News About HSF Kramer

Herbert Smith Freehills promotes 19 lawyers to partnership

Cohort is down significantly compared to 2024 as HSF prepares for US merger

15 Apr 2025

Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin approve merger to create top 20 global firm

Partnerships vote ‘overwhelmingly’ for combination, forging ‘transatlantic and transpacific’ firm with $2bn-plus revenue

4 Apr 2025

HSF, Browne Jacobson advise on sale of WHSmith’s UK high street business

WHSmith offloading high street arm to Modella Capital to focus on travel retail business

28 Mar 2025

HSF to pay £465k fine for Russian arm's sanctions breach ahead of closure

Anglo-Australian giant 'disappointed' by fine levied for ‘human error’ payments to sanctioned entities

20 Mar 2025

Herbert Smith Freehills makes twin disputes hire in Hong Kong from Kirkland, Latham

Paul Quinn and Truman Mak join as partners in the firm’s commercial litigation team

11 Feb 2025

Elevate acquires 500-strong Sagacious IP

Leading alternative legal services provider makes third acquisition in nine months

30 Jan 2025

HSF hits Orrick for 10-lawyer Germany corporate team

Team led by Orrick’s former Germany managing partner moves over in Düsseldorf

28 Jan 2025

Herbert Smith Freehills removes partner over 'deeply offensive' social media post

Damien Hazard 'issued with relevant notice' following X post criticising Jewish lawyer's comments on arson attack on Melbourne synagogue

12 Dec 2024

Debevoise, Nishimura called in for Nippon Life’s $8.2bn Resolution Life acquisition

Kirkland & Ellis and Herbert Smith Freehills also among nine law firm’s called in for the largest takeover by a Japanese insurer

11 Dec 2024

Hausfeld advises as CAT greenlights £7bn collective action against Google

Opt out claim alleges 65 million consumers were impacted by anti-competitive practices in mobile search

26 Nov 2024

Herbert Smith Freehills adds trio from A&O Shearman, Maples & Calder for Luxembourg debut

Firm to open seventh base in continental Europe early next year ahead of planned merger with US outfit Kramer Levin

26 Nov 2024

New York via Sydney: Herbert Smith Freehills’ unique transatlantic merger play

HSF’s deal to merge with Kramer Levin provides Anglo-Australian firm with an unusual path into the US market

14 Nov 2024

Kramer Levin’s Paris office to spin out ahead of HSF merger

Merged firm to have 100-plus legacy HSF lawyers in French capital

13 Nov 2024

Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin unveil transatlantic merger

Deal, subject to partner approval, will create firm with $2bn-plus revenue

11 Nov 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

The assistant or the master: regulating the rise and rise of AI

Until we know more about the technology and its risks people must remain accountable for decision making, writes Herbert Smith Freehills’ Jasveer Randhawa

26 Sep 2024

Herbert Smith Freehills appoints new Africa leadership

London-based partner Martin Kavanagh takes helm of 200-partner group

19 Sep 2024

Herbert Smith Freehills rings in record results as revenue hits £1.3bn

PEP jumps 12% to £1.3m after flatlining in FY23

18 Jul 2024

UPC revokes Amgen patent in cholesterol drug battle with Sanofi and Regeneron

Pan-European patent court delivers first revocation judgment a year and a month after opening

17 Jul 2024

Raft of City firms up NQ salaries amid ongoing pay war

HSF, DLA Piper and HFW among firms to boost pay as Paul Weiss introduces new UK training contract that dishes out market-topping £180k to its NQs

5 Jul 2024