630 René-Lévesque Blvd W, Suite 1700, Montréal, QC
Year called to bar: 1992 (QC)
Carolena Gordon has been the Senior Partner of Clyde & Co since July 2021 and she leads the firm’s Management Board. She was previously chair of Clyde & Co’s North American Board and of the Canadian Management Board, as well as a member of the firm’s Global Management Board between 2015 and 2017. Since taking over as Senior Partner, Carolena has worked with the firm’s Management Board, regional boards, practice groups and professional management team, in particular with CEO Matthew Kelsall, to deliver on the firm’s strategic priorities. This entails building and maintaining sector leadership positions by continuing to expand the firm’s client offering, including through the completion of the second-largest law firm merger in UK history (with BLM in July 2022) and office openings in Milan (Italy), Boston (USA), Cairo (Egypt), Bangkok (Thailand), Santiago (Chile) and Calgary (Canada). Moreover, Carolena is heavily involved in client relationship activities and initiatives and in ensuring the firm’s people are set up for success, which has included the development and roll out of a set of firmwide values, the introduction of an aligned wellbeing offering, an improved and consistent parental leave, and programmes to support the next generation of leadership at the firm.
