Freshfields

Sarah Downey

HSBC’s steps to streamline its business by disposing of non-core global assets has gifted Taylor Wessing and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer…

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has become the second Magic Circle firm to release its 2012/13 limited liability partnership (LLP) filings with Companies…

Jaishree Kalia

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has opted to remove questions relating to criminal history from its job application forms in a bid…

Jaishree Kalia

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has become the second elite global firm to make a high-profile corporate lateral hire this week, as…

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner Chris Bown has become the third senior partner in two months to resign from the Magic Circle firm…

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I recently had the chance to sit down with Ted Burke, outgoing managing partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. I’ve known…

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Partners are forecasting a further uptick in UK initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2014 with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer emerging as the…

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A week ago Deutsche Bank announced it was setting aside a €1.2bn provision to cover its legal costs but in…

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‘I’ve held a number of management roles in the firm, which, together with having recently chaired our supervisory body, should…

Sarah Downey

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner and former City head Tim Jones has been hired as general counsel to England Rugby…

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One of the most respected law firm leaders in the City has called it a day ahead of time with…

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Herbert Smith Freehills have reached an eleventh hour settlement of the £142m professional negligence claim brought…

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Barclays has begun the biggest capital raising by a UK bank since 2009 under which Clifford Chance (CC), Sullivan & Cromwell and Freshfields…

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Five years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won the leading roles on…

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After a flurry of initial public offerings (IPOs) earlier in the year, with Esure, Countrywide and Partnership Assurance among the…

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It’s been a bumpy ride for many of the UK’s largest firms, fighting battered profits with consolidation and increased global…

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I was in the first ever gender-mixed year at my college in 1976. I got on very well with one…

David Stevenson

Followers of the tussle between UK and US private equity practices for European mandates were this week rewarded with an…

David Stevenson

While the traditional August lull in corporate work may have seen Asia relax, the giant is far from asleep and…

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Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have landed the leading roles on a takeover bid by France’s Schneider Electric for UK…