BCLP has promoted 17 lawyers to partner across nine offices, effective January 2026.
The move comes after the firm shuttered its Singapore and Hong Kong offices and announced redundancies in London earlier this year.
BCLP has named 17 new partners, marking a slimmer round for the transatlantic firm after a year of change.
The promotions are spread across the firm’s US, London and Frankfurt offices and cut across its core practice areas of corporate and finance, litigation and real estate.
The largest contingent sits in the US, but London adds three new partners: real estate litigator Edward Gardner, commercial litigator Georgia Henderson-Cleland, and competition litigator Alexandra Hildyard.
The new appointments take effect on 1 January 2026.
Leaner round
The total number of promotions is down from 24 last year and the year before, a trim that points to a more selective approach. It’s not an outlier among peers, but it does hint at BCLP tightening its focus after a period of change. The new partner round suggests the firm is once again doubling down on its US-UK core, with few new partners in other markets
Revenue rebound
The announcement comes just months after BCLP confirmed job cuts in its London office and the closure of its Asia outposts in Hong Kong and Singapore, moves it said were aimed at simplifying its global platform and which followed a Saudi Arabia launch at the start of the year with offices in Riyadh and Al Khobar.
In results announced in February, the firm reported a modest 2.3% revenue increase to $860 million for 2024, up from $840 million the previous year, following two consecutive years of decline. UK revenue, however, grew by a stronger 12%.
BCLP was born in 2018 from the transatlantic merger of London’s Berwin Leighton Paisner and US firm Bryan Cave.
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