Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
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| Headquarters |
1 New York Plaza New York City |
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| No. of offices | 5 |
| No. of attorneys | 468 |
| Major practice areas | General practice |
| Key people | David Greenwald, chair |
| Revenue |
 US$ 504.5 Million (2014) |
| Date founded | 1890s |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | www.friedfrank.com |
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP is an international law firm with offices in New York City, Washington, DC, London, Paris, and Frankfurt. The firm was founded in New York City and currently employs 468 attorneys worldwide.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson traces its origins back nearly a century to the predecessor firms Riegelman & Bach, Riegelman Hess & Strasser and Strasser Spiegelberg Fried and Frank. These firms were founded by German Jewish attorneys. In 1971, the firm took its current form with name partners Walter Fried, Hans Frank, Sam Harris, Sargent Shriver and Leslie Jacobson.
Fried Frank has seven offices. Domestically, it opened a Washington, D.C. office in 1949. Fried Frank also opened a Los Angeles office in 1985, but closed it in 2005. In 1970, Fried Frank opened a London office becoming one of the first U.S. law firms to establish a European presence. A Paris office followed in 1993. It opened in Frankfurt in 2004. The three European offices tend to focus on international corporate transactions. The firm officially launched an office in Shanghai in October 2007.
Efforts to merge with an established UK law firm have been unsuccessful. In 2002, Fried Frank engaged in extenstive talks with UK giant Ashurst Morris Crisp, but talks fell apart. Fried Frank in 2004 hired Ashurst's former managing partner, Justin Spendlove.
In December 2006, the firm opened its Hong Kong office, raiding the Hong Kong and Shanghai offices of the London based international firm Simmons & Simmons, and recruiting their greater China managing partner, Huen Wong and other key partners. But in January 2015, Fried Frank announced it was closing its offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai, effectively pulling the plug on its Asia practice.
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