
Almost two decades after its flagship three way merger, Legal Business can reveal Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is planning to cut its 103 strong German partnership by up to 20 partners by 2020.
Following an ongoing process, a paper called ‘Germany 2020’ was produced in 2016. The document outlined the firm’s plans to reduce the country’s partnership numbers with a German partnership conference of the same name was held in spring that year to relay the message. The firm aims to have the country’s partnership sitting between 80 and 90.