DLA Piper announces partnership promotions for 2025
Global law firm DLA Piper announces 65 promotions to its partnership. The promotions are effective as of 1 April in the United States and Canada and 1 May for EMEA and Asia Pacific.
Globally, the Corporate practice group has the largest intake of new partners with 19 promotions; followed by 12 in Finance; 13 in Litigation; and six in Real Estate. Other practice groups include Employment (5), Intellectual Property & Technology (5), Tax (3), and Regulatory & Government Affairs (2).
Regionally, the US has the highest number of promotions with 23 new partners, followed by Continental Europe with 20 and the UK with 12. Other countries include Canada (5), Ireland (2), and South Africa (2).
The list of partner promotions by office and practice is included below.
Charles Severs, International Managing Partner and Global Co-CEO, commented: "This year's cohort joins our firm's partnership during a time of significant change and opportunity in the global landscape. We are committed to helping our clients navigate these challenges and our 2025 cohort of new partners have been instrumental in delivering this support. We are very proud of them all for achieving this milestone moment in their careers."
Frank Ryan, Americas Chair and Global Co-CEO, added: “Our newly promoted partners are focused on helping their clients succeed in today’s rapidly evolving business environment. They collaborate with their colleagues and give back to their communities. We are proud to welcome them to the partnership and look forward to their contributions to the firm.”
Denmark
- Aarhus
- Camilla Bjørslev Paulsen, Litigation & Regulatory
- Lasse Møller, Litigation & Regulatory
- Copenhagen
- Mario Fernandez, Tax
- Stefan Westh Wiencken, Corporate
Finland
- Helsinki
- Satu-Anneli Kauranen, Litigation & Regulatory
Germany
- Düsseldorf
- Lukas Weidner, Real Estate
- Hamburg
- Till Burmeister, Corporate
- Munich
- Dr. Christoph Dachner, Corporate
- Hanna Lütkens, Corporate
Hungary
- Budapest
- Gabor Simon, Finance
Italy
- Rome
- Edoardo Campo, Finance
Luxembourg
- Luxembourg
- Mélody Brunot, Corporate
Netherlands
- Amsterdam
- Stefan Spaans, Corporate
Norway
- Oslo
- Anders Hilt, Real Estate
Poland
- Warsaw
- Michal Gajdus, Intellectual Property & Technology
- Piotr Miller, Corporate
Romania
- Bucharest
- Florin Tineghe, Real Estate
Spain
- Madrid
- Jose Marco, Finance
- Natalia Lopez Condado, Finance
Sweden
- Stockholm
- David Johansson, Litigation & Regulatory
Ireland
- Dublin
- Orla O'Leary, Employment
- Seán McGrenaghan, Finance
United Kingdom
- Birmingham
- Satnam Singh Sahota, Intellectual Property & Technology
- Siona Spillett, Litigation & Regulatory
- Leeds
- Dean Peachey, Real Estate
- Richard McGlasham, Corporate
- Liverpool
- Gary Davies, Employment
- London
- Danny Westmoreland, Corporate
- Danny McMann, Corporate
- Lorna Edwards, Corporate
- Mark Browne, Litigation & Regulatory
- Victoria Cooper, Litigation & Regulatory
- Manchester
- Ben Morton, Finance
- Rob Lyons, Finance
Qatar
- Doha
- Mapanza Nkwilimba, Litigation & Regulatory
South Africa
- Johannesburg
- Amy Eliason, Corporate
- Werner Rysbergen, Litigation & Regulatory
Canada
- Calgary
- Bill de Jong, Finance
- Montreal
- Carly Meredith, Employment
- Toronto
- Christopher Pejovic, Finance
- Michal Kasprowicz, Intellectual Property & Technology
- Vancouver
- Struan Robertson, Employment
United States
- Atlanta
- JJ Gotlieb, Corporate
- Austin
- Dan Fabian, Corporate
- Baltimore
- Neill Thupari, Litigation
- Boston
- John Wei, Tax
- Mary Hagedorn, Real Estate
- Chicago
- Jason Veit, Corporate
- Jon Goreham, Real Estate
- Pam Wang, Corporate
- Dallas
- Mallory Biblo, Regulatory & Government Affairs
- Todd Mobley, Employment
- Houston
- Justin Hewett, Finance
- Los Angeles
- Ben Fabens-Lassen, Litigation
- Carlo Ingato, Finance
- Tuan Ngo, Tax
- Minneapolis
- Ashley Bailey-Chang, Corporate
- New York
- James Manzione, Corporate
- Jon Kinney, Litigation
- Katie Lee, Regulatory & Government Affairs
- Philadelphia
- Pierre De Oliveira, Intellectual Property & Technology
- Sam Marll, Corporate
- Tim Pfenninger, Litigation
- Wilmington
- Aaron Applebaum, Finance
- Jeff Castellano, Intellectual Property & Technology
