Freshfields Poaches Another Cravath Dealmaker Amid US Growth

May 19, 2022, 9:00 PM UTC

Another Cravath Swaine & Moore deals lawyer is joining UK-founded Freshfields as the law firm continues to build its M&A team on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley.

Cravath partner Jenny Hochenberg is joining Freshfields in New York, the firm said Thursday. She reunites with dealmaker Damien Zoubek, who jumped from Cravath to Freshfields in September.

Hochenberg is the second Cravath M&A partner to exit for a rival firm in three weeks. Allison Wein landed at Kirkland & Ellis earlier this month.

Cravath announced that it would end its seniority-based compensation system and adopted a modified lockstep scheme last ...

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