Clifford Chance

Global law firm Clifford Chance today announces the promotion of 29 lawyers to the partnership.

The new partners highlight the strength and diversity of top talent available to clients across the breadth of international markets, products, and sectors aligned with the firm's global growth strategy.

Charles Adams, Clifford Chance Global Managing Partner comments, "Investing in and nurturing our top talent in the areas where we can have the biggest impact on our clients' success, is right at the heart of our one firm global strategy. We look forward to these exceptional individuals continuing to achieve fantastic outcomes for our clients and to help define our long-term success as one of the world's leading global elite firms."

Adrian Cartwright, Clifford Chance Global Senior Partner adds, "Huge congratulations to each of our newly-promoted partners. They each bring the experience, skills and perspectives as well as a collaborative team approach coupled with deep commercial acumen, that allows them to deliver the full strength of our global platform and capabilities for the benefit of our clients and the wider firm."

Key statistics:

• Gender: 38% (11) promoted partners were female. The rolling average over five years is 38%. The firm has a target of at least 40% female and at least 40% male global partners in the firm by 2030.
• Ethnicity: 20% of the 15 new US and UK partners who have disclosed ethnicity identified as under-represented minority ethnic partner¹. This exceeds the firm's target of 15% of new partners by 2025 for the third year running.
• At 1 May, 2024 the Clifford Chance global partnership will comprise 661 partners. This compares to 623 partners on 1 May 2023.

The promotions take effect 1 May 2024.

Notes to Editors

1. Martin Power is the firm’s Head of Legal and has been promoted to partner in the General Counsel’s office
2. Not all partners disclosed ethnicity. Note that Clifford Chance can only collect ethnicity data in this way legally in the UK and US. Full regional diversity data against all criteria we measure will be published in the firm's Responsible Business Report. Historic data here.