header-logo header-logo

09 April 2025
Categories: Movers & Shakers , Profession
printer mail-detail

Taylor Wessing—20 promotions

Firm announces 20 senior promotions for 2025, including ten to partnership

International law firm Taylor Wessing announces a substantial number of senior promotions for the firm and ten lawyers have been appointed as partners across the global Taylor Wessing network.

Global co-chair and UK managing partner Shane Gleghorn (pictured) said: 'We are delighted to announce our 2025 cohort of new partners and senior counsel whose expertise and leadership will be focused on delivering the highest levels of service to our clients. These promotions will significantly strengthen our key practice areas of corporate, disputes, regulatory, IP, patents, real estate, and banking & finance.'

Global co-chair and Germany managing partner, Dr Oliver Bertram said: 'We are proud to welcome such a talented group of lawyers to the partnership. Their appointment underscores our dedication to excellence and our commitment to supporting the industries shaping the future of business. Congratulations to all our new partners.'

As of 1 May 2025, the new partners are:

  1. Richard Faichney, Corporate Technology and Life Sciences (UK)
  2. Johanna Götz, Technology, Media & Telecoms (Germany)
  3. Lacy Gratton, Corporate Real Estate & Private Capital (UK)
  4. Dannie Hanna, Corporate (Ireland)
  5. Jo Joyce, Technology, IP and Information (Ireland)
  6. Andrew Payne, Patents (UK)
  7. Clare Reynolds, Technology, IP and Information (UK)

As of 1 January 2025, the new partners are:

  1. Marie Keup, Brands & Advertising and Copyright & Media law (Belgium)
  2. Martijn Loth, Tech & Data (Netherlands)

As of 1 February 2025, the new partners are:

  1. Carmen Redmann-Wippel, Banking & Finance (Austria)

As of 1 May 2025, the new senior counsel are:

  1. Charlie Adams, Patents (UK)
  2. Amala Atieh, IP and Media (UAE)
  3. Lydia Birch, Patents (UK)
  4. Stephen Burke, Real Estate (UK)
  5. Tom Charnley, Disputes and Investigations (UK)
  6. Julie Chiu, Patents (UK)
  7. Charlotte Matthews, Private Client (UK)
  8. Mila Pencheva, FS Regulatory and Competition (UK)
  9. Alexandra Poland, Private Equity (UK)
  10. Matthew Sherr, Banking and Finance (UK).

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Payne Hicks Beach—Flora Hussey

Payne Hicks Beach—Flora Hussey

Private client department announces partner hire

Blake Morgan—Daniela Smith & Lee Fisher

Blake Morgan—Daniela Smith & Lee Fisher

Firm appoints first joint heads of Wales office

Ogier—Heidi Sandy & Farrah Sbaiti

Ogier—Heidi Sandy & Farrah Sbaiti

Global dispute resolution team promotes two partners in Guernsey and Cayman Islands

NEWS
Contract damages are usually assessed at the date of breach—but not always. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Gascoigne, knowledge lawyer at LexisNexis, examines the growing body of cases where courts have allowed later events to reshape compensation
The Supreme Court has restored ‘doctrinal coherence’ to unfair prejudice litigation, writes Natalie Quinlivan, partner at Fieldfisher LLP, in this week' NLJ
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
back-to-top-scroll