DLA Piper promotes 45 new partners in increased promotions round
DLA Piper has made up 45 new partners across its global offices in an increased promotions round.
May 01, 2014 at 09:03 AM
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DLA Piper has made up 45 new partners across its global offices in an increased promotions round.
A total of seven new lawyers have been made up in the UK, including four in London. These figures are up from last year, when four lawyers joined the partnership in the UK, including two in the City, out of a 34-strong global round.
This year, as well as four new additions in London there are two in Leeds and one in Edinburgh. City corporate lawyers Mark Chivers and Luca Gori, IP and technology lawyer Anthony Day and real estate lawyer Paul Dineen all join the partnership. Litigator Stuart Ponting and finance & projects lawyer Anna Robson are based in the firm's Leeds office while Alasdair Wood joins the corporate team in Edinburgh.
Globally the US secured the largest share of new partners with 21 in total, Continental Europe has ten, Australia four, Asia two and the Middle East one.
In terms of practice area, corporate saw the largest intake of new partners with 13 promotions, followed by litigation & regulatory with 12 and IP & technology with nine promotions. The real estate group had four promotions with three in tax, two in restructuring and one each in finance & projects and employment.
The promotions came into effect from 1 January in the US and today (1 May) for EMEA and Asia Pacific.
Tony Angel (pictured), global co-chairman of DLA Piper, said: "I would like to congratulate the very talented lawyers that we are welcoming into the partnership this year. The quality of our lawyers never fails to impress and this new generation of partners will be instrumental in realising our ambition to be the leading global business law firm."
DLA Piper partners in full:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ewald Netten – Litigation & Regulatory
Atlanta, United States
Daniel Rollman – Corporate
Brisbane, Australia
Sophie Devitt – Litigation & Regulatory
Lyndon Masters – Corporate
Chicago, United States
Thomas Horenkamp – Corporate
Matthew Sperry -Corporate
Matthew Satchwell – Intellectual Property and Technology
Raja Gaddipati – Litigation & Regulatory
Brian Cohen – Real Estate
Cologne, Germany
Christian Schneider – Litigation & Regulatory
Dallas, United States
Eliot Burriss – Litigation & Regulatory
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
James Iremonger – Restructuring
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Alasdair Wood – Corporate
Frankfurt, Germany
Burkhard Fuhrmeyer – Intellectual Property and Technology
Fabian Muhlen – Real Estate
Hong Kong, China
Doris Ho – Tax
Houston, United States
Christina Ponig – Litigation & Regulatory
Leeds, United Kingdom
Stuart Ponting – Litigation & Regulatory
Anna Robson – Finance & Projects
London, United Kingdom
Mark Chivers – Corporate
Luca Gori – Corporate
Anthony Day – Intellectual Property and Technology
Paul Dineen – Real Estate
Los Angeles, United States
Robert Weber – Litigation & Regulatory
Madrid, Spain
Paz De la Iglesia Andres – Employment
Miami, United States
Adam Rogers – Corporate
Milan, Italy
Giulio Coraggio – Intellectual Property and Technology
Moscow, Russia
Julien Hansen – Corporate
Paris, France
Sarmad Haidar – Corporate
Fabienne Panneau – Intellectual Property and Technology
Philadelphia, United States
William Bartow – Intellectual Property and Technology
Matthew Goldberg – Litigation & Regulatory
San Diego, United States
David Clark – Corporate
Jesse Hindman – Intellectual Property and Technology
Erica Pascal – Intellectual Property and Technology
Matthew Dart – Litigation & Regulatory
San Francisco, United States
Amy Carbins – Real Estate
Seattle, United States
Byron Dailey- Corporate
Alison Maxwell – Tax
Silicon Valley, United States
Robert Buergi – Intellectual Property and Technology
Rajiv Dharnidharka – Litigation & Regulatory
Sydney, Australia
Gitanjali Bajaj – Litigation & Regulatory
Amelia Kelly – Restructuring
Tbilisi, Georgia
Avto Svanidze – Corporate
Tokyo, Japan
Makiko Takewaki – Tax
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