The new appointments, which are effective from 1 May, grow the firm’s total partnership to 212. The promotions represent a significant hike on last year’s partnership round, when the firm made up 11 new partners.
The firm’s employment and pensions practice gained the most promotions this year with seven, while the property, construction and projects group gained six new partners. Corporate and tax gained two partners each while commercial and intellectual property gained one partner apiece.
The promotions are largely concentrated on the firm’s UK offices, with Birmingham taking seven new partners and London and Manchester gaining four each, with one new partner getting the nod in Leeds.
Just three new partners were made up abroad, with promotions coming in
The news comes after national rival Eversheds last week made up 30 new partners, while Addleshaw Goddard and Pinsent Masons promoted nine and 17 new partners respectively.
The new partners are:
Dan Bickerstaffe, employment, Manchester
Christian Bleschke, tax, Berlin
Robert Bray, corporate, London
Valda Chan, corporate, Beijing
Stelios Coutsavlis, property, Manchester
Peter Donaldson, IT & intellectual property, Manchester
Charlie Frost, employment, Birmingham
Matthew Giles, pensions, Birmingham
Paul Giles, construction, Manchester
Stuart James, commercial, Birmingham
Ed Johnson, projects, London
Jasvir Kaur, employment, Leeds
Jonathan Leech, construction, Birmingham
Carlos Pierce, property, Birmingham
Ignacio Regojo, employment, Madrid
Laura Sayer, pensions, London
Fraser Sparks, pensions, London
Jon Stevens, tax, Birmingham
Melanie Williams, property, Birmingham
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