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Freshfields email leak reveals talks over external investment in AI unit

Freshfields email leak reveals talks over external investment in AI unit

Leaders at Freshfields are considering opening up the firm’s AI unit to external investment, discussing carve-out options that they believe could create a company worth ‘billions,’ according to a report in the Financial Times.

The discussions were revealed by the leak of an internal email exchange in which global managing partner Alan Mason and US corporate and M&A co-head Ethan Klingsberg discussed placing Freshfields’ AI business into ‘a separate legal entity.’

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