Skadden Appoints Senior Corporate Lawyer Jeremy London as the New Executive Partner

Skadden Appoints Senior Corporate Lawyer Jeremy London as the New Executive Partner

Skadden has appointed Jeremy London to succeed the firm’s current Executive Partner Eric J. Friedman, in April 2024.

Mr. London aged 51 is a corporate partner in Skadden’s Washington, D.C. office and started his career at the firm as a summer associate in 1996.

In addition to becoming a leading transactional attorney, Jeremy has held multiple leadership roles at the firm, including currently serving as chair of the firm’s Client Engagement Committee, which oversees the firm’s global client intake and conflict processes, and previously serving on its partner Compensation Committee.

Friedman while sharing his delight commented, “Jeremy is an outstanding lawyer, highly capable leader and trusted colleague who embodies our firm’s core values, including our commitment to superior client service.”

He added, “The partnership has made an excellent choice in selecting Jeremy as our next executive partner, and I am certain that under his stewardship Skadden will continue to thrive as one of the world’s leading law firms.”

London commented, “I am honored to step into this role next April, and I look forward to working with Eric during the transition period and with all of my partners to best serve our clients, support our colleagues and position them for success, and continue to attract the top talent in the legal industry.”

Prior to becoming an executive partner at Friedman & Partners in New York, Friedman handled many M&A and corporate transactions for clients, such as Citigroup, Nasdaq, Deutsche Bank, and Mars. In 2015, Skadden became the first law firm to handle more than $1 trillion in global announced M&A deals in a single year under his leadership, ranking the firm as the best by price globally as well as in the United States.

Despite its powerhouse practices in both New York and London, the firm consistently features in the upper echelons of global merger and acquisition deals tables due to its strong presence. Last year, it lured Corporate Partner Robert Chaplin from Slaughter and May, a rare partner departure from the highly profitable Magic Circle UK firm.

Friedman is only the third executive partner in Skadden’s 75-year history after Robert Sheehan and Peter Mullen, the latter of whom officially became the firm’s first executive partner in 1981 and is credited with becoming a key architect of the firm’s global growth, including overseeing the launch of its first international offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing and Moscow.

In April, Skadden promoted 24 attorneys to its tightly managed partnership, an increase of twenty-six per cent from last year.