Barlow Lyde & Gilbert has promoted a record eight new partners, including seven at the firm’s City base.

Neil Beresford, Rod McLauchlan, Denis Whelan and Mark Wing are all made up in the firm’s City insurance disputes team, as is solicitor-advocate Joanne Jolly. Paul Hinton (commercial technology) and Mark Howard (pensions) also step up in London, entering the partnership on 1 May.