TMT rivals Bird & Bird and Field Fisher maintain substantial promotions round
Bird & Bird and Field Fisher Waterhouse have joined a raft of firms including Slaughter and May and Lovells in announcing their new partner promotions this week. Bird & Bird has made up its largest-ever haul, with 14 new partners - doubling its 2007 count - with the London and German practices receiving the biggest share with four partners each.
April 17, 2008 at 12:39 AM
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Bird & Bird and Field Fisher Waterhouse have joined a raft of firms including Slaughter and May and Lovells in announcing their new partner promotions this week.
Bird & Bird has made up its largest-ever haul, with 14 new partners – doubling its 2007 count – with the London and German practices receiving the biggest share with four partners each.
Field Fisher, meanwhile, made up six new partners – up from four last year – with all of the promotions in the firm's City headquarters. The new partners are spread across the firm's corporate, intellectual property, technology and employment practices and add to 14 lateral hires over the year – including former Bird & Bird chairman Hamish Sandison.
The pair join national firm Hammonds and Clyde & Co in promoting significantly more partners this year than last. Hammonds has made up 19 new partners compared with just 11 in 2007, with the appointments taking the firm's total partnership to 212. Clydes has more than doubled last year's tally of four new partners with nine promotions, taking the firm's partnership to a new total of 152.
Eversheds, meanwhile, has announced static promotion numbers for 2008, equalling last year's total of 30 new partners.
Commenting on the promotions, Bird & Bird chief executive David Kerr (pictured left) said: "It is not always that easy to predict the size of the talent pool you have coming up for partnership, and this year there were a lot. We have grown from around 150 at this stage last year [to 187], which is a substantial hike."
In contrast, Slaughters and Lovells have each seen a drop in partner promotions since last year. Slaughters is making up four associates, down from five last year. Three of the new partners are female, which means that almost a fifth (19%) of the firm's partnership are now women.
Lovells, meanwhile, is making up 18 associates – a significant fall from last year's record haul of 31. Six new partners have been made up at the firm's London headquarters, with nine coming across offices in continental Europe, two in Asia and one in the US.
Lovells senior partner John Young said: "To maintain the numbers that we promoted last year would be artificial. This year's round is a reflection of where we are with our people and who is ready for partnership."
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