ELIZABETH-ANNE GUMBEL, QC, is one of four clinical negligence specialists joining 1 Crown Office Row. Gumbel, who focuses on claimant work, is moving to the 80-member civil set from 199 Strand with Henry Witcomb, who has worked as her junior on several major cases. Also moving to the set, which is headed by Robert Seabrook, QC, are Christina Lambert and Andrew Kennedy, defendant specialists who are joining from 6 Pump Court, having worked alongside 1 Crown Office Row’s silks as juniors.
Seabrook said: “This is something of a coup for 1 Crown Office Row.”
CLIVE ZIETMAN and Andrew Shaw have joined Manches as partners from the London office of the US firm Shook Hardy. The pair, who have worked together for five years, are to establish a commercial litigation and arbitration group at Manches. Their clients include Ryanair, Woolworths Group and Kraft UK.
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Zietman was a founding partner of the niche litigation firm Arnander Irvine & Zietman, which merged with Shook Hardy in 2002. Jane Simpson, Manches chairman, said: “Their record in top level commercial litigation speaks for itself.”
THE French private equity specialist Monique SentillesDupont is moving to Lovells’s Paris office with a team of three associates from Nomos, the Paris practice that she helped to found in 1998. Sentilles-Dupont will join Lovells’s 19-partner private equity team next month.
Marco Compagnoni, head of the firm’s private equity practice, said: “Monique joins us at a time when the major European and US private equity houses have put private equity on the map as the most active area of M&A activity in Europe.”
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PAUL BUCKINGHAM has joined the specialist construction set Keating Chambers. The tenancy signals a major cultural change for Buckingham, who has spent the past seven years working within Clifford Chance’s international commercial arbitration group.
Buckingham qualified as a barrister in 1995, having spent eight years with BP as a chemical engineer. His practice focuses on international arbitration work in construction, engineering and energy.