Private Practice


Partners



Kicking off in the City, four lateral hires at Nabarro Nathanson: Louisa Cilenti from DLA Piper, Robin Baillie from Pinsent Masons, and Tom Bainbridge from Hammonds all join the projects team. Keith Conway joins the property litigation team from US/UK firm Dechert.



Osborne Clarke boosts its corporate practice with the hire of Kalpesh Tanna from CMS Cameron McKenna.



Trowers & Hamlins promotes Robert Brodrick to partner in its private client department.



Moving west, employment specialist Helen Goss joins Reading firm Boyes Turner from Morgan Cole, where she was a partner.



In Oxford, Darbys promotes Samantha Scott in the commercial property and planning team, and John Allen in the technology and finance team.



Horsey Lightly Fynn promotes two in its Newbury office: David Ainslie, who heads the tax and succession planning team, and Louise Glover, who heads the property department.



Cheltenham firm BPE strengthens its private client team with the appointment of Malcolm Gibbs from Bath firm Mowbray Woodwards.



Simon Smith moves to Yorkshire firm Levi Solicitors to head its commercial litigation team from Irwin Mitchell in Sheffield.



Environmental litigation specialist Amanda Webster joins DWF’s Manchester office from Brabners Chaffe Street in Preston.





Associates/Assistants



US firm Shearman & Sterling promotes four in its London office to counsel: Alan Gutteridge in the property group, Peter Hayes in the European finance group, Deborah Lincoln in the intellectual property team, and Mehran Massih in the capital markets team.



Senior associate Michelle Chance moves to employment and partnership specialist Fox; she was previously at Fox Williams.



Two appointments at Shoosmiths in Reading: commercial property assistants Laura Machin and Simon Shoefield join from Bishop’s Stortford firm Stanley Tee and national firm Beachcroft respectively.



Oxford firm Darbys promotes Philip Marsh to associate in the commercial property and planning team.



In Newbury, Penningtons welcomes Joanne Blazey to its corporate and commercial department from City firm Taylor Wessing, and Louise Pearson to its dispute resolution team from Grower Freeman in London.



Two assistants join Lamb Brooks in Basingstoke on completion of their training contracts: Gina Baker in the commercial services group and Sue Squires in the wills and probate team.



Four appointments at ASB Law: Tara Iqbal and Rohit Sarobar join the corporate team in Crawley after completing their training contracts at Kidd Rapinet and US firm Debevoise & Plimpton respectively; also in Crawley, Sara Gauden joins the property services team from Stevens Drake; and Joel Kelly moves to the corporate team in the Maidstone office from magic circle firm Slaughter and May.



Canterbury firm Gardner Croft appoints Daniel Bennett to its family department from Manchester firm Pannone.



Cathy McCulloch joins Greene & Greene in Bury St Edmunds as an assistant in the dispute resolution department, moving from Suffolk firm HKB Wiltshires.



To the midlands, where Walsall firm Hadens recruits employment assistant Lorraine Adams from Rowley Ashworth in Birmingham.



Liz Jones joins the dispute resolution team in Sydney Mitchell’s Birmingham office; she was previously at DLA Piper in Manchester. Samantha Pettit joins the firm’s Sheldon office to head the private client team from local firm Eyre & Co.



In York, Jonathan Moore joins the commercial property team at Langleys from national firm Pinsent Masons.



Michael Doherty and Liam Kenealy join the business team at Sheffield firm Ashton Morton Slack on qualification.



Liverpool firm Goodmans appoints Emma Squires and Eve Poole in the family department; they join respectively from Merseyside firms Mackrell & Thomas and The Berkson Globe Partnership.



Cheshire firm Hilary Meredith appoints three to its litigation department: Vikki Hoyle and Joanne Illingworth from Bollin Legal Associates in Macclesfield, and Claire White from Donns in Manchester.





In-House



Sarah Khawaja leaves Weightmans’ Leicester office to join the legal services team at Leicester City Council as regulatory team leader.