Linklaters has promoted 37 lawyers to its partnership around the world, including 14 in London.
The number of City promotions is down slightly on 16 last year, although the overall total is up by nearly 9% from 34 last year.
The firm has also made up twelve partners across its offices in Europe, with seven in Asia and four in the US.
Litigation, arbitration and investigations and mainstream corporate are the two biggest beneficiaries, with seven promotions each.
A trio of London disputes lawyers have made the grade – managing associate Rebecca Dickie, counsel Elenor Parkhouse and managing associate Jason Sharlow-Wrest, whose practice focuses on competition damages claims and sports regulation.
Two London lawyers within the private equity team have also been promoted – managing associates Martin Arnal and Tom Gavin.
The firm’s Frankfurt office has seen the highest number of promotions across Europe, with four.
In the US, three lawyers have been made up to partner in New York, with experienced senior counsel Jonathan Gafni, who heads the firm’s US foreign investment practice, stepping up to partner in Washington DC.
In Asia, the majority of the promotions are in the Hong Kong office, with five in total.
Senior partner Aedamar Comiskey described the cohort as ‘an outstanding group of lawyers’.
‘They already play a key role in supporting our clients and will be instrumental in strengthening our global platform,’ she concluded.
The new partners are:
United Kingdom
- Martin Arnal, private equity
- Gareth Crimp, investment funds
- Rebecca Dickie, litigation, arbitration and investigations
- Tom Gavin, private equity and capital solutions
- Julia Matthews, restructuring and insolvency
- Fionna Ng, corporate
- Aoife O’Reilly, global financial crime and MLRO
- Elenor Parkhouse, litigation, arbitration and investigations
- Rasha Sami, energy and infrastructure
- Atish Shah, banking
- Jason Sharlow-Wrest, litigation, arbitration and investigations
- Emily Simmonds, investment funds
- Tarini Wettimuny, leveraged finance
- Sebastian Witte, capital markets
Europe
- Atif Bhatti, intellectual property, Frankfurt
- Matthieu Blayney, antitrust and foreign investment, Paris
- Raquel Galvão Silva, litigation, arbitration and investigations, Lisbon
- Kaan Gürer, antitrust and foreign investment, Duesseldorf
- Lars Harzmeier, litigation, arbitration and investigations, Frankfurt
- Leïla Juvin, tax and investment funds, Paris
- Fredrik Löwhagen, antitrust and foreign investment, Madrid
- Guillaume Malaty, structured finance, Paris
- Martin Rojahn, capital markets, Frankfurt
- Julia Rupp, private capital, Frankfurt
- Adrien Timmermans, investment funds, Luxembourg
- Jorge Toral, regulatory (public law) and projects, Madrid
US
- Sara Arrow, litigation, arbitration and investigations, New York
- Shruti Chopra, intellectual property, New York
- Jonathan Gafni, US foreign investment, Washington DC
- Janet Lee, executive compensation and employee benefits, New York
Asia
- Samson Chan, mainstream corporate, Beijing/Shanghai
- Roberta Cheung, restructuring and insolvency, Hong Kong
- Douglas Doherty, banking, Hong Kong
- Christian Felton, capital markets, Hong Kong
- Michael Lamson, litigation, arbitration and investigations, Hong Kong
- Xunming Lim, capital markets, Singapore
- Queenie Tong, mainstream corporate, Hong Kong
