Allen & Overy Promotes Fuse Incubator Head to Partner
Shruti Ajitsaria, head of Fuse at A&O
Allen & Overy has made the head of its innovation hub Fuse a partner in its latest round of promotions.
Counsel Shruti Ajitsaria, who has led Fuse since 2017, is one of 14 London-based lawyers to make the grade in this year’s promotion round.
The firm’s London office has seen the bulk of the promotions, which this year have hit 34 globally.
Four female, London-based lawyers have been promoted this year, including Ajitsaria. Banking associates Catherine Lang-Anderson and Jodi Norman, and corporate associate Kate McInerney, have also been made partner. Just under a quarter of this year’s 34-strong global round at the Magic Circle firm are women.
The promotions span Allen & Overy’s offices internationally, with new partners across continental Europe, Asia, Washington, D.C. and the Middle East.
The firm has stated that by 2021, 30% of partner candidates must be female, and the firm is working towards a 30% target for the partnership in the longer term.
The round is significantly larger than those announced in the last two years. Last year, A&O made up 20 lawyers, while in 2017 it made up 24.
Allen & Overy 2019 partner promotions in full:
Arnold Keizer – litigation, Amsterdam
Hilde Van der Baan – litigation, Amsterdam
Sarah Wilson – banking, Bangkok
Thales Mertens – litigation, Brussels
Kyle Nevin – banking, Dubai
Anthony Traboulsi – banking, Dubai
Zeid Qursha – corporate, Dubai
Tina LeDinh – corporate, Ho Chi Minh City
Oleg Khomenko – banking, London
Catherine Lang-Anderson – banking, London
Nick Lister – banking, London
Ed Moser – banking, London
Jodi Norman – banking, London
Michael Bloch – corporate, London
Kate McInerney – corporate, London
Hugh Robinson – corporate, London
William Samengo-Turner – corporate, London
Shruti Ajitsaria – Fuse, London
Peter Crossan – ICM, London
Suril Patel – ICM, London
Brandon O’Neil – litigation, London
Robbie Sinclair – litigation, London
Yannick Arbaut – banking, Luxembourg
Jacques Graas – corporate, Luxembourg
Paul Peporte – ICM, Luxembourg
Santiago de Vicente – real estate, Madrid
Paolo Nastasi – corporate, Milan
Bulat Zhambalnimbuev – corporate, Moscow
Magnus Mueller – tax, Munich
Xavier Jancène – real estate, Paris
Aloysius Tan – capital markets, Singapore
Tokutaka Ito – corporate, Tokyo
Bartosz Merczynski – litigation, Warsaw
Maura Rezendes – corporate, Washington, D.C.
This story was originally published in ALM's Legal Week.
