Credit: Tobias Arhelger/Shutterstock.comLinklaters Hits 20 Percent Female Partnership Via Largest Promotion Round Since 2007
The magic circle firm's latest round is its largest in 12 years.
March 11, 2019 at 08:20 AM
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Linklaters has hit 20 percent female partnership, following its largest partner promotions round for more than a decade.
A third of the firm's 33 newly promoted lawyers are women, meaning the firm surpassed its 30% annual election target of new female partner promotions.
Most of the newly appointed partners are outside of the U.K.
Eleven lawyers have been made up in London, 10 in Europe, eight in Asia, three in the Americas, and one in the Middle East.
The majority of partners have been promoted in the firm's corporate and capital markets practice areas, with nine and six new partners in each respective department.
The promotions will take effect on May 1. Last year, the magic circle firm made up 27 partners globally, including 10 women.
In London, the promotions include corporate lawyers Charles Turner, Derek Tong and Tom Thorne, employment lawyer Sinead Casey, pensions lawyer John Sheppard, banking lawyers Matthew Harding and Thomas Waller, capital markets lawyer Thomas Quoroll, investment funds lawyer Rahul Manvatkar, projects lawyer Ross Schloeffel and disputes lawyer Chris Stevenson.
Linklaters senior partner and chairman Charlie Jacobs said: "I am pleased to see that for the second year running as senior partner, we have beaten our gender target again in electing at least 30% new female partners – and there is still much more we are working on to build on this success."
Linklaters 2019 partner promotions in full
Christoph Barth – competition/antitrust (Duesseldorf)
Sinead Casey – employment (London)
Gabriel Silva – corporate (São Paulo)
Karen Phang – corporate (Jakarta)
Robert Elliot – corporate (Singapore)
Claudia Schneider – corproate (Frankfurt)
Thomas Broichhausen – corporate (Munich)
Charles Turner – corporate (London)
Derek Tong – corporate (London)
Tom Thorne – corporate (London)
Carmen Burgos – corporate (Madrid)
John Sheppard – pensions (London)
Alejandro Meca – rax (Madrid)
Adrian Fisher – TMT IP (Singapore)
Omar El Sayed – banking/corporate (Middle East)
Sabine Vorwerk – banking (Frankfurt)
Matthew Harding – banking (London)
Thomas Waller – banking (London)
Jonathan Ching – banking (New York)
Karen Lam – capital markets (Hong Kong)
Sherry (Jiwei) Cui – capital markets (Hong Kong)
Kenneth Lam – capital markets (Tokyo)
Thomas Quoroll – capital markets (London)
Simon Few – capital markets (EMEA)
Ugo Orsini – capital markets (Milan)
Peiying Chua – financial regulation (Singapore)
Rahul Manvatkar – investment funds (London)
Crystal Chen – projects (Hong Kong)
Ross Schloeffel – projects (London)
Adolfo Guerrero – real estate (Madrid)
Brenda DiLuigi – dispute resolution (New York)
Kerstin Wilhelm – dispute resolution (Munich)
Chris Stevenson – dispute resolution (London)
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