European law firm Fieldfisher has promoted 13 lawyers to its partnership in its 2025 partner promotions round, an increase of 30% on last year. The promotions are effective from 1 April 2025.
The promotions are in the firm's Brussels, London, Milan and Munich offices and cover a number of Fieldfisher's specialist areas including Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Energy, Financial Services, Employment, Regulatory and Private Client.
Fieldfisher Managing Partner, Robert Shooter, commented:
"I'm delighted to announce these well-deserved partner promotions across our European offices, strengthening our European Powerhouse strategy.
"At Fieldfisher, putting people first is a core value that guides everything we do. We're committed to enabling talent to flourish and recognising the achievements of our colleagues. We're incredibly proud of their success and look forward to their continued contribution to the firm."
The newly-promoted partners are:
Brussels
Dennis Lievens – Financial Services (FMP)
Dennis' practice covers a wide range of financial law services, with a primary focus on project development & project finance, public-private partnerships and real estate finance.
Dennis advises domestic and international contractors, infrastructure investors, energy developers, and financial institutions on Belgian and international projects covering a wide range of sectors, including energy projects and transport and social infrastructure PPP projects. He has particular experience in advising stakeholders on (sub)contracting strategy, risk allocation, bankability and long-term financing aspects of complex projects.
He also regularly advises real estate funds, developers and financial institutions on real estate financing matters, as well as investment banks and funds on financial collateral arrangements and derivatives transactions.
Tim Perdieus – Employment, Pensions, Immigration and Compliance
Tim advises companies and executives on all aspects of employment law. His practice has a strong focus on cross-border employment matters, advising on international and European social security and immigration law.
Tim has extensive experience as strategic advisor in complex restructuring matters, including transfers of undertaking (TUPE), collective dismissals and insolvency procedures. He is also a seasoned litigator, with experience handling high-profile cases on dismissal, non-discrimination and cross-border employment disputes.
Clients value his pragmatic, results-driven approach in areas like salary structuring, dismissal, workplace flexibility, diversity, equal treatment and non-discrimination matters.
London
Andrew Chapman – Real Estate Finance
Andrew is a real estate finance lawyer specialising in advising lenders on diverse property portfolios across multiple jurisdictions, with a particular focus on the real estate aspects of complex financings.
His expertise extends to security realisation and enforcement in insolvency and disputes, representing businesses in the flexible workspace sector, and acting for corporate occupiers in major office and logistics transactions. He delivers commercially focused legal advice, always highlighting the crucial role of real estate in his clients' overall business strategy.
Ashleigh Shepherd – Regulatory
Ashleigh is an experienced public lawyer specialising in investigations, particularly advising on all aspects of public inquiries, inquests and independent investigations. She currently leads two modules of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, setting the strategy for the investigation, overseeing the evidence-gathering process, and preparing for the public hearings. Additionally, she advises the Chair of the Inquiry on any legal challenges.
Ashleigh also acts for an Interested Person in the Inquests into the deaths of patients of Ian Paterson, including preparing a detailed witness statement and advising on all aspects of the Inquests process. Her investigations experience includes assisting Martin Smith in advising Lord Dyson on the conduct of his high-profile independent investigation into how BBC Panorama came to interview Diana, Princess of Wales.
As a Partner, one of Ashleigh's areas of focus will be to help grow the team's independent investigations practice, collaborating with Fieldfisher's Global Investigations Group.
Caroline Rao – Private Client
Caroline has extensive experience advising on the establishment and operation of structures to hold international private wealth, business interests and family offices. Caroline's work in this area often involves jurisdiction comparisons, consideration of access to tax and investment protection treaties and analysis of appropriate vehicles: companies, trusts, foundations, private funds.
Caroline also focuses on cross-border succession planning, family governance and international tax planning for individuals, entrepreneurs and families based all over the world, but a large proportion of her clients have connections across EMEA.
Elora Mukherjee – Dispute Resolution
Elora is a commercial litigator who advises individuals and corporates on all aspects of commercial dispute resolution. Her practice focuses on large complex commercial litigation and arbitration typically involving breaches of contract, partnership and company/shareholder disputes, negligence and regulatory matters. Her work spans across industries, including telecoms, banking, pharmaceutical, hospitality and energy with a particular focus on the technology sector.
Given the continually evolving regulatory landscape and the anticipated growth of disputes in this sphere, as partner, she intends to focus on developing this area. Elora also has experience of working in the Middle East (including in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain) and, has been involved in developing (and continues to develop) the firm's MENA offering.
Mehmet Baysan – Dispute Resolution
Mehmet is a cross-border litigation lawyer with a focus on energy, construction and export regulation disputes. He is one of a few US-trained and licensed Turkish-speaking disputes lawyers practicing in multi-jurisdictional matters. Mehmet represents both individual and sovereign entities, and works on government investigations. His practice also includes providing general counsel assistance to global companies.
He has successfully represented clients in various courts and jurisdictions, handling disputes involving contracts, export regulation violations, enforcement of arbitral awards, trade secret violations, international law and sovereign immunity. As part of these engagements, Mehmet has advocated for clients before major arbitral organisations.
Natalie Quinlivan – Dispute Resolution
Natalie is a dual-qualified litigator (Republic of Ireland and England and Wales) focusing on international disputes and corporate investigations. She has extensive experience in dispute resolution, particularly in joint venture and shareholder dispute, directors' duties and misfeasance claims, and civil fraud, international asset recovery and enforcement cases.
Natalie specialises in internal, regulatory and government investigations into financial crime and follow-on litigation. She expertly guides clients through crisis situations, offering comprehensive solutions by advising on potential civil, criminal and regulatory implications.
In addition to her contentious practice, Natalie advises on preventative measures, such as risk assessments and compliance frameworks, for clients across the EMEA and APAC regions. Her practice is pan-sector, but she has particular interest in financial services, energy and tech.
Rebecca McKee - Dispute Resolution
Rebecca specialises in high-value commercial litigation, with a particular focus on complex fraud, and international commercial arbitration under the LCIA, ICC and SCC Rules.
She advises clients on a variety of issues including misrepresentation, directors' duties and fraud, as well as contractual, shareholder and joint venture disputes. Rebecca has significant experience obtaining injunctive relief in the English High Court in support of domestic litigation, foreign legal proceedings and arbitration. She also has particular experience in challenging arbitral awards in the Commercial Court for English-seated arbitrations.
Her clients operate primarily in the financial services, oil and gas, renewable energy and tech sectors and are based all around the world.
Ruth Lewis – Corporate
Ruth is an accomplished corporate practitioner with a wealth of experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and reorganisations. She works with a wide range of clients from individuals to multinationals, many of whom she has acted for over a number of years. Her practice has a strong media and technology (TMT) focus. As a partner she will be focusing on growing the already busy corporate media practice and advising more buyers and sellers on their M&A transactions.
Milan
Fabio Giuffre – Energy, Real Estate & Public Law
Fabio is leading the energy, real estate and public law practice in Milan. He advises domestic and international clients on mergers and acquisitions, development agreements, joint ventures and contract law matters.
His expertise covers complex energy projects, including real estate matters, permitting, incentives and related agreements (EPC, O&M, PPAs, asset management), as well as energy efficiency initiatives.
Additionally, Fabio supports clients in sophisticated real estate transactions involving acquisition, disposal, leasing and property development. He also regularly assists public-sector entities, addressing their unique regulatory and operational challenges.
Niccolò Massimo Gruppi – Corporate
Niccolò is a corporate lawyer with over 20 years' experience, heading Fieldfisher’s M&A practice in Italy. His focus encompasses corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets.
He regularly advises international and domestic clients on complex M&A transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, fund-raisings and private equity/venture capital investments across diverse industries such as luxury goods, food, energy, gaming and financial services.
In ECM deals, Niccolò advises on complex securities offerings, including IPOs and public takeover offers, as well as securities law and corporate governance matters.
Throughout his career, he has also gained significant experience in infrastructure and construction law, assisting major Italian contractors in international transactions.
Munich
Tassilo Schmid – Corporate
Tassilo's primary areas of practice lie in complex legal disputes, with particular expertise in corporate law. He has extensive experience in high-stakes shareholder disputes and post-transaction litigation.
Tassilo advises clients on corporate law, M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions, as well as company successions. This provides him with experience in both negotiating and formulating agreements and in their enforcement when necessary.
A further focus of his work involves advising private individuals on all wealth-related matters. His clients range from multinational corporations to family-owned enterprises and private individuals, for whom he develops tailored solutions.
