Partner promotions

Vessel Hudson Yards New York

A&O is very sticky

Last month, Horizon highlighted that one challenge for Linklaters in growing States-side was that too many of its newly-promoted partners had decided to leave. Given that the US is a problem shared by Linklaters’ magic circle rivals, we think it’s only fair that we take a look at their stats too. This is what we […]

Edinburgh

Burness accelerates promotions in truncated financial year

Scottish independent Burness Paull is accelerating all of its promotions across the board this year by four months as it prepares to shift its financial year-end from 31 July to 30 March. All levels of promotions, including to partner, will now be effective 1 April. The firm is also planning to bring forward all salary […]

Linklaters

Becoming a partner at Linklaters

With revenue of £1.9bn and profit per equity partner sat at £1.8m, it is easy to see why partnership at Linklaters is considered to be a golden ticket. So what is the likelihood of you making partner at Linklaters? On average, it makes 14 partners in the UK each year, with the past two years […]

Hogan Lovells

Hogan Lovells elevates UK trio to partnership

To ring in the New Year, Hogan Lovells has revealed a global promotions round of 28, including three in the UK. The London cohort includes corporate duo Simon Grimshaw and Caitlin Weeks, as well as global regulatory lawyer Louise Crawford. Grimshaw splits his time between the City and Birmingham, where he was one of the […]

Norton Rose Fulbright office 2022

Norton Rose promotions: Seven City lawyers make the grade

A total of 49 lawyers globally have been promoted to partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, including seven in London. The seven in London are litigation duo Amy Armitage and Claire Irwin, as well as corporate pair Andrew Davies and Nari Ertem. Of the four, all trained at Norton Rose apart from Armitage, who joined in […]

What really makes partner material?

“Being a partner used to mean spending a lot of time at the golf course, or at the gentlemen’s club. Now, it means a lot more billables than it used to,” muses a partner at a US firm. It’s true: being a partner requires more than it ever used to. Strong client relationships, high billables, […]

Claire Patrick, White & Case

White & Case promotions: Seven City lawyers make the grade

White & Case has announced its global promotions round, with two of its new London partners set to relocate to Abu Dhabi next year. The London cohort are M&A duo Tom Clarke and Alex Woodfield. Clarke trained at Clifford Chance and joined White & Case from Dechert in 2019, while Woodfield joined from Jones Day […]

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BCLP bolsters London office with nine promotions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has made up 24 partners in its latest global promotions round, with 38 per cent (nine) of the cohort having been made up in London. Effective from 1 January 2024, the new partners in the City are Daniel Burnaud, Janany Kathirgamanathan, James Parker and Benedict West in real estate, and […]

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Six Londoners make the grade in Latham’s promotions

Latham & Watkins has promoted 34 of its lawyers to partner, with six of them being based in London. The new partners will to take up their new roles on 1 January 2024. In London, the new partners are: structured finance lawyer Chris Armstrong, corporate lawyer Suneel Basson-Bhatoa, financial regulation lawyer Gabriel Lakeman, lender-side leveraged […]

Frankfurt, Germany

The painful conservatism of Europe

Ah, promotions season. That time of year when the biggest step a lawyer will make in their career is finally taken and those late nights, early mornings and everything in between are repaid. Earlier this month, Horizon looked at which firms were committing to making up the most partners in Europe relative to their global […]

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Making partner takes months at Kirkland

Before NQs get too excited at the prospect of a really quick route to partnership, bear with. Kirkland & Ellis is known for promoting junior lawyers to non-share partnership at around six years’ post-qualification experience. However, this year in the firm’s annual promotions round, the firm elevated four lawyers who joined the firm less than […]

Gherkin London

Exclusive: The promotions set to bolster Kirkland’s partner ranks

Lawyers across Kirkland & Ellis are celebrating their promotion to partner, as the firm looks set to announce its annual round later on today. While the full list will be available later, a large group of London lawyers are expected to make the cut. Over the summer, the biggest story emerging from the firm was […]