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| Shona Alexander: made up to partner at Forsters |
PRIVATE PRACTICE
Partners
Starting in the capital, London firm Forsters makes up two to the partnership: Shona Alexander (family) and Natasha Rees (property litigation).
London firm Capsticks promotes Tina Elliott to partner in its employment department.
London planning firm Richard Max & Co makes up David Warman.
City firm Leigh Day & Co promotes Daniel Easton to partner in its personal injury team.
City firm Thomas Eggar appoints Jacqui Joyce as a partner in its commercial dispute resolution team from Lovells.
Also in London, Thackray Williams recruits Robert Goddard as a partner and head of its corporate team from Batchelors in Bromley.
City firm Field Fisher Waterhouse appoints partner Hamish Sandison to its technology law group from Bird & Bird.
National firm Pinsent Masons promotes 13 to partner: in London, Tony Anderson (banking and insurance), Sarah Boon (pensions), Simon Hobday and Michael Stewart (projects and international construction), and Kevin Boa (property); in Leeds, Alison Starr and Catherine Hemsworth (corporate), Neil Tindall and Melanie Grimmitt (projects and international construction); in Manchester, Alastair Lomax (banking and insurance), Simon Horsfield (employment), and Chris Hallam (construction and engineering); and in Birmingham, Lisa Middleton (property).
National firm Addleshaw Goddard makes up nine: in London, Amanda Hulme (financial regulation), Alan Duncan (real estate finance), Lucy Martin (banking), Anna Maxwell (commercial litigation), and Clare Thomas (corporate); in Leeds, Garry Elliott (corporate), and Pervinder Kaur (private capital); in Manchester, Justine Delroy (commercial tax) and Richard Thomas (corporate).
London-based Brecher recruits Steven Ross as a partner in its commercial litigation department from GSC where he was an assistant.
Sussex firm Adams & Remers promotes Samantha Davis to partner and head of its employment department in Lewes.
In Dorset, Dyne Drewett makes up commercial property specialist Justin Hopkins in its Sherborne office.
National firm HBJ Gateley Wareing hires Andy Matthews as a partner and head of the property group in its Nottingham office; having been managing partner of Berryman, he co-founded professional service consultancy V Formation.
National firm Berrymans Lace Mawer makes up six personal injury partners: in Manchester, Paul Lever, Cathy Mortimer, David Spencer, and Paula Whittell; in Liverpool, Stuart Furniss; and in Stockton-on-Tees, Ros Danson.
Rotherham firm Oxley & Coward makes Jayne Jackson – who joined the firm 15 years ago as a secretary – a partner and section head of probate.
Associates / assistants
London firm Lockharts hires commercial and intellectual property solicitor Michael Barrett as an associate; he was previously at Hempsons.
Associate Mariko Novy moves from Mayer Brown in London to Brecher as an assistant in its property department.
City firm Webster Dixon adds two to its employment team: assistants Nighat Sahi and Matthew Fletcher from central London firms Christian Khan and Hodge Jones & Allen respectively.
In Luton, Taylor Walton appoints Lynne Greenaway to its corporate and commercial team as an assistant from Lyndales
in London.
Further north, conveyancing solicitor Raj Sangha joins the Stafford office of Hand Morgan & Owen as an assistant from Murria in Birmingham.
David Winwood joins Wolverhampton firm Rose Williams & Partners as an associate and head of property and probate from Bayliss & Amos.
Leeds commercial firm Lupton Fawcett promotes three to associate: Gemma Sherbourne (employment), Ben Clay (commercial), and Dan McCormack (corporate).
MERGER
Shropshire-based Snows is merging with Geo H Medlicott & Son of Pwys. The new firm – known as Medlicott Snows – will operate from the firms’ existing addresses in Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire, and Knighton, Powys. The partners at Medlicott Snows are: Peter Medlicott, formerly the sole principal of Geo H Medlicott & Son, and Robin Wayne and Caroline Denham, formerly partners at Snows.
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