Freshfields Adds More U.S. Firepower with DOJ Antitrust Lawyer

July 22, 2020, 11:31 AM UTC

London-founded Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is expanding yet again in the U.S., adding former Justice Department antitrust lawyer Julie Elmer as a partner in Washington.

Elmer is the latest in a recent series of high-profile moves by the firm. Freshfields has been making good on growth plans in the U.S., which kicked into high gear last fall following the addition of a four-lawyer group from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton that included mergers and acquisitions rainmaker Ethan Klingsberg.

Earlier this month, Freshfields opened an office in Silicon Valley, hiring five California lawyers in total from Big Law competitors Davis Polk & ...

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