Clifford Chance appoints 25 new partners

28 April 2015

Clifford Chance appoints 25 new partners

Leading international law firm has today announced the promotion of 25 new lawyers to its global partnership.

The new partners' practices demonstrate the firm's continued commitment to invest in building and maintaining market-leading practices that address the most critical and complex challenges faced by its clients, and which reflect fast-evolving market demands. Their expertise includes advising across sectors where the firm is a recognised leader, such as risk, corporate governance, high yield, antitrust and financial regulatory, across the energy and resources, infrastructure, TMT, healthcare, real estate, transport and financial services sectors, amongst others.

Matthew Layton, Clifford Chance Managing Partner commented, "Many of our new partners are already well-recognised as key individuals in their fields. They have impressive track records on high-profile and ground-breaking mandates and play leading roles in helping those clients grappling with the implications of the increasingly complex global business and financial environment. Their commercial and legal expertise, their commitment and their enthusiasm are fundamental to the firm as we pursue our vision of being the global law firm of choice for the world's leading businesses and I am delighted to welcome them to the partnership."

The promotions will take effect from 1 May 2015 and will bring the total number of partners in the firm to 581.

The newly promoted partners are:

Corporate

Mark Jan Arends – Amsterdam

Lee Askenazi – New York

Gareth Camp – London

Timothy Cornell – Washington, D.C.

Mathias Elspass – Düsseldorf

Dieter Paemen – Brussels

Graham Phillips - London

Jörg Rhiel - Frankfurt

Christian Vogel – Düsseldorf