DLA Piper promotes 58 across global network
DLA Piper has made up 58 lawyers to partner in its annual round of promotions, slightly up on 2011’s 53.
Tony Angel
The new batch represents the biggest intake of new partners since 2008, when 69 were made up.
The US had the largest number of new partners at 22, followed by Continental Europe, where 17 new partners were made up. Across DLA Piper’s UK offices 12 partners have been promoted while seven made the grade in the Asia Pacific region.
In terms of practice groups, corporate was the most heavily represented with 13 promotions, followed by IP and technology (11), litigation and regulatory (10), finance and projects (eight), employment, pensions and benefits (six), real estate (five), tax (three) and restructuring (one).
The promotions took effect from 1 January in the US, and 1 May across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
In a statement, DLA Piper global co-chairman Tony Angel said: “These promotions demonstrate our significant strengths across each region and within each practice area and are testament to the talent that resides within the firm.”
Full list of partners by office:
Amsterdam
Lex Oosterling, restructuring
Antwerp
Koen Selleslags, corporate
Austin
Amy Beckstead, labor and employment
Baltimore
Michael O’Day, litigation
Ian Taylor, litigation
Birmingham
Tim Lake, corporate
Benedict Gorner, employment, pensions & benefits
Boston
Bryan Connolly, real estate
Brussels
Johan Mouraux, finance & projects
Bucharest
Alin Buftea, real estate
Chicago
Gregory Grossman, corporate and securities
Carl Poedtke, finance
Kimberlie Pearlman, real estate
East Palo Alto
Aaron Wainscoat, IP
Stacy Paz, tax
Frankfurt
Pascal Kremp, employment, pensions & benefits
Glasgow
Callum Sinclair, IP
Hamburg
Kai Bodenstedt, employment, pensions & benefits
Hong Kong
Anderson Lam, corporate
Phil Lam, corporate
Mike Suen, corporate
Liverpool
Jeff Vernon, IP
London
Chris Baird, corporate
Dimitri Papaefstratious, finance & projects
Claire Bennett, IP
John Wilks, IP
Los Angeles
Olga Berson, IP
Andrew Devkar, IP
Madrid
Alfredo Barona, finance & projects
Albert Agustinoy, IP
Manchester
Claire Bell, employment, pensions & benefits
Andrew Davies, finance & projects
Melbourne
Bruce Linke, finance & projects
Milan
Federico Vanetti, litigation & regulatory
Moscow
Igor Antonyan, corporate
New York
Jeffrey Rotenberg, litigation
Oslo
Camilla Wollan, finance & projects
Paris
Gregory Tulquois, IP
Perth
Richard Edwards, litigation & regulatory
Philadelphia
Lesli Esposito, litigation
Kevin Rethore, litigation
Rome
Matteo Mancinelli, corporate
Francesco De Blasio, real estate
San Diego
Chris Shoff, corporate and securities
Erin Gibson, IP
San Francisco
Isabelle Ord, litigation
Tamara Shepard, tax
Shanghai
Kaichen Xu, corporate
Sheffield
Gurpreet Duhra, employment, pensions & benefits
Ian Doig, real estate
Sydney
Simone Mitchell, IP
Vienna
Christophe Urbanek, finance & projects
Franz Althuber, tax
Warsaw
Marta Frackowiak, corporate
Washington, DC
Eric Eisenberg, corporate and securities
Jeremy Lustman, corporate and securities
Seamus Curley, government affairs
Deana Cairo, litigation
Readers' comments (2)
Anonymous | 3-May-2012 2:47 pm
Congrats to those that were promoted.
Whatever happened to Nigel's investment? Swept under the rug? Didn't see any follow-up in The Lawyer.
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Sandy | 3-May-2012 5:09 pm
"These promotions demonstrate our significant strengths across each region and within each practice area and are testament to the talent that resides within the firm.”
So no strenght or talent in the Middle East then. Or maybe Tony thinks Birmingham is in the Middle East.
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