Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has promoted 26 partners, including a capital markets lawyer based in Abu Dhabi.
Mohamed Taha has been promoted to the firm’s partnership, effective January 1, 2025.
His experience includes equity and debt capital markets, liability management transactions, mergers & acquisitions, and general corporate matters.
He is also the co-founder of 10BE5, a legal tech start-up that automates the drafting of capital markets disclosures and related processes in collaboration with Cleary.
Just over half of the promotions went to lawyers in the US, including ten in New York, where the firm is headquartered, and four in Washington DC.
The firm’s London office had the most promotions outside of the US, with four in this year’s round, spread across the firm’s M&A, capital markets, antitrust, and banking and financial institutions practices.
Two partners were promoted in Paris, with a further two in Brussels.
The remaining three promotions were spread across the firm’s offices in Frankfurt, Rome, and Hong Kong.
At the same time, the firm announced the promotion of four counsel in New York and Paris.
The promotions bring the firm’s total number of partners to 212 and counsel to 50.
“When it comes to our firm’s ability to serve clients, there is no greater asset than our people,” said Cleary managing partner Michael Gerstenzang. “These new partners and counsel reflect our long tradition of excellence in client service, and have demonstrated the creativity, pragmatic acumen and skills to address the most complicated client needs.”
“We congratulate these talented lawyers. They represent our firm’s commitment to continued growth, innovation and adaptability, while maintaining the values and culture that are at the core of our organisation.”
Other international firms to announce partner promotions in Abu Dhabi this year include Dentons and White & Case, who each promoted a projects lawyer to partner.
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