Norton Rose promotes 11 in reduced round
Norton Rose has made up 11 new partners, one fewer than last year and five down on 2008’s figure of 16.
London boasts four new partners, the same number as last year and one fewer than in 2008. Two will be based in Singapore, two in Australia (one each in Brisbane and Melbourne), with the firm’s Abu Dhabi, Athens and Riyadh offices each gaining one new partner.
Chief executive Peter Martyr (pictured) said: “We try to keep it reasonably spread. Over the last few years there’s been more growth internationally than in London.
“Australia’s been where the big change is and there have been a few laterals with more in the pipeline.”
The firm has made 16 lateral hires over the past 12 months, with five of those in Australia following the tie up with Deacons, which was rubber stamped at the turn of the year.
In terms of practice groups, corporate dominates with seven partners being made up. One each comes from dispute resolution, employment, real estate and tax.
Martyr added: “We want to keep a balance [between practice areas] but it’s about where the candidates are in their cycles. In lateral terms, we’ve had more in banking than in corporate so it balances that out.
“It’s not a bad time to have lots of new corporate [partners] come up.”
Herbert Smith yesterday revealed that 18 partners are being made up (20 April 2010), while Eversheds has promoted 19 (19 April 2010) and Lovells given the nod to 21 (15 April 2010).
The new Norton Rose partners in full are:
London
Chris Grieves, corporate finance
Nigel Hewitson, real estate
Jason Moss, corporate finance
Angela Savin, tax
Singapore
KC Lye, dispute resolution
Daniel Yong, corporate finance
Brisbane
Murray Procter, employment
Melbourne
Michael Park, corporate
Abu Dhabi
Patrick Watson-Thorp, corporate finance
Athens
Dimitris Assimakis, corporate
Riyadh
Darren McGlinchey, corporate finance
