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Freshfields partners consider spinning off their AI unit, valued in the "billions", according to leaked emails
- Publication
- Financial Times (United Kingdom)
- Author
- Unsigned
- Published on
- 14 October 2026 · read in the publisher's feed
Summary
According to leaked internal emails, partners at the law firm Freshfields discussed the possibility of placing their legal technology unit, which relies on artificial intelligence and is reportedly valued in the "billions", in a separate entity. The exchange is said to have taken place ahead of a possible fall in valuations.
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Read the article on Financial Times →Classification
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Company size
- Large companies
- Industries
- Consulting, legal, accounting, business services
- Companies
- Freshfields (deploys AI)
- Keywords
- legal tech, law firm, carve-out, valuation, legal AI
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Financial Times. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.