Practice · promotions · November 2026

Capital Markets: promotions and time to partner

How Capital Markets fills its partner bench: promotions against lateral partner arrivals, and how long the track to partner takes.

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01 The numbers

The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026

133
Partner promotionsJune 2025 to May 2026
10.0 years
Median time to partnerFive years of promotions
0.75
Promotions per lateral partner12 months to May 2026
192
Lateral partner arrivalsNovember 2025 to October 2026
02 Reading the data

What the data show

From June 2025 to May 2026, 133 lawyers were promoted to partner in Capital Markets, according to Sartori & Partners data. Promotions are confirmed about five months late, so this window ends earlier than the lateral figures. Over the same 12 months that is 0.75 promotions for every lateral partner hired, against 0.79 across the market: more of the partner bench here is bought than made.

Years from first year of practice to partner

Across five years of promotions, the median time from first year of practice to partner is 10.0 years, with the middle half between 8.0 years and 12.0 years. The market median is also 10.0 years. The median rests on 512 promotions.

Year on year lateral partner moves in Capital Markets held level (183 to 185 on settled windows, +1.1%).

Capital Markets: lateral moves by year

2026 runs to October.

Firms in Capital Markets buy partners more often than the market does; a lateral partner hire here competes with that habit.

03 Firms

Firms by rank and band

Each firm appears as a rank and a band, never an exact count, and only with at least 10 moves in the window.

04 Explore

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Edition November 2026. Window: November 2025 to October 2026. Source: Sartori & Partners, from public law-firm announcements, firm websites and professional profiles, checked monthly. Methodology. Spot an error? [email protected].

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