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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Gibson Dunn hires Freshfields’ Spanish M&A head to open in Madrid
Armando Albarrán will help expand Gibson Dunn’s transactional platform in Europe
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
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
Latham hires four-partner private equity team from Freshfields in Germany
Defecting team includes Freshfields’ former continental Europe managing partner, Markus Paul