Although one down on last year's round, this year’s figure is a significant increase on 2013’s three promotions and 2014’s two.

Set to take effect from 1 July, the appointments include two women and cover a range of areas including IP, competition, corporate finance and securities and tax.

On the up

Travers, which is best known for its highly-rated private equity practice, has been one of strongest-performing players in the UK top 50 in recent years, increasing revenues by 47 per cent since 2010 and seeing profits per partner reach £947,000 for the 2014/15 financial year.

The promotions list in full:

Louisa Chambers, commercial, IP and technology

Paul Kenny, real estate

Dan McNamee, corporate finance and US securities law

Barry Newman, finance

Elena Rowlands, tax

Stephen Whitfield, competition