Eight make the cut in London as Kirkland & Ellis promotes 82 to partner
Kirkland & Ellis has added 82 of its lawyers to partner in its annual promotion round, including eight associates in London.
September 30, 2014 at 12:25 PM
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Kirkland & Ellis has added 82 of its lawyers to partner in its annual promotion round, including eight associates in London.
The promotions, which are effective 1 October 2014, see junior lawyers making the cut in each of the firm's offices, apart from Houston, which opened earlier this year with the marquee hire of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett M&A partner Andrew Calder.
In London, Andrew Hagan, Mateja Maher, Matthew Merkle and Jonathan Tadd join the corporate team, while Emma Flett, Mark Knight and Oliver Currall join the intellectual property, restructuring and tax practices respectively, and Bryan Robson joins the debt finance team as a partner.
Across all of its offices, the 82 promotions effectively increase Kirkland's partnership by 12%. Like last year, Chicago again saw the greatest number of promotions, with 25.
Kirkland operates two classes of partner – share (equity) and non-share (salaried) – allowing it to promote a greater proportion of junior lawyers into its partnership than firms of a comparable size.
Lawyers brought into the non-share partnership are typically given four or five years to make share, or find a new home.
The model gives the firm flexibility when it comes to pay packages for major laterals, and, on average, awards share partners more than seven times the pay of its non-share partners.
This group – comprising more than half the partnership – is charged out at higher rates than senior associates at other firms, and contributes to a huge portion of Kirkland's profitability.
Last year, the firm promoted 80 lawyers to partnership.
Full list of promotions
Mengyu Lu, Corporate, Beijing
Matthew S. Arenson, Corporate, Chicago
Rana Barakat, Litigation, Chicago
Kevin R. Bettsteller, Corporate, Chicago
Paul Daniel Bond, Intellectual Property , Chicago
Elizabeth A. Cutri, Intellectual Property , Chicago
Casey R. Fronk, Litigation, Chicago
Leslie S. Garthwaite, Litigation, Chicago
Eugene Goryunov, Intellectual Property , Chicago
William A. Guerrieri, Restructuring, Chicago
Matthew R. Hays, Corporate, Chicago
Shay-Ann Heiser Singh, Litigation, Chicago
Zachary D. Holmstead, Litigation, Chicago
Benjamin T. Kurtz, Litigation, Chicago
Daniel D. Lewis, Intellectual Property , Chicago
Aaron Lorber, Intellectual Property , Chicago
Simeon G. Papacostas, Intellectual Property , Chicago
Michael W. Perl, Corporate, Chicago
Ferlillia V. Roberson, Intellectual Property , Chicago
Luke C. Ruse, Litigation, Chicago
Gregory C. Ryckman, Litigation, Chicago
Hari Santhanam, Intellectual Property , Chicago
Alec Solotorovsky, Litigation, Chicago
Jessica L. Staiger, Litigation, Chicago
Brad Weiland, Restructuring, Chicago
David M. Wolff, Real Estate, Chicago
Joey Chau, Corporate, Hong Kong
Damian Jacobs, Corporate, Hong Kong
Soo-Yien Khor, Corporate, Hong Kong
Steve Lin, Corporate, Hong Kong
Peng Qi, Corporate, Hong Kong
Oliver Currall, Tax, London
Emma L. Flett, Intellectual Property , London
Andrew Hagan, Corporate, London
Mark Knight, Restructuring, London
Mateja Maher, Corporate, London
Matthew Merkle, Corporate, London
Bryan Robson, Debt Finance, London
Jonathan Tadd, Corporate, London
Erin C. Kolter, Intellectual Property , Los Angeles
Christopher M. Lawless, Intellectual Property , Los Angeles
Sharre Lotfollahi, Intellectual Property , Los Angeles
Alice Yuan, Corporate, Los Angeles
Dr. Marcus Klie, Corporate, Munich
Devora W. Allon, Litigation, New York
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