This is the firm's biggest round of senior associate elevations in five years
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has promoted 62 in Australia to senior associates.
“We have promoted our largest cohort of senior associates in the last five years. We recognise potential and reward outstanding performance at our firm - and career progression is a big part of that”, executive partner for Asia and Australia Kristin Stammer said.
The new senior associates are as follows:
Competition, regulation and trade
- Tom Allen, Melbourne
Corporate - Sydney
- Roy Carbone
- Benedict Cheung
- Ting Fan
- Felix Hu
- Natasha Kandi
- Helen Leung
- Emily Mackay
- David Tilley
- Katerina Jovanovska – seconded to London
Corporate – Melbourne
- Georgia Fahey
- Rebecca Gill
- Josh Kain
- Kim Noah
- Sarah Ward
Corporate – Brisbane
- Nigel Amigh
- Claire Rossell
Corporate – Perth
- Louis Mitchell
Disputes - Sydney
- Leah Allen
- Anna Battams
- Dominik Breznik
- Joseph Dean
- Nyree Flower
- Annabel McCullagh
- James Morgan
- Kavitha Ramanathan
- Lucinda Robinson
- John Tsaousidis
- Major Zhang
Disputes – Melbourne
- Rachael Harris
- Georgia Kennedy
- L Gopika Murthy
- Bijou Prayag
- James Samartzis
Disputes – Brisbane
- Oliver Caine
- Simon Hochreiter
- Madeleine Ryan
Disputes – Perth
- Grace Lee-Tuck
Employment industrial relations and safety
- Stephanie Blancquart, Sydney
- Lucy Halliday, Sydney
- Jordan Hardinge, Melbourne
- Grace Holmes, Melbourne
- Amandi Munasinghe, Melbourne
- Sarah Connolly, Brisbane
- Crispin Scott, Brisbane
- Nathan Kearns, Perth
- Hannah Penwarden, Perth
Finance
- Jason Lu, Sydney
- Mark Peters, Sydney
- Edward Kerr, Brisbane
- Adam Tucker, Perth
Projects, energy and infrastructure
- Blair Feng, Sydney
- Dan English, Melbourne
- Paige Mortimer, Melbourne
- James Tong, Melbourne
- Holly Vaughan, Brisbane
- Mary-Rose Bright, Perth
Real estate
- Alexander Brand, Sydney
- Chrislynn Soong, Sydney
- Alice Wilk, Sydney
- Sabrina Xiao, Brisbane
- Dhruvi Pindolia, Perth
Additionally, HSF promoted Avay Rimal and Dylan McGrath to senior manager in the eDiscovery and legal technology arm of its Digital Legal Delivery team. Stephanie Smith and Melody Webb were elevated to acting senior manager, disputes.
The promoted staff took up their new positions on 1 July.
