What You Need to Know

• Nicole Foster, who was of counsel at Cravath, is joining Freshfields as partner and co-head of the employee benefits and compensation group.
• Foster spent 18 years at Cravath and worked there with M&A lawyer Damien Zoubek, who joined Freshfields last year.
• Foster said the change in compensation structure at Cravath was not a factor in her decision to move.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has added former Cravath, Swaine & Moore of counsel Nicole Foster as a partner in New York, where she will co-lead the firm’s employee benefits and compensation practice with current co-chairs Lori Goodman and Maj Vaseghi.

Foster was at Cravath for 18 years. She has known Goodman, who joined Freshfields from Latham & Watkins in March 2020, for several years and said that personal relationship played a role in her making the move.

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