Cleary Gottlieb promotes 31 lawyers, including one in Brazil

Cleary Gottlieb has promoted 15 lawyers to partner and 16 to counsel across its offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, effective January 1, 2027. The promotions bring the firm’s worldwide total to 257 partners and 57 counsel.

The promoted lawyers are based in New York (9), Washington, D.C. (3), California (3), São Paulo (1), London (1), Brussels (3), Paris (3), Rome (3), Milan (2), Cologne (1), Abu Dhabi (1) and Hong Kong (1). They advise corporations, asset managers, financial institutions and governments across corporate, funds, antitrust, litigation and regulatory practices.

Cleary said this year’s class follows last year’s promotions of senior lawyers.

Americas

In New York, the firm promoted Jonathan Povilonis (Capital Markets), Jaehwan Park (IP, Technology & Data), Norian Watson (Real Estate) and Sophia Yuan (Global Funds) to partner. The new counsel in New York are David Schwartz (Bankruptcy and Restructuring), Nora McCloskey Sines (Structured Finance), Peter Rogers Jr. (Global Funds), Katherine Lynch (Litigation and Arbitration) and Andres Saenz (Litigation and Arbitration).

In Washington, D.C., Matthew Bachrack and Elsbeth Bennett were named partners in Antitrust, and B.J. Altvater became a partner in International Trade and National Security.

In California, Pierre Allegaert (M&A) and Natalia Rezai (Capital Markets) were promoted to partner. Madison Bush became counsel in Environmental. In São Paulo, Silvia Fittipaldi (pictured) was promoted to counsel in Capital Markets and Latin America.

EMEA and Asia

In London, Lanto Sheridan became a partner in Antitrust. The Brussels office promoted Ruben Foriers and Jean-Sébastien Rombouts to partner in M&A, and Lars-Peter Rudolf to counsel in Antitrust.

In Paris, Joseph Destribois and Louis-Marie Savatier became counsel in M&A, and Pap Diouf became counsel in Debt Finance. In Rome, Fausto Caronna (Antitrust) and Roberto Argeri (Litigation and Arbitration) were named partners, while Marco Zotta became counsel in Antitrust.

In Milan, Giulia Rimoldi was promoted to partner in M&A and Alessandro Gennarino to counsel in Debt Finance. In Cologne, Philipp J. Kirst became counsel in Antitrust. In Abu Dhabi, Timofey Neklyudov was named counsel in M&A, and in Hong Kong Mengshan Xu became counsel in M&A.