header-logo header-logo

15 April 2026
Categories: Movers & Shakers , Profession
printer mail-detail

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Firm promotes five lawyers to partnership across key growth areas

Foot Anstey has promoted five lawyers to its partnership, effective 1 May 2026, as it continues to expand across core practice areas. The promotions span corporate & private equity, energy & infrastructure and real estate development.

The new partners are Emma Clayton and Dominic Cromwell in corporate & private equity, Mark Holloway in real estate development, and Laura Rajanah and Simon Stubbs in energy & infrastructure. The firm said the promotions reflect strength in areas aligned to client demand and its national growth strategy.

Managing partner Martin Hirst said: ‘This year's promotions demonstrate the talent in our firm as we continue to grow with our clients’, adding: ‘I am very proud to welcome these outstanding lawyers to our partnership and look forward to their continued success’.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Haynes Boone—Jeremy Cross

Haynes Boone—Jeremy Cross

Firm strengthens global fund finance practice with London partner hire.

DWF—Stephen Webb

DWF—Stephen Webb

Partner and head of national planning team appointed

mfg Solicitors—Nick Little

mfg Solicitors—Nick Little

Corporate team expands in Birmingham with partner hire

NEWS
The High Court’s refusal to recognise a prolific sperm donor as a child’s legal parent has highlighted the risks of informal conception arrangements, according to Liam Hurren, associate at Kingsley Napley, in NLJ this week
The Court of Appeal’s decision in Mazur may have settled questions around litigation supervision, but the profession should not simply ‘move on’, argues Jennifer Coupland, CEO of CILEX, in this week's NLJ
A simple phrase like ‘subject to references’ may not protect employers as much as they think. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Smith, barrister and emeritus professor of employment law at UEA, analyses recent employment cases showing how conditional job offers can still create binding contracts

An engagement ring may symbolise romance, but the courts remain decidedly practical about who keeps it after a split, writes Mark Pawlowski, barrister and professor emeritus of property law at the University of Greenwich, in this week's NLJ

Medical reporting organisation fees have become ‘the final battleground’ in modern costs litigation, says Kris Kilsby, costs lawyer at Peak Costs and council member of the Association of Costs Lawyers, in this week's NLJ
back-to-top-scroll