Hogan Lovells has announced a 27-strong partnership round, alongside 71 counsel appointments, with 14 appointments in Europe, up from 11 last year.

The 2022 round marks a slight increase on 2021’s 25-strong round, but is below the 2020 and 2019 tallies of 29 and 30 partners respectively.

Counsel appointments showed a second successive shift upwards, from 60 in 2021. The firm has seen a 66% increase in counsel promotions since 2019, when 47 were appointed. 

The European promotions are spread across the firm’s London, Birmingham, Munich, Paris, Madrid, and Brussels offices, with the UK accounting for six of the new partners.

Commenting on the UK promotions, local managing partner Penny Angell said they would reinforce the firm’s commitment to clients in London, which was “a key engine of the firm”.

US appointments were down on 2021, with 11 partners promoted across the firm’s Washington DC headquarters, New York, Philadelphia and Denver, with a further promotion in Mexico City. That compares to 14 Americas promotions last year, although the firm lost a high-profile pair of New York litigation partners to Herbert Smith Freehills in November. 

The firm saw one partner appointed in Hong Kong, that city’s first since 2019, while Shanghai joint venture, Hogan Lovells Fidelity, promoted one partner and one counsel.  

There were no promotions in the Middle East or Africa for the second year running, although the firm recently made its first partner-level lateral hire in South Africa since a high-profile Johannesburg office relaunch in 2019, when it split from Routledge Modise.
 
Some 44% of those appointed were female – the same as last year – with 11% drawn from racial and ethnic minorities, as compared to 16% in 2021; 5% of those appointed declared an LGBTQ+ affiliation, the same as last year. 
 
Practice area promotions reflected transactional consistency, with ten promotions in corporate and finance (the same as last year), in which M&A and capital markets lawyers took the lion’s share of six promotions.
 
Seven partners were promoted in the firm’s IP group, while disputes lawyers were boosted with ten promotions, from seven in 2021, reflecting the post-pandemic disputes climate.
 
Five of the successful disputes lawyers were litigators, while the investigations and fraud team and the employment team each welcomed two new partners with one specialist in arbitration promoted. 
 
Hogan Lovells’ CEO, Miguel Zaldivar, said the promotions reflected the firm’s global quality, breadth and depth, including in its key business sectors, adding he was “particularly pleased that a total of 48% of our new partners and new counsel are women, racial and ethnic minorities, and LGBTQ+”.
 
The full list of new partners

Tifarah R. Allen, Corporate & Finance (Capital Markets), Washington, DC
Christiane Alpers, Global Regulatory & Intellectual Property, Media & Technology (Strategic Operations, Agreements and Regulation), Hamburg
Laura Asbati, Corporate & Finance (Capital Markets), Paris 
Jon Aurrekoetxea, Litigation, Arbitration and Employment (Litigation), Madrid
David Baron, Litigation, Arbitration and Employment (Employment), New York
John D. Beck, Corporate & Finance (Business Restructuring and Insolvency), New York
Briana L. Black, Litigation, Arbitration and Employment (Litigation), Washington, DC
Scott P. Campbell, Corporate & Finance (Real Estate), Denver
Graham Cutts, Corporate & Finance (Real Estate), London
Anthony Doolittle, Corporate & Finance (Mergers & Acquisitions), London
Benjamin A. Fleming, Litigation, Arbitration and Employment (Litigation), New York
Anna-Katharina Friese, Global Regulatory & Intellectual Property, Media & Technology (Intellectual Property, Media & Technology), Hamburg
Mary Carmen Fuertes Abascal, Litigation, Arbitration and Employment (Employment), Mexico City
Erin J. Howell, Corporate & Finance (Mergers & Acquisitions), New York 
Tobias Kahnert, Corporate & Finance (Mergers & Acquisitions), Munich
Angelina Leder, Litigation, Arbitration and Employment (Investigations, White Collar and Fraud), Munich 
David Palmer, Corporate & Finance (Capital Markets), London
Byron Phillips, Litigation, Arbitration and Employment (Litigation), Hong Kong
Hannah Piper, Litigation, Arbitration and Employment (Litigation), London
Penny Powell, Global Regulatory & Intellectual Property, Media & Technology (Strategic Operations, Agreements and Regulation), London
Michael J. Scheimer, Global Regulatory & Intellectual Property, Media & Technology (Public Procurement and Education), Washington, DC
Tom Smith, Litigation, Arbitration and Employment (International Arbitration), London
Matthew C. Sullivan, Litigation, Arbitration and Employment (Investigations, White Collar and Fraud), New York
Blake E. Wilson, Global Regulatory & Intellectual Property, Media & Technology (Medical Device and Technology), Philadelphia
May Lyn Yuen, Global Regulatory & Intellectual Property, Media & Technology (Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation), Brussels
Lowell M. Zeta, Global Regulatory & Intellectual Property, Media & Technology (Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology), Washington, DC
Astrid Zourli, Corporate & Finance (Business Restructuring and Insolvency), Paris