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Australian BigLaw firm Clayton Utz has unveiled a sweeping promotion round, elevating 75 lawyers and professionals across five offices.
Clayton Utz has unveiled a major promotion round, elevating 75 lawyers and professionals across its Australian offices as it strengthens its legal, data intelligence, and business services capabilities.
The promotion round includes 21 new special counsel, 42 senior associates, four appointments across the firm’s data intelligence team, and eight promotions within its business advisory services division.
This news comes after the firm appointed five lawyers to its partnership in mid-June.
The BigLaw firm’s latest partnership cohort spans five offices across Australia, with appointments distributed across Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra, and Perth.
Speaking about this round of promotion, Emma Covacevich, chief executive partner of Clayton Utz, said the cohort reflects a group of standout lawyers and professionals whose technical strength, leadership, and trusted advice have played a key role in driving the firm’s success.
“This year’s senior promotions are a group of exceptional lawyers and professionals across both our legal and Business Advisory Services teams,” Covacevich said.
“These individuals not only have outstanding technical expertise in their respective fields but are also trusted advisors, innovators, and leaders who each contribute to the success of our firm and our clients.
“Congratulations to each of them on this well-deserved milestone.”
The firm’s new special counsel are Nic Bouvier (advisory, risk and regulation, Sydney), Lauren Bracewell (disputes, Perth), Sally Campbell (projects, Canberra), James Daff (advisory, risk and regulation, Melbourne), Andrew Garcia (projects, Melbourne), Tim George (disputes, Brisbane), Carly Hanson (disputes, Brisbane), Alex Horder (transactions, Sydney), Fred Jolley (disputes, Sydney), George Kontoleon (projects, Brisbane), Nina Krys (disputes, Melbourne), Kwan Leung (transactions, Sydney), William Maher (disputes, Sydney), Alex McLeod (projects, Brisbane), Alex Melara (transactions, Sydney), Kate Reading (projects, Brisbane), Charlotte Streten (projects, Brisbane), Adele Ta (projects, Melbourne), Scott Vanderwolf (transactions, Sydney), Amy Watson (projects, Melbourne), and Sam Weston (advisory, risk and regulation, Brisbane).
The new senior associates include: Thomas Amad, Emma Beckinsale, Emina Besirevic, Phoebe Cuttler, Cameron Fahey, Riley Gray, Declan McInnes, Taryn Parkinson, James Pattinson, Georgina Penglis, Lauren Ramsey, Teri Strugnell, Aidee Varan, Campbell Windsor, Marina Wu, Gabrielle Young (disputes), Chris Bodapati, Julia Braddick, Nick Bredhauer, Megan Cheng, Shelley Cheng, Vivian Duong, Hasan Gilani, Sally Gilfillan, Sophie Kondilios, Bella McNamee, Victoria Walker, Calvin Warries, Olivia Woods, Kevin Yi (advisory, risk and regulation), Kirsten Ceddia, Darcy Christie-Johnston, Fraser Cloney, Elizabeth Goutnik, Mikayla Landrigan, George Stribling, Sam Sunter, Mathew Thompson, Alana Ticchi, Edward Verco (projects), Joshua Kindl, and Darren Lim (transactions).
