This year's bumper round represents an increase of 29 per cent on the previous year, when the firm made up 31.With 21 made up to partnership, EMEA took the lion's share of the promotions, while 17 were taken on in the Americas and a modest two in the Asia Pacific region.
Boosting London presence
The firm aims to have more than 500 lawyers in London in four years as part of its 2020 strategy and has been actively boosting its London offering over the past month, picking up Clifford Chance's global banks sector co-head Patrick Sarch, BNY Mellon's EMEA regulatory head James Greig and Berwin Leighton Paisner's Michael Wistow, who joins as the firm's co-head of its tax practice in EMEA. The London office posted revenues of £185m for the 2015 financial year. The firm has also taken a ten-partner project finance team from Herbert Smith Freehills in Australia and launched offices in Melbourne and Sydney last month.The promotions take effect from 1 January 2017.
The list in full:
EMEA
London
Paul Brumpton - Global International Arbitration Practice
Katja Butler - Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice
Amanda Cowell - Global Commercial Litigation Practice
Ben Davies - Global Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice
Joanna Dimmock - Global White Collar Practice
Emma Foster - Global Banking Practice
Gareth Hodder - Global Project Finance Practice
Jarlath McGurran - Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice
Frankfurt
Rebecca Emory - Global Capital Markets Practice
Hendrik Röhricht - Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice
Markus Stephanblome - Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice
Paris
Grégoire Karila - Global Capital Markets Practice
Kirsten Odynski - Global International Arbitration Practice
Brussels - Muriel Alhadeff - Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice
Milan - Leonardo Graffi - Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice
Hamburg - Justus Herrlinger - our Global Antitrust Practice
Prague - Jan Linda - Global Banking Practice
Riyadh -Ivan Paskal - Global Project Finance Practice
Abu Dhabi - Luke Robottom - Global International Arbitration Practice
Warsaw - Michal Subocz - Global Commercial Litigation Practice
Madrid - Yoko Takagi - Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice
Americas
New York
Raymond Azar - Global Project Finance Practice
Michael Deyong - Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice
Binoy Dharia - Global Banking Practice
Steven Gee - Global Tax Practice
Kim Haviv - Global Commercial Litigation Practice
Bibiana Jaimes - Global Capital Markets Practice
Thomas MacWright - Global Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice
Damien Nyer - Global International Arbitration Practice
Kerry O’Rourke Perri - Private Clients Group
Andrew Weisberg - Global Capital Markets Practice
Washington DC
John Donaldson - Global Antitrust Practice
Brody Greenwald - Global International Arbitration Practice
Jane Rueger - Global Project Finance Practice
Kristen Young - Global International Arbitration Practice
Silicon Valley
Heather Burke - Global Antitrust Practice
Eric Lancaster - Global Intellectual Property Practice
Boston - Kate Dyson - Global White Collar Practice
Asia-Pacific
Hong Kong - Melody Chan - Global Commercial Litigation Practice
Tokyo - Seiji Matsuzoe - Global Banking Practice
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