Taylor Wessing focuses on Germany in 16-strong promotions round
Taylor Wessing has promoted 16 associates to its partnership in the firm's latest promotions round, including 10 in Germany and one in London. Private client specialist Kirstie McGuigan is the sole new partner in the firm's City base, while four London associates have been made up to senior counsel - Marcus Earnshaw, Sian Skelton, Louise Tobutt and Lee Bagshaw, who is currently on secondment in Singapore.
April 26, 2013 at 08:53 AM
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Taylor Wessing has promoted 16 associates to its partnership in the firm's latest promotions round, including 10 in Germany and one in London.
Private client specialist Kirstie McGuigan is the sole new partner in the firm's City base, while four London associates have been made up to senior counsel – Marcus Earnshaw, Sian Skelton, Louise Tobutt and Lee Bagshaw, who is currently on secondment in Singapore.
The remaining new partners are split across the firm's offices in Germany, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia offices, with the ten German promotions comprising four in Munich, two each in Berlin and Duesseldorf and one each in Frankfurt and Hamburg.
By practice area, corporate has received the highest number of promotions with four, followed by real estate and trademarks and designs with two respectively.
The rest of the promotions are spread across the EU competition, banking, patents, private client, China and environmental planning groups.
The promotions, which come into effect on 1 May, take the firm's global partner count to 370.
UK managing partner Tim Eyles (pictured) said: "Each of these lawyers is hugely skilled and has been promoted on their own merits, having demonstrated sharp commercial instinct, sound industry knowledge and a collaborative mind-set that will allow them to play a key role in Taylor Wessing's international growth."
The latest round is significantly up on last year's promotions, when the firm made up six new partners in its UK and German arms, including one in the City, although its Paris arm made a separate announcement.
Taylor Wessing partner promotions in full
Adrian Birnbach (real estate) – Munich
Torsten Braner (corporate) – Budapest
Michael Bruggemann (EU competition, antitrust and trade) – Duesseldorf
Harald Czermark (real estate) – Vienna
Anja Disput (real estate) – Frankfurt
Petr Dobes (trademarks and designs) – Prague
Ortrun Gunzel (trademarks and designs) – Munich
Hagen Hasselbrink (corporate) – Berlin
Tim Heitling (corporate) – Berlin
Silvia Hlavackova (banking and finance) – Bratislava
Anja Lunze (patents) – Munich
Kirstie McGuigan (private client) – London
Thomas Rechberger (corporate) – Prague
Jakob Riemenschneider (China) – Munich
Roland Schmidt-Bleker (environmental planning and regulatory) – Duesseldorf
Thorsten Troge (trademarks and designs) – Hamburg
Senior counsel promotions in full
Lee Bagshaw (corporate) – Singapore (on secondment)
Marcus Earnshaw (finance) – London
Sian Skelton (IT telecoms and competition) – London
Louise Tobutt (real estate) – London
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