Weil Gotshal & Manges has promoted 17 to partner in its latest round, with the cohort weighted toward its corporate practice.
The round follows the firm making up 18 to partner last year, its largest round since 2021. The latest cohort includes seven women – 40% of the group, up from one-third last year and ahead of the firm’s overall partnership, in which women make up 31% of the total according to publicly available data tracked by Pirical.
The firm also announced it has promoted 57 individuals to counsel. The promotions are effective 1 January, 2026.
Unlike last year when the round was concentrated in Weil’s New York headquarters, this time the promotions were split more evenly across eight of Weil’s 17 offices. Four got the nod in New York, with the same number promoted in London, among them private equity/M&A lawyers Ellie Fialho and Jack Gray.
There were also three promotions in Paris, two in Washington DC and one each in Boston, Silicon Valley, Dallas and Munich, where Andreas Fogel moved up in the private equity/M&A team. His promotion follows Weil recruiting six PE lawyers in Germany from Latham & Waktins last month as it moves to build a leading pan-European private equity team, including Munich-based partner Sebastian Pauls, who will become co-managing partner of Weil’s German offices at the end of the year.
Eleven of the promotions were in the firm’s corporate practice, including seven in private equity/M&A, two in banking and finance, one in private funds and one in the regulatory transactions group. There were also four promotions in the litigation practice – three in the complex commercial litigation team and another in the antitrust team. The cohort was rounded out by tax lawyer Lauren Gorshe in Dallas and London-based tax, executive compensation and benefits lawyer Kevin Donegan.
The promotions come as Weil prepares for the retirement of its longtime executive partner Barry Wolf at the end of 2027, after he reaches the firm’s mandatory retirement age of 68. In February Weil said it had formed a new governance structure ahead of the transition, including the creation of a leadership and strategy committee chaired by Mike Aiello, head of its 600-lawyer corporate practice.
Weil’s roughly 1,200 lawyers brought in revenue of $2.02bn last year, putting it 27th in the Am Law 200 ranking. Meanwhile profit per equity partner was $5.4m.
Wolf said in a statement the new partners “have earned their trust through years of dedication and commitment to legal excellence”.
He added: “We’re proud to recognise their past achievements and the impressive results they deliver each day.”
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