Prominent banking and finance lawyer Matthew Allchurch will leave Allens Arthur Robinson to take up a partnership position with Johnson Winter & Slattery.

Allchurch has been a partner at Allens for 10 years, and before that, he was a partner at Clayton Utz between 1992 to 2001.

Allchurch will start in the Sydney office of JWS in September.

This weekend, JWS will be moving from its current Sydney base in George Street to new premises at 20 Bond Street.