While M&A volume has slowed to a crawl during the pandemic, some big firms are still winning high-profile work in this space, appearing on a string of big deals in recent days.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is one. The U.K. firm, which opened a Silicon Valley office this month as part of its strategy to expand in the U.S., advised Google in its investment in Reliance Jio, India’s largest telecom operator, in a $4.5 billion deal announced Wednesday.