CMS makes up 47 new partners in first post-merger round

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang has promoted eighteen women to partnership in the firm’s first promotions round since the three-way merger last year.

Women represented 38 per cent of the entire cohort, with new additions in 11 of the firm’s 23 offices.

The firm’s 47-strong promotions round strengthened 11 different practice areas, with corporate and commercial benefiting the most. Corporate was the only practice that received a double-digit amount of new partners, with more than a fifth of all new partners.

London has received the most new new partners (11) of the entire organisation, totalling 23 per cent of the new group.

They are Anne Chitan and Katie Duffield in banking and finance; Narinder Jugpal in corporate and commercial; Robbie Leckie in energy and projects; Tamsin Blow in dispute resolution, Colin Brett, Hugh Picton Phillipps and Leilah Rawle in real estate; and Hannah Curtis, Laurence Kalman and Loretta Pugh in TMT.

In London, five legacy CMS associates were promoted: Duffield, Rawle, Curtis, Pugh and Jugpal. Four of the 11 made up had been at Olswang: Blow, Brett, Chitan and Kalman. Picton Phillipps had been at Nabarro and Leckie arrived at CMS in the Dundas & Wilson merger.

CMS UK senior partner Penelope Warne said: “As we approach 1 May, marking the first anniversary of our ground-breaking merger, it is an important time to recognise the great talent we have across the firm. We have achieved a great deal in the past year, owing much to the excellence, dedication and enthusiasm of our people.

“We are thrilled to see the calibre of individuals rising through the ranks and would like to congratulate our new partners on their well-deserved promotions.”

CMS Cameron McKenna merged with both Nabarro and Olswang last year, with the current iteration of the firm celebrating its first anniversary on Tuesday (1 May).

CMS executive chairman Cornelius Brandi said: “All of our newly-appointed partners are members of our international teams, and have deep local roots and expert knowledge of their own markets. This is what sets CMS apart and allows us to offer our clients a depth and quality of advice that few others can – whether in local or cross-border projects.

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