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Denton Wilde Sapte

Internal promotions

Overall	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
	6	6	10

2005-06: Corporate 3, real estate 2, banking 3, energy and infrastructure 1, litigation 1
2004-05: TMT 4, real estate 2, litigation 1, corporate 1, banking 1, energy 1
2003-04: Banking 3, litigation 1, corporate 1, commercial 1

Laterals

Overall	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
	6	1	5

2005-06: TMT 2, banking 1, real estate 1, energy and infrastructure 1
2004-05: 1 (sectors not disclosed)
2003-04: 6 (sectors not disclosed)

Intake as percentage of partnership 2005-06: 9

New female partners as percentage of intake 2005-06: 27

Equity structure: 104 equity partners, 44 non-equity partners

Practice area(s) most heavily promoted: TMT, banking

There has been plenty of upheaval at Denton Wilde Sapte (DWS), which has been reflected in the partnership appointments. A stream of partners left the firm over the course of 2004- 05, and this has fed through to the promotion process.

In three years, DWS has made 26 internal promotions compared with 12 laterals, and the emphasis on internal promotions looks like continuing as the firm seeks to replace departees with more junior partners.

There were certainly plenty of internal promotions in TMT after the departure of Simon Levine�s group to DLA Piper. One was promoted at the beginning of 2004-05 and three more just five months later.

Banking has yielded at least one promotion a year for the past three years, while corporate also scores highly, with three in 2005-06 and one in both 2004-05 and 2003-04.