This year marks an end to a series of bumper promotions rounds at Linklaters, with just 27 being made partner as of 1 May 2024. The magic circle firm has elected 27 new partners – a decrease of 34 per cent from the 41 promotions announced in both 2023 and 2022. The size of the […]
TLT has promoted an all-female cohort amid a push to achieve a 50 per cent female partnership by 2029. This year’s new partners include restructuring and insolvency lawyer Ainslie Benzie in Glasgow and head of estates Debbie Gale in Bristol. In Manchester, Roisin Bell in financial services disputes, Rachel Smith in property finance and Debbie […]
Fieldfisher has promoted 10 lawyers to partner in its 2024 promotions round, eight of whom have been made up in London. The London promotions, effective from 1 April, comprise four women. This includes private client lawyer Alice Vink, banking and finance director Anna Crosby, clinical negligence director Helen Thompson and Shaheen Mosquera, who specialises in […]
No corporate promotions at Slaughter and May, but that doesn’t mean investments have been curtailed
As promotions season gets going, Macfarlanes has made up six of its lawyers to partner this year. The group includes litigation duo Laura Bridgewater and Fred Snowball, as well as corporate and M&A specialist Felicity Powell. There are a further two promotions in private client – Paul Hardwick and Michael Shaw – while tax expert […]
Slaughter and May has elevated five lawyers to its partnership in its latest round of promotions. Last year’s promotions saw 10 new partners make the grade, double the numbers of the 2024 cohort. Four of this year’s five new partners are based in London, with Ross Francis-Pike being made up in disputes, Aleezeh Liaqat in […]
Last month, Horizon highlighted that one challenge for Linklaters in growing States-side was that too many of its newly-promoted partners had decided to leave. Given that the US is a problem shared by Linklaters’ magic circle rivals, we think it’s only fair that we take a look at their stats too. This is what we […]
Scottish independent Burness Paull is accelerating all of its promotions across the board this year by four months as it prepares to shift its financial year-end from 31 July to 30 March. All levels of promotions, including to partner, will now be effective 1 April. The firm is also planning to bring forward all salary […]
With revenue of £1.9bn and profit per equity partner sat at £1.8m, it is easy to see why partnership at Linklaters is considered to be a golden ticket. So what is the likelihood of you making partner at Linklaters? On average, it makes 14 partners in the UK each year, with the past two years […]
To ring in the New Year, Hogan Lovells has revealed a global promotions round of 28, including three in the UK. The London cohort includes corporate duo Simon Grimshaw and Caitlin Weeks, as well as global regulatory lawyer Louise Crawford. Grimshaw splits his time between the City and Birmingham, where he was one of the […]
A total of 49 lawyers globally have been promoted to partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, including seven in London. The seven in London are litigation duo Amy Armitage and Claire Irwin, as well as corporate pair Andrew Davies and Nari Ertem. Of the four, all trained at Norton Rose apart from Armitage, who joined in […]
“Being a partner used to mean spending a lot of time at the golf course, or at the gentlemen’s club. Now, it means a lot more billables than it used to,” muses a partner at a US firm. It’s true: being a partner requires more than it ever used to. Strong client relationships, high billables, […]