United States

With a team of approximately 500 lawyers, Freshfields is a leading firm in the US for corporate, litigation and regulatory matters. Clients repeatedly entrust Freshfields with their most critical mandates due to our strategic, pragmatic and client-centric approach.

With a client-focused, partner-led approach and a global multidisciplinary team, Freshfields prides itself on delivering holistic solutions to complex issues, empowering clients to make well-informed, time-sensitive decisions everywhere their business takes them.

Johnson & JohnsonJohnson & Johnson on numerous transactions, including its $13.1 billion acquisition of Shockwave Medical

CVCCVC Capital on its $925m acquisition of Therakos from specialty pharma company Mallinckrodt

Hewlett Packard EnterpriseHewlett Packard Enterprise on the merger clearance and litigation aspects of its acquisition of Juniper Networks for a value of $14 billion

Palantir Palantir on cross-border proceedings in Delaware, California and Germany in asserting and defending various business tort and contractual claims; obtained favorable settlement on eve of trial

MTNMTN, Africa’s largest mobile network operator, and affiliates in successfully challenging the jurisdiction of a US court in a lawsuit alleging that the provider and numerous other large companies violated the Anti-Terrorism Act

OracleOracle on several billion dollars’ worth of debt offerings and credit facilities, including its most recent offering of $7.75 billion aggregate principal amount of senior debt securities

ConocoPhillipsConocoPhillips on a ICSID arbitration under the Netherlands-Venezuela BIT, arising out of one of the largest expropriations in history (victory on the merits for over $8.7 billion in damages)

GoogleGoogle on numerous acquisitions, including its pending $32 billion acquisition of Wiz; also advising on Google's defense of Ad Tech litigation brought by the US DOJ, Texas AG and 33 other state AGs

SonocoSonoco on the $1.8 billion sale of its TFP business to TOPPAN; $3.9 billion acquisition of Eviosys and related $1.8 billion SEC-registered bond offering; and $1.2 billion inaugural green bond offering

Super MicroSuper Micro, an AI infrastructure company, on the issuance of $700 million convertible notes and amendments and waivers relating to its existing $1.725 billion convertible notes

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Freshfields in the US is the go-to destination for clients seeking sophisticated counsel on a broad range of domestic and cross-border matters.

With a deep bench of top-tier lawyers, we bring clients an integrated approach that seamlessly spans practices areas and geographies from Silicon Valley and San Francisco to New York, Boston and Washington, DC, with more than 20 additional offices across Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

We advise a broad mix of clients, ranging from emerging companies in innovative sectors to the largest corporates in the world, as well as major private capital firms, sovereign wealth funds and other financial institutions.

Our experience spans a broad range of sectors, including Technology, Life sciences, Financial services, Industrials and Private capital.