Eversheds announces 2014 promotions

(L to R) Clint Dempsey, Farah Nabulsi, Nick Pinder

(L-R) Nick Sharatt, Samer Sarkis, Shalagh Saleh

Eversheds announced the promotion of 21 lawyers from around its international operations to the firm’s partnership, as part of the 2014 promotions round. A further seven lawyers have also been appointed as legal directors, four as counsel and one as operations director.  The firm’s Company Commercial practice group (CCPG) promoted seven new partners and two Counsel, while Litigation gained six partners and three legal directors. The Human Resources practice group saw six partner promotions, three legal directors and one counsel, and Real Estate welcomed two new partners, one legal director, one counsel and one operations director. 

Of the 2014 promotions, 48 per cent took place in Eversheds’ international offices, with partners being made up in Belgium, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Poland and Sweden.

At the same time the firm has also announced over 100 associate promotions, with the Middle East offices announcing six promotions across both litigation and CCPG in Jordan, Qatar and the UAE.

In the Middle East, Farah Nabulsi (CCPG, Amman), Samer Sarkis (CCPG, Doha), Nick Pinder (Litigation, Doha) and Nick Sharratt (Litigation, Dubai) were promoted to the role of senior associate. Shalagh Saleh (Litigation, Doha) and Clint Dempsey (CCPG, Dubai) were promoted to principle associate.