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Lawdragon Names 33 Freshfields Partners to 2025 500 Leading Dealmakers in America Guide

Thirty-three Freshfields partners have been named to Lawdragon’s 500 Dealmakers in America guide. The guide recognizes the M&A, corporate, securities, finance, private equity, tax, corporate governance and ESG leaders and other transactional lawyers handling the biggest deals.

The lawyers recognized are:

  • Andrea Merediz Basham – Corporate/M&A
  • Elizabeth Bieber – Shareholder Engagement and Activism Defense      
  • Oliver Board – Corporate/M&A
  • Ian Bushner – Private Capital
  • Timothy Clark - Private Funds & Secondaries
  • Chris DeCresce – Capital Markets
  • Sebastian Fain – Corporate/M&A
  • John Fisher – Corporate/M&A  
  • Adam Golden – M&A (Life Sciences)
  • Alison Hashmall – Financial Services Regulatory
  • Jenny Hochenberg – Corporate/M&A
  • Paul Humphreys – Corporate/M&A
  • Valerie Ford Jacob – Capital Markets
  • Vinita Kailasanath – M&A (Life Sciences)
  • Menachem Kaplan – IP and Tech Transactions
  • Ethan Klingsberg – Corporate/M&A
  • Denny Kwon – Corporate/M&A
  • Kyle Lakin – Finance
  • Michael Levitt – Capital Markets
  • Allison Liff – Leveraged Finance
  • Pamela Marcogliese – Capital Markets and Corporate Governance
  • Steven Matays – Tax
  • Melissa Raciti-Knapp – Project Finance
  • Jerome Ranawake – Finance     
  • Brian Rance - Finance
  • Neal Reenan – Private Capital
  • Damian Ridealgh – Private Credit and Capital Solutions
  • Kristen Riemenschneider – M&A (Life Sciences)
  • David Sewell – Financial Services Regulatory
  • Sarah Solum – Capital Markets
  • Paul Tiger – Corporate/M&A
  • Zheng 'Jonathan' Zhou – Corporate/M&A
  • Damien Zoubek - Corporate/M&A

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