PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners

In the City, intellectual property litigator Clive Thorne joins the City office of US firm Arnold & Porter from Denton Wilde Sapte.

Banking and corporate specialist Simon Pullen joins City firm Davies Arnold Cooper as an associate partner from Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw.

Michael Bennett has been made up to corporate partner at City firm Kerman & Co.

Private client specialist Sharon Pegler is promoted as the sixth partner at Courts & Co in London.

Property development specialist Sarah Ferguson is promoted to partner at Cripps Harries Hall in Tunbridge Wells.

Up to the Midlands and Derby, where Michelle Tyler is made up in the personal injury practice of Flint Bishop & Barnett.

Across the Channel, City firm Bird & Bird has taken on a public and administrative law team from August & Debouzy to boost its Paris office: partner Jean Dominique Bloch and assistants Frederic Destal and Geoffroy O'Mahony.

It has also hired a data protection team from Bensoussan: partner Ariane Mole and assistant Hlne Lebon.

In Frankfurt, City firm SJ Berwin has hired Lovells partner Thomas Schrell to head its German banking and finance team.

Luc Gyselen, a senior official with the directorate-general for competition at the European Commission, joins the Brussels office of US firm Arnold & Porter as a partner.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates/assistants

Melanie Carter leaves City firm Mayer Brown Row & Maw to join the public law and human rights practice at Bindman & Partners as a senior associate.

Six assistant solicitors join Hunters in Lincoln's Inn from Dawsons' private client team: Andrew Melvin, Katie Martin, Sophie Lingham, Emily Haworth, Lara McLaren and Louise Ellis.

Employment assistant David Harris moves to Manches in London from Staines firm Dale & Newbery.

Four are promoted to associate at Cripps Harries Hall in Tunbridge Wells: Sally Firby and Federica Portoghese (property), John Halton (intellectual property and technology), and Louise Kelly (property development).

Sussex firm Rawlinson Butler has hired corporate assistant James Arneill from the Brussels office of City giant Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Along the south-coast in Bournemouth, commercial associate Grant Esterhuizen leaves Lester Aldridge for Ellis Jones.

Assistant solicitor Anna Palmer joins the home moving department at Bristol firm Burroughs Day from Wards, while three trainees stay on after qualifying: Kate Barton Donald (family),

Helga Fox (employment) and Amy Richardson (public liability).

Commercial property assistant Baratha Devi-Moore joins Stones in Exeter after a career break.

Up to Birmingham, where BK Solicitors takes on two associates as heads of department: Imam Qazi (commercial property) from Bristol's Burges Salmon and Haroon Rashid (private client) from Birmingham-based Gateley Wareing.

Catherine Clarke joins the private equity team at Wragge & Co in Birmingham from venture capitalist 3i, where she was senior legal adviser.

In East Lancashire, Andrew Clare joins Roscoes as a corporate solicitor from the Tokyo office of US firm Latham & Watkins, where he was a senior associate.

Two arrivals for Davies Arnold Cooper's Madrid office: senior associate Paula Gamez (tax) from Brosa Asociados and junior associate Jaime Bofill (corporate) from Lexinter Abogados.

Bar and bench

Barrister and former nurse Linda Jacobs joins Cloisters' personal injury and clinical negligence practice from 8 Bell Yard, while Hannah

Godfrey becomes a tenant having completed her pupillage.

Circuit judges appointed to the south-eastern circuit are District Judge Nicolas Madge, a solicitor, and barristers Andrew Campbell, Roger Chapple, Patrick O'Mahony and Peter Wulwik.

Solicitor Robin Barraclough is appointed a district judge on the north-eastern circuit, while barrister Timothy McLoughlin becomes a district judge on the south-eastern circuit.

Solicitor Andrew Shaw has been named a district judge (magistrates' court), based in the North Wales commission area.

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