Norton Rose Fulbright has announced 46 global partner promotions, including eight promotions to the South African equivalent of director.
Carina van Vuuren, director real estate department in Johannesburg.
Female partners account for a significant percentage of all global promotions (20 out of 46 promotions, or 43 percent).
The promotions are being made across all eight of the practice’s global practice groups; corporate, M&A and securities (17), dispute resolution and litigation (10), banking and finance (9), intellectual property (4), antitrust and competition (2), employment and labour (2), real estate (1) and tax (1).
Peter Martyr, global chief executive, Norton Rose Fulbright, says: “We continue to grow globally and I am pleased to welcome the new partners and directors who will play a key role in meeting the needs of our clients around the world.”
Martyr points out that these are the first promotions in the United States following the US combination last year.
“We have also made a number of promotions in Latin America, which is consistent with the announcement of our Rio de Janeiro office in 2014.”
Appointments in South Africa include Louise Campion (banking and finance, Johannesburg), Lara Granville (antitrust and competition, Johannesburg), Laurie Hammond (banking and finance, Cape Town), Tinashe Makoni (banking and finance, Johannesburg), Vanessa Palmer (corporate, M&A and securities, Durban), Deniro Pillay (dispute resolution and litigation, Durban), Tessa Stuart (corporate, M&A and securities, Durban) and Carina van Vuuren (real estate, Johannesburg).
Norton Rose Fulbright is a global legal practice with more than 3 800 lawyers based in over 50 cities across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
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