Freshfields to Add 15 Lawyers to Munich Office

Freshfields will add at least 15 lawyers to its Munich office, including four partners who will relocate from Frankfurt.

Yorck Jetter, Matthias-Gabriel Kremer, Rick van Aerssen and Markus Fisseler will transfer to Munich at the start of the new financial year.

Senior associate Wessel Heukamp will be promoted to partner and join the office, bringing the total number of partners in the office to 13.

Teams of associates will be hired for each new partner, expanding lawyer count in the office by around 50%. The firm intends to hire locally in Munich, and move associates over from Frankfurt, which has 60 partners and over 500 total staff.

Freshfields’ also has offices in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. The firm recently shut its office in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP LLP LLP is the fourth largest law firm in the world by revenue, and a component of the UK’s Magic Circle of leading law firms