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Ashurst promotes 8 to partnership in Australia
International law firm Ashurst has elevated 15 lawyers to its partnership ranks around the world, with eight of those promotions coming from Australia.
Jerome Doraisamy
Vicki Aron (real estate, Sydney), Jane Hall (projects, Melbourne), Lucinda Hill (dispute resolution, Melbourne), Lorraine Hui (dispute resolution, Sydney), Andrew Kim (corporate, Sydney), Larissa Toozoff (projects, Canberra), Silvana Wood (financial regulatory, Sydney) and Tihana Zuk (competition, Sydney) have all been made partner at Ashurst.
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The promotions come across seven offices and eight practices, with 67 per cent of the newly promoted professionals being female. The other seven new partners include four in the UK and one each in Belgium, Germany and the US.
Firm chairman Ben Tidswell congratulated Ashurst’s newest partners, saying they are “a tremendously talented group of people with outstanding leadership qualities and an exceptional track record in client service”.
“I’m confident that they will all play a valuable role in realising the ambitions we have set ourselves as a firm, supporting clients as they navigate uncertain times and contributing to the future growth of both Ashurst and our clients,” he proclaimed.
Ashurst has “strength and depth” in its talent pool, global managing partner Paul Jenkins added, and these partner promotions showcase the firm’s investment in its future, he said.
“I am also very pleased that this year more than two thirds of those promoted are women. As a firm we are dedicated to continuing to increase the diversity of both the partnership, and the business more broadly, and see it as being a business-critical requirement,” he said.
“We have made excellent progress and are fully committed to building on that momentum.”
The new partners will assume their roles from 1 November 2020. The firm will, it noted, add a new cohort of partners in May of next year.
The news follows the appointment of Hilary Goodier as the firm’s COO of its NewLaw division, Ashurst Advance, and the election of two Australians to the firm’s board.
