Bird & Bird has made up nine to partner in its Europe-heavy promotions round.
Two were promoted in London: they are IP lawyer Eleanor Root and real estate lawyer Marco Nicolai. Root trained with Bird & Bird, qualifying in 2004. Nicolai qualified with DLA Piper in 2005, joining Bird & Bird in 2012.
Women made up a third of the promotions this year.
The firm’s biggest headcount investment went to the IP practice, with a total of three promotions.
The promotions are effective from 1 May 2018, except for three of the partners who were appointed in November last year.
This promotions round is substantially smaller than last year’s, when the firm promoted 16 lawyers, six of which were in the UK.
Bird & Bird promotions 2018: in full
UK
- Marco Nicolai, real estate
- Eleanor Root, IP
Europe
- Arnoud Knijnenburg, tax, Netherlands
- Balint Halasz, IP, Hungary
- Pal Szabo, corporate, Hungary
- Federico Valle, corporate, Italy
- Rossella Sansone, banking and finance, Italy
- Hermann Rothfuchs, regulatory and competition, Germany
- Marta Koremba, IP, Poland
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