Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
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Nov 1, 2026
Jonathan BeardmoreHOST
But don't, JB, don't worry.
Jonathan BeardmoreHOST
Freshfields did an independent report entirely independent oh completely free of any of any conflict
Phil LarganHOST
and his remuneration increasing from 300,000 to 700,000 plus an extra 400,000 was entirely appropriate
Jonathan BeardmoreHOST
yeah that makes sense actually when you put it in those terms I've got no further questions yeah I'm completely satisfied with that answer yeah
Nadia IsmailGUEST
I think this was just a few days ago.
Nadia IsmailGUEST
And also LegalCheek wrote an article that Freshfields had bagged one of the lead roles on this IPO as well as some other US firms such as Kravath off the top of my head and I think Auric.
Nadia IsmailGUEST
And I think the big thing here is the valuation is quite large.
Nadia IsmailGUEST
I think it was like 1.5 trillion, which is just an amount I can't even picture in my head.
Natalie SaundersGUEST
So just different areas of the business to get a sense of which bits of the law you're interested in.
Natalie SaundersGUEST
And I landed in the employment, pensions and benefits team of Freshfields in the city.
Natalie SaundersGUEST
And the employment bit just really interested me because of the human element and the It was that really drew it to me.
Natalie SaundersGUEST
And if I can create some kind of notional golden thread that's run through my very squiggly career, that's probably at the heart of it is that interest in people, humans in the workplace.
MattHOST
And we see that with the AI native law firms launching.
MattHOST
We see that with, as we're sitting here recording this now in October, I think a week or two ago, some emails were leaked from Freshfields about their thinking about spinning off their AI business unit and making billions and billions of dollars.
MattHOST
And not a day goes by that I don't end up speaking to a partner at a law firm who's thinking about starting something or something.
MattHOST
Should I go do this? And I think how many of them actually will, it'll obviously be a much smaller number.
John MorleyGUEST
And there just aren't that many of those left.
John MorleyGUEST
This is why it did not surprise me at all that they went after Linklaters and Freshfields, but for a variety of reasons that I don't fully understand.
John MorleyGUEST
Major UK
Joel CohenHOST
firms.
Joe WilliamsHOST
Those were the words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Healey, delivering the UK Budget 2026.
Joe WilliamsHOST
And you are listening to the 2026 Budget Edition of the Freshfields Tax Matters Podcast.
Joe WilliamsHOST
I'm Joe Williams of the Freshfields London Tax Team.
Joe WilliamsHOST
Joining me today to discuss some of the key business tax announcements in the budget is a truly heavyweight panel of Freshfields experts.
Joe WilliamsHOST
I have Paul Davison, head of our tax team in London, Helen Buchanan, head of our global tax disputes practice, and Peter Clements, partner in our London tax team.
Joe WilliamsHOST
Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining.
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Joe WilliamsHOST
It has the feel of a back-of-the-sofa budget to me.
Joe WilliamsHOST
Plenty of small measures announced, many of which we expect to be fiddly and technical.
Jack LiechtungGUEST
I wasn't going to... be in the rest of my career.
Jack LiechtungGUEST
And I was there for a couple of years and ultimately from Davis Polk to Freshfields and then Grubenshire doing media entertainment law and simultaneously started producing films with my now co-founder Gabe Merkin.
Jack LiechtungGUEST
And one of the projects we worked on was about the AAU space and the monetization of those athletes.
Jack LiechtungGUEST
We focused on the Compton Magic.
Kathryn RubinoHOST
Don't open that email.
Kathryn RubinoHOST
The Freshfields reply all of doom.
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Listen.
Kathryn RubinoHOST
When you're working with computers and technology and sending, what, a million emails a day, you tend to have the same recurring nightmares.
Kathryn RubinoHOST
Everyone thought this was a great idea.
Kathryn RubinoHOST
And Klingsberg figured that the standalone business would probably be worth billions.
Kathryn RubinoHOST
And added, because no big law chain is complete without some trash talk, that Freshfields is better than Harvey and Lagora anyway.
Kathryn RubinoHOST
You know, listen, there's a couple of big law partners dreaming big.
Mary O'CarrollHOST
The next story is about law firms deciding they don't just want to buy AI, they might want to build it, even own it, and then potentially commercialize it.
Mary O'CarrollHOST
So Freshfields made headlines this week after a leaked email reportedly revealed that they were discussing maybe carving out their AI lab.
Mary O'CarrollHOST
This is part of, I think, a bigger and broader trend which we are seeing from big law firms like Kirkland and Latham who are investing in their own technology alongside a growing number of announcements about like AI labs popping up, proprietary tools like Womble's AI lab.
Mary O'CarrollHOST
So it is, I think, a no-brainer to be thinking about this, you know, when legal AI companies themselves are getting astronomical valuations.
Hidde BruinsmaHOST
Both have more than 20 years of experience as litigators at the highest level of the Dutch market, mostly in patent and technology cases.
Hidde BruinsmaHOST
Jelle was a partner at Freshfields and studied aerospace engineering before he became a lawyer.
Hidde BruinsmaHOST
Harvid was a partner at the IP boutique Vonst.
Hidde BruinsmaHOST
In September 2026, they opened Driven Lawyers in Amsterdam, which they call the first AI-native law firm in the Netherlands.
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Hidde BruinsmaHOST
They build an AI lab there.
Hidde BruinsmaHOST
Yeah.
Hidde BruinsmaHOST
Which is interesting because they're building all these tools there, which are being used worldwide by all the Freshfields lawyers.
Hidde BruinsmaHOST
Yeah.
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