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Trading Places: Ropes hires Freshfields levfin co-head as top Kirkland litigator retires

Trading Places: Ropes hires Freshfields levfin co-head as top Kirkland litigator retires
Eliza Winter
Eliza Winter
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25 March 2026
United States

Freshfields’ leveraged finance global co-head Allison Liff has left the firm to join Ropes & Gray in New York.

Liff joined Freshfields in 2022 from Weil, where she spent almost a decade as a partner, returning to the firm after six years as managing director and associate general counsel at Goldman Sachs.

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