Cross borders
with confidence.
Cross borders with
Freshfields.
Section 1
Freshfields finds clarity
in cross-border complexity,
giving our clients the
confidence to make the
right business decision.
The only firm you need
Freshfields can help
you navigate the
world’s most complex
business issues.
Our global, interconnected, always-on world means multinational
corporations, financial institutions, governments and investors are
under pressure as never before. Freshfields can help.
Our offer is simple – we deliver the best advice and the best service
wherever our clients need support. We assemble teams of the highest
quality in any country at a moment’s notice. And we collaborate in a
way that adds value and reduces inefficiency.
We do what we do better than any other firm – execute the most
complex cross-border transactions; deal with the most challenging
multijurisdictional litigations and global investigations; handle
arbitrations and regulatory issues involving multiple countries; and
provide financing solutions that give our clients ultimate flexibility.
Our US partners have decades of top-level experience in the key
disciplines for US and global organizations – M&A, antitrust, finance,
capital markets, employment, international arbitration, litigation
and tax.
They work seamlessly across borders with their peers in Europe,
the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Africa, delivering domestic
US advice of the highest quality and tackling the most challenging
cross-border issues from an unrivaled international platform.
The only firm you need
Working globally
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP
We know the global market and build long-term relationships that
withstand even the most high-pressure situations.
Over the past three years we have helped our clients do business in
more than 150 countries. We have more than 100 “country partners”
who know their jurisdictions intimately and understand how to do
business there. They also know the leading local lawyers through
our StrongerTogether network,which comprises more than 300 firms
covering almost 200 jurisdictions.
This means you get a tailored team, combining our international
experience with the best on-the-ground knowledge. Whatever the
job, you’ll receive the superlative Freshfields quality anywhere in
the world.
Section 1
Cross borders with Freshfields
“The whole team has very good
breadth in terms of products
and areas, and the quality is also
excellent. The lawyers integrate
very well across the network.
They always put together the
right people in a team – including
from different jurisdictions.”
Chambers Global 2016
Contents
02 Freshfields in the United States
04 Cross borders with confidence
06 Transactions
14 Regulation
20 Litigation and arbitration
28 Working internationally
34 Our US partners
Freshfields in the United States
Cross borders with Freshfields
Freshfields in
the United States.
100+
years of Freshfields
working in the
United States
We opened in New York in 1977 and 1998 in Washington.
Our US team boasts renowned transactional partners who
match the quality we are known for in other markets.
350+
US-qualified
lawyers globally
We now have 35 partners and 200 attorneys in the
United States, and more than 350 US-qualified
practitioners across the world.
1977
lawyers based
in the
United States
$80bn
value of our US litigation
and arbitration
practice’s current cases
Working seamlessly with their peers
in Europe, the Middle East, Asia,
Latin America and Africa, they provide
you with domestic US advice of the
highest quality to help you tackle the
most challenging cross-border issues.
Our international platform is unrivaled.
2003
2010
2014
2015
First New York
corporate
attorneys join.
We provide antitrust advice
on the United/Continental
merger that creates the world’s
biggest airline.
We win landmark acquittal for
Raoul Weil, former UBS executive,
on criminal tax charges brought
by the Department of Justice.
We advise Honeywell on its
$5.1bn acquisition of metering
company Elster – its largest
M&A since 1999.
2006
1998
New York
office opens
200+
Our US lawyers bring together
decades of experience across all the
areas required for success in today’s
complex and challenging business
environment. From M&A and finance
to antitrust, tax and litigation, they
handle the most complex deals as a
single, unified team.
First corporate
partners
Washington DC
office opens
#1
#1
firm for
firm for
cross-border M&A
global antitrust
international
arbitration
(Global Competition Review,
ninth straight year)
(Global Arbitration Review,
fifth straight year)
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1998
2001
New York lawyers
join with recruits
from Milbank.
DC-based antitrust
practice opens.
8
partners
15
partners
18
attorneys
37
attorneys
The first corporate
partners join and
Freshfields is
recognized as a
top-ranked firm
for international
arbitration in the
United States.
2013
2016
Major expansion of US corporate, finance and
employment practices with hires of ex-Wachtell,
Skadden, and Kirkland & Ellis partners.
We advise Henderson Group on its merger
with Janus Capital, creating a global asset
manager with $320bn AUM.
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partners
37
partners
133
attorneys
219
attorneys
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Section 1
Cross borders with Freshfields
“While many firms can say
they have people in the key
jurisdictions, we’ve got you
covered by the very best.”
Cross borders
with confidence.
Making high-impact business decisions in our global,
interconnected, always-on world has never been more
challenging. Freshfields provides clients with the
intelligence, expertise and experience they need to deal
with issues that don’t respect boundaries or borders.
Our market-leading lawyers with regional expertise in
every office around the world assemble and collaborate,
at a moment’s notice, to solve the most critical issues.
Peter Lyons
US Regional Managing Partner
Freshfields – a unique value proposition
We are unique in the US market – a team
of first-chair US lawyers within the world’s
best global law firm. The results speak
for themselves.
• Our litigators have consistently delivered
extraordinary outcomes on regulatory
and internal investigations and high-stakes,
bet-the-company litigations.
• Since 2010 we have advised on more
inbound US M&A transactions and more
cross-border deals by value – over $1tn –
than any other firm.
• Our best-in-class finance and capital
markets lawyers in the United States and
the other major financial centers allow
clients to finance with any product in
any market.
• Our antitrust practice is uniformly
regarded as the world’s best. Clients turn
to us for challenging deals! We are a
market leader on US second request and
European Phase II reviews.
• We are the market leader in arbitration,
ranked as the top practice by two leading
legal directories.
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• In the past three years we’ve advised
on matters in almost every country in
the world.
Our lawyers in the United States,
Europe, the Middle East and Asia have an
unmatched track record of success. While
many firms can say they have people in the
key jurisdictions, we’ve got you covered by
the very best.
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Section 1
Our strength in the US
Transactions
A seamless
service for the
deals that matter.
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We excel at complex
transactions – whether purely
domestic or those that require
sophisticated US advice with
an international dimension.
This is one of the reasons why we have handled a higher
value of cross-border deals and executed more inbound
US M&A transactions than any other firm since 2010.
But we know that our international plaudits are nothing
without domestic US capabilities.
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Transactions
Cross borders with Freshfields
Mitchell Presser
Head of US M&A Practice
“Our ability to function on a
jurisdictionally agnostic basis,
particularly in our M&A franchise,
allows us to focus on value to the
client as the overriding principle.”
Matthew Herman
Our US M&A partners have been involved
in more than $1tn worth of transactions
in our careers. For over 30 years, we’ve
advised on some of the world’s biggest,
most complex M&A and private equity
transactions. Our collective experience
and global perspective give our clients a
distinct advantage. There is no substitute
for experience and market knowledge.
Before I joined Freshfields, I spent eight
years in private equity as a founder and
principal so I know first-hand that focusing
on creating value and how you are
going to execute are key in finding the
right opportunity. There are four things
I tell my clients to focus on in the
early stages of assessing an opportunity:
the risk of entering and operating in a
market, the cost of the transaction, how you
are going to control and how you are going
to execute. While you’re always operating
in an environment of uncertainty, you
cannot let that lead to inaction.
The transactional experience we have in
the United States, and the experience our
teams have across the world, means we’ve
crossed every hurdle before. We don’t just
tell our clients what the law says – we
advise them in a way that gives them the
confidence to make decisions and take
action. And by making a well-informed
decision to act, they’re moving toward
their goals rather than letting those
opportunities slip away.
Co-head of Global M&A
The intersection between M&A and
regulatory scrutiny has never been more
important, as global businesses and their
M&A activities increasingly test the limits
of what can be achieved. Our work lies at
the heart of that intersection – with clients
requiring solutions on a fully integrated
basis, driven, by a culture of innovation,
to solve their most complex problems.
And while you have to be excellent locally
before achieving great things globally,
it’s pretty rare these days that a client’s
problems, challenges or risks stop at any
single country’s borders – our ability to
function on a jurisdictionally agnostic
basis, particularly in our M&A franchise,
allows us to focus on value to the client
as the overriding principle.
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This point of differentiation crystallized in
the commentary of a friend of mine, the
general counsel of a large global corporation.
He observed that law firm advice almost
always comes with a certain DNA attached,
whether that’s a New York litigation focus
or a Palo Alto technology-driven culture.
But when we deliver advice – whether it
comes from New York, London, Frankfurt
or Hong Kong – it is always of the highest
quality, but reflects an international
perspective. And that resonates with him
because that is the way his business
operates – having that kind of alignment
makes our advice that much more valuable
to clients’ organizations.
“Our collective experience
and global perspective
give our clients a
distinct advantage.”
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Transactions
Cross borders with Freshfields
Brian Rance
Head of US Finance Practice
Valerie Ford Jacob
Co-head of Global Capital Markets Practice
Co-head of Financial Institutions Group
Freshfields is well established as the world’s
number one capital markets law firm in both
debt and equity markets. Our clients seek us
out for the most complicated matters and for
advice on the appropriate jurisdiction for the
ultimate transaction.
Why? Although clients rely heavily on the
reputation and standing of their law firms, they
also choose their individual lawyers carefully,
and we have the best. We have recently
expanded our US transactional practice,
building on strong relationships with a wide
breadth of US clients. Other practices with
which we work all the time have grown also and
are leading practitioners in their fields.
Our international scope is also important, as
very few businesses are now confined within
any single border. Freshfields’ global team can
solve the thorniest multijurisdictional matters.
But we know – like our clients do – that, in
any market, a firm’s international abilities are
secondary to its domestic capability. That’s why
our practice is built around our world-renowned
US practitioners.
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In the aftermath of the financial crisis there
was a consensus among government agencies
responsible for supervising the financial system
that changes were needed to prevent it from
happening again. The original vision was that the
new rules would be applied consistently across
nations, but in reality this hasn’t happened.
As a result, our clients around the world now
rely on us regularly to make sense of rules in
different jurisdictions that are supposed to be
parallel but in fact diverge; rules from different
agencies in the same jurisdiction that are not
consistent; and rules that were meant to accomplish
sensible goals but have unintended consequences.
In many cases we have to make cutting-edge
judgments, often in the face of reluctance from
regulators to provide further guidance.
Our experience in all major jurisdictions with
central banks, securities and commodity
regulators, stock exchanges, banks, broker-dealers,
insurance companies, investment advisers and
other financial entities gives us an unparalleled
view of what is going on and how to fill the gaps.
This has been critical to our ability to advise all
our clients, whether they’re financial institutions
or corporates. This work extends to all sectors,
including leveraged finance, project finance,
aviation and transportation finance, commodities
transactions, securitization and structured
finance and so on.
Melissa Raciti-Knapp
Co-head of Latin America Practice
At Freshfields, we put clients’ interests first. We
don’t try to keep work in New York if that isn’t
the most efficient approach – if it benefits the
client for the governing law to be English or for
the deal team to be based in Tokyo, then we’ll
structure the deal that way. We solve problems
creatively by considering the solutions available
to clients across our network and add value
by bringing together a tremendous amount
of individual and collective experience – and
because we work together across the world
rather than independently or in competition
with one another, we have a very global
perspective on projects.
“The US corporate practice …
is excellent at bridging
the gap in legal culture
between Europe and the
United States.”
Chambers USA 2016
Even what may appear to be purely US matters
have an international element. I recently worked
on two project financings under New York
law where the projects were being developed
in Mississippi and Arkansas. But scratch the
surface and they had several international
features, including the lenders being European
and the sponsors being Brazilian. Of course,
European clients hire us in Europe to help them
in the United States, but it also works the other
way around. Our clients’ businesses are global,
so they expect counsel who can be nimble across
jurisdictions. That’s what we’re best at.
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Transactions
Recent work
We helped global drinks can
manufacturer Rexam when
it received a $6.9bn cash and
stock offer from the US-based
Ball Corporation. The resulting
deal brought together the
sector’s two biggest players.
We advised on all the
legal aspects of Honeywell
International’s $5.1bn deal
for the Elster division of
Melrose Industries, its biggest
in 16 years.
Despite the deal’s complexity,
we helped the NYSE-listed
Fortune 500 company Sysco
Corporation buy European
foodservices provider Brakes
Group from affiliates of Bain
Capital for £2.2bn.
We advised Hewlett-Packard
Company on the largest
technology enterprise split in
history, creating two separate
publicly traded companies with
revenues in excess of $50bn.
A cross-practice team in
London, New York, Washington,
Amsterdam and Hamburg
advised on AstraZeneca’s
acquisition of a $4bn stake
in Acerta Pharma, giving it
a potential blockbuster
blood cancer drug.
We advised Formula One
Group (F1), together with its
shareholders including CVC
Capital Partners, on the
$8bn sale of F1 to Liberty
Media Corporation.
“I was completely satisfied.
The [banking and finance]
team is proactive and
knowledgeable. The lawyers
are extremely committed
to our transactions and are
really thorough. They perform
beyond our expectations
and never let us down.”
Chambers Global 2016
Our services
We advised Henderson Group
on its $6bn all stock merger of
equals with Janus Capital to
form Janus Henderson Global
Investors, which has assets
under management of more
than $320bn.
We advised Carlson Hospitality
Group on its sale of Carlson
Hotels to HNA Tourism Group.
• M&A
• Company incorporation
• Listings
• Capital raising
• Investments
• Divestitures and carveouts
• Merger clearance
• Complex contracts
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Our strength in the US
Regulation
Helping you
cover every angle.
We know regulation can often be
your biggest business challenge.
The number of national and regional regulators is rising,
creating ever more complex rules governing everything from
tax to intellectual property and consumer protection.
Whatever your regulatory challenge, we will look beyond
compliance to strengthen your business. We work across
a range of sectors and markets, dealing with everything
from industry-specific regulations to listing obligations
and data protection.
Many on our US team have previously worked for regulators,
so they know what drives them and how to engage in a way
that gets you results.
And because we build integrated teams from the leading
practitioners across the world, we can handle the most
complex regulatory issues and craft solutions that work
for your business on a global basis.
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Regulation
Cross borders with Freshfields
Paul Yde
Partner, Antitrust, Competition and Trade
“We really get to know
our clients, their
ambitions and how
they like to operate ...”
Claude Stansbury
Since we established the US antitrust
practice in 2002, Freshfields has developed
the scope, scale, knowledge and experience
to match the leading US firms; but the
integration of our US practice into the
wider Freshfields group gives us a distinct
advantage over our US competitors.
Our dedicated US antitrust and competition
law group maintains close relationships
with both the Department of Justice (DOJ)
and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Many of our lawyers have worked for them,
and our team includes a former chairman
of the FTC, three former advisers to the
FTC commissioners, and numerous staff
attorneys from both the FTC and DOJ.
As dedicated competition professionals,
our perspectives go beyond law to
encompass policy and economics. We have
an intricate knowledge of regulators
and how they work. Our work before
the agencies has established us among
the leading US firms for large-scale
second request merger reviews, which
complements the firm’s preeminent
position in European Phase II reviews.
We have also established a strong
track record on complex conduct
investigations, with particular strength
in multijurisdictional investigations.
Our clients rightly see us as sophisticated,
technical antitrust lawyers who are closely
connected to the US enforcement agencies.
They know – as we do – that a few other US
firms have similar domestic capabilities, yet
none of these firms combine this with our
international experience and integration.
Partner, Tax
While we advise our clients on all
aspects of US federal tax law, our
clients don’t typically choose us for
routine matters; they choose us for
large, multijurisdictional and often
transformational transactions.
As such, our US tax practice is more
transaction-focused than advisory and
we receive very positive feedback on our
joined-up, comprehensive global approach.
Our US tax lawyers regularly work with
colleagues across practice groups, as part of
multidisciplinary teams, and our strength
lies in providing integrated, commercial
and practical advice to ensure that every
aspect of the matter is taken care of.
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We have a very senior, highly qualified team
in the United States with a tremendous
level of experience, particularly in M&A
and finance matters. The average tenure
for the seven US tax lawyers in our US
group is over 15 years, so clients know
they are in safe, experienced hands.
We really get to know our clients, their
ambitions and how they like to operate,
which makes us a great choice for
businesses with long-term plans for
international expansion.
“Our clients rightly see us
as sophisticated, technical
antitrust lawyers who are
closely connected to the
US enforcement agencies.”
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Regulation
Cross borders with Freshfields
Recent work
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise
turned to Freshfields for advice
on US tax-efficient ways to
structure aircraft leases to US
airlines, generating US-source
rental income by lessors not
eligible for tax treaties.
UBS chose Freshfields for
advice on its structured TRS
program for Ares Capital’s Ares
Enhanced Loan Investment
Strategy VI fund (AELIS).
Our services
• Regulatory strategy
• Corporate governance
• Antitrust
• Consumer protection
• Antibribery and corruption compliance
When it wanted advice on
antitrust compliance in relation
to various joint ventures and
distribution agreements,
PepsiCo relied on Freshfields.
“[The tax team] did a
really excellent job – they
possess a complex and
involved knowledge of
international law, and the
solutions they found were
very innovative.”
Chambers Global 2016
• Tax
• Intellectual property
• Employment and pensions
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Litigation and arbitration
Defending
your business.
We will help you manage
the mounting threat from global
investigations and follow-on
litigation, and protect your reputation
and investments in any country.
We are the only firm in the world top ranked by the major
directories for litigation, arbitration and investigations.
Our global investigations practice comprises 160 partners
and more than 300 lawyers across the United States, Europe,
the Middle East and Asia.
While other firms knit together lawyers from different firms
to work on international cases, our seamless teams speak with
one voice, saving you time, money and aggravation.
In the United States we are at the heart of some of the
most complex post-crisis financial conduct investigations
in the world.
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Litigation and arbitration
Cross borders with Freshfields
Nigel Blackaby
“Our scale means we have
the bandwidth to manage
multiple complex global
disputes and investigations
simultaneously.”
Global Head of International Arbitration
Group, Co-head of Latin America Group
Chambers USA and The Legal 500 United States
have both awarded us prizes as the leading
arbitration practice in the United States.
I think that, in itself, speaks volumes to
the strength of the US practice.
We’re very attuned to the languages and
cultures of the jurisdictions in which we
defend our clients. Most of our team are
completely bilingual, so we are capable, for
example, of running bilingual arbitrations
or arbitrations purely in Spanish Alongside
that, our experience of handling arbitrations
in Latin America outstrips that of most
US firms.
Aaron Marcu
Our US arbitration practice is an integral
part of a truly international group and
covers the spectrum of matters, from
complex construction disputes to major
investment arbitrations in sovereign states
– in the last few months we’ve won four
cases against Venezuela with damages
totaling more than $2.5bn.
One accolade that stands out for me is a
comment from Global Arbitration Review.
They wrote: “A bit like the Beatles,
Freshfields seems to have pulled off a
clever trick: being both first into a new
pursuit, and somehow ‘best.’”
Head of US Litigation Practice
Our international knowledge and
experience is the biggest edge we have
over our US competitors, particularly
in investigations and litigation. The close
working relationships among our lawyers
around the world mean our clients get
integrated, seamless global advice,
covering all relevant jurisdictions.
Many firms can – and do – boast of having
“really excellent lawyers,” but no firm
can claim to be as good or as experienced
in the international arena. And no firm
can provide top-quality representation
as efficiently as we can, in even the most
complex multijurisdictional disputes.
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Clients tell us that they see how we work
together naturally, in easy unison across
borders, so they don’t have to manage
the communication or distribution of
responsibilities between lawyers in
different countries or in different firms.
Our scale means we have the bandwidth
to manage multiple complex global disputes
and investigations simultaneously.
And our results speak for themselves.
We provide better quality and better value.
“A bit like the Beatles,
Freshfields seems to have
pulled off a clever trick: being
both first into a new pursuit,
and somehow ‘best.’”
Global Arbitration Review 2016
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Litigation and arbitration
Cross borders with Freshfields
Daniel Braun
Timothy Harkness
Partner, Litigation
Partner, Litigation
Our clients like it a lot when we win, and we
usually win. They appreciate the preparation
we bring to the table and our ability to set
reasonable expectations.
The US system is very different from any other:
it can be overwhelming, particularly for
international clients, and our job is to make it
understandable. That’s the biggest difference
between us and our US competitors; we are so
focused on representing global clients in US
courts that we provide perspective and cultural
translation for them in a way that American law
firms just can’t.
We’re undisputed experts in the international
legal issues that global clients face, and we’re
good at both translating and litigating those
issues. We literally wrote the book on handling
international discovery in US litigation – every
federal judge in the country has it. No one
is better placed to help international clients
make the right decisions in the context of the
American system and – if they haven’t gotten
into litigation yet – help to mitigate the risks.
Adam Siegel
Co-head of Global
Investigations Practice
Freshfields offers exactly what you would expect
from a leading US law firm. But at the same time
we are very different – not least because we are
clearly and undeniably international in outlook
and in practice.
US regulators and the US civil litigation system
are the most aggressive in the world and our US
team can handle the most challenging domestic
legal issues. But the extraterritorial nature of US
law means our clients – in the United States and
elsewhere – face US legal issues that reach far
beyond US borders.
We hire the best lawyers for our US team so our
clients get the same superlative standard of advice
in the United States as they do in Europe, Asia,
London and the Middle East. We also work closely
with our colleagues across the world to ensure we
don’t offer narrow, single-jurisdiction solutions to
what are complex, multijurisdictional challenges.
This is Freshfields’ unique ability – to help
our clients understand and overcome their
challenges, while never forgetting that they
deal with multiple legal systems and must be
able to negotiate every risk and realize every
opportunity on a global basis. We bring together
the best advisers from multiple countries for a
service that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Freshfields’ capabilities were a huge part of
my decision to join the firm after many years
at the DOJ.
From my experience in government, I saw
that with increasing frequency the DOJ and
other enforcement agencies were pursuing
international investigations focusing on
commercial activity. And in doing so,
authorities in the United States and elsewhere
were collaborating more closely with their
counterparts around the world and taking
other steps to extend their reach.
These trends have produced investigations
that require clients to contend with a web
of interrelated risks arising across multiple
jurisdictions, often all at once. In returning
to private practice, I was looking for a firm
that understood these problems and was best
positioned to help clients to address the emerging
challenges. Freshfields clearly stood out, and by a
significant margin. No other firm had possessed
the vision and then demonstrated the ability to
develop leading practice groups in this field in
major markets around the world.
Freshfields succeeds in this environment because
it has the right people in the right places. Just as
importantly, it has a deeply collaborative culture
that enables lawyers with different backgrounds
and areas of expertise, based in diverse locations,
to work together in a fully integrated way to help
clients. For the sort of work we are doing in global
investigations and white-collar litigation, these are
unique and invaluable strengths.
Noiana Marigo
Co-head of Latin America Group
In arbitration, our results speak for themselves:
in about 98 percent of our cases we obtain either
a victory or a satisfactory settlement, even in
the most challenging situations. We helped
Repsol get a $5bn settlement from Argentina, for
instance. And we got the highest cash settlement
ever paid by Bolivia – $400m – for one of our
US clients. These are just a few of the landmark
decisions we help our clients achieve. Often we
are involved in the formation of new law.
Our US team handles more investment arbitration
than any other US-based firm – the combined
claims of our US cases total around $40bn.
Many of our arbitration lawyers have been with
Freshfields for at least 10–15 years so collaboration
is second nature. Our team comprises many
nationalities, with each person bringing a
different experience and perspective to the mix.
We understand the legal, economic and cultural
nuances of regions like Latin America – which
is where I do most of my work – but, more
importantly, we can conduct cases in local
languages – interviewing witnesses and preparing
documents in Spanish, Portuguese, French and
English. We know these legal systems first-hand.
When you factor in our global network, which
provides access to the best lawyers in Latin
America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, the
strength of our service is clear. Our clients want
to win. And we’re best placed to help.
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Litigation and arbitration
Cross borders with Freshfields
Recent work
Freshfields achieved a
landmark acquittal by a federal
jury for Raoul Weil, the former
number three executive at UBS,
of the criminal tax charges
brought against him by the DOJ
relating to his service as the
head of UBS’s private bank.
Our services
• Multijurisdictional litigation
• International arbitration
As Monitor, appointed by the
US Department of Justice and
MoneyGram to review and
assess, supported by a global
Freshfields team, MoneyGram’s
compliance with its deferred
prosecution agreement and
legal obligations under the
antimoney laundering and
antifraud laws in the United
States and around the world.
For one of the largest
expropriations in history –
with claims valued in the
tens of billions of dollars –
ConocoPhillips (and several
of its Dutch subsidiaries)
was represented by Freshfields
in an ICSID arbitration
against Venezuela under
the Netherlands/Venezuela
bilateral investment treaty
and the Venezuelan Foreign
Investment Law.
“Their real strength is in
international work and
cross-border litigation.
The New York lawyers have
a good sense of litigation
in the EU and Asia, and
vice versa. That’s a very
significant advantage.”
Chambers Global 2016
• Global investigations
• Consumer and product risk
• Investment protection
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Section 1
Cross borders with Freshfields
Making critical decisions
in our global, interconnected,
always-on world requires
cross-border confidence.
150+
$911bn
+30%
240+
countries we've
helped clients do
business in
in cross-border deals in
the past five years, more
than any other firm
We give the right advice when it matters most,
wherever in the world you need it.
As the world’s leading global law firm providing seamless international
service, we can – and do – operate in any country.
Our lawyers know the markets as well as the law. We understand the cultural,
political and economic factors at play, and the way national and international
regulators operate – and cooperate. Our StrongerTogether firms provide local law
advice, and we apply our global experience to find the right answers.
We’ve advised on the most important cross-border matters many,
many times. We share this international experience within the firm
to the benefit of all of our clients.
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of our transactional work
in the last year involved
client investments in
high-growth markets
lawyers ranked in
Chambers Global 2015
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Working internationally
Cross borders with Freshfields
Geoff Nicholas
“We know how to help our
clients grow, strengthen
and defend their businesses
anywhere in the world.”
Head of International Disputes Group
Co-head of Global Investigations Practice
Global Markets Partner
We know our clients are sophisticated
buyers of legal services. They are
consistently looking for a seamless
international service, capable of handling
the most complex, cross-border matters.
This is what we deliver.
Our lawyers’ international experience is as
comprehensive as their legal knowledge.
Where needed, we complement this with
local advice from the best lawyers in every
jurisdiction – more than 300 core firms in
Stephen Revell
200 jurisdictions. This approach gives us
the flexibility to build a team around every
client’s specific needs.
Whatever the jurisdiction, it’s a safe bet
that we work there regularly, and that we
know the country intimately. We have
spent decades understanding different
markets and building relationships with
the best local lawyers, knowing whom to
recommend by name.
Managing Partner, Singapore
Head of Corporate Practice, Asia
StrongerTogether Partner
Global working is fundamental to the
service we offer our clients. Almost
everything we advise on crosses borders
and has done so for many years. We know
how to help our clients grow, strengthen
and defend their businesses anywhere in
the world.
Many firms talk like this – but we live it.
We have 78 different nationalities working
across the firm and speak more than
70 languages.
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In the last three years we’ve worked in
more than 150 countries and around a
third of our revenue comes from work in
countries where we don’t have an office.
In the past five years we’ve handled
cross-border deals with a higher value than
any other firm, many of which involved
advice in complex, emerging markets.
“Our lawyers’ international
experience is as comprehensive
as their legal knowledge.”
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Recent work
Since 2011 we have advised on
58 percent of the largest IPOs
that raised more than $1bn
in Hong Kong.
We’ve handled 25 investigations
in 11 Latin American
countries (Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
the Dominican Republic,
Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Peru and Venezuela).
We’ve handled more than 100
investigations in 15 Asia-Pacific
countries (Australia, Bangladesh,
Brunei, Cambodia, China,
Hong Kong, India, Indonesia,
Japan, Korea, Malaysia,
Myanmar, Pakistan, Singapore
and Vietnam).
“The team are all excellent and are specialists
in the laws of multiple jurisdictions.”
Chambers USA 2016
“Freshfields is a top-notch firm,
with deep and broad talent.
The firm does an excellent job
coordinating across their
offices, finding the right team
whatever the geography and
making it a seamless process
for the client.”
Chambers Global 2016
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Section 1
Cross borders with Freshfields
Transactions
Our US
partners.
“They pick the best to put the team together,
are very organized and their specialists are
very well coordinated. They can handle
global cases based in several jurisdictions.”
Dave Almroth
James Douglas
Aly El Hamamsy
Partner, Finance, New York
T +1 212 277 4070
E [email protected]
Partner, Finance, New York
T +1 212 277 4030
E [email protected]
Partner, Corporate, New York
T +1 212 284 4938
E [email protected]
Valerie Ford Jacob
Matthew F. Herman
Thomas Jörgens
Partner, Capital Markets, New York
T +1 212 284 4926
E [email protected]
Partner, Corporate, New York
T +1 212 277 4037
E [email protected]
Partner, Finance, New York
T +1 212 284 4975
E [email protected]
Chambers USA 2016
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Michael Levitt
Peter D. Lyons
Partner, Capital Markets, New York
T +1 212 277 4004
E [email protected]
Partner, Corporate, New York
T +1 212 284 4965
E [email protected]
Lisa O’Brien
Partner, Finance, New York
T +1 212 277 4055
E [email protected]
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Our US partners
Cross borders with Freshfields
Transactions continued
Mitchell Presser
Melissa Raciti-Knapp
Thomas Ensign
Howard Klein
Mary Lehner
Partner, Corporate, New York
T +1 212 277 4056
E [email protected]
Partner, Finance, New York
T +1 212 277 4035
E [email protected]
Partner, Antitrust, Competition
and Trade, Washington, DC
T +1 202 777 4527
E [email protected]
Partner, Employment, Pensions
and Benefits, New York
T +1 212 277 4047
E [email protected]
Partner, Antitrust, Competition
and Trade, Washington, DC
T +1 202 777 4566
E [email protected]
Brian Rance
Ryan Suda
Bruce McCulloch
Robert Scarborough
Claude Stansbury
Partner, Finance, New York
T +1 212 277 4034
E [email protected]
Partner, Finance, New York
T +1 212 277 4080
E [email protected]
Partner, Finance, New York
T +1 212 284 4985
E [email protected]
Partner, Antitrust, Competition
and Trade, Washington, DC
T +1 202 777 4547
E [email protected]
Partner, Tax, New York
T +1 212 277 4045
E [email protected]
Partner, Tax, Washington, DC
T +1 202 777 4507
E [email protected]
Paul Tropp
Timothy Wilkins
Partner, Capital Markets, New York
T +1 212 230 4681
E [email protected]
Partner, Corporate, New York
T +1 212 284 4939
E [email protected]
Partner, Corporate, New York
T +1 212 230 4650
E [email protected]
Jerome Ranawake
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Regulation
Omar Pringle
Paul Yde
Partner, Antitrust, Competition
and Trade, Washington, DC
T +1 202 777 4530
E [email protected]
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Our US partners
Cross borders with Freshfields
Litigation and arbitration
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Nigel Blackaby
Daniel Braun
Elliot Friedman
Caroline Richard
Adam Siegel
Kimberly Zelnick
Partner, Arbitration, Washington, DC
T +1 202 777 4519
E [email protected]
Partner, Litigation, Washington, DC
T +1 202 777 4528
E [email protected]
Partner, Arbitration, New York
T +1 212 230 4666
E [email protected]
Partner, Arbitration, Washington, DC
T +1 202 777 4561
E [email protected]
Partner, Litigation, New York
T +1 212 277 4032
E [email protected]
Partner, Litigation, New York
T +1 212 277 4010
E [email protected]
Timothy Harkness
Brian King
Aaron Marcu
Partner, Litigation, New York
T +1 212 230 4610
E [email protected]
Partner, Arbitration, New York
T +1 212 277 4020
E [email protected]
Partner, Litigation, New York
T +1 212 284 4954
E [email protected]
Noiana Marigo
Linda Martin
Olivia Radin
Partner, Arbitration, New York
T +1 212 284 4969
E [email protected]
Partner, Litigation, New York
T +1 212 277 4017
E [email protected]
Partner, Litigation, New York
T +1 212 284 4925
E [email protected]
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