Weil promotes one partner in London as 11 make the grade
Weil Gotshal & Manges has become the latest US firm to announce its partners promotions with only one lawyer making the cut in the City. Jamie Maples, a member of the London arbitration team for more than eight years, has acted in a wide range of major international commercial disputes including telecoms infrastructure work and - most recently - hedge fund investments.
December 22, 2011 at 05:13 AM
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Weil Gotshal & Manges has become the latest US firm to announce its partners promotions with only one lawyer making the cut in the City.
Jamie Maples, a member of the London arbitration team for more than eight years, has acted in a wide range of major international commercial disputes including telecoms infrastructure work and – most recently – hedge fund investments.
Alongside ten other lawyers based in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Silicon Valley, Paris and Frankfurt, Maples will be come a partner effective 1 January 2012. The new partners span various practice areas including litigation, corporate, finance, IP, tax and regulatory.
The promotions round also includes six counsel promotions spanning New York, Dallas and Paris. The practice areas include restructuring, litigation, finance and capital markets.
Executive partner Barry Wolf commented: "These new partners and counsel are a true reflection of the global nature of our firm today. I want to congratulate each and every one of them for their outstanding efforts – they represent the future of Weil and we could not be more proud."
Separately, US firm Kaye Scholer announced four global promotions one of which will come in London. The firm has also announced that six associates have been raised to the position of counsel.
Of the US firms to have announced their annual promotions so far, a minority have added new partners in their London offices. Shearman & Sterling, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Mayer Brown and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher promoted four, two, six and one respectively.
Weil Gotshal partner promotions in full:
- Yehudah Buchweitz, litigation, New York
- Alexandre Duguay, corporate, Paris
- Heather Emmel, capital markets, New York
- Michael Kohl, finance, Frankfurt
- Eric Lyttle, product liability, Washington DC
- Jamie Maples, arbitration, London
- Sonal Mehta, IP, Silicon Valley
- Chayim Neubort, tax, New York
- Patrick O'Toole, litigation, Boston
- Adrian Percer, IP, Silicon Valley
- Heath Tarbert, financial regulatory, Washington DC
Counsel promotions in full:
- Fabienne Beuzit, restructuring, Paris
- Mark Fiore, litigation, New York
- Christopher Gleason, finance, Dallas
- Ariel Kronman, structured finance, New York
- Stuart Morrissy, capital markets, New York
- Roshelle Nagar, finance, New York
Kaye Scholer partner promotions in full:
- Lowell Dashefsky, corporate, New York
- David Gerber, corporate, London
- Jason Hoffman, IP, Washington DC
- Andrew Solow, product liability, New York
Counsel promotions in full:
- Peter Danias, corporate, New York
- Gregory Jaeger, government contracts, Washington DC
- Jordan Katzenberg, real estate, New York
- David Sausen, tax, New York
- Jeanna Wacker, IP, New York
- Steven Wright, corporate, Shanghai
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