Private Practice


Partners



Starting off in the City, Philip Whale, former head of acquisition finance at Norton Rose, joins Berwin Leighton Paisner’s banking and capital markets practice.



Herbert Smith hires Patrick Buckingham, European regulatory counsel at investment bank Lehman Brothers, for its financial services regulatory practice.



Intellectual property specialist Dominic Dryden leaves Slaughter and May for Eversheds.



US/UK firm Reed Smith Richards Butler has boosted its restructuring group with the hire of Jeff Drew, who previously

headed the financial restructuring team at the London office of US firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Associate Nuala Barratt moves with him.



Nigel Plant bolsters the professional indemnity and commercial risk team at Plexus Law, moving from US firm Clausen Miller.



John Kings joins Kent firm Buss Murton as partner and head of its new construction group. He moves from the London office of Lester Aldridge.



Commercial property specialist Cheryl Wild moves to Withy King in Bath. She was previously at local firm Mogers.



Brabners Chaffe Street promotes employment associates Simon Whitehead in Manchester and Jonathan

I’Anson in Liverpool.



Suzanne Drinkwater joins Keoghs’ Bolton office as a partner in its crime and regulatory team. She moves from Halliwells.





New firm



Personal injury specialists Andrew Farley and Jonathan Dwek have left Manchester firm Rowe Cohen to set up their own practice, Farley Dwek.





Associates/Assistants



City firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert promotes 36 to the new post of associate director. They are: Mark Gammon and Keith Richardson (aerospace), Adrian Cottam, John Palmer, Claire Petts, Michelle Traxler, Tom Walshaw and Stephen Winterton (casualty), Paul Hinton (commercial and technology), Jane Ballantyne, Clare Milner and Ivan Wilkinson (commercial litigation), Neil Beresford, Toby Rogers, Victoria Sherratt and Mark Wing (commercial risk), Rachel Heslehurst and Marriam Malik (corporate), Mark Howard, Chris Holme, Jon Ions and James Major (employment and pensions), Patrick McGonigal, Kevin Oram, and Andrew Speake (marine, energy and trade), Andrew Forsyth, Lydia Hassall, Warren McIntosh, Rod McLauchlan, Patricia Orr, Marianne Robson and Jim Taylor (professional liability and commercial litigation), Joanne Jolly, Marlene McConway, Kiran Soar and Denis Whelan (reinsurance and international risk).



Naomi Skinner joins Plexus Law’s professional indemnity and commercial risk team after qualifying at Portner & Jaskel.



Gravesend firm Hatten Wyatt appoints two assistant solicitors: Sadya Nawaz joins the family team from Southend firm Sheldons Jenkins, while David Sadeh moves to the criminal law department from the Revenue & Customs Prosecution Office.



Commercial property specialist Chris Arthur joins Maidenhead firm Colemans; he was previously in-house at mobile phone giant Orange.



Commercial property litigation solicitor Mike Hansom joins Withy King in Bath from Anthony Gold in London.



Cheltenham firm Rickerbys hires Brian Jones as an associate in the commercial property team from local firm Davis Gregory.



Birmingham and London firm Wragge & Co strengthens its funds and financial services team with two associates: Karen Brown, a senior legal adviser at HSBC, and Penny Sanders of City firm KSB Law.





Other



Jon Gorst joins the London office of US firm Bryan Cave as counsel and head of the real estate team. He moves from East Anglia firm Prettys, where he was partner in charge of the property department.





In-House



Michael Gill becomes legal counsel with the International Air Transport Association in Geneva. He was previously an assistant at the Paris office of City firm Clyde & Co.



Anthony Rich joins Salford City Council as city solicitor and monitoring officer; he moves from South Ribble Borough Council, where he was head of legal and democratic services. His predecessor at Salford, Alan Eastwood, moves to Bolton Council as director of democratic and legal services.