The new partners and their principal areas of practice are:

Sam Brewer – Financial Services & Markets

Sam's practice covers a broad range of advisory work and the regulatory aspects of transactions, reorganisations and fundraises. He works with alternative asset managers, trading venues, pension funds and advisers, banks, wealth managers and brokers.

Henriika Hara – Financial Services & Markets

Henriika specialises in financial services law and regulation with a focus on alternative asset management. She works with financial market participants on legal and regulatory change affecting their business. She is recognised in Legal500 as one of the key lawyers of the Financial Services and Markets team at Travers Smith.

Ben Lowen – Corporate M&A and ECM

Ben primarily focuses on corporate M&A. He advises large public and private corporates, investment banks and PE funds on domestic and cross border public and private acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and provides general corporate advice.  Since joining the firm in 2014, Ben has completed two secondments at Macquarie Capital Principal Finance.

Ailie Murray – Employment

Ailie has over 16 years' experience advising clients globally on the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including workplace investigations and disputes, senior executive issues and exits and day to day employment matters.  She has particular expertise in advising clients on the employment aspects of multi-jurisdictional restructurings, acquisitions and disposals, private equity investments and post completion integration.

Will Sheridan – Finance

Will specialises in advising private equity sponsors, banks and credit funds on multi-jurisdictional leveraged and acquisition finance transactions. He also has broad experience of advising corporate borrowers on general finance transactions.

 Travers Smith Managing Partner Edmund Reed commented:

"Huge congratulations to all of our new partners. Their promotions reflect our ambition for the firm, as well as the strength of the high quality, commercial and solutions orientated advice they provide our clients across the globe."

Travers Smith Acting Senior Partner Siân Keall commented:

"I am delighted to welcome our five talented new partners to the partnership – their promotions are extremely well deserved, and I am confident each of them will make a valuable contribution to the future success of the business."