Private Practice


Partners



Starting off in the capital, Denton Wilde Sapte hires corporate tax specialist Alex Thomas from Taylor Wessing, where he was a partner.



DLA Piper appoints Stuart Jordan in its engineering and construction group; he was formerly a partner at Campbell Hooper.



Property development and leisure specialist Prashant Dave moves to Fladgate Fielder from Jeffrey Green Russell.



The London office of US firm Morrison & Foerster promotes Ann Bevitt in the employment team and Natalie Diep in the corporate team.



Dan Peyton joins Grundberg Mocatta Rakison to head the employment practice from Reed Smith Richards Butler.



Ship finance specialist David Brookes joins Holman Fenwick & Willan from Stephenson Harwood.



Field Fisher Waterhouse appoints Stewart Room to its privacy and information law group; he joins from Manchester’s Rowe Cohen, where he was head of the data protection unit.



Makbool Javaid and Ewan Keen join the employment team at Simons Muirhead & Burton from DLA Piper.



Morgan Lewis strengthens its global technology and outsourcing practice with the hire of Rory Graham from the London office of fellow US firm Brown Rudnick; associate Simon White moves with him.



Caroline Mackenzie joins the private client department at Hunters in Lincoln’s Inn from Kent firm Thomson Snell & Passmore.



Paul Brampton joins the commercial property group at Uxbridge firm IBB from Taylor Wessing.



Bristol firm Burges Salmon promotes five: Euan Bremner and Richard Read in the property team, Antony Ellis in the commercial team, Adrian Martin in employment and Mahrie Webb in the corporate department. It now has 69 partners.



In Birmingham, Sarah Cartwright joins Bevan Brittan’s corporate practice from Eversheds.



Sheffield firm Wake Smith hires medical negligence specialist John Vallance from AMS Law.



In Newcastle, Dickinson Dees appoints environmental and health and safety specialist Michael Hutchinson; he joins from US/UK firm Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw.





Management



Christopher Murray will take over as senior partner at City firm Kingsley Napley from David Speker.





Associates/Assistants



In London, Bristows hires Sharonjeev Benning-Prince as a senior associate in its regulatory practice from US firm Hogan & Hartson.



Tamara Ludlow joins the employment team at Simons Muirhead & Burton from Finers Stephens Innocent.



Lincoln’s Inn firm Hunters promotes private client lawyers Katie Martin, Louise Ellis and Lara McLaren to associate.



The employment team at Reading firm Clarkslegal recruits Claire Reynolds from Bristol-baed firm Veale Wasbrough and Serena McKelvie on qualification from City firm Norton Rose. Jane Kenyon joins the firm’s private client team from Stevens & Bolton in Guildford, and Dominic dos Remedios joins the commercial property team after qualifying at local firm Blandy & Blandy.



In Guildford, Kirstie Gibson joins Charles Russell’s family group from Manches in London.



Intellectual property assistant Kim Walker joins Southampton firm Paris Smith & Randall from local firm Trethowans.



Senior associate Anthony Young joins the corporate team in Bevan Brittan’s Bristol practice from Charles Russell.



Family assistant Jane O’Callaghan moves to Watkins & Gunn in Pontypool from Foster & Partners in Bristol.



Black country firm George Green expands its dispute resolution and litigation team with the appointments of assistants Geraldina Mattsson and Stephen Meade from Birmingham firms Cromwell and Evans Derry Binnion respectively. The firm also promotes James Coles to associate in the same department.



Mark Grimes joins the insolvency team at Cheshire firm SAS Daniels from Eversheds.



Manchester firm Kuit Steinart Levy boosts its property department with the appointment of associate Daniel Brawn from Brabner Chaffe Street.





New firm



Specialist intellectual property firm Powell Gilbert has launched in London, founded by five former Bristows partners: Tim Powell, Penny Gilbert, Simon Ayrton, Zoe Butler and Alex Wilson. Associates Becky Lawrence, Rob Fitt, Tim Whitfield, Gillian Johnson and Bethan Hopewell also join from Bristows.