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US: Freshfields’ executive partner leaves for Latham & Watkins

By  |  June 26, 2016

Michael Lacovara, executive partner and member of the four-person leadership team at Freshfields, has joined the New York litigation practice of US firm Latham & Watkins.

Latham & Watkins has made its second major disputes hire in the space of a month, hiring Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s executive partner Michael Lacovara as a commercial litigator in New York.

The raid on Freshfields is a major blow to the Magic Circle firm, coming only six months after Lacovara took up his position as executive partner and a member of the leadership team, alongside joint managing partners Chris Pugh and Stephan Eilers, and senior partner Edward Braham, as part of a new management structure created in January.

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