commercial litigation department. Aviation insurance and litigation specialist Neil McGilchrist also bolsters the practice, leaving French firm Gide Loyrette Nouel. Associates Anna Anatolitou and Maria Galan move with him.Macfarlanes hires Ian Ginbey for its public law and planning group; he moves from the London office of US firm Jones Day.Also leaving a US firm is Robin Tutty, formerly of K&L Gates, who joins Field Fisher Waterhouse as head of its restructuring and insolvency group.International arbitration and dispute resolution specialist Jonathan Sutcliffe is promoted to partner in the London office of US firm Fulbright & Jaworski.Dewey Ballantine promotes George Barboutis to partner in the capital markets team in its London office. The US firm also appoints Simon Briggs in the corporate finance group and Christopher Lenton in the finance team as counsel. Securitisation and structured finance specialist Dario Savoia is made a local partner. Three partners for Howard Kennedy: Vernon Dennis joins the corporate recovery and reconstruction department from Edwin Coe, Jane Moorman leaves Pinsent Masons to become head of employment and Gerard Cranley moves across from US firm White & Case to bolster the corporate department.Southampton firm Paris Smith & Randall hires David Bird as a partner in its tax and estate planning team. He moves from Thomas Eggar in Chichester.In Liverpool, Hill Dickinson hires commercial litigation and dispute resolution specialist James Southworth from Clifford Chance.

Associates/assistantsElizabeth Booth leaves Breeze & Wyles in Bishop’s Stortford to become an assistant in the commercial property department at London firm Quastels Avery Midgen.Moving across to Essex, Brentwood firm Wortley Byers promotes four to associate: Poh Shan Chong (wills, trusts and probate), Nick Traill (corporate and tax), Sue Dowman (corporate and IP/IT) and Alan Massenhove (corporate and employment).Mark Barrell joins Bury St Edmunds firm Greene & Greene as an assistant solicitor in the matrimonial department. He was previously senior co-ordinator of the BMS World Mission legal aid resource centre in Kampala, Uganda.Helen Clowes joins Withy King as an associate and head of corporate finance in Swindon. She moves from network marketing business Kleeneze, where she was a member of the executive management team.Monica Bridge joins Cheltenham firm BPE as an assistant in the employment team. She was previously at Goughs in Wiltshire.Judith Tomlinson joins Wards’ conveyancing team in Weston-super-Mare after a career break that included time spent lecturing.Sarah Mullen joins the wills and estates team in the Swansea office of Leo Abse & Cohen, moving from Surrey firm Howell-Jones Partnership.Howard Cotes joins defendant personal injury specialist Everatt & Co in Evesham as an assistant from Simpson & Co in Birmingham, where he was a partner.To the north-west, where Hill Dickinson hires Matthew Forrest from Ricksons as an assistant solicitor in the property litigation team in Liverpool. Personal injury firm Fentons promotes seven to associate in its offices in Manchester and London: Adrian Clark, Caroline Hill, Joanna Bailey, Mark Hatzer, Mark Page, Polly Fletcher and Sam Harmel.Manchester firm Betesh Fox promotes three to associate: Amanda Hatton and James Riley in the personal injury team and Mark Briegal in corporate.Langleys in York recruits Nick Weston from national firm Beachcroft as an assistant in its insurance team.Leeds firm Shulmans promotes Victoria Marshall, head of its volume conveyancing and re-mortgage business, to associate.Also in Leeds, Fox Hayes recruits James Gregson as an assistant in its private client services team. He moves from Halliwells in Manchester.