Jobs at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Lead Freshfields’ global performance practice and team, defining a modern AI-first performance strategy. Oversee continuous performance processes, AI tool integration, responsible governance, Workday talent systems, analytics, and links to reward, promotion, succession, and development. Partner with senior stakeholders to drive cultural change, adoption, fairness, data privacy, and high-quality performance conversations across London and Manchester.

Advises clients on employee incentive arrangements, executive compensation, share plans, management equity, and related tax, governance, securities, and regulatory matters. Responsibilities include designing and implementing incentive plans, supporting M&A and capital markets transactions, drafting documentation, negotiating remuneration issues, managing matters, mentoring junior lawyers, developing client relationships, and contributing to business development. The role requires a qualified lawyer with 2–4 years’ post-qualification experience in a top-tier incentives practice.

Develop and deliver change, adoption, engagement, communications, and training plans for global operations platforms and transformation initiatives. Partner with product, CRM, IT, and delivery teams to embed change, measure adoption, manage feedback, support change champions, and provide stakeholders with insights on readiness, risks, and business impact.

Leads Freshfields’ global HR technology and AI transformation strategy, including HR systems modernization, workflow automation, AI adoption, data strategy, and process redesign. Oversees global HR technology and reporting teams, stakeholder engagement, organizational change, vendor partnerships, and transformational program delivery. The role partners with HR, IT, Innovation, Finance, Data Privacy, and senior business leaders to improve employee experience, efficiency, service delivery, and data-driven decision-making.

Advise public and private companies on complex domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, mergers, restructurings, carve-outs, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships. Responsibilities include due diligence, transaction structuring, drafting and negotiation, governance advice, and coordination of multidisciplinary, multi-jurisdictional teams. The role requires an England and Wales or common law qualification, leading-firm M&A experience, strong drafting and commercial skills, and sector interest in TMT, energy and infrastructure, or financial institutions.

Supports enterprise risk management, governance, compliance, insurance, claims, and regulatory activities for a global law firm. Responsibilities include risk assessments, monitoring mitigation actions and indicators, researching emerging risks, maintaining policies and records, assisting with claims and insurance renewals, preparing reports and dashboards, and coordinating with stakeholders across Legal, Finance, HR, Information Security, and other business functions.

Provide specialist corporate tax advice across M&A, finance and restructuring, real estate and tax disputes, often on multi-jurisdictional matters. Work includes client advisory, contentious tax representation, collaborating with international offices, potential client secondments, and contributing to business development and knowledge management.

Works on complex cross-border private equity and corporate transactions, including M&A, carve-outs, buy-outs, joint ventures, consortium deals, structured investments, and reorganizations. Advises financial sponsor clients across multiple sectors, supports business development, supervises junior lawyers, manages challenging workloads, and contributes to knowledge management and client service.

Design and develop responsive, accessible user interfaces for digital platforms. Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders; conduct user research; implement production-ready frontend code using HTML, Tailwind CSS, and vanilla JavaScript; and maintain reusable components, style guides, and design systems. Support server-rendered applications, testing, accessibility validation, cross-browser debugging, version control, code reviews, CI/CD, and consistent interaction patterns across multiple applications.

Designs and prototypes AI-enabled legal technology solutions, translating legal workflows into secure, governed architectures. Partners with lawyers, stakeholders, product managers, and engineers to define requirements and guide delivery. Builds production Python services and document workflows using LLMs, retrieval, RAG, agents, and cloud technologies. Leads discovery workshops, user testing, technology evaluations, and continuous improvement while ensuring privacy, security, compliance, and responsible AI standards.

Handle complex UK and international antitrust litigation, including cartel damages, abuse of dominance, collective proceedings, investigations, and regulatory disputes. Responsibilities include drafting pleadings, witness statements, expert reports, and settlement documents; managing disclosure and case processes; working with barristers, economists, clients, and experts; attending settlement discussions; mentoring junior lawyers; and contributing to business development, training, and knowledge management.

Litigation Associate handling complex consumer, ESG, product liability, technology, and life sciences disputes. Responsibilities include drafting pleadings, witness statements, expert reports, correspondence, and settlement agreements; managing disclosure and case processes; supporting regulatory engagements; attending mediations; supervising junior lawyers; and contributing to business development, training, and client relationships.

Advise on complex, cross-border leveraged finance transactions, especially acquisition financing for private equity and financial sponsor clients. Draft and negotiate facilities, intercreditor, and security documents; coordinate international teams; supervise junior lawyers; manage demanding workloads; and support business development and knowledge management.

The job description is listed as TBC, so responsibilities cannot be determined. Based on the title, the role likely provides legal or advisory support related to business acceptance activities.

Owns the vision, roadmap, backlog, compliance, reporting, and continuous improvement of global finance systems. Partners with Finance, Compliance, Technology, vendors, and senior stakeholders to deliver data-driven solutions, integrations, workflows, upgrades, and system enhancements. The role requires expertise in legal or professional services finance, practice management systems, financial data, Agile delivery, testing, access management, risk, privacy, and stakeholder engagement.

Provide commercial legal advice across the firm, including drafting and negotiating client, technology, procurement, supplier, and other commercial agreements. Advise stakeholders on risk and commercial objectives, support strategic transformation initiatives, create legal guidance and templates, deliver training, and build trusted relationships across an international organization.

Supports the Privacy Office by conducting privacy impact assessments, vendor and technology due diligence, managing data subject rights requests, maintaining privacy documentation, investigating data incidents, and promoting privacy by design. The role provides day-to-day data protection guidance, manages compliance improvement initiatives, produces reporting, and mentors junior team members while supporting UK and European privacy compliance.

Leads global mobility operations across multiple regions, managing capacity planning, workload allocation, high-volume case delivery, service quality, policy compliance, vendor issues, reporting, automation, and process improvement. The role leads Global Mobility executives, embeds the HR Shared Services operating model, manages operational risks and costs, defines service standards, and partners with HR stakeholders to deliver consistent mobility services and support workforce planning.

Advise on partnership structure, governance and constitutional matters. Support partner lifecycle issues, structural changes, regulatory and compliance considerations, and strategic projects. Liaise with General Counsel, Partnership Accounting and business stakeholders, contribute to risk management, policy development, PI insurance renewals, and training. Provide legal research, draftings and senior-level briefings to support firm governance and operational initiatives.

Provide cloud security assessments and advisory for Azure, M365 and GCP; optimize Defender and security monitoring; improve Conditional Access and IAM; maintain SIEM and vulnerability tooling; support cyber incident response; ensure compliance and perform audits; implement IaC best practices (Terraform) and advise on threat detection and remediation.