Mid-year promotions elevate more new partners to start July

Clayton Utz

Clayton Utz elevated the following five to partner effective 1 July:

• Mariam Azzo – impact investing, Sydney
• Lisa Houston – transactional and corporate advisory, Brisbane
• Sarah Jones – infrastructure projects, Canberra
• Sheena McKie – product regulatory advisory, Sydney
• Jonathon McRostie - disputes and restructuring and insolvency, Melbourne

Colin Biggers & Paisley

• Sian Jones – property and development, Sydney
• Stephen Webb - property and development, Brisbane

Gadens

Gadens promoted the following four to partner effective 1 July:

• Sandra Camilleri – IP, Brisbane
• Shane Wacker – corporate and commercial, Brisbane
• Tegan Harris – litigation, Brisbane
• Yangmin Park – real estate, Sydney

Griffith Hack

Griffith Hack elevated the following two to principal effective 1 July:

• Jessica Lee – engineering and ICT, Sydney
• Shannon Fati – law, Brisbane

Hamilton Locke

Hamilton Locke elevated Penelope Nicholls (Hamilton Locke private, Brisbane) effective 1 July.

HHG Legal

HHG Legal promoted Kimi Shah (wills, estate and succession planning) to partner as of 1 July.

Holding Redlich

Holding Redlich promoted the following three to partner effective 1 July:

• Emily Ng – construction, infrastructure and projects, Brisbane
• Samantha Haddon – corporate and commercial, Canberra
• Katharine Huxley – planning, environment and sustainability, Sydney

HWLE

HWLE elevated the following three to partner effective 1 July:

• Taylor Austin – insurance (general), Melbourne
• Paul Burgoyne – corporate and commercial, Melbourne
• Frances Spry – litigation, Hobart

Johnson Winter Slattery

JWS promoted the following five to partner effective 1 July:

• Charlotte Fenton – employment/IR, Brisbane
• Julia Green – environment and planning, Sydney
• Sally-Ann Rowland – real estate, Adelaide
• Connor Stagg – dispute resolution, Brisbane
• Jarrod Wilksch – corporate, M&A, ECM, Adelaide

Lavan

Lavan elevated the following two to partner effective 1 July:

• Jordan Grapsas – M&A
• Kerrie Papamihail – ECM

Lander & Rogers

Lander & Rogers elevated the following 10 to partner effective 1 July:

• Adele Moloney - compensation law
• Ashley Taylor - family and relationship law
• Chris Philactides - insurance law and litigation
• Eliza Elliot - insurance law and litigation
• Jessica O'Brien - insurance law and litigation
• Julie Shooter - insurance law and litigation
• Katalin Lello - family and relationship law
• Nicholas West-Foy - workplace relations and safety
• Samuel Sumaru - family and relationship law
• Shai Sommer - family and relationship law

Maddocks

Maddocks promoted the following three to partner effective 1 July:

• Billy Gialamas – construction, Melbourne
• Elizabeth Ireland – HTMT, Sydney
• Meredith Kennedy – employment, safety and people, Melbourne

Russell Kennedy

Russell Kennedy elevated Felicity Iredale (M&A) to partner effective 1 July.

Spruson & Ferguson

Spruson & Ferguson promoted two to principal effective 1 July:

• David Hvasanov – chemical and life sciences
• Ken Johnstone – chemical and life sciences

Thomsons

Thomsons elevated the following two to partner effective 1 July:

• Maniqa Kumar – government, Canberra
• Caroline Spencer - litigation and dispute resolution, Perth

Corrs Chambers Westgarth also announced four partner promotions as June came to a close. Its new partners are as follows:

• Ella Pope – projects, Melbourne
• Anton Bobenko – corporate, Melbourne
• Kate Gill-Herdman – responsible business and ESG, Melbourne
• Philip Hassett – projects, Perth