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