News About Freshfields

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

Kirkland, Freshfields called in for drugmaker Zentiva’s €4.1bn sale to GTCR

Kirkland advises buyer as Freshfields guides seller Advent

12 Sep 2025

Latham, Wachtell lead on Anglo American-Teck $53bn mega merger

Freshfields and Linklaters’ ally Webber Wentzel also among raft of firms called in for mining deal of the decade

9 Sep 2025

Freshfields guides Bahrain sovereign wealth fund as it takes full ownership of McLaren

Deal values reigning Formula One world champions at around £3.5bn

3 Sep 2025

Freshfields launches Saudi office, forms alliance with associate firm

Move follows Freshfields ranking as top M&A advisor in Middle East in first half

5 Aug 2025

Deutsche Bank lines up Freshfields’ European white-collar crime head as next GC

Simone Kämpfer will replace Friederike Rotsch in September

30 Jul 2025