Our history
Freshfields has over 40 years of US experience. We opened in New York in 1977, Washington, DC. in 1998, Silicon Valley in 2020 and most recently San Francisco in 2025.
We now have more than 380 US-qualified lawyers across the world. Among them are some of the United States' top attorneys in the fields of M&A, corporate governance and defense, enforcement/investigations, antitrust, CFIUS, employee benefits, IP, tax, and litigation.
Read about how we got here below.