London’s Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has bolstered its fast-growing U.S. litigation practice with the addition of Timothy Harkness from Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. Mr. Harkness, who joined Freshfields’ 90-lawyer New York office yesterday, is the firm’s eighth U.S. litigation partner hire in the past two years. The team now comprises 12 partners across the New York and Washington, D.C., offices and is representing clients in cases with claims totalling $50 billion, and has seen 30 associates join from other firms during that period.
“You can’t sit still and be competitive—you need to continue to grow,” said Freshfields’ financial institutions litigation head Aaron Marcu, who co-founded the firm’s U.S. litigation practice in 2009. “Two years ago, we had no traditional U.S. litigation practice. We’ve now got a dozen partners and 40 associates doing white-collar and regulatory investigations work; financial institution and other civil securities litigation; and international arbitration. Those three legs of the stool give us a great foundation to build on.”
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