In the largest senior associate promotions round in five years, Herbert Smith Freehills has promoted 62 senior associates in Australia.

The firm has also promoted four senior managers in its Digital Legal Delivery practice, a newly launched global and multidisciplinary group that leverages technology to deliver legal services.

This comes after HSF’s naming of 10 new executive counsel in April, nine new partners in Australia earlier that month, its appointment of an Australian as joint managing partner of its global corporate practice in February, and its promotion of four within its alternative legal services practice in January.

Asia and Australia executive partner Kristin Stammer said this was the largest cohort of senior associates promoted in the last five years.

“We recognise potential and reward outstanding performance at our firm – and career progression is a big part of that.

“The promotions this year demonstrate our continued focus on supporting our people’s professional and personal growth, while also strengthening our senior expertise within our market-leading practices,” she said.

“I would like to congratulate each of our new senior associates and senior managers on their promotion and thank them for their continued contribution to our clients and our firm.”

The new senior associates are Tom Allen, Roy Carbone, Benedict Cheung, Ting Fan, Felix Hu, Natasha Kandi, Helen Leung, Emily Mackay, David Tilley, Katerina Jovanovska, Georgia Fahey, Rebecca Gill, Josh Kain, Kim Noah, Sarah Ward, Nigel Amigh, Claire Rossell, Louis Mitchell, Leah Allen, Anna Battams, Dominik Breznik, Joseph Dean, Nyree Flower, Annabel McCullagh, James Morgan, Kavitha Ramanathan, Lucinda Robinson, John Tsaousidis, Major Zhang, Rachael Harris, Georgia Kennedy, L Gopika Murthy, Bijou Prayag, James Samartzis, Oliver Caine, Simon Hochreiter, Madeleine Ryan, Grace Lee-Tuck, Stephanie Blancquart, Lucy Halliday, Jordan Hardinge, Grace Holmes, Amandi Munasinghe, Sarah Connolly, Crispin Scott, Nathan Kearns, Hannah Penwarden, Jason Lu, Mark Peters, Edward Kerr, Adam Tucker, Blair Feng, Dan English, Paige Mortimer, James Tong, Holly Vaughan, Mary-Rose Bright, Alexander Brand, Chrislynn Soong, Alice Wilk, Sabrina Xiao and Dhruvi Pindolia.

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In addition, the new senior managers within the Digital Legal Delivery practice are Avay Rimal and Dylan McGrath, both promoted to senior manager, e-discovery and legal technology, as well as Stephanie Smith and Melody Webb, elevated to acting senior manager, disputes.

Lauren Croft

Lauren is a journalist at Lawyers Weekly and graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism from Macleay College. Prior to joining Lawyers Weekly, she worked as a trade journalist for media and travel industry publications and Travel Weekly. Originally born in England, Lauren enjoys trying new bars and restaurants, attending music festivals and travelling. She is also a keen snowboarder and pre-pandemic, spent a season living in a French ski resort.