PRIVATE PRACTICE

PartnersStarting in the City, magic circle firm Slaughter and May promotes four to partner: Sarah Cardell and Isabel Taylor (competition); Rebecca Cousin (corporate); and Ben Kingsley (financial ­regulation).

Lovells makes up six in London: Matthew Andrews ­(banking); Dominic Hill and Erik Jamieson (corporate); Paul McLoughlin (business restructuring and ­insolvency); Daniel Norris (real estate); and Mark ­Taylor (intellectual property, media and technology).

Hammonds promotes 16 to partner in the UK: in London, Robert Bray ­(corporate), Ed Johnson (PFI/projects), Laura Sayer and Fraser Sparks (pensions); in ­Manchester, Peter Donaldson (IT/IP), Dan Bickerstaffe ­(employment), Paul Giles (construction) and Stelios Coutsavlis (property); in Birmingham, Jon Stevens (tax), Jonathan Leech (construction), ­Carlos Pierce and Melanie Williams (property), Charlie Frost (employment), Matthew Giles (pensions) and Stuart James ­(commercial); and in Leeds Jasvir Kaur (employment).

Clyde & Co makes up seven to partner in the UK: in ­London, Matt Hannaford (ship finance), Philip ­Perrotta (aviation finance), Lee Bacon (insurance), Geraldine Quirk (corporate insurance) and Mike ­Swangard (trade and ­energy); in Guildford, Nick Purnell and Mark Williamson ­(corporate).

Campbell Hooper promotes two: Arthur Shih ­(corporate) and James ­Carroll (family).

Steven Turnbull joins the London office of Shepherd and Wedderburn as ­corporate partner; he was previously at Linklaters.

Nichola Carter moves to Gherson to head the general immigration ­practice; she was previously a partner at H20 Law.

Milton Keynes firm Kimbells promotes three commercial property ­solicitors to partner: Chris Ainsworth, Mark Marston and Valerie Warman.

Slough firm Owen White makes up Caryn Beidas and Stephanie ­Bishop in its commercial property department.

Trowers & Hamlins appoints five new partners: in its Manchester office, Karen Andrews (public ­sector commercial) joins from Nabarro; in Exeter, Alan Tate is promoted in the construction department; in London, Tania Tandon ­(employment), Emma ­Tarran and Julianne Walshe (housing) are all promoted.

Laytons promotes three to partner: Sara Hampson (land ­development) in Guildford; and Esther Gunaratnam and Barney Leaf ­(corporate and ­commercial) in ­London and Manchester respectively.

In Norwich, Rogers & Norton promotes Amy ­Walpole in its family ­department.

In Warrington, Fiona Bruce & Co promotes Phil Porter to partner in the family department.

Lancashire firm Napthens makes up head of employment Chris Boyle.

National firm Berrymans Lace Mawer hires two occupational ­disease partners: Cenydd Edward joins the Cardiff office from Morgan Cole; Caroline Walton arrives at the Manchester office from Halliwells.

Associates/assistantsStarting in the south, ­Martyn Gowar joins the Godalming office of Penningtons as a ­consultant in the ­private client practice group; he was previously at Lawrence Graham.

Slough firm Owen White promotes Tony Devlin to associate in the social housing department. ­Donna Lawrence also joins the firm from Kidd Rapinet as senior lawyer in the ­commercial property department.

Manchester firm Croftons promotes Lee Jones to associate in the personal injury department.

Lancashire firm Stephensons hires ­corporate lawyer Alex O’Connell from Brabners Chaffe Street to its Wigan office; newly qualified Daniel Kinnear joins the clinical ­negligence department in Leigh after ­completing his training at the Dental Law Partnership in Nantwich.

Employment associate Donna Ingleby joins ­Yorkshire firm Rollits from Andrew Jackson.

Leeds firm Brooke North hires James Willn to its construction team from Cramer Richards; Michaela Boryslawskyj joins the company commercial team from Eversheds. Claire Kitchen is also ­promoted to associate in the commercial ­disputes resolution team.

Hempsons hires Richard Nolan as a ­commercial consultant at its Harrogate office; he was previously at Lupton Fawcett.

IN-HOUSE

Jacqueline Moreton joins Talkback Thames as head of legal and business affairs; she previously worked at CBS/Paramount UK.

NEW FIRM

Simon Archer and Michele Rusby both leave Lennon & Co to set up Archer Rusby in Rickmansworth.