Manchester-based St James’s Chambers is celebrating a coup after the hire of four senior barristers from Cobden House Chambers. Charles Machin is a specialist litigator, Sean Kelly a company law expert and Jonathan Smith a local government practitioner, while Sarah Harrison focuses on trusts. The appointments will take the barrister count of St James’s chancery team to 13, with 26 in total. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com, 25 September
Linklaters partner quits for Barclays Capital
Barclays Capital is again scouring the legal market for new recruits as it takes on Linklaters banking partner Sushma Jobanputra for its structured capital markets group. Jobanputra joined Link-laters in 2000, from Canadian firm Osler Hoskin & Harcourt, as a managing associate before being made up as a partner just last year. Jobanputra will not […]