London-founded Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is continuing its fast-paced expansion in the U.S. with the addition of Hogan Lovells antitrust partner Meghan Rissmiller in Washington.
It’s been around a year since the firm signaled big ambitions stateside by hiring a four-lawyer team from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton that included rainmaker Ethan Klingsberg in New York, who now runs Freshfields’ U.S. M&A and corporate practice.
In July, the firm added Willkie Farr & Gallagher business and corporate litigation practice group chair Mary Eaton as the co-head of its securities and shareholder litigation practice in New York and picked up former Justice ...