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Can Freshfields limit the damage as Kirkland tempts PE heavyweight with $10m transfer?

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Nathalie Tidman
13 February 2018
Strategic recruitmentCorporateFocus

Nathalie Tidman assesses the fallout as M&A veteran quits an unsettled City giant

Even for a market grown blithe to big-name M&A partners quitting for the dollar, Kirkland & Ellis’s recruitment of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s David Higgins just before Christmas sent a jolt.

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