White & Case has announced its global promotions round, with two of its new London partners set to relocate to Abu Dhabi next year. The London cohort are M&A duo Tom Clarke and Alex Woodfield. Clarke trained at Clifford Chance and joined White & Case from Dechert in 2019, while Woodfield joined from Jones Day […]
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has made up 24 partners in its latest global promotions round, with 38 per cent (nine) of the cohort having been made up in London. Effective from 1 January 2024, the new partners in the City are Daniel Burnaud, Janany Kathirgamanathan, James Parker and Benedict West in real estate, and […]
Latham & Watkins has promoted 34 of its lawyers to partner, with six of them being based in London. The new partners will to take up their new roles on 1 January 2024. In London, the new partners are: structured finance lawyer Chris Armstrong, corporate lawyer Suneel Basson-Bhatoa, financial regulation lawyer Gabriel Lakeman, lender-side leveraged […]
Ah, promotions season. That time of year when the biggest step a lawyer will make in their career is finally taken and those late nights, early mornings and everything in between are repaid. Earlier this month, Horizon looked at which firms were committing to making up the most partners in Europe relative to their global […]
Before NQs get too excited at the prospect of a really quick route to partnership, bear with. Kirkland & Ellis is known for promoting junior lawyers to non-share partnership at around six years’ post-qualification experience. However, this year in the firm’s annual promotions round, the firm elevated four lawyers who joined the firm less than […]
Lawyers across Kirkland & Ellis are celebrating their promotion to partner, as the firm looks set to announce its annual round later on today. While the full list will be available later, a large group of London lawyers are expected to make the cut. Over the summer, the biggest story emerging from the firm was […]
Travers Smith is making up five lawyers to partner this year, with two joining the firm’s financial services and markets team. The lawyers who have made the cut include financial services and markets lawyers Sam Brewer and Henriika Hara. The firm has also made up corporate partner Ben Lowen, employment lawyer Allie Murray and finance […]
The last two years have been the largest ever for magic circle corporate promotions in the City. In spite of the transactional freeze, these firms clearly believe their lawyers will be snowed under once again. In the City, a total of 17 lawyers were promoted to partner in the M&A or equity capital markets teams […]
A total of 72 associates have been promoted to partner in the latest round of promotions at DLA Piper, with 13 getting the nod in the UK. This is a slight decrease from the 74 lawyers who were promoted in 2022, but still significantly more than the 44 promotions witnessed the year before. The majority […]
Clifford Chance has promoted nine of its London lawyers to partner as part of a 32-strong promotion round across its international offices. The latest promotion round, which takes effect from May, shows a drop from last year’s cohort, where a record 37 lawyers were made up to partner. It is also only 6.6 per cent higher […]
Magic circle firm Allen & Overy has today announced 36 global partner promotions, including 12 in London. The new partners come from 13 of the firm’s offices, with four promoted in New York, and three in Paris, Brussels and Sydney. The number is down slightly on last year’s 39, although still up on 2021’s 30. […]
Osborne Clarke has made up six new partners within its London and Bristol offices. This round shows a slight drop in numbers from 2022’s eight promotions and the seven promotions from 2021. The new cohort includes three men and three women across the firm’s corporate, cybersecurity, data, and contentious and non-contentious real estate practices. In […]