Law firms

Freshfields PE heavyweight Higgins to stand down as head of GFI group

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer private equity head Adrian Maguire is to become head of the firm’s global financial investors (GFI) sector group taking over the role from heavyweight David Higgins.

The firm’s GFI group, one of its eight sector groups, covers private equity funds, pension funds, infrastructure funds, sovereign wealth funds and alternative capital providers.

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