The promotions are across all areas of the firm and reflect increasing client demand, according to Virginia Briggs, chief executive and managing partner.

“This is the largest cohort since pre-COVID and reinforces the firm’s strategic direction, including our agenda for growth,” she said.

“A promotion is a significant achievement in a person’s career and I am very proud to announce 113 promotions across the firm, effective 1 July 2022. We have a large pool of talented people making lasting impacts with clients, our people and communities.”

The new MinterEllison partners are Esmond Prowse, Liz O’Keeffe, Ben Rumble, Jennifer Veiga, Tze Ting Liew, Stephen Chen, Robert Yunan, Tom Galvin, Euon Williams, Kristy Brockwell, Owen Kiely, Jeremy Johnson, Sian Keast, Gus Lightowlers, Alex Lowe and Joanne Moore.

These 16 new partners are in addition to the five partners appointed earlier this year, bringing the number of partners appointed in the fiscal year to 22.

“I am particularly excited to welcome 16 new partners to the partnership. Each brings a diversity of thinking, experience, leadership style and ways of working to solve clients’ complex problems and build business sustainability for today and tomorrow. An example is Jennifer Veiga who leads our new workplace investigation practice and is also an executive co-sponsor of PRIME and the firm’s LGBTQ+ network,” Ms Briggs added.

“They are switched on to clients’ business needs of today and those emerging: ESG, workplace leadership and culture governance, digital transformation, regulatory risk, cyber security, and energy transformation. They have an eye for managing risk and turning it into opportunity.”

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These promotions also mean MinterEllison has 45 per cent female representation on the board, and 50 per cent of the office managing partners are females. Thirty-three per cent of the firm’s partners are women, and they are all equity partners.

“Having more women in partnership and leadership positions is a crucial diversity and inclusion priority. I am pleased how transparent, accountable and focused we are to achieve this target,” Ms Briggs added.  

“Our offices, business units and practice groups are accountable to this gender and equality target and we are working towards the 40:40:20 partnership target of any gender by 2025.”

The other appointments have been listed as follows on MinterEllison’s website:

SPECIAL COUNSEL

Capital markets and corporate

Andrew Stone | Sydney

Transaction solutions

Anastasia Maynes | Brisbane
Rebecca Rondinelli | Melbourne

Disputes, competition and insurance

Carolina Dorman | Sydney
Susan Kantor | Melbourne

Dispute resolution

Rebecca Pereira | Melbourne

Insurance and corporate risk

Anna Capsanis | Sydney
Jacinta Smith | Sydney
Sacha Shannon | Brisbane

Consulting solutions

Rory Jolley | Melbourne
Melissa Harvey | Adelaide
Taya Hunt | Brisbane

Infrastructure, construction and property

Jordan Engwerda | Melbourne
Sarah Moore | Perth
Tanya Sciasci | Brisbane

Projects, infrastructure and construction

Allie Flack | Brisbane
Brett D’Cruz | Melbourne

Real estate

Leanne Weekes | Brisbane

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Technology consulting

DIRECTOR

Technology consulting

SENIOR ASSOCIATES

Capital Markets and Corporate

Moustafa Afyouni | Sydney
Erin Tanner | Gold Coast

Finance solutions

Adrian Low | Sydney
Michael Williams |Melbourne
Claire Martin | Sydney
Patrick McDonald | Melbourne

Project solutions

Amy Lee | Perth
James Kleine | Brisbane

Transaction solutions

Alexander Persano | Melbourne
Kevin Lee | Sydney
Elizabeth Moran | Sydney
Julia Riley | Melbourne
David Ramondo | London
Amanda Newell | Sydney
Sam Currie | Melbourne
Dean Zinn | Sydney
Kristy Turner | Melbourne
Annabel Roden | Canberra

Consulting solutions

Julia Brosnan | Sydney
Ivan Luo | Sydney

Technology law

David Derbyshire | Sydney

Workplace

Jess Dallimore | Melbourne
Madeline Johns | Sydney
Luke Gallant | Brisbane
Emily Hamilton | Melbourne
Bianca Laird | Brisbane
Harriet Smith | Brisbane
David Hunt | Adelaide
Anna Gunning-Stevenson | Brisbane
Louisa Ashton | Melbourne

Disputes, competition and insurance

Jihan Al-Saleh | Sydney
Karla Nader | Sydney
Sharna Steicke | Canberra

Dispute resolution

Jaryd Rankin | Melbourne
Anna Davyskib | Sydney
Adelaide Rosenthal | Melbourne
Alberto De Angelis | Sydney
Eimear McNamara | Perth
Jess Millner | Sydney
Sophie Qu | Brisbane
Joseph Develin | Canberra
Emma Page | Sydney
Rachel Liang | Sydney
Star Gold | Gold Coast

Insurance and corporate risk

Benjamin Roe | Sydney
Briana Smith | Canberra
Safa Rahimi | Sydney
Michael Thomas | Brisbane
Paul Scopacasa | Melbourne
Emma Grimley | Sydney
Subasha Prasad | Canberra
Jan Deptula | Perth
Sarah Krust | Sydney
Jon Wright | Brisbane

Statutory compensation management

Lachlan Baird | Darwin
Anna Alexandris | Adelaide
Penelope Perre | Adelaide

Infrastructure, construction and property

Patrick Kang | Sydney
Erika-Jane Baigent | Brisbane
Rebecca Horne | Brisbane

Projects, infrastructure and construction

Sam Rafter | Brisbane
Elissa Morcombe | Brisbane
Adam Hanssen | Sydney
Michael Lo | Melbourne
Isobel Carmody | Melbourne
Hazal Gacka | Brisbane

Real estate

Samantha Blissenden | Sydney
Connor Taylor | Perth
Rebecca Tyquin | Brisbane
Sophie Chandler | Sydney
Rachel Mackenzie | Melbourne
Lucy Cuthbert | Brisbane

SENIOR MANAGERS

Consulting solutions

Philip Anderson | Brisbane
Naresh Danthanarayana | Canberra
Jordan Parker | Melbourne
Justine Besse | Sydney
Sarah Whittington | Sydney