News About Freshfields

Freshfields hires partners from Cooley and Goodwin in Silicon Valley

UK firm has made six West Coast partner hires this year

5 Dec 2024

Mastercard agrees settlement in landmark interchange fee collective action

Agreement set to be challenged by litigation funder is subject to approval by Competition Appeal Tribunal

4 Dec 2024

Ex-Freshfields partner suspended by tribunal over allegations of ‘inappropriate’ behaviour

London-based litigator Nicholas Williams left Magic Circle firm in 2019 following an internal investigation

15 Nov 2024

As firms celebrate UK Pro Bono Work, lawyers increase their volunteering efforts

Week of events taking place up and down country to celebrate The Power of Pro Bono

4 Nov 2024

Freshfields hires private credit trio from Weil in London

Paul Stewart joins as global co-head of private credit and capital solutions alongside two new partners

4 Nov 2024

AI governance among top data law trends shaping business strategies, study shows

New Freshfields report outlines key data law changes that companies must adapt to

25 Oct 2024

Freshfields debt finance partner defects to Kirkland in US

HT Flanagan to work out of Dallas and New York at Kirkland, which boasts world’s largest debt finance practice

24 Oct 2024

Kirkland, Freshfields, Bredin Prat called in for €16bn sale of Sanofi’s consumer health arm

Sale to US private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice comes as investors anticipate more and larger European PE buyouts

23 Oct 2024

DIAC heralds modernisation programme as cases and diversity grow

Annual report records 4.4% increase in cases in 2023 as dust settles on sweeping reform programme

22 Oct 2024

Top legal marketing and BD figures to explore trust building at London summit

Law Firm Marketing Summit will take place at RSA House on 15 October

4 Oct 2024

Women KCs celebrate 75th anniversary of first appointments

Lady Chief Justice hosts event to mark progress since first two women took silk in 1949

2 Oct 2024

Freshfields to scrap ‘Bruckhaus Deringer’ in rebrand

Refreshed brand to be rolled out from October

25 Sep 2024

Kirkland, Freshfields guide $1bn acquisition of stake in BP Pipelines TAP

Freshfields advises BP as Kirkland counsells Apollo-managed funds on acquisition

23 Sep 2024

Celltrion avoids injunction at UPC in row over asthma drug

Novartis and Genentech had accused Korean rival of “imminent infringement” through marketing of biosimilar

10 Sep 2024

Freshfields announces social mobility recruitment target for trainee intake

Global giant wants at least 20% of UK trainees to come from lower socio-economic backgrounds

9 Sep 2024

Freshfields recruits senior capital markets partner in New York from Paul Hastings

Christopher DeCresce was previously vice chair of Paul Hastings’ securities and capital markets practice

4 Sep 2024

Eversheds adds ex-Quinn Emanuel partner, Freshfields partner to London disputes bench

Former Quinn Emanuel UK competition co-head joins transatlantic firm alongside Freshfields’ Japan head of disputes

3 Sep 2024

Mathys & Squire granted access to documents in UPC transparency test case

The way the request was processed still raises ‘significant concerns’, says the firm

29 Aug 2024

Kirkland, Freshfields score leading roles on £5.4bn Hargreaves Lansdown sale

Latham and Linklaters also among raft of firms called in for investment platform's takeover by private equity consortium

9 Aug 2024

Competition Appeal Tribunal green lights landmark £2bn truck cartel opt-in collective claim

Addleshaws, Slaughters, HSF, Travers Smith and Macfarlanes among firms advising on marathon legal battle

7 Aug 2024