Private Practice


Partners



Starting in the City, Berwin Leighton Paisner makes up six, increasing its total number of partners to 182. The new partners are: Damian Bloom (trust and personal tax), Christian Drage (planning and environment), Deborah Greenwood (projects), Ian Ivory (corporate finance), Andrew Flemming and Jo Solomon (both real estate finance).



Travers Smith promotes nine to partner, taking its total to 65: Matthew Ayre (banking), Tim Lewis (financial services), Steve McNab (environment and planning), Dan Reavill (IP/IT), Nigel Seay (competition), Aaron Stocks (corporate finance), Ian Shawyer (private equity), Simon Yates and Simon Skinner (both tax).



Taylor Wessing promotes four in London: Ann Casey (corporate tax and employee benefits), Nikol Davies (corporate tax), Mark Smith (pensions) and Neil Smyth (reconstruction and corporate recovery). It now has 271 partners worldwide.



Irwin Mitchell promotes seven: Yogi Amin (public law), Katherine Allen (personal injury), Raminder Bhabra (insurance services), Laurence Gavin (company and commercial), Gillian Coverley (wills, probate, estates and tax planning), Steven Richardson (commercial property) and Fran Mayes (catastrophic injury claims). This takes its total number of partners to 105.



Charles Russell promotes three: Andrew Cameron in private client, Andrew Sharpe in corporate and commercial, and Nigel Whittaker in real estate. It now has 92 partners.



Two media law hires at Campbell Hooper: Paul Renney from Addleshaw Goddard and Alex Chapman from Briffa.



Kennedys promotes three, taking its partner total to 91: David MacLoughlin in the insurance division, and clinical negligence specialists Tom Armstrong and Nico Fabri in the liability division.



Osborne Clarke promotes three: Alex Worner in London and Sara Valentine in Reading (corporate), and also in Reading, Mark Webber (commercial). Meanwhile, residential development partners David Powell, Karen Wallis and Jamie Kyd join from Clarke Wilmott.



Financial services specialist James Parker is to join Barlow Lyde & Gilbert from Lovells.



Pinsent Masons appoints Colin Read to its insurance and reinsurance group from Clifford Chance.



Speechly Bircham hires investment funds specialist Enid Armstrong from Birmingham and London firm Martineau Johnson. It also promotes commercial property specialist George Awty and trusts and probate specialist Henrietta Sargant.



Halliwells promotes insolvency lawyer Michael Mulligan in its London office.



Two new partners for aerospace firm Gates & Partners: Vanessa Leigh is promoted, and Sue Barham will join from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert.



Quastels Avery Midgen promotes Ann-Maree Blake to corporate partner.



Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons promotes two: Frances Lewis in the employment team at its London office and Claire Howard in its personal injury team in Fareham.



Chris Walsh joins Onside Law as head of litigation; he was formerly general counsel at Lyndhurst Racing.



Uxbridge firm IBB promotes four, taking its partner total to 34: Jeff Elphee (commercial development and construction), Jon Mowbray (real estate dispute resolution), Joanne Gibbons (crime) and Paul Murray (childcare).



Colchester firm Fisher Jones Greenwood promotes Yvonne Spencer, who heads the education department.



In Bedford, Park Woodfine Heald Mellows promotes Annamarie Petsis Jones in its commercial department.



Rawlison Butler’s Gatwick office welcomes property litigation specialist Neil Benson from London firm Manches.



In Portsmouth, Coffin Mew promotes Dorlee Monschau in the employment team.



Stuart Brazington joins the personal injury team at Withy King in Wiltshire from Clarke Wilmott in Bristol.



West Midlands firm Sydney Mitchell promotes Adam Oleskow in the residential property department.



In Manchester, three leave Cobbetts to join DWF’s family team: David Pickering, James Maguire and Lesley Smythe. Paul O’Kane joins from DLA Piper to head DWF’s construction team; associate Paul Barge moves with him.



Andrew Ashley Taylor joins Hill Dickinson’s Manchester office as head of pensions, moving from Hammonds.



John Pickering & Partners promotes asbestos litigation specialist Neil Fisher.



Linder Myers hires Martyn James in its residential conveyancing team; he moves from Davis Blank Furniss.



Betesh Partnership promotes litigation and insolvency specialist Lee Lipson.



Bolton firm Fieldings Porter promotes criminal and civil litigator Peter Cunliffe.



Howarth Goodman promotes housing and matrimonial specialist Suzanne Gregson in its Preston office.



Associates/Assistants



Berwin Leighton Paisner promotes four to associate director: Jeremy Bark (regulatory), Louise Barr (real estate), Kirsty Berryman (corporate finance) and Jonathan Dickson (business and technology services).



Pensions specialist Jane Kola moves to Wragge & Co’s London office as a director from Sacker & Partners.



Charles Russell promotes seven to associate: Hamish Corner (corporate and commercial), Stephen Critchley, David Marsden and Stephen Rockhill (all litigation and dispute resolution), Miranda Fisher (family), Christian Massey (private client), and Sophie Whitbread (employment and pensions).



Associate Andrew Sutherland joins SJ Berwin’s outsourcing team; he was formerly in-house with Electronic Data Systems.



Assistant Cassandra Hurley joins London firm Brian Harris & Co after qualification with the firm.



Three move to Reigate firm Quanticks: Sarah Bishop (litigation) from Pearson Maddin, Tina Austin (commercial property) after a break from practice, and Liz Dalgetty (private client) from Cheam firm Taylor Willcocks.



On the south coast, Coffin Mew promotes Anita Choi in corporate and Paul Longman in commercial property to associate.Somerset firm John Hodge appoints probate assistant David Sinclair from Gould & Swayne.



In Wales, Harding Evans promotes three to associate: family specialist Jayne Fletcher, commercial litigator Jonathan Hill, and Wyn Williams in the property team.



Ipswich firm Kerseys appoints Bushra Elzubeir (litigation) from Birkett Long in Colchester and Emma Farrar (private client) from Hill & Abbott in Chelmsford.



To the midlands, where Blakemores promotes three to associate: Kellie Maguire and Arvinder Nagra (both injury and insurance claims) in Birmingham, and Matthew Montanaro (family) in Leamington Spa.



Sydney Mitchell promotes Daniel Blood (commercial property) in Shirley and Judi Wood (family) at the Sheldon office to associate.



Criminal law associate Dale Brownless moves to Matlock firm Elliot Mather from Nottingham firm Richard Nelson Business Defence.



East Midlands firm Berryman hires four: Rhys Wyborn (employment) from Bond Pearce, Lorraine Turville (commercial property) from Geldards, Sara Klapkowski (private client) from Hopkins, and Collette Short (private client) from Oldham Marsh Page & Flavell.



Derbyshire firm Anderson Partnership promotes Neil Bradley to associate in the personal injury department.



Manchester firm Betesh Partnership promotes three to associate: Ruth Winter and Stephen Baker (personal injury), and Samantha Hamilton (commercial property).



Consultant



Richard Manning joins Leeds firm O’Garra’s as a consultant to head its matrimonial and private client department; he moves from Walker Morris.



In-House



Nicholas Brown, former in-house legal adviser with Eastman Kodak in Hemel Hempstead, has been appointed European general counsel of Carestream Health after its acquisition of Kodak’s health group business.