With a lot of associates just pleased to be hanging onto their jobs at the moment, here are some of the luckier ones…

Addleshaw Goddard has promoted four lawyers to the post of legal director: Simon Courie, finance & projects, London; Susan Maxey and Andrew Williamson were promoted in real estate, Leeds and Graeme Warburton, contentious.

Berwin Leighton Paisner has made up seven new partners: Sunita Chawla, Vicky Fowler, Victoria Gardner, Samant Narula and Juliet Thomas have all been made up in real estate; Scott Dickson, projects and Stephen Ketteley, corporate. BLP has also promoted four new associate directors:  Simon Brayton, knowledge development; Paul Grace real estate planning; Sharon Potter, restructuring and Richard Stewart, corporate finance.

Lovells has promoted 19 new partners, six in London: John Condliffe, real estate; Ben Higson, corporate; Kit Johnson, capital markets; Louise Lamb, dispute resolution; Kieron O’Callaghan, dispute resolution and Claire Southern, pensions.

Bird & Bird has made up four new partners, one in each of the firm’s Madrid, Rome, Stockholm and Frankfurt offices.

Clyde & Co is promoting ten: Sarah Catchpole, aviation, Rio de Janerio; Ben Gillespie , corporate, Middle East; Deug Rong Lee, marine and international transportation, London; Elizabeth Leonhardt ,insurance, London; Eric Moon, professional liability Insurance, San Francisco; Garrett Moore, insurance,  London; Glenn O’Brien, dispute resolution, Middle East; Simon Potter, aviation, London; Oleg Shvander, trade and energy, London; Elizabeth Turnbull, shipping, London.

Muckle has promoted one – dispute resolution lawyer Kevin Turnball.

Wragge & Co has also made up just one – regulatory litigation specialist Andrew Litchfield.

And Pinsents have promoted a total of eight: Kevin Bridges, Bristol; Stuart Barr, Glasgow; Selwyn Blyth, Birmingham; Bill Broughton, Leeds; David McIlwaine, London;  John Mullee, London; Peter Borg, Hong Kong; Kening Li, Shanghai.