Here’s a challenge. Name three partners in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s City real estate practice. If you find it difficult, so do many property partners around the City. The department, whatever its assets, is not over-blessed with profile.
One name that recently hit the headlines is Graham Prentice, who is leaving along with three others to join LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae. After 20 years as a partner at the magic circle firm, Prentice became one of the first to ‘retire’, locking in more generous benefits under the firm’s pensions shake-up.
