Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is expanding its growing footprint in the U.S. with the addition of Willkie Farr & Gallagher business and corporate litigation practice group chair Mary Eaton.
Eaton joins the London-founded firm in New York as co-head of its new securities and shareholder litigation practice. She’ll lead the group at the roughly 2,800-lawyer international firm alongside Meredith Kotler, who joined late last year with a team from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.
“This was an opportunity to build a group from the ground up, from its inception, with two senior women litigators at the helm committed to growing a ...