Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has promoted 32 lawyers to partnership, with an even spread across Australia, EMEA and the UK but none in the US. This year is also the second highest promotions round in the firm’s history, followed behind last year’s 34 promotions. Previous years saw 23 in 2021 and 26 in 2020. The […]
Ashurst has promoted five City lawyers to partner, while 13 have made the grade over in Australia. In total, the firm has made up 25 to partner globally. The remaining seven are based in Jakarta, Tokyo, Abu Dhabi, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan and Paris. London usually accounts for the largest number of promotions per office, but […]
CMS has promoted 65 lawyers to partner globally in its latest round of promotions, with 16 of these in the UK, compared with 40 in mainland Europe. This is an increase on last year’s total of 60 worldwide, whereas 52 were made up the year before that. Meanwhile, four were promoted in South Africa, one […]
Macfarlanes has promoted eight lawyers to partner, equalling the number made up this time last year. Max Mittasch is the sole corporate promotion and he joined in 2012 from Slaughter and May. He was an assistant secretary at the Takeover Panel up until the start of 2022. There are two promotions in litigation; Chloë Edworthy […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced a whopping global round of promotions, with 30 making the cut worldwide and London seeing the greatest number of elevations in at least 15 years. The magic circle firm has promoted 11 to partner in London, which is almost double the seven promotions in 2022. The last time the firm […]
Eversheds Sutherland has elevated 29 lawyers to partner across its global offices, including six in London and five in Birmingham. This year’s promotions round is a drop from last year’s list, which saw 31 promoted to partnership. Of the promotions, 55 per cent were female. Those promoted to partnership in London include tax lawyers Helen […]
Pinsent Masons has promoted 25 of its global lawyers to partnership, a slight rise from the 23 who were elevated last year. The numbers have slightly dropped in the UK from 17 last year to 14 making partner this year. London has had a significant drop in the number of promotions with only two making […]
Linklaters has promoted another bumper round of lawyers to partner, including 16 in its City office. The 41-strong global round matches the number of new partners in 2022. There was one less promotion in London compared to last year when 17 were made up. Corporate is the major beneficiary of London promotions this year, with […]
Slaughter and May has given the nod to 10 lawyers this year in its London office. In London the lawyers who made the cut are Warwick Brennand, Hemita Sumanasuriya and Simon Tysoe, all in corporate and M&A, and with seven years’ PQE. David Hay has been made up in financing, while Tim Newey, Lorna Nsoatabe […]
Mishcon de Reya has announced its partner promotions for 2023, with seven lawyers joining the firm’s partnership. The firm has made seven promotions to junior equity partner, while another has been made an equity partner in the firm. In 2021, Mishcon tweaked its structure, which saw a large group of legal directors promoted to the […]
Shearman & Sterling has elevated two partners in London ahead of the firm’s annual round of promotions. Trinh Chubbock and Kevin Heverin will join the firm’s partnership on 1 March. Chubbock works in the firm’s project development and finance group, while Heverin focuses on financial restructuring and insolvency. Chubbock started as an associate at Ashurst […]
Earlier in the year, Horizon observed how Hogan Lovells’ newest London partners were mostly homegrown, with the majority getting the nod after 10 or more years since qualification. The trend at Hogan Lovells really contrasts to what’s happening in general across the US firms in London, where associates are making opportunistic moves to new firms, […]