Movers & Shakers: Midlands

2018

December

• Harrison Clark Rickerbys has welcomed family law partner Andrew Breakwell.
• Hogan Lovells has hired construction lawyer Rebecca Storer.
• The Nottingham office of Shoosmiths has expanded its employment practice with the appointment of senior associate Rachel Harvey.
• Hatch Brenner has appointed solicitor Fiona Beesley to the family team.
• Norwich firm Cozens-Hardy LLP has welcomed solicitor Michaela Watts to its residential conveyancing team.
• Emma Truin, head of personal injury at Barr Ellison, has achieved the Headway Certificate in Brain Injury Studies.
• Recently qualified Sian Peverill has joined the corporate team at Keelys Solicitors.
• Arvin Bhamra has joined Band Hatton Button as an associate in the firm’s residential property team.
• Rothera Sharp has announced that chartered legal executive Rebecca Green has become a fully accredited member of Solicitors for the Elderly.
• QualitySolicitors Parkinson Wright has appointed solicitor Charlotte Perry to the family law team at the firm’s Evesham office.

November

• DAC Beachcroft has appointed Paul Cox as a partner in its claims solutions business.
• Harrison Clark Rickerbys has appointed specialist technology lawyer Charles Drayson as a partner.
• Browne Jacobson has appointed Gareth Davies as a corporate finance partner.
• Dominic Curran has been appointed head of charities at Anthony Collins Solicitors.
• Enoch Evans has opened an office in Sutton Coldfield.
• BPE Solicitors has announced that Antonia Shield, head of the firm’s commercial property team, has been promoted to the role of deputy senior partner.
• Weightmans has hired associates Daniel Barchet and Richard Vaughan to join the national construction team.
• Irwin Mitchell has appointed food & drink sector expert Stuart Gallyot as a non-executive director within its business legal services division.
• Bevan Brittan has appointed Cynyr Rhys as a senior associate in the firm’s Birmingham office.
• Lodders has appointed divorce and financial specialist Baldish Khatkar as a senior associate.
• Thursfields has promoted Jane Rudge to director.
• Daniel Sims has qualified as a solicitor into the family department at Fraser Dawbarns.
• George Green has welcomed solicitor Philip Miles to its corporate team.
• Banner Jones has appointed Adam Kidd as a solicitor in the family law team.
• Brady Solicitors has recruited property dispute resolution specialist Catherine Gritt as head of litigation.
• Emma Fyson has joined Brethertons employment team as a senior associate
• Hegarty LLP has announced that associate solicitor Chris Brown has been reaccredited under Resolution’s specialist accreditation scheme for complex financial remedies.

October

• Harrison Clark Rickerbys’ Cheltenham office has welcomed two new partners to its corporate team: Tim Ward and Derek Callanan.
• Roythornes has welcomed four newlyqualified solicitors to the firm on the successful completion of their training contracts. They are: Rhiannon Coleman, Alex Wensor, Victoria Walley and Tamsyn Stuart.
• mfg Solicitors has welcomed newly qualified Jack Morley to the firm
• Browne Jacobson has welcomed 12 newly qualified lawyers. Based in Birmingham are Alex Berkshire, Kurt Davies and Jen Jenkins; and based in Nottingham are Emma Bee, Sian Harrison, Ben Collins, Karl Edwards and Joe Davis.
• Jennifer Hicks-Jones, a commercial property solicitor, has joined Higgs & Sons as an associate.
• Spire Solicitors has announced the promotion of Charlotte Wright to associate.
• Wilkes Partnership has welcomed newly-qualified Abigail Evans and Jack Ackrill to the firm.
• Poppleston Allen has promoted solicitor Steve Burnett to an associate.
• Anastasia Whitlock, Charlotte Hunt and Luke Shaw have qualified as solicitors at Woodfines.

September

• Birketts has appointed Paul Squire as a partner in its commercial property team.
• Carbon Law has announced the appointment of Toni Sharp as a partner.
• Fraser Brown has expanded its conveyancing team with the appointment of solicitor Anna Fussey.
• Borneo Martell Turner Coulston has congratulated Georgia Jones who qualified as a solicitor
• Band Hatton Button has announced that Jade Dooley has qualified as a chartered legal executive in the conveyancing department.
• Carly Weyman has joined the private client team at Veale Wasbrough Vizards.
• Imogen Hamblin has joined Thrive Law as an employment lawyer.

August

• Lewis Addison, has been promoted to partner at Nelsons. Nelsons has also promoted corporate lawyer Alice Rees to partner.
• mfg Solicitors has appointed inheritance and estates specialist Samantha Freeman to the firm’s private client department.
• Birketts has announced the appointment of Alex Schaafsma as head of real estate finance.
• Cozens-Hardy LLP has appointed solicitor Gary Leverett to the firm’s disputes team.
• Hatch Brenner has appointed litigation executive Pasha Alnadaf to its dispute resolution team.
• Gosia Bronisz-Handley has qualified as a solicitor into the commercial and agricultural property team at Lanyon Bowdler.
• Brethertons has welcomed Bukola Obadun-Craigs as a senior associate in the residential property management team.
• Actons has expanded its employment law team with the appointment of James Symons as an associate and Laura Robinson as a solicitor.
• Else Solicitors has announced that Amiee O’Toole and Greg Bullock have been promoted to associate solicitors.
• Stephen Taylor has joined Aaron & Partners as a partner.
• Steeles Law has welcomed Rachel Sims, Damian Pitts and James Milk to its business law team.
• Shakespeare Martineau has appointed Alistair Spencer as an associate in the contentious probate team.
• Ashtons Legal has appointed solicitor Martyn Hayward to its asbestos disease team.
• Moore & Tibbits Solicitors has been joined by solicitors Sat Bhandal and Becky Tiffin in the commercial property department.
• Ross Fletcher has qualified into the corporate and commercial department at Spire Solicitors.
• Nicola Pitt has qualified into the private client team at Wilkes Partnership.
• Lynsey Cater has joined Lanyon Bowdler’s commercial and agricultural property team based in Shrewsbury.

July

• mfg Solicitors has made two partner promotions: Darryll Thomas and Jane Morley.
• Rachael Hobbis, a construction specialist, has joined Higgs & Sons as a partner in the property team.
• Browne Jacobson has appointed Jacqui Atkinson to head up the healthcare employment team.
• Davitt Jones Bould has appointed Mary Anderson as a commercial property partner.
• Hogan Lovells has announced the hire of associate Karolina Stein into the real estate finance team.
• Roythornes has appointed Catherine Rickett to lead its debt recovery team.
• Hilary Homfray has joined the housing management team at Anthony Collins Solicitors.
• Alsters Kelley has promoted immigration lawyer Yemi Alli to associate director.
• Jessica Fletcher-Hall has qualified into the family care department at Alsters.
• Bowcock & Pursaill Solicitors has appointed Joy Hancock, a commercial property specialist, as an associate solicitor.
• Ellis-Fermor & Negus has welcomed Kevin Allard as a member of the commercial property team.
• Greenwoods GRM has made five partner promotions: Joanna Scally, Keith Williams, Kerri Pellington-Woodrow, Kelly Peck and Samantha East.
• Stone King has welcomed employment law specialist Tim Tyndall as a consultant.
• Lodders has announced Partner Kim Klahn has been appointed to lead the company and commercial team and Mark Miller has been appointed head of the real estate team.
• Roythornes Solicitors has announced the promotion of Alice Lees, Emma Hill and Iain Hibbert to partner.
• Trowers & Hamlins has made two senior associate appointments in Birmingham: Jamie De Souza and Nicola Gee.
• Lyons Davidson has made a number of senior appointments including Amanda Pemberton who has been made an associate.
• Thursfields has made two senior appointments to its commercial property department. Stewart Coles has been appointed as a senior associate. Meanwhile, Holly Kisiel has been recruited as a solicitor.
• Wilkin Chapman has appointed Katherine Marshall as a senior solicitor.
• Woolley & Co has welcomed divorce and family lawyer Michelle Brammer.

June

• Gateley plc has launched a new residential development team in the East Midlands which will be led by partner Steven Plummer
• Henry Bermingham has joined Weightmans’ Birmingham office
• Bevan Brittan has appointed Monica Macheng as a new partner
• Harrison Clark Rickerbys has welcomed Clare Day (nee. Titchener) as a partner.
• Harrison Clark Rickerbys has opened a new office in Cambridge
• Birketts has opened new headquarters in Princes Street, Ipswich.
• Capsticks has promoted five lawyers into the partnership
• Newmarket firms Edmondson Hall Solicitors and Rustons & Lloyds have announced that they are in preparatory merger talks.
• Gowling WLG has promoted nine individuals to legal director Taking up their new roles on 1 July 2018
• Chrissie Doherty has joined Harrison Clark Rickerbys as head of the residential property team
• Howes Percival has appointed Rachel McCullough as an associate.
• The Birmingham office of Freeths has appointed associate solicitor James Modley
• Else Solicitors has appointed two recently qualified solicitors, Laura Butchart and Daniel Woodall.
• Weightmans has promoted a numberof new partners including Jasmine Armstrong.
• Irwin Mitchell has appointed Tim Rayner as a partner.Clarke Willmott has announced a number of partner promotions, including Fiona Rendell.
• Birketts has announced the appointment of six new partners. Katie Beaven, Sophia Key, and Rachel McKillop-Wilkin have all been promoted. Additionally, Vicki Chilton, Steven Kay And Karl Pocock.
• Ruth Morris has joined Birketts as a partner in the firm’s agriculture and estates team.
• The property team in the Birmingham office of Browne Jacobson has expanded with the appointment of two partners – Zo Hoida and Brian Hession.
• Howes Percival has appointed Simon Franklin, a construction law specialist, as a director in its real estate team.
• The Wilkes Partnership has announced that Gareth O’Hara and Ellie Holland have been appointed as joint managing partners.
• The Wilkes Partnership has promoted Amanda Holden to residential conveyancing partner and Gavin Evans to commercial dispute resolution partner.
• Browne Jacobson has welcomed solicitor Natalie Moustache to its Birmingham office.
• Ashtons Legal has promoted six new associates. Francesca Easter , Fiona Ouzman, Alexandra Chater, Paul Humphries, Rhian Brook, and Sarah Duncan.
• Roythornes Solicitors has appointed Michelle Moore as a property specialist.
• Sills & Betteridge has announced that Nick Flatt has joined the firm as a family law specialist.

May

• mfg Solicitors has appointed a new partner Clare Lang to its corporate team.
• Lodders has recruited Paul Wilson as a construction law partner.
• Lanyon Bowdler has appointed Edward Nutting as a partner in the commercial & agricultural property department.
• Harrison Clark Rickerbys has made four partner promotions: Anita Hennessey, Victoria Fellows, Alison Goodwin and Rachael Reeves.
• Howes Percival has expanded its Northampton office with the appointment of partner Mark Davies.
• Wilkin Chapman has appointed Andrew Holt as senior partner
• Band Hatton Button has announced that Nick Button is taking over as senior partner.
• BrookStreet des Roches has announced the appointment of Philip Shaw as managing partner
• Hatch Brenner has announced that Richard Dilks has been promoted to head of department for the family team.
• Butcher Andrews has appointed Helen Hemingray as a partner in the commercial property team.
• Ashtons Legal has announced the appointment of Michael Frape as its new chairman.
• BHW Solicitors has announced that associate solicitors Paul Davis and Eleanor Rattay have been promoted to partners.
• Buckles Solicitors LLP has promoted Alejandro Verdu de Haro to partner.
• Browne Jacobson has added to its counter fraud team with the appointment of Christopher Grocock.
• Cartwright King has launched wills and probate as a new practice area. The firm has welcomed Sainaz Lalloo, Lindsey Atterbury and Louise Kerr as consultants
• Stone King has expanded in Birmingham with two new appointments. Senior associates Esther Maxwell and Charlotte Meluish join the education team.
• Enoch Evans has appointed senior solicitor Mursila Sohail to its commercial property team.
• Chattertons has appointed Rachael Butler as a solicitor in the family law department.
• Hatchers Solicitors has promoted Sarah Jane Smith and Jennifer Woods to associates.
• George Green has promoted Emma Fawkes-Underwood, James Field and Michelle Wooding to associates.
• BHW Solicitors has promoted solicitor Raj Hundal to associate.
• Hatchers Solicitors has promoted Emma Jones to practice manager.
• Shoosmiths has announced a number of new partners promotions including Anna Cartledge (real estate – planning) and Simon McArdle (commercial).
• Louise Bland has joined the corporate claims team at Eversheds Sutherland as a partner.
• Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth has appointed Jonathan Gist as a partner.
• Ashtons Legal has appointed Colin Makin, Amy Richardson and Thomas Bailey as partners in the firm.
• Browne Jacobson has announced a number of promotions across its offices. Promoted to partner in Birmingham are: Ryan Harrison (commercial); Rachael Morris (health) and in Nottingham: John Appleyard (government, regulatory and advocacy), Ben Bentley (government, regulatory and advocacy) – (partner barrister); Victoria Curran (technical claims & social care) and Damian Whitlam (health).
• Spratt Endicott has appointed Andrew Woods as managing director.
• Spearing Waite has appointed Rachael McConaghie as a partner and head of its real estate dispute resolution team.
• Spearing Waite has launched a banking and finance team with the appointment of banking lawyer Haydon Simmonds as a partner.
• DAC Beachcroft has announced a number of senior promotions in its claims solutions business in Birmingham. Helen Arthur, Satnam Dadra, Jonathan Hill, Paul Large and Andrew Thomson have all been made associates.
• Bevan Brittan has announced a number of promotions. Promoted to senior associate are: James Gutteridge (employment); Kirtpal Kaur- Aujla (commercial and infrastructure) and promoted to associate are: Chris O’Donnell (clinical risk) and Marie Shoulder (clinical risk).
• FBC Manby Bowdler has made two senior appointments to its wills, probate and lifetime planning team. Graham Fuller joins as a senior associate and Carina Kervin as an associate.
• Spratt Endicott has promoted solicitor Emma Buck to associate in its commercial property team.
• Lodders has added three litigation lawyers to its dispute resolution team: Tom Ellis, Lauren Smith and Caroline Walford-Cowley.
• Spire Solicitors has announced the promotion of Susan Ward and Ejike Ndaji to partner.
• Andrew Carrier has joined Ward Gethin Archer’s commercial team.

April

• Wilkin Chapman has appointed Wendy Spalding-Siracusa as a partner in the commercial property team.
• Family law specialist and partner Lucy Barr has joined the Birmingham office of Veale Wasbrough Vizards.
• The Wye Valley office of Harrison Clark Rickerbys has appointed a new partner Hefin Archer-Williams.
• Thursfields has appointed two new solicitors to its employment practice: James Monk and Jade Linton.
• Birketts has appointed Steven Bell as a senior associate in the firm’s planning and environment team.
• George Green has appointed Kevin Gilbert as a conveyancer and residential property associate.
• Geldards has appointed newly-qualified solicitor Joel Murphie to its commercial team.
• Chattertons Solicitors has recruited associate solicitor Nicola Parr to specialise in personal and business dispute resolution.
• Shauna Partridge, a member at Ellis Fermor & Negus, has qualified as a chartered legal executive.
• Wiggin has promoted Chris Hammond, Alexander Lea, and Jason Fisher to partner.
• Charles Russell Speechlys has appointed Manoj Vaghela as a commercial litigation partner.
• Gowling WLG has announced the appointment of five new partners: John Coldham, Zoe Fatchen, Joe Morris, Raj Singh and Matt Walker will all join the partnership on 1 May 2018.
• Woodfines has announced that three of its senior associate solicitors have been promoted to the position of partner: Maria Gallucci, Nick Sayer and Claire Dunn.
• Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth has recruited solicitor Tara Wright to its family team.
• Prettys Solicitors has appointed a new associate, Leanne Allcock-Mead.
• Wright Hassall has welcomed Rebecca Mushing back to the firm where she completed her training contract.
• Howes Percival has appointed Laura Clay-Harris as a solicitor in its family law team.

March

• Andrew Tubbs has joined Veale Wasbrough Vizards’ commercial property team in Birmingham as a partner.
• Ansons has welcomed commercial property director Richard Saum to lead the team in the firm’s Lichfield office.
• Emms Gilmore Liberson has welcomed Heidi Brennan as director of construction services.
• Elizabeth Young, a partner at Roythornes, has become a fellow of the Agricultural Law Association.
• Shoosmiths has appointed Maurice Dwyer as a consultant in its corporate team.
• Ansons has welcomed newly-qualified solicitor Genevieve Stevenson to its corporate and commercial team.
• Andy Shaw, head of personal injury and clinical negligence at Higgs & Sons, has been awarded personal injury accreditation by the Law Society.
• Brady Solicitors has appointed two property management lawyers in its Nottingham team: Alexandra Byard and Cheryl Bates.
• Grindleys LLP has appointed Lauren Wild and Ishteyak Hannan as solicitors in the commercial property team.
• The new senior partner of Harrison Clark Rickerbys will be Richard Knight.
• Royds Withy King has appointed two new partners in its Oxford office. They are: corporate partner Iain Butler and Emma Banister Dean who joins the dispute resolution team.
• FBC Manby Bowdler has appointed Guy Birkett as senior partner.
• Nelsons has appointed Lewis Hastie as a contentious probate associate.
• Tinsdills has promoted Paul Woolliscroft and Abdi Ebrahimi as directors.
• Prettys Solicitors has welcomed Tharek Choudhury to its corporate & commercial law department.
• Associate solicitor Stephanie Creasey has been appointed to the corporate & commercial team at Taylor Rose TTKW.
• Langleys Solicitors has appointed paralegal Robyn Jackson to its medical team.

February

• DWF has announced that Jon Stevens, a partner in the tax team, has taken on the role of executive partner for the Birmingham office
• Thursfields has appointed six new equity partners. They are Gareth Burge, Tony Gibb, Michelle Hetheridge Shane Miller Michelle O’Hara Julia Warrilow
• Toby Kramers, a commercial property partner at Ellisons, has relocated to the firm’s Ipswich office.
• Harrison Clark Rickerbys has welcomed David King as head of private client services .
• Freeths has made two appointments to its real estate team, Helen Pearson and Monika Holyst .
• Lodders has appointed senior HR professional Sarah Naffine to HR director
• Alsters Kelley has promoted Lisa Blizzard to associate solicitor in the firm’s family law team
• Andrew & Co Solicitors has appointed associate solicitor Paul Simpson as head of corporate & commercial.
• BHW Solicitors has recruited four new conveyancing specialists. Jayne Concannon, Diane Wooley, Nicola Dixon and Kerri Simner
• Talbots Solicitors has promoted Lisa Burton and Callum Haynes as directors and Melinda Rice to the position of associate
• Andrew McManus has joined the civil litigation department at Enoch Evans
• Sydney Mitchell has promoted Sundeep Bilkhu to associate solicitor in the dispute resolution team.
• Ketan Mistry has joined Fraser Brown as a solicitor
• Nicola Mahon has joined Hibberts LLP
• Eversheds Sutherland has announced that Simon Crossley will succeed Bridgette Wilcox as head of commercial.
• Wright Hassall has appointed Judith Gershon, a real estate finance specialist, as a partner. The firm has promoted property specialists Andrew Jones and James Polo-Richards to partner
• Metcalfe Copeman & Pettefar has announced the promotion of Lorraine Campbell and Claire James as partners
• Pauline O’Rourke has joined the family team of Thursfields Solicitors
• Metcalfe Copeman & Pettefar has promoted Sarah Gregory to associate. She has also been appointed as head of the wills and probate department.

January

• Shakespeare Martineau has recruited two new partners to its real estate team; Neil Gosling and Kate Onions.
• Anthony Collins Solicitors has welcomed Doug Houghton as a property and finance Court of Protection associate.
• Corporate recovery specialist Alan Meiklejohn has joined Harrison Clark Rickerbys’ insolvency and restructuring team.
• FBC Manby Bowdler has appointed solicitor Rachel Bloxwich as an associate in the family law team.
• Rothera Sharp has promoted associate Michelle Young to head of its residential conveyancing department.
• Bowcock & Pursaill has appointed Sam Tolley and Elizabeth Delf as residential property conveyancers.
• Geldards has welcomed the arrival of two new partners into the corporate and commercial department; Jamie Goldberg and Peter Seary.
• Lodders has appointed Paul Mourton as its new managing partner.
• Freeths has appointed James Boulton as a corporate partner.
• Potter Clarkson has promoted Tony Proctor, David Carling, Jason Teng, Tom Harding and Oliver Laing to partner.
• Gateley has appointed legal director Lesley Brentnall to head up its residential conveyancing offering.
• Taylor & Emmet has appointed solicitor Clare Davies to its wills and probate practice.
• Rogers & Norton has announced that Jennifer Lee has qualified as a solicitor after completing her training contract with the firm.
• Ashtons Legal has welcomed specialist shipping lawyer Miquel Roca.
• Woodfines has welcomed newly-qualified solicitor Will Padmore on the successful completion of his training contract at the firm.
• Potter Clarkson has promoted Deborah Maxwell, Richard Wells and Holly Mitchell to senior associate, and Christopher Hartland, Fehn Chua-Short and Pippa Hothersall to associate.
• The Smith Partnership has promoted Mark Wilcock to associate in the company and commercial department. Meanwhile, Alice Hornsby has qualified into the dispute resolution team.