Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has finalised its core management team, re-appointing managing partner Peter Jeffcote to work alongside its new chief executive Ted Burke on the five-member administration.

Jeffcote was appointed for a second five-year term by the firm’s joint senior partners Guy Morton and Konstantin Mettenheimer at the end of last year, at the same time as US managing partner Burke was confirmed as its new chief executive.