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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Due Diligence
    How ‘magic circle’ firm Freshfields won big in the US Premium content

    Plus, the venture capital firms poised for a potentially massive Wiz payday and private equity retreats from returning cash with NAV loans

    A montage of an American flag, the US flag and the New York skyline
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    News in-depth
    London’s Freshfields breaks into New York’s legal elite

    Law firm’s hiring spree helps it pull away from ‘magic circle’ rivals in world’s biggest legal market

    A montage of an American flag, the US flag and the New York skyline
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Law firms probe best ways to win a head start on using AI

    Legal innovators in the Asia-Pacific region are racing to show how they will adapt to the latest tech

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  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Practice of law: case studies

    Featuring the most innovative services that lawyers have developed for clients

    An Asian college student is making a presentation in front of a projector screen
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    Legal services
    Freshfields boosts pay for newly qualified lawyers to £150,000

    ‘Magic circle’ law firm raises stakes in the legal battle for talent in London

    Freshfields’ office in Bishopsgate, London
  • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
    Ex-Freshfields lawyer convicted over tax fraud received €2mn severance pay

    ‘Magic circle’ firm will not seek to claw back money paid to former tax partner sentenced to 3½ years in jail

    Freshfields’ offices in Bishopsgate, London
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Freshfields’ former tax partner sentenced to 3½ years in jail

    Ulf Johannemann found guilty by Frankfurt court of aiding and abetting dividend tax fraud

    Freshfields’ offices in the City of London
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    Ex-Freshfields tax chief should be spared prison, his lawyer says

    Defence argues Ulf Johannemann should face a suspended jail term for his alleged role in a multiyear tax fraud

    Werner Gröschel, the presiding judge of the case at Frankfurt district court
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    Prosecutors call for 5-year jail term for former Freshfields partner

    Ulf Johannemann’s flawed legal advice was instrumental in alleged €388mn tax fraud, Frankfurt court told

    Freshfields’ logo outside its London offices
  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
    KPMG International
    KPMG Dubai partners raised concerns about Freshfields review

    Board members complained about law firm’s high fees and being kept in the dark

    KPMG board members complained they were being kept in the dark about the law firm’s investigation
  • Monday, 18 December, 2023
    Ex-Freshfields partner on trial for tax fraud takes ‘full responsibility’ for errors

    Law firm’s former global head of tax tells court he ‘totally failed’ as a lawyer

    The ‘Fountain of Justice’ statue in Frankfurt, where the trial is taking place
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    Ex-Freshfields partner ‘highly likely’ to be convicted in tax scandal

    Frankfurt court indicates most allegations appear merited in trial of law firm’s former global head of tax

    Frankfurt’s financial district
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe
    Practice of law: best examples in legal work

    Featuring the most innovative services that lawyers have developed for clients

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  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe
    Generative AI: a legal revolution is coming — eventually

    The new tech is not just a tool, it is a ‘game-changer’ for law firms. Plus: Pinsent Masons tops the FT 50 most innovative law firms in Europe

    A female lawyer leaping from a pile of papers to an area of computer tabs
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe
    Business of law: best practice in legal work

    Case studies showcase how law firms are innovating as businesses

    A person looking at an app on a mobile phone
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    Legal services
    Profits stall at London’s ‘magic circle’ law firms during US expansion

    Rising salary costs and decline in dealmaking hits earnings at City’s international law firms

    A view of the building where Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has its office on Bishopsgate in the City of London
  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    Legal services
    Practice of law: best practice in legal work

    Featuring examples of the most innovative services that lawyers have developed for clients

    Aerial view of the solar power plant on the top of the mountain at sunset
  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    Legal services
    Challenge of Asia-Pacific complexity is the spur to its creativity

    The need to untangle differences in business culture, politics and regulation means the region’s legal sector is open up to experimentation

  • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
    Legal services
    Practice of law: best practice in legal work

    Featuring examples of the most innovative services that lawyers have developed for clients

    coworkers walking on steps towards office
  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    Legal services
    Law firms grapple with ‘how to innovate’ question

    Clients’ demands and better legal tech are helping the quest for creative approaches. Plus: case studies

  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    Legal services
    What makes a law firm ‘successful’?

    Managing staff is now on a par with client services. Plus: our annual ranking of law firms adds more indicators for assessing commercial law firms

  • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
    Legal services
    UK’s ‘magic circle’ law firms struggle to grow in US amid sinking pound

    Dollar strength means UK groups are finding it harder to hire or keep lawyers in New York

    A woman and dog walk in front of the Manhattan city skyline in New York
  • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
    News in-depthLegal services
    London’s ‘magic circle’ law firms make renewed bid to crack US

    Top firms are making progress but American incumbents will prove hard to disrupt

    New York skyline and logos for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy
  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Legal services
    Can blockchain smooth global supply chains?

    Digitising shipping processes throws up a range of regulatory challenges

    Barges moored at the Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong, China
  • Friday, 4 February, 2022
    UK companies
    Regulator closes probe into ex-Freshfields partner over handling of UBS rape claim review

    SRA takes no action after 3-year investigation into complaint against Caroline Stroud

    UBS’s logo on the side of a walkway between offices
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