Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, formed in June 2025 as a result of the combination of Kramer Levin and Herbert Smith Freehills, is a global legal powerhouse, where our ambition is to help you achieve your goals.
As a fully integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm, we are where you need us to be. Our footprint is extensive and committed across the world’s largest markets, key financial centers and major growth hubs.
Exceptional client service and the pursuit of excellence are at our core. We invest in and care about our client relationships, which is why so many are longstanding. We enjoy breaking new ground, as we have for over 170 years.
In the US, with offices in New York, Washington DC and Silicon Valley, we deliver sophisticated legal solutions aligned with our clients’ most critical business objectives across the country and around the world. Our clients benefit from substantive resources in New York's global finance hub as well as our presence in Washington, DC, the center of US policy and regulation and in Silicon Valley’s thriving tech economy.
Our litigation team represents foreign and domestic companies and individuals against federal criminal charges and investigations by the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other governmental authorities and regulators. We perform early case assessment to align resources with outcomes, and ensure matters are resolved quickly; where cases should be litigated, we do so efficiently and fight to win. Aside from a formidable record in financial litigation, we also advise on internal investigations, white collar criminal defense and related regulatory proceedings and counsel clients on compliance policies and procedures, especially related to anticorruption and sanctions.
At our best tackling complexity and navigating change, we work alongside you on demanding litigation, exacting regulatory work and complex public and private market transactions. We are recognized as leading in these areas.
We are immersed in the sectors and challenges that impact you including financial services, technology, and consumer in the US, along with energy, infrastructure and resources globally. And we’re focused on areas of growth that affect every business across the world.
All of this is achieved by supporting the growth of our people, who help us deliver on our ambition – which is to help you achieve yours.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer: Your goals. Our ambition.
Updated Oct 2025
