Freshfields Lands Cravath Partner, Wall Street Dealmaker Zoubek

Cravath, Swaine & Moore partner Damien Zoubek, who has led multibillion dollar deals for major clients at the prestigious firm, is joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Hiring one of the best-known New York M&A partners from Cravath marks a major coup for Freshfields, which announced the addition Wednesday. The U.K.-founded firm has been heavily investing in the lucrative U.S. transactions space in recent years.

Cravath worked on more than $216 billion worth of deals in the first half of 2021, which was good for fourth most among all law firms, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. A red-hot M&A market has ...