Hill Dickinson has recruited shipping partner Justin Draeger from Holman Fenwick Willan, where he was a partner. Draeger specialises in bill of lading and charterparty disputes. Hill Dickinson head of marine law Maria Pittordis said: “To have attracted someone with Justin’s skill and client following is a major coup for the firm.”
Move of the week
Hill Dickinson has recruited shipping partner Justin Draeger from Holman Fenwick Willan, where he was a partner. Draeger specialises in bill of lading and charterparty disputes. Hill Dickinson head of marine law Maria Pittordis said: “To have attracted someone with Justin’s skill and client following is a major coup for the firm.”
UK
LONDON
- Italian firm Chiomenti Studio Legale has reinforced its London finance practice by hiring partners Lee Parker and Christopher Mullen. Parker was a partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf while Mullen was counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton.
- Corporate associate Robert Dixon has left Slaughter and May to join Vinson & Elkins in London.
- Penningtons has strengthened its social housing team by recruiting Colin Hammond from the London Borough of Southwark, where he headed the social housing unit. He joins as an assistant.
SOUTH
- Weybridge-based Meadows Fraser has taken on family law partner Martin Chambers from Rollingsons Solicitors in Holborn.
SOUTH WEST
- Bond Pearce associate Neil Franklin has joined TLT’s banking and financial litigation team.
- Dorchester-based Humphries Kirk has hired assistant Louise Martin for its commercial law team. Prior to this she was an assistant at Shoosmiths.
MIDLANDS
- Hammonds has boosted its Birmingham planning team by hiring senior associate Simon Best from Warwick District Council, where he was head of legal services.
- Higgs & Sons commercial property assistant Marc Harvey has joined Keelys’ Lichfield office with trainee Natalie Peacock.
NORTH
- Hempsons has boosted its mental health and public law team in Manchester by hiring consultant Guy Otten from the Crown Prosecution Service, consultant Clare Doherty from Hill Dickinson and assistant Cheryl Rowbotham from Peter Edwards Law.
- Family assistant Caroline Bilous has moved from Beardsells in Stockport to Manchester-based Glaisyers.
- Mills & Reeve has hired family law assistant Sam Hall from Gordons. He will be based in the Manchester office.
SCOTLAND
- Ledingham Chalmers has promoted five lawyers to associate. They are: corporate and commercial lawyer Sonia Cameron; personal injury litigators Victoria Leslie and Ian Scott; private client solicitor Craig Pike; and insurance lawyer Anna Watt.
EUROPE
- DLA Piper has recruited Dr Matthias Lupp as a partner in the Munich office. He was previously at Clifford Chance, where he was an associate.
- K&L Gates has hired Joseph Aragones from Dechert. He joins as a corporate partner in Paris.
ASIA & MIDDLE EAST
- Trowers & Hamlins London projects partner Adrian Creed is relocating to the Abu Dhabi office.
US
- WilmerHale has recruited Mike Sharp to its New York office, where he will be a partner in the securities practice. Sharp joins the firm from Citigroup, where he has been since 1997.
- Deborah Garza has joined Covington & Burling in the Washington antitrust practice.
- She was previously acting assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s antitrust division.
- Stephen Williamson and Jonathan Edgar have joined Katten Muchin Rosenman in Charlotte, leaving the Charlotte office of McGuireWoods.
- Former secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has joined Covington & Burling as counsel in Washington.
THE BAR
- Exchange Chambers has continued its expansion in Manchester by hiring two criminal barristers as tenants. Nick Johnson joins from Park Court Chambers in Leeds and Sarah Johnston arrives from St Johns Buildings.
IN-HOUSE
- Paul Hastings associate Peter Orlic has been recruited by Merrill Lynch.
