Moves roundup: 7 January 2008
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Former DLA Piper Scotland partner Anne McGregor (left) has joined property specialists Bell & Scott as a consultant. Also an ex-Bird Semple partner, McGregor was DLA Piper's last Glasgow real estate partner before leaving the firm in December.
UK:
London
• Tom Walker has been appointed head of employment law at Manches. He joins as a partner from employment boutique Colemans-CTTS.
• Bird & Bird has hired litigation associate Alexander Korff, who trained at Clifford Chance. He joins the London office.
• Thomas Eggar has recruited partner Matthew Newman to head the M&A and corporate finance team in its London office. He was previously an equity partner at ASB Law in Maidstone.
• Former Hextalls partner Jonathan Hadyn-Williams has joined Goodman Derrick as a consultant in the litigation practice.
• Halebury has recruited employment associate Louise Brown from Greenwoods Solicitors.
• Bird & Bird has promoted Andrew Hallgarth to partner in the finance group.
South
• Blake Lapthorn has poached Barrett & Co’s personal injury team for its Oxford office. Associate Spencer Baker joins with assistant Susan Bright and two support staff, Helen Evason and Sharon Jones.
• Sussex law firm Adams & Remers has strengthened its insolvency practice with the appointment of assistant Darren Stone, who joins from Brighton insolvency boutique Julian Dobson.
• Former Nabarro lawyer Liz Brady has joined Kent firm Furley Page in Canterbury as an associate in the commercial property team. She was previously with South Coast-based Frederic Hall.
South West
• Andrew Dodd has joined Ashfords as a partner in the family law group at Tiverton. He was previously at Tozers for 12 years.
• Comron Rowe has joined Foot Anstey as an associate in the commercial team. He was previously with K&L Gates in London.
• Bevan Brittan has promoted three new litigation partners in Bristol: Emily Heard in commercial litigation, Steven Eccles in property litigation and Ed Husband in corporate litigation.
Midlands
• Black Country firm Higgs & Sons has boosted its private client team with the appointment of new partner Laura Banks from Birmingham's Martineau.
North
• Cheshire firm SAS Daniels has launched a Chester wills and probate department with the hire of associate Carl Marston from Thrasher Walker Partnership.
• Sheffield firm Wake Smith & Tofields has hired Kevin Poulter as an employment assistant. He joins from Leeds-based Walker Morris.
• Sintons partner Lucy Winskell has joined the board of the new City Development Company of Gateshead and Newcastle. The board will be chaired by Lord Charles Falconer.
Wales
• Newport-based firm Harding Evans has appointed new partner Daniel Wilde to head its employment team. He was previously at Dolmans in Cardiff.
Scotland
• Glasgow firm Semple Fraser has promoted Fiona Carlin and Mark Sabey to associate. Employment associate Iain Barton has also been accredited as a mediator.
• Maclay Murray & Spens has promoted Alison Bryce to partner in Edinburgh. She will work in the IP and technology practice.
• Bond Pearce has hired contracts specialist Martyn Smith in the Aberdeen oil and gas practice. He joins from an in-house role at Subsea 7.
CONTINENTAL EUROPE
• Client focus manager Stéphanie Hamon has been promoted to head of business development and strategy at Clifford Chance Paris.
• Dr Erich Michel has joined Orrick Hölters & Elsing as a corporate partner in Frankfurt. He is one of the founding partners of Bird & Bird’s Frankfurt office.
• Elizaveta Ivanova has left Herbert Smith to join Salans in Moscow as of counsel in the finance group.
• Kenneth Bonavia, former managing partner of DLA Piper’s Madrid office, has left the firm to join Gibraltar firm Hassans in Spain.
• Harris Cartier chief executive Paul Norris has been appointed president of the Eurojuris network of European law firms.
ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
• The Shanghai office of K&L Gates has taken on Louis Meng as a partner in the corporate practice. Meng joins the firm from DLA Piper, where he was a consultant.
• New Zealand firm Chapman Tripp has promoted four new partners: Victoria Heine in litigation, Bradley Kidd in corporate, Catherine Somerville in projects and Matt Sumpter in IP.
• Barlow Lyde & Gilbert London insurance partner John Hanson is to relocate to the firm’s Singapore office in March next year.
US
• Insolvency specialist James Sprayregen has returned to Kirkland & Ellis after having spent three years at Goldman Sachs.
• Mark Slater has rejoined Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton as a partner in the business trial group, based in San Francisco. Slater most recently served as senior vice-president, North American legal services, at Ingram Micro.
• Labaton Sucharow has hired Jay Himes, former chief of the antitrust bureau for the Office of the New York State Attorney General, as a partner.
• Chadbourne & Parke has hired counsel James Stenger from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner in Washington DC. He joins the communications, media and technology practice.
• Morrison & Foerster has taken on Julian Millstein as senior counsel in the New York sourcing and technology transactions group.
• Carter Ledyard & Milburn has hired Theodore Allegaert as a litigation counsel in New York. He was previously a senior associate at Weil Gotshal & Manges.
• Eli Mattioli has become the latest Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner partner to find a new firm, becoming a commercial disputes partner at K&L Gates.
OFFSHORE
• Appleby has moved partner Jonathan Vanderkar to Zurich to head its new office on. He was previously in the Bermuda banking and asset finance team.
• Maitland has hired former Solomon Harris lawyer Magda Embury as a partner in its new Cayman Islands office. Also joining are associates Bernadette Carey from Henry Davis York and Angelina Whiteman from McMillan.
THE BAR/BENCH
• 3 Verulam Buildings has recruited Canadian silks Jon McDougall and Earl Cherniak as international arbitrators. They will continue to work with Canadian firms Fraser Milner Casgrain and Lerners respectively.
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