The size of the global round is one up on 2015 and three up on 2014, when just 21 lawyers made partner. Despite the slowdown in capital markets over the last six months, the firm promoted six capital markets lawyers to partner, with highly regarded duo Mark Drury and Neil Dixon both getting the nod in the City.

Having received only one partner promotion in 2014 and 2015, Hong Kong was a central focus of this year’s round with a whopping five associates made up to partner. Among them is highly rated international arbitration lawyer Justin Tang. The firm also made up two Hong Kong-based capital markets lawyers in the form of Jonathan Horan and Terence Lau, as well as corporate lawyer Alex Bidlake and banking specialist Frank Cui.

The promotions take effect on 1 May 2016.

The full list of partners is as follows:

London

Will Aitken-Davies, mainstream corporate

Neil Dixon, capital markets

Mark Drury, capital markets

Ros Gallagher, dispute resolution

Philip Goss, pensions

Ian Hunter, mainstream corporate

Georgina Kon, TMT IP

Oliver Sceales, banking

Alexander Shopov, capital markets

Tom Watkins, real estate

Europe

Silke Bernard, investment management group, Luxembourg

Cyril Boussion, tax, Paris

Thomas Elkins, competition, Paris

Jann Jetter, tax, Munich

Barbara Lauer, capital markets, Frankfurt

Mario Pofahl, mainstream corporate, Frankfurt

Mees Roelofs, banking, Amsterdam

Niclas Widjeskog, dispute resolution, Stockholm

Hong Kong

Alex Bidlake, mainstream corporate

Frank Cui, banking

Jonathan Horan, capital markets

Terence Lau, capital markets

Justin Tang, dispute resolution

New York

Andrew Ford, investment management group