Baker & McKenzie has made up 71 lawyers to its partnership around the world, including one in London, bringing total partner headcount at the firm to almost 1,500.

The promotions round represents a rise of eight on last year, when 63 were made up, with the 71 new partners taking total partner count across the firm to 1,450.

Of this year's new partners, 32% are female, an increase on last year's figure of 29%. The firm earlier this year set out its intention to double the proportion of women in its equity partner ranks.

The sole London promotion is corporate tax lawyer James Wilson (pictured), who has been made up after 11 years at the firm. During stints in both the firm's London and Washington DC office, he has developed a practice focusing on UK and European inbound planning for multinationals. Earlier this year, he acted for Best Buy on its £500m sale of the remaining 50% of the Carphone Warehouse Europe to Carphone Warehouse.

"James is a great addition to our partnership," said Paul Rawlinson, who today takes over from Gary Senior as London managing partner. "I have no doubt that, as a partner, he will make a strong contribution to the future success of our tax practice, the London office and the firm."

Broken down by region, EMEA took the lion's share of promotions with 25, with 19 in Asia-Pacific, 18 in North America and nine in Latin America. By practice, M&A saw the largest number of promotions with 20, while tax and dispute resolution have seen partner count boosted by 15 and nine respectively.

The promotions are effective as of today (1 July).

In addition to the promotions, the firm has made 60 lateral partner hires across its offices in the last year, including a number joining the firm as a result of new office openings in Seoul, Lima, Abu Dhabi and Casablanca.

Bakers partner promotions in full

Asia-Pacific

Duangkamon Amkaew (Bangkok) – M&A
Timothy Breier (Bangkok) – Dispute Resolution
Sebastian Busa (Sydney) – Real Estate
Ruby Chan (Hong Kong) – Intellectual Property
Kiyoshi Endo (Tokyo) – M&A
Da-Fa Feng (Taipei) – Intellectual Property
Michael Horman (Hong Kong) – M&A
Jennifer Hughes (Sydney) – Environmental Markets
Kate Jefferson (Sydney) – M&A and Securities
Jinghua Liu (Beijing) – Tax
Andi Kadir (Jakarta) – Dispute Resolution
Permsak Krairiksh (Bangkok) – Banking and Finance and Major Projects
Piya Krootdaecha (Bangkok) – Dispute Resolution
Ampika Kumar (Bangkok) – M&A
Lan PhuongNguyen (Ho Chi Minh) – M&A
Edwin Li (Hong Kong) – M&A and Securities
Anne Petterd (Sydney) – IT & Communications
Dawn Quek (Singapore) – Tax
Andrew Sim (Beijing) – Intellectual Property

Europe, Middle East and Africa

Bilal Ambikapathy (Bahrain/Doha) – Corporate & Securities
Christoph Becker (Frankfurt) – Tax
Shaun Browne ( Johannesburg) – Banking &Finance
Sebastian Burg (Belgium) – Employment
Jiri Cermak (Prague) – IT & Communications
Hatem Darweesh (Cairo) – Dispute Resolution
Mario D'Avossa (Milan) – Tax
Bruno Dominguez (Barcelona) – Tax
Tobias Edenman (Stockholm) – Real Estate
Francesca Gaudino (Milan) – IT & Communications
Hubert Gillieron (Geneva) – Antitrust & Competition
Olyana Gordiyenko (Kyiv) – M&A
Muhsin Keskin (Istanbul) – M&A
Marcin Kolasinski (Warsaw) – Antitrust & Competition
Daniel Krone (Munich) – IT & Communications
Jaime Martinez-Iniguez (Madrid) – Tax
Raffaella Marzi (Milan) – M&A
Francois-Xavier Naime ( Paris) – M&A
Peder Oxhammar (Stockholm) – Intellectual Property
Ihor Siusel (Kiev) – Dispute Resolution
Duygu Turgut (Istanbul) – M&A
Kuif Klein Wassink (Amsterdam) – Private Equity
James Wilson (London) – Tax
Wibren Veldhuizen (Amsterdam) – Tax
Asli Yigit (Istanbul) – M&A

Latin America

Claudia Benavides (Bogota) – Dispute Resolution
Diego R. Bongiovanni (Buenos Aires) – Employment*
Armando Cabrera-Nolasco (Guadalajara) – Tax*
Ronaldo Moya Alessio-Robles (Mexico City) – Tax*
Hector Ramirez (Caracas) – Employment
Fernando Robles-Pesqueira (Guadalajara) – Intellectual Property*
Jose Carlos Talledo Vinces (Lima) – Tax*
Edmundo Torres-Barajas (Guadalajara) – M&A*
Oscar Trelles de Belaunde (Lima) – M&A*

North America

Jenny Austin (Chicago) – Tax
Mohamed Barakat (Chicago) – M&A
John Cunningham (Washington, DC) – Corporate Compliance
Hugo Dubovoy (Chicago) – M&A
David Gadsden (Toronto) – Dispute Resolution
Denise Glagau (San Francisco) – Employment
Jacob Kaplan (New York) – Dispute Resolution
Kevin Maher (Dallas) – Trade & Commerce
Michele Maney (New York) – M&A
Alain Megias (San Francisco) – M&A
Mark Mendl (Toronto) -Employment
Laura O'Rourke (Dallas) – Dispute Resolution
Daniel Robyn (San Francisco) – M&A
Abrahm Smith (Houston) – Tax
Caryn Smith (Houston) – Tax
Aimee Soodan (Chicago) – Employment
Stephanie Vaccari (Toronto) – Intellectual Property
Eric Weber (New York) – Tax

*promotions effective 1 January 2013