Ingrid Pierce
Global Managing Partner
Cayman Islands
This is a record-breaking promotion round for the firm, in a bold signal of its long-term growth strategy and talent-first culture. This comes as the firm continues to strengthen its global reach to better support clients.
The firm welcomes 20 lawyers to the partnership, alongside 15 new senior counsel and 14 senior promotions in Walkers Professional Services (WPS). In total, 129 people have been promoted at all levels across our global offices in the single largest promotions round in the firm's 60-year history.
Ingrid Pierce, Global Managing Partner for Walkers, said: "Our clients rely on us for high-quality, commercially minded advice - and that starts with investing in our people. By supporting career progression from within, we strengthen our culture, our client relationships and our long-term growth. Congratulations to all of my colleagues on their promotions this year."
The Investment Funds team welcomes nine new partners and four senior counsel across our offices in the Cayman Islands, Dubai, Dublin, Hong Kong, Jersey and Singapore. Meanwhile, our Regulatory & Risk Advisory practice has strengthened its position as the largest specialist regulatory team among its peers, with four new partners and one senior counsel across Europe and the Americas.
The firm's Finance, Corporate, Tax, Insolvency & Dispute Resolution and Private Client & Trust teams were also reinforced with senior appointments. Walkers also celebrates a further nine senior promotions in the firm's business services teams.
This news comes as the firm gets ready to celebrate a hat-trick of milestones this year. The Dubai office will be celebrating 20 years of operations; we mark 15 years of business in Ireland and WPS commemorates 10 years globally.
Here is our full list of senior promotions* – you can click to read more about them:
Partners
Americas
Michael Beck, Partner, Corporate, Cayman Islands
Sam Francis, Partner, Investment Funds, Cayman Islands
Joe Healey, Partner, Finance, Cayman Islands
Siobhan Sheridan, Partner, Insolvency & Dispute Resolution, Cayman Islands
Daniel Walford, Partner, Investment Funds, Cayman Islands
Jenna Wong, Partner, Investment Funds, Cayman Islands
Europe
Jamie Bookless, Partner, Regulatory & Risk Advisory, Guernsey
Eimear Burbridge, Partner, Tax, Dublin
Kirsten Faichnie, Partner, Investment Funds & Corporate, Jersey
Louise Hamilton, Partner, Banking & Finance, Jersey
Sian Langley, Partner, Regulatory & Risk Advisory, Jersey
Helena Lavin, Partner, Insolvency & Dispute Resolution, Guernsey
Gemma Palmer, Partner, Regulatory & Risk Advisory, Jersey
Laurent Thibeault, Partner, Insolvency & Dispute Resolution, Guernsey
Benjamin Twidle, Partner, Regulatory & Risk Advisory, London
Claire Winrow, Partner, Asset Management & Investment Funds, Dublin
Asia and Middle East
Wei Ching Teo, Partner, Investment Funds & Corporate, Hong Kong
Kevin Ho, Partner, Investment Funds & Corporate, Hong Kong
Michael Kenny, Partner, Investment Funds & Corporate, Singapore
Reghard Smith, Partner, Corporate, Dubai
Senior Counsel, Of Counsel, and Counsel
Americas
Samuel Buchan, Senior Counsel, Corporate, Cayman Islands
Liam Doughty, Senior Counsel, Finance, Cayman Islands
Ryan Everett, Senior Counsel. Investment Funds, Cayman Islands
Trevor Goulet, Senior Counsel, Insolvency and Dispute Resolution, Bermuda
Charlie Griffiths, Senior Counsel, Regulatory and Risk Advisory, Cayman Islands
Senan Kemp, Senior Counsel. Investment Funds, Cayman Islands
Thea Maitland, Senior Counsel, Private Capital & Trusts, Cayman Islands
Arezou Rezai, Senior Counsel, Investment Funds, Cayman Islands
Pamela Rosindale, Senior Counsel, Finance, Cayman Islands
Justin Wretham, Senior Counsel. Investment Funds, Cayman Islands
Europe
Clare Mannion, Of Counsel, Finance & Capital Markets, Dublin
Marcél Treurnicht, Senior Counsel, Private Capital & Trusts, Guernsey
Charlotte Yates, Senior Counsel, Insolvency & Dispute Resolution, Jersey
Asia and the Middle East
Natalie Carter, Counsel, Finance, Singapore
Timothy Lau, Counsel, Finance, Singapore
Walkers Professional Services
Americas
Wendy Clarke, Vice President, Corporate Services, Cayman Islands
Dianne Farjallah, Head of US CLOs, Fiduciary Services, Cayman Islands
Hannah Sagala, Vice President, Corporate Services, British Virgin Islands.
Europe
Sarah Beattie, Vice President, Dublin
Emma Coman, Assistant Vice President, Dublin
Linda Galligan, Vice President, Dublin
Iwona Halpin, Vice President, Dublin
Mohammed Ibnan, Assistant Vice President, Dublin
Cailean Keaveney, Senior Business Researcher, Dublin
Carol Ann Rotsey, Director Global Client Relationship Management, London
Adithya Sivaraman, Vice President, Dublin
Emma Smith, Vice President, Dublin
Asia and the Middle East
Crystal Law, Assistant Vice President, Corporate Services, Hong Kong
Kristina Trushnikova, Assistant Vice President, Client Relationship Management, WPS, Hong Kong
Some of the proposed promotions are subject to work permit or other regulatory approvals.
*Proposed promotions are subject to work permits or other regulatory approvals and will only become effective once the relevant approvals are obtained.
