Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a global law firm formed in 2025 through the merger of Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. With over 6,000 personnel - including roughly 2,700 lawyers - across 26 offices in more than 25 countries, the firm operates at a scale that places it among the world's top 20 by revenue, pulling in north of US$2 billion annually. The firm's practice spans litigation, regulatory work, and complex transactions, with particular depth in energy, infrastructure, and resources. Its geographic footprint covers transatlantic and transpacific corridors, major financial centres, and growth markets - territory that, for a cybersecurity professional, means exposure to cross-border data protection disputes, regulatory investigations involving critical infrastructure, and the legal dimensions of incident response across jurisdictions with divergent frameworks. Cybersecurity roles inside a firm of this profile sit at the intersection of legal advisory and technical risk. The threat model is less about defending a corporate network and more about advising clients navigating breach disclosure obligations, data sovereignty conflicts, ransomware negotiations, and regulatory enforcement actions - work that demands fluency in both the technical stack and the regulatory landscape across multiple markets.