Taylor Wessing Appoints 19 New Partners

Taylor Wessing is delighted to announce the promotion of 19 new partners across its network of offices with effect from 1 May 2008. Six of the 19 lawyers are located in the London office, bringing the number of UK partners to 104. Nine lawyers come from the firm's German offices, while the remaining four are located in the Paris office. This takes the number of Taylor Wessing partners worldwide to 280.

The new partners are:

Omleen Ajimal   Corporate Tax; London
Anne-Laure Fonade       Real Estate; Paris
Ingo Gerdes     Reconstruction & Corporate Recovery; Dusseldorf
Dr. Axel Godron Corporate; Munich
Andrew Goodman Private Client; London
Dr. Gisbert Hohagen     Intellectual Property; Munich
Dr. Armin Hutner        Real Estate; Munich
Dr. Dietrich Kamlah     Intellectual Property; Munich
Dr. Lilian Klewitz-Haas Corporate; Munich
Laurence Lapeyre        Corporate; Paris
Gareth Morgan   Intellectual Property; London
Marc Alexander Müller   Employment; Hamburg
Sam Nichols     Construction; London
Dr. Alexander Peinze    Real Estate; Hamburg
Anne Perrin     Intellectual Property/IT; Paris
Emmanuelle Porte        Corporate; Paris
Russell Van Praagh      Corporate; London
Robert Vidal    Competition; London
Dirk Wieddekind Intellectual Property; Hamburg

Taylor Wessing's Managing Partner in the UK, Michael Frawley comments:

"It is with great pleasure that I welcome our new partners. In what has been a difficult financial climate, their respective promotions send a positive message to the market that our practice continues to grow steadily in our key strategic areas of corporate, real estate and intellectual property."

Dr Wolfgang Rehmann and Arnaud de Senilhes, Managing Partners of Taylor Wessing in Germany and France respectively, comment:

"Like Michael, we are delighted to welcome these 19 lawyers to the Taylor Wessing partnership. Every one of these lawyers has been promoted on their own merits, having demonstrated their ability to grow and develop their respective practice areas and the firm at large."