DLA Piper makes up 12 UK lawyers to partner in 58-strong global round
DLA Piper has announced its 2012 partnership promotions, with 58 new partners made up around the world including 12 in the UK. Four of the UK promotions are in London, where intellectual property (IP) and technology duo Claire Bennett and John Wilks, corporate partner Chris Baird and finance and projects specialist Dimitri Papaefstratious have made the grade.
May 03, 2012 at 10:23 AM
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DLA Piper has announced its 2012 partnership promotions, with 58 new partners made up around the world including 12 in the UK.
Four of the UK promotions are in London, where intellectual property (IP) and technology duo Claire Bennett and John Wilks, corporate partner Chris Baird and finance and projects specialist Dimitri Papaefstratious have made the grade.
Outside London, Sheffield, Birmingham and Manchester have gained two new partners apiece across the employment, pensions and benefits, real estate, corporate and finance teams.
Meanwhile, the firm's Liverpool base has received one new partner with the promotion of IP and technology partner Jeff Vernon, with Glasgow lawyer Callum Sinclair made up in the same group.
The US, where the promotions took effect from 1 January rather than 1 May elsewhere, received the largest number of new partners, with 22 promotions.
Continental Europe gained 17, including three in Italy and two apiece in Belgium, Germany, Spain and Austria. The firm has also promoted seven partners in the Asia-Pacific region across Hong Kong, Australia and Shanghai.
Broken down by practice, corporate received the highest number of new partners with 14, followed by IP and technology on 11. The litigation and regulatory practice gained 10 new partners, with eight for finance and projects, six in employment, five in real estate, three in tax and one in restructuring.
The round is slightly up on 2011 when the firm made up 53 new partners around the world. Last year five were made up in London and five were promoted elsewhere in the UK, while the US received 17.
DLA Piper partner promotions in full
Europe
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Lex Oosterling – Restructuring
Antwerp, Belgium
Koen Selleslags – Corporate
Brussels, Belgium
Johan Mouraux – Finance & Projects
Birmingham, UK
Tim Lake – Corporate
Benedict Gorner – Employment, Pensions & Benefits
Bucharest, Romania
Alin Buftea – Real Estate
Frankfurt, Germany
Pascal Kremp – Employment, Pensions & Benefits
Glasgow, UK
Callum Sinclair – Intellectual Property & Technology
Hamburg, Germany
Kai Bodenstedt – Employment, Pensions & Benefits
Liverpool, UK
Jeff Vernon – Intellectual Property & Technology
London, UK
Chris Baird – Corporate
Dimitri Papaefstratious – Finance & Projects
Claire Bennett – Intellectual Property & Technology
John Wilks – Intellectual Property & Technology
Madrid, Spain
Alfredo Barona – Finance & Projects
Albert Agustinoy – Intellectual Property & Technology
Manchester, UK
Claire Bell – Employment, Pensions & Benefits
Andrew Davies – Finance & Projects
Milan, Italy
Federico Vanetti – Litigation & Regulatory
Moscow, Russia
Igor Antonyan – Corporate
Oslo, Norway
Camilla Wollan – Finance & Projects
Paris, France
Gregory Tulquois – Intellectual Property & Technology
Rome, Italy
Matteo Mancinelli – Corporate
Francesco De Blasio – Real Estate
Sheffield, UK
Gurpreet Duhra – Employment, Pensions & Benefits
Ian Doig – Real Estate
Vienna, Austria
Christophe Urbanek – Finance & Projects
Franz Althuber – Tax
Warsaw, Poland
Marta Frackowiak – Corporate
Asia-Pacific
Hong Kong, China
Anderson Lam – Corporate
Phil Lam – Corporate
Mike Suen – Corporate
Melbourne, Australia
Bruce Linke – Finance & Projects
Perth, Australia
Richard Edwards – Litigation & Regulatory
Shanghai, China
Kaichen Xu – Corporate
Sydney, Australia
Simone Mitchell – Intellectual Property & Technology
US
Austin
Amy Beckstead – Labour and Employment
Baltimore
Michael O'Day – Litigation
Ian Taylor – Litigation
Boston
Bryan Connolly – Real Estate
Chicago
Gregory Grossman – Corporate and Securities
Carl Poedtke – Finance
Kimberlie Pearlman – Real Estate
East Palo Alto
Aaron Wainscoat – Intellectual Property and Technology
Stacy Paz – Tax
Los Angeles
Olga Berson – Intellectual Property and Technology
Andrew Devkar – Intellectual Property and Technology
New York
Jeffrey Rotenberg – Litigation
Philadelphia
Lesli Esposito – Litigation
Kevin Rethore – Litigation
San Diego
Chris Shoff – Corporate and Securities
Erin Gibson – Intellectual Property and Technology
San Francisco
Isabelle Ord – Litigation
Tamara Shepard – Tax
Washington DC
Eric Eisenberg – Corporate and Securities
Jeremy Lustman – Corporate and Securities
Seamus Curley – Government Affairs
Deana Cairo – Litigation
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