News About Freshfields

Freshfields adds ex-Cravath dealmaker in New York

Keith Hallam joins from White & Case with experience in activism defence and shareholder-engagement matters alongside dealmaking

28 Jul 2026

Raft of law firms steer Uber’s $15bn bid for Delivery Hero

Freshfields and Wachtell lead for Uber as Sullivan & Cromwell guides Delivery Hero and Paul Weiss, Hengeler Mueller, Baker Botts and Gibson Dunn act for investment firm SSW

16 Jul 2026

Simpson Thacher strengthens London regulatory team with Freshfields partner hire

Emma Rachmaninov joins US firm as co-head of its European financial services and funds regulatory team

15 Jul 2026

Freshfields axes equity partners following pay overhaul

UK firm lets go of partners and downgrades others’ equity shares in growth push, according to the Financial Times

13 Jul 2026

Freshfields, HSF Kramer lead on Sky’s £1.6bn acquisition of ITV’s media and entertainment arm

Freshfields advises ITV as HSF Kramer acts for Sky in deal set to reshape British TV landscape

6 Jul 2026

Freshfields continues Germany PE rebuild with senior Hengeler Mueller hire

Partner Daniel Möritz joins in Munich, continuing Freshfields’ hires and internal promotions in Germany after four senior PE partners defected to Latham & Watkins late last year

19 Jun 2026

Freshfields, Slaughters score lead roles on EQT’s £11bn Intertek takeover

Simpson Thacher, Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Sweden’s Vinge also guide deal that sees another London-listed firm bought out by foreign ​bidders

19 Jun 2026

Freshfields adds private equity partner in Madrid from Pérez-Llorca

Pablo González Mosqueira will lead Madrid private equity team following predecessor’s departure for Gibson Dunn

17 Jun 2026

Innsworth loses judicial review challenge to Mastercard settlement

Walter Merricks hails ‘total victory’ as High Court dismisses funder’s challenge to distribution of £200m settlement

10 Jun 2026

White & Case hires Freshfields M&A partner duo in Tokyo as it targets record deal market

Arrival of Noah Carr and Gordon Palmquist comes hard on the heels of Kirkland’s Tokyo launch

4 Jun 2026

Quartet of firms guide $17.6bn Caesars Entertainment acquisition

Latham, Skadden, Freshfields and White & Case score roles in deal that will see casino giant’s acquisition by conglomerate owned by billionaire Tilman Fertitta

29 May 2026

Freshfields shakes up London leadership as former UK managing partner shifts to new role

Victoria Sigeti named UK managing partner, with Mark Sansom appointed global client partner

14 May 2026

US biopharma company Avalyn Pharma hires Freshfields’ global head of life sciences as GC

Adam Golden joins the drug-maker as it moves closer to becoming a publicly-traded company

30 Apr 2026

Kirkland, Skadden, Freshfields guide €29.4bn deal for Germany’s TK Elevator

Finnish firms Hannes Snellman and Roschier also score roles in deal that marks one of Europe’s largest takeovers in recent years

29 Apr 2026

Freshfields seeks to ‘co-innovate at pace’ with Anthropic partnership

Deal with Anthropic follows news that more than 5,000 Freshfields employees are using AI tools built with Google technology

26 Apr 2026

Freshfields and Gibson Dunn advise on Axel Springer’s £575m Telegraph acquisition

Deal scuppers rival deal from the owner of the Daily Mail, advised by Slaughter and May

6 Mar 2026

Gibson Dunn hires Freshfields’ Spanish M&A head to open in Madrid

Armando Albarrán will help expand Gibson Dunn’s transactional platform in Europe

16 Jan 2026

Freshfields rebuilds Germany PE bench with Kirkland partner hire, promotions

UK firm hires Florian Sippel and promotes three to partner just weeks after four senior private equity partners defected to Latham & Watkins

14 Jan 2026

Former Freshfields co-managing partner defects to Skadden in Brussels

Competition lawyer Rafique Bachour said he was stepping down from co-managing partner role back in July

13 Jan 2026

Latham hires four-partner private equity team from Freshfields in Germany

Defecting team includes Freshfields’ former continental Europe managing partner, Markus Paul

10 Dec 2025