DLA Piper has promoted 62 of its lawyers to its partnership, a slight dip from the 65 made up in 2025.
The largest proportion of the promotions, which are effective from 1 May, is concentrated in the US, where 24 partners are being made up, followed by continental Europe (14), the UK (nine), Canada (six) and Australia (five).
News of the promotions comes as the firm prepares to dissolve its Swiss verein structure after the partners of its US and International LLPs last month voted “overwhelmingly” to replace it with a global LLP.
The firm maintains the move will help it win market share by improving its international coordination.
As was the case in 2025, the corporate practice group saw the most promotions, accounting for 20 of the new partners, followed by litigation (12).
The remaining promotions were spread across finance (eight), intellectual property and technology (seven), real estate (five), regulatory and government affairs (four), employment (two), investment funds (two) and tax (two).
Frank Ryan, global chair and global co-CEO, said: “Our new partners have the judgement, solutions-oriented mindset and collaborative approach that clients expect of DLA Piper. They’ve earned the trust of clients and colleagues alike, and we’re proud to welcome them to the partnership.”
Women make up a quarter of this year’s cohort, a similar gender balance to last year, when the proportion was 23%. According to publicly available data tracked by Pirical, women make up 26% of the partnership.
Under its new structure, the new global LLP will sit above the existing US and International entities, which will continue.
Alongside Ryan and Severs, who is global co-CEO, the firm’s leadership team will include John Gilluly and Loren Brown as vice chairs, Sandra Wallace and Rick Chesley as global co-managing partners, and the firm’s international managing director for clients, Benjamin Parameswaran.
DLA has grown to a 4,800-lawyer firm across 80 global offices since it adopted the Swiss verein structure in 2005. Last year, its global revenue topped $4.6bn.
The new partners by office:
Aarhus, Denmark
Alexander Severance, Litigation and Regulatory
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Diederik Schuurmans, Corporate
Atlanta, US
DK Donghyun Kim, Corporate
Auckland, New Zealand
Edward Eisdell-Moore, Intellectual Property and Technology
Austin, US
Lara Assaf, Investment Funds
Zac Loney, Intellectual Property and Technology
Beijing, China
Allen Xu, Intellectual Property and Technology[1]
Birmingham, UK
Ian Graves, Real Estate
Boston, US
Oriana Montani, Real Estate
Budapest, Hungary
Péter Szajlai, Corporate
Chicago, US
Nick Beard, Real Estate
Dallas, US
Haley R. Curry, Regulatory and Government Affairs
Dubai, UAE
Adrianus Schoorl, Litigation and Regulatory
Dublin, Ireland
Barry Noonan, Real Estate
Conor McEneaney, Intellectual Property and Technology
Edmonton, Canada
Lee K. Axford, Corporate
Rob D. McDonald, Intellectual Property and Technology
Hamburg, Germany
Dr Marcus P. Lerch, Litigation and Regulatory
Nils Grunicke, Employment
Hong Kong, China
KC Tai, Litigation and Regulatory
Johannesburg, South Africa
Brian Malcomess, Corporate
Leeds, UK
Ben Collins, Corporate
London, UK
Clare McLaren, Corporate
Katie Palms, Litigation and Regulatory
Liam Freeman, Corporate
Mark Briggs, Litigation and Regulatory
Natalie Thorn, Finance
Philip Povey, Finance
Los Angeles, US
Greg Young, Finance
Madrid, Spain
Francisco Bachiller Ströhlein, Corporate
Manchester, UK
Jonathan Paines, Corporate
Melbourne, Australia
Maddison Hardiman, Corporate
Sarah Birkett, Intellectual Property and Technology
Miami, US
Joseline Rodriguez, Corporate
Maximilian Viski-Hanka, Investment Funds
Montréal, Canada
François Tremblay, Corporate
New York, US
Carina Meleca, Corporate
Dan Kagan, Regulatory and Government Affairs
Neal Kronley, Litigation
Orley Granot, Finance
Steven M. Rosato, Litigation
Paris, France
Hamza Akli, Litigation and Regulatory
Louis-Augustin Jourdan, Tax
Perth, Australia
Matthew Roberts, Finance
Philadelphia, US
Dylan Caplan, Corporate
Rachel A.H. Horton, Litigation
Raleigh, US
Gina H. Lee, Corporate
Rome, Italy
Nicoletta Alfano, Finance
San Diego, US
Kevin England, Tax
Seattle, US
Bianca Jean LaCaille, Corporate
Joseph Davison, Litigation
Stockholm, Sweden
Anders Svensson Clark, Finance
Emil Alexanderson, Real Estate
Sydney, Australia
Conor Dolphin, Corporate[2]
Mitch Robertson, Employment
Toronto, Canada
Cristina Mihalceanu, Intellectual Property and Technology
Vancouver, Canada
Rosalie A. Clark, Litigation
Tyson Gratton, Corporate
Warsaw, Poland
Paweł Turek, Finance
Washington DC, US
James Patrick McGraw, Corporate
James Stewart, Intellectual Property and Technology
Peter Shroyer, Regulatory and Government Affairs
Thomas E. Daley, Regulatory and Government Affairs
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