Nabarro has promoted eight lawyers to its partnership, with the majority of appointments in the firm’s City office.
The promotions, effective from 1 May, are split across the construction, real estate, tax, corporate and disputes practices.
Five London lawyers were promoted in this latest round, namely construction lawyer Alistair McGrigor, real estate specialist Chris Oakley, tax lawyer Kirsten Prichard Jones, disputes associate Andrew Taplin and real estate disputes lawyer Nick Wood.
In the Sheffield office, the remaining three promotions were awarded to construction specialist Fraser Askham, real estate lawyer Tanya Holt and corporate associate Gareth Saynor. No lawyers were promoted in the firm’s international offices in Brussels or Singapore.
The number of promotions is significantly up on this time last year, when only one employment lawyer, Tracey Marsden, was made up to partner in the Sheffield office.
Senior partner Graham Stedman said that the increase was attributable to the number of lawyers that have come of age through Nabarro’s talent development programme for senior associates.
‘The programme operates over the course of quite a few years and gives associates all-round training and a taste of what it would be like to be a partner. How many partners we promote is all about timing.
‘Last year we had only one that reached that level of advancement whereas this year we had a lot more. The timing was right for these people,’ Stedman said.
The course – a joint venture with London Business School – was set up in December 2010.