Capsticks promotes 25 including two equity partners and 11 salaried partners

Law firm Capsticks has made 25 promotions across its business, including two equity partners and eleven salaried partners.

The two new equity partners are:

  • Lee Clarke (corporate and commercial)
  • Kate Steele (regulatory)

The eleven new salaried partners are:

  • Kate Cornelius (claims)
  • Lucy Erskine (claims)
  • Charlotte Millar (claims)
  • Jonathan Smith (claims)
  • Nicola Butterworth (employment)
  • Dylan Young (litigation)
  • Tracey Blundell (real estate)
  • Ian Brook (regulatory)
  • Anna Holdsworth (regulatory)
  • Keziah Pearson (regulatory)
  • Jenny Wood (regulatory)

The firm has also appointed four legal directors to support a range of the firm’s public and private sector clients:

  • Emma Kurzner (advisory)
  • Ed Mellor (claims)
  • Saira Ramadan (employment)
  • Nalton Stembari (housing and regeneration)

Capsticks has promoted seven new principal associates:

  • Rob Maughan (claims)
  • Javeria Rauf (corporate and commercial)
  • Rachel Shapton-Smith (corporate and commercial)
  • Lee Carroll (employment)
  • Sean Hick (employment)
  • Jonathan Lewis (employment)
  • Tom Bradbury (housing management)

Michelle Fox will meanwhile become the firm’s new Head of Talent and Diversity “to take forward our strategy to deliver positive change and become a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive business for our clients, employees and partner organisations”.

Capsticks Senior Partner Rachael Heenan said: “Once again, we’ve been amazed by the extraordinary support our teams provide to organisations in our key sectors, and to each other. As we grow our expertise and market reach for the benefit of everyone we work with, it’s a real privilege to continually develop the talents of both our lawyers and business professionals.”