The firm, which ditched the London managing partner role less than a month after its merger went live on 1 October, has appointed 13 partners across the firm to lead its eight core practice groups.
Excluding the two
The appointments, made by the firm’s combined executive committee in December, come after the firm announced it would be managed by practice group rather than by office. The controversial decision resulted in legacy City heads Peter Sharp (LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae) and Fred Gander (Dewey Ballantine) returning to full-time practice, although both also won places on the firm-wide executive committee.
The practice stream appointments mean the corporate group will now be headed by London-based Joseph Ferraro and
