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22 March 2017
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Linklaters

Firm announces 26 new partner elections worldwide

Linklaters has announced the election of 26 new partners across 13 jurisdictions. The promotions take effect on 1 May 2017.

Charlie Jacobs, senior partner at Linklaters, said: “The exceptional quality of today’s newly elected partners reflects our commitment to attracting, retaining and promoting the most talented lawyers in jurisdictions and practices around the world.

“As excited as we are by today’s announcement, we are disappointed that we have failed to reach our target for female partners in this year’s election. We remain absolutely committed to this important goal and acknowledge that despite firm-wide progress on diversity, we must and will strive to do better.”

The new partners are:

Alexander Harmse, capital markets, Amsterdam

Andreas Dehio, financial regulation group, Frankfurt

Andrew Jennens, banking, Abu Dhabi

Burkhard Rinne, capital markets, Frankfurt

Christian Schmitt, dispute resolution, Frankfurt

Dirk Horcher, mainstream corporate, Munich

Fionnghuala Griggs, mainstream corporate, London

Ian Callaghan, banking, London

Ilia Ditiatev, projects, London

Iris Leung, capital markets, Hong Kong

James Morgan, tax, London

Janusz Dzianachowski, real estate, Warsaw

Jean-Charles Jais, dispute resolution, Paris

John Xu, mainstream corporate, Shanghai

Kanyaka Ramamurthi, mainstream corporate, London

Laure de Panafieu, employment and incentives, Singapore

Laurent Victor-Michel, mainstream corporate, Paris

Mavnick Nerwal, tax, London

Melinda Perera, banking, Luxembourg

Parthiv Rishi, mainstream corporate, Singapore

Pierre Thomet, mainstream corporate, Paris

Reza Taylor, capital markets, London

Robert Trust, banking, New York

Rui Camacho Palma, tax, Lisbon

Sumit Indwar, financial regulation group, Hong Kong

Yohan Liyanage, TMT IP, London

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