Addleshaw Goddard has bolstered its London arm with the hire of former Lovells corporate partner Charles Penney.

Penney, who joins Addleshaws this month after leaving Lovells earlier this year, is a former member of the top 10 London firm's partnership council and also spent time at the Takeover Panel.

The move follows Addleshaws' hire of a five-partner construction team from Hammonds in Leeds in March – Simon Palmer, Mark Hilton, John Emerton, Jonathan Tattersall and Andrew MacCuish.