Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is a global law firm with a long-standing track record of successfully supporting the world's leading national and multinational corporations, financial institutions, funds and governments on ground-breaking and business-critical mandates. Our 2,800 plus lawyers deliver results worldwide through our own offices and alongside leading local firms.

Our global restructuring and insolvency group acts for a wide variety of stakeholders, including corporates, creditors, regulators and insolvency practitioners on a broad range of restructuring, refinancing and advisory work and formal insolvency assignments across the insolvency spectrum. We also advise a wide range of non-bank investors and funds on a variety of transactions. Our specialist team comprises lawyers from a range of disciplines across a number of offices, so we can help our clients however and wherever they need our support.

We specialise in complex transactions, and our work is often cross-border. For many of our clients the world is a single marketplace, so we structure our legal services in the same way, offering a combination of local and international expertise from our network of offices.

Key Deals

We have built up a reputation for acting at the cutting edge of the legal profession, solving complex problems and delivering a number of legal firsts. The past 12 months have been no exception. We have continued to consolidate our position as a market leader for technically complex, often multi-jurisdictional transactions. Particular highlights for us include advising clients on: Amey, Arcadia, BMI Healthcare, Brighthouse, Carillion, Debenhams, Drydocks, Expro, House of Fraser, HSH Nordbank, IKKS, Interserve, intu, Jack Wolfskin, Malaysia Airlines, Nyrstar, Steinhoff, Ted Baker and Virgin Atlantic.