Fieldfisher has promoted 10 lawyers to partner in the firm's largest ever partnership round.

Four of the new partners are based in Fieldfisher's London office, with two in Brussels, two in Manchester and one apiece in Hamburg and Silicon Valley.

In total, the firm has promoted three women, with the 30% figure an increase on last year, when just two of nine new partners (22%) were female.

By practice area, technology dominates with four new appointments, followed by disputes with three.

Last year's round of nine new partners was the firm's largest since 2010, when nine were also made up.

Fieldfisher has grown rapidly in recent years, with a series of mergers driving a 34% revenue hike to £165m for 2016-17, and that progress was recognised with the Law Firm of the Year award at the 2017 British Legal Awards. The firm's growth looks set to continue this year, following the announcement of a 20% revenue rise for the first half of 2017-18.

Meanwhile, DAC Beachcroft (DACB) has announced the promotion of eight new partners, including a trio of women.

Claims solutions specialist Alison Drew (Leeds), real estate lawyer Frances Keenan (Bristol) and corporate focused Jade Kowalski (London) will all join the firm's partnership as of tomorrow (1 May).

Kowalski is one of three London lawyers to have been promoted, alongside real estate senior associate Andrew Morgan and public law specialist Alistair Robertson.

The other three promotions are claims solutions lawyers John Hinton (Bristol) and Sean Harris (Newport), and injury risk lawyer John Sheehy, who is based in Dublin.

Elsewhere, national firm Brown Jacobson has made up seven lawyers to its partnership, including City commercial lawyer John Adams. The other six lawyers comprises two in Birmingham and four in Nottingham.


Fieldfisher partner promotions in full

Competition

Jochen Beck – Brussels

Corporate

Tom Ward – Manchester

Dispute resolution

Maxime Berlingin – Brussels

Donall Caherty – Manchester

Daniel Hayward – London

Financial services

Hannah Rowbotham – London

Technology, outsourcing and privacy

Laura Berton – Silicon Valley

John Brunning – London

Thorsten Ihler – Hamburg

Leonie Power – London