In its largest promotions round for years, Allen & Overy has made up 22 lawyers to partner with nine of those being women. The round saw just under a third made up in the City while a strong contingent was based in continental Europe.
In London, the Magic Circle firm’s corporate practice was the main beneficiary with Annabelle Croker, Lisa Goransson and Nigel Parker all joining the practice. Two partners join the banking practice, Jocelyn Land and David Oppenheimer, while litigation gained one new partner in the form of Mark Ridgway and US-qualified Jeff Hendrickson joined the international capital markets team (ICM).
The firm made up two new partners in the US with Jean Lee joining the banking practice in Washington DC and litigator Laura Hall being made up in New York. In Asia, just one lawyer made the cut with Fiona Cumming in Hong Kong joining the partnership while in the Middle East, real estate lawyer Ian Bevan was promoted.
Continental Europe saw 11 new partners in total spread across the firm’s offices in Paris, Milan, Madrid, Luxembourg, Brussels, Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
Last year the firm made up 16 lawyers to partner while in 2013 it was 19, but this round has seen the firm return to previous form with over 20 partners having been made up in 2012 and 2011.
The firm’s managing partner Wim Dejonghe said: ‘This year’s promotions underline our strategy of continued investment in our core developed markets particularly in France, Germany and Spain which make up over 30% of our new partners.’
The full list of new partners is as follows:
Abu Dhabi
Ian Bevan, Real Estate
Amsterdam
Aroen Kuitenbrouwer, Banking
Brussels
Inge Vanderreken, Employment
Frankfurt
Stefan Henkelmann, ICM
Markus Kaepplinger, Corporate
Hong Kong
Fiona Cumming, Banking
London
Annabelle Croker, Corporate
Lisa Goransson, Corporate
Jeff Hendrickson, ICM
Jocelyn Land, Banking
David Oppenheimer, Banking
Nigel Parker, Corporate
Mark Ridgway, Litigation
Luxembourg
Peter Myners, Corporate
Madrid
Inigo Del Val, Corporate
Jimena Urretavizcaya, Banking
Milan
Pietro Scarfone, Banking
New York
Laura Hall, Litigation
Paris
Alexandre Rudoni, Litigation
Julien Sebastien, ICM
Marie Stoyanov, Litigation
Washington DC
Jean Lee, Banking
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