’Tis the season of law firm partner promotions.
Between October and February, dozens of corporate law firms officially announce the associates and counsel that they are promoting to equity and nonequity partners. Most of the announcements are made in December.
Most law firms promote lawyers after their eighth or ninth years of legal practice.
So far this year, 11 law firms — Gibbs & Bruns, Katten, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Locke Lord, Mayer Brown, McGuireWoods, Polsinelli, Simpson Thacher, Vinson & Elkins and White & Case — have announced the names of Texas lawyers that they are each promoting to their partnerships.
Overall, 63 lawyers have been added to the partnerships at the 11 firms. Thirty-eight of the new partners are in Houston, 19 are in Dallas and six in Austin. Forty seven of the 57 have corporate transactional practices and 16 are in litigation.
Kirkland, Simpson Thacher and V&E have promoted the most new partners so far in this cycle.
Here are the names of the newly minted partners so far along with their specific practice areas and their home office:
Gibbs & Bruns
Justin D. Patrick (Houston) — Commercial litigation
Katten
Yelena E. Archiyan (Dallas) — Bankruptcy
Jessica L. Schauwecker (Dallas) — M&A and private equity
Kirkland & Ellis
Tanya Jane Embers (Austin) — Debt finance
Kelly King (Austin) — M&A and private equity
James John Lomeo (Austin) — Intellectual property litigation
Rachel Malhiet (Austin) — Tax law
John L. Polansky (Austin) — IP litigation
Jessica Berkowitz (Dallas) — M&A and private equity
John Christian (Dallas) — Litigation
Alexandra Dayneka-Hayes (Dallas) — M&A and private equity
Matthew Taylor Demopoulos (Dallas) — Debt finance
James B. Kelly (Dallas) — Debt finance
Ethan Joel Levinton (Dallas) — Litigation
Thomas Matteson (Dallas) — M&A and private equity
Jordan Rex (Dallas) — M&A and private equity
Skyler Sikes (Dallas) — M&A and private equity
Adam Wojcik (Dallas) — M&A and private equity
Ahmed N. Alrikhaimi (Houston) — Project development
Jack Chadderdon (Houston) — M&A and private equity
Susan Czaikowski (Houston) — Investment funds
Jarrod Hunter Gamble (Houston) — M&A and private equity
Peter Hyams (Houston) — M&A and private equity
Grant Jones (Houston) — Litigation
Daniel J. Kirksey (Houston) — Debt finance
Rebekah Kostelak (Houston) — Executive compensation
Charles H. Martin (Houston) — Debt finance
Nicole Dressler Martin (Houston) — Tax law
Brandon A. Newman (Houston) — Executive compensation
Orla O’Callaghan (Houston) — Litigation
Danielle O’Neal (Houston) — Litigation
Brittany Scheier (Houston) — M&A and private equity
Gabrielle Sumich (Houston) — M&A and private equity
Brittany Taylor (Houston) — Debt finance
Jacob Volz (Houston) — M&A and private equity
Nathan Wolcott (Houston) — Investment funds
Michael Denney Wright (Houston) — Capital markets
Latham & Watkins
Christine Mainguy (Houston) — Transaction tax practice
David Moore (Houston) — Investment funds and corporate law
Ashley Nguyen (Houston) — M&A and private equity
Locke Lord
Nick Graber (Dallas) — Litigation
Jennifer McCoy (Dallas) — Litigation
Mayer Brown
Meaghan Connors (Houston) — Banking & Finance
Gary W. Johnson (Houston) — Litigation
McGuireWoods
Miles O. Indest (Houston) — Commercial Litigation
Chelsie A. Kidd (Dallas) — Corporate and private equity
Brian T. Robertson (Dallas) Corporate and & private equity
Polsinelli
Ashley N. Gould (Dallas) — Commercial litigation
Lauryn A. Sanders (Houston) — Health care
Simpson Thacher
Brandon E. Barton (Houston) — Banking and credit
David Bumgardner (Houston) — M&A
Kristy Fields (Houston) —Executive compensation and employee benefits
Richard Ragusa (Houston) — Capital markets
Maya Reeves (Houston) — Private funds
Javier J. Rivera-Alvarado (Houston) — Private funds
Ana Sanchez (Houston) — M&A
Vinson & Elkins
Matt Hoffman (Houston) — Litigation
Caroline Kuehn (Houston) — M&A
Jeremy Reichman (Dallas) — Litigation
Zachary Rider (Houston) — Finance
Robert Ritchie (Dallas) — Litigation
Winston Skinner (Austin) — Energy regulation
White & Case
Neil Clausen (Houston) — Tax law