Hogan Lovells is on course to miss its target of achieving a 30% female partnership by 2022, despite announcing a 40% female promotions round for 2019.

While 12 of this year's 30 new partners are women, the firm's next three promotions rounds will need to be more than 75% female if it is to achieve the 2022 target, assuming the firm makes up the same number of people every year.

With this year's promotions, women now comprise 25% of Hogan Lovells' 837 partners, and the firm has gone some way to increase the proportion of women in its partnership rounds in recent years. Twenty-five percent of the firm's 2016 intake were women, and this has gradually increased to this year's figure of 40%. 

Last year, the firm narrowly missed its previous target of a 25% female partnership by 2017. With its most recent promotions, it has reached that target – but now faces a challenge to reach 30% by 2022.

Across the wider legal industry, women comprise 29% of partners at firms that have more than 50 partners as of 2017, according to data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Susan Bright, regional managing partner for UK and Africa at the firm, said: "This is an area where we have placed a lot of attention, and while we obviously monitor closely the proportion of women we admit to the partnership, we also recognise that there will be natural fluctuations when looking at the pipeline for internal promotions, lateral hires and retirements.

"At the start of 2019, we have a global figure of 25% women partners. We have made good progress from 2012, when we were at 21%.

Of the 30 partners made up this year, the bulk of its promotions were in continental Europe, with 13 made up across those bases. The firm's City office saw a slight increase on 2018, with six promoted compared to five last year, while nine were made across the firm's US offices.

The six London promotions are: international arbitration counsel Ben Hornan, banking and finance counsel Katie Gill, IP counsel Katie McConnell, solicitor-advocate Jamie Rogers, real estate disputes senior associate Paul Tonkin and energy projects specialist Ben Sulaiman.

The firm has also promoted a partner apiece in its Beijing and Hong Kong, while 47 lawyers have been made up to counsel, 38% of who are female.

Hogan Lovells 2019 partner promotions in full:

  • Eliza Andonova − global regulatory (healthcare), Washington DC
  • Joke Bodewits – global regulatory (privacy and cybersecurity), Amsterdam
  • Christelle Coslin – litigation, arbitration and employment (litigation), Paris
  • Fred Cristman – finance (banking), Washington DC
  • Daniel Dehghanian − corporate (transactional), Duesseldorf
  • Daniel Flore – litigation, arbitration and employment (litigation), Frankfurt
  • Juan Garicano – corporate (tax), Madrid
  • Katie Gill – finance (banking), London
  • Sherry Gong − corporate (transactional), Beijing
  • Martin Haase – corporate (real estate), Duesseldorf
  • Allison Holt – litigation, arbitration and employment (litigation), Washington DC
  • Ben Hornan – litigation, arbitration and employment (international arbitration), London
  • Alexander Koch − corporate (transactional), Hamburg
  • Louise Leung – finance (banking), Hong Kong
  • Sean Marotta – litigation, arbitration and employment (litigation), Washington DC
  • Massimiliano Masnada – corporate (commercial), Rome
  • Katie McConnell − intellectual property, media and technology, London
  • Meg McIntyre – corporate (tax), Washington DC
  • Lars Mohnke – litigation, arbitration and employment (employment), Munich
  • Stephan Neuhaus – intellectual property, media and technology, Duesseldorf
  • Paul Otto – global regulatory (privacy and cybersecurity), Washington DC
  • Kelliann Payne – global regulatory (medical device and technology), Philadelphia
  • Martin Pflueger − intellectual property, media and technology, Munich
  • Jamie Rogers – litigation, arbitration and employment (litigation), London
  • Fabien Roy – global regulatory (medical device and technology), Brussels
  • Colleen Roh Sinzdak – litigation, arbitration and employment (litigation), Washington DC
  • Ben Sulaiman – finance (infrastructure, energy, resources and projects), London
  • Christian Tinnefeld − intellectual property, media and technology, Hamburg
  • Elizabeth Titus – finance (infrastructure, energy, resources and projects), Denver
  • Paul Tonkin – corporate (real estate), London