Private Practice


Partners



London firm Olswang has a new head of planning and regeneration after hiring Richard Keczkes from Speechly Bircham.



Oury Clark has a new head for its employment team after bringing in Sarah Culshaw from Simons Muirhead & Burton.



Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker hires capital markets partner Raymond Wong from fellow US firm O’Melveny & Myers.



Phillip D’Costa joins the commercial litigation department at Middleton Potts from Pettman Smith.



Payne Hicks Beach appoints Matthew Cowan in its company/commercial department from Clyde & Co’s Guildford office.



US firm Chadbourne & Parke promotes Charez Golvala in its London corporate practice out of six promotions made worldwide.



Wallace promotes litigators Meera Patel and Craig Thompson to partner.



Essex firm Pinney Rogers promotes its head of private client services, Liam Gough, as its fourth partner.



Scott Greenwood who heads Coffin Mew’s social housing litigation team from its Southampton office, has been made up to partner.



To the midlands, where Susheel Gupta joins Higgs & Sons’ corporate and commercial team from Clarke Wilmott in Birmingham.



Katherine Haden joins the family department at Keelys in Lichfield as an associate partner. She moves from Birmingham firm Challinors.



Andrew Brown joins the corporate and commercial team at Manchester firm Linder Myers as a partner from Staffordshire firm Knight & Sons, where he was an associate.



Also in Manchester, JMW promotes its head of industrial disease, Paul Webber, to partner.



Management



Harrogate firm Barber Titleys appoints Richard Davis as its first ever managing partner, replacing the role of senior partner.



Associates/Assistants



Two senior corporate assistants join London firm Forsters: Richard Heath from Royds and Cosmas Wong from Ashursts.



Four assistants join niche Westminster-based children and family firm Creighton & Partners: Alice Hogg after qualification at Duncan & Lewis, Claire Thorpe from White & Co in Southend, Amanda Moore from Lyons Davidson in Bristol, and New Zealand-qualified Megan Ritchie from the London Borough of Ealing.



Plexus Law promotes three to associate: Heather Grimbaldeston and Connie Cobb (professional indemnity), and Justin Collins (property).



Basingstoke firm Phillips recruits Dermot Rayner to its commercial property team from the Sovereign Housing Group.



Kathryn Evans joins Southampton firm Paris Smith & Randall in the employment team; she leaves the legal services department at the city council.



Reading firm Blandy & Blandy recruits three employment assistants: Anna Weedon from local firm Boyes Turner, Laura Binnie from Bond Pearce in Bristol, and Rebecca Hill from Wedlake Bell in London.



Defendant personal injury litigator Simon Staples joins Keoghs’ Coventry office as an associate from Davies Lavery in Birmingham, where he was a partner.



Assistant John Sherahilo joins the Tewkesbury office of Thomson & Bancks to head the family team. He leaves Bristol firm Kirby Simcox.



Senior associate Nicola Clark joins the Hammonds’ EU competition and trade team in Manchester after leaving City giant Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where she was an associate.



Andrew Davidson joins Manchester personal injury firm Jacobs Grundy as an associate from Bury firm Aubrey Isaacson.



Also in Manchester, two join the commercial property team at Linder Myers: Amy Lowey from Nottingham firm Clayton Mott and Darren Perks on completion with his training contract with the firm.



Associate Gavin Scott joins Stowe Family Law in Harrogate from Fosters in Norwich.



North-east firm Ben Hoare Bell recruits two assistants after they qualified with the firm: Trish Mytton (crime) and Andrew Williamson (claimant personal injury).



Consultants



Family law specialist Bryan Reed leaves Gersten & Nixon to join fellow central London firm Josiah-Lake as a consultant.



Competition specialist Ingrid Gubbay, former principal campaigns lawyer at consumer watchdog Which?, joins the recently opened London office of US class action firm Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll as a consultant.