International disputes specialist Hausfeld has promoted five lawyers to partner in its latest promotions round, in line with last year’s cohort.
The new partners are Stella Gartagani, Karl-Christoph von Steuben, Christoph Schubert, Ashley Crooks and Daniel Weick, with the number of new female partners falling to two from four in 2025’s round. More than 46% of the firm’s lawyers are female, with women making up 36% of the overall partnership.
New York accounted for two promotions, Germany for another two – in Berlin and Düsseldorf – with just one in London: dual-qualified competition litigator Gartagani. She joined the firm as an intern in 2011 from Brussels-based Laun, having previously qualified in Greece. She has acted in cases at all levels, including apex courts, in the UK and the European Union.
Von Steuben was promoted in Berlin. He advises clients on complex civil and competition litigation in Germany and internationally, including large-scale collective actions, such as the Truck Cartel litigation, with similar experience in EU, national and regional courts.
In Düsseldorf, Schubert was promoted for his work as a disputes lawyer, with a focus on insolvency, company litigation, insurance and corporate disputes. He has secured litigation funding for clients and has built on his experience in structuring and financing complex collective actions, as well as in legal technology and AI. He is also a trained business mediator.
In New York, Crooks focuses on cybersecurity and data privacy litigation. She has broad experience in complex litigation, representing clients in high-stakes commercial, mass tort and data privacy matters in state and federal courts nationwide, having personally led numerous data privacy and technology-related class actions.
Also in New York, Weick specialises in federal antitrust litigation, with experience representing clients at every stage of the litigation process from case inception through trial, appeal and judgment enforcement.
The firm also promoted eight to counsel, including three competition lawyers in London, another competition lawyer in Berlin and one in Hamburg focused on data protection litigation. There were also three counsel promotions in the US based in Washington DC spanning competition law, data breach and data privacy actions; commercial, sports and entertainment litigation; and class actions and whistleblowing claims.
Hausfeld’s global co-chair, Anthony Maton, thanked the partners for achieving “a significant milestone in their careers”, adding that “their combined talent, determination and dedication in bringing complex and novel litigation has been the bedrock for their promotion”.
He also congratulated those promoted in the counsel, senior associate and associate rounds alongside business support staff, who, he said “play a pivotal part in Hausfeld’s continuing success”.
Global co-chair Brian Ratner added: “These promotions reflect not only outstanding performance and contribution, but also the confidence the firm places in these individuals to help shape our future.”
Separately, litigation boutique Pallas Partners announced its own 2025 partnership round, elevating two female partners – experienced commercial litigators and trial advocates Alessia de Quincey and Anastasia Cembrovska – in London and New York, respectively, alongside a four-strong counsel round, the majority also in New York.
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