Freshfields Berlin

Freshfields is an international commercial law firm that supports companies, financial institutions and investors on complex legal and strategic matters. The firm combines legal expertise with industry knowledge and cross-border collaboration. In Germany, Freshfields is represented with offices in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg and Munich.

The advisory work focuses on transactions, regulatory requirements and the management of legal risks. The range of services includes, among other things, M&A, corporate law, financing, capital markets law, competition law, employment law and tax law. In addition, there is restructuring, internal investigations as well as representation in court and arbitration proceedings. International teams work together across practice areas and country borders to address legal issues within the commercial context of clients.

Digitalisation and artificial intelligence play an important role in this. Freshfields advises companies along the entire lifecycle of AI – from investments and the development of new applications to the introduction of suitable governance structures and dealing with legal risks. The advice combines knowledge of technology and data with regulatory expertise and takes account of the interplay of data protection, intellectual property, cybersecurity and corporate responsibility.

At the same time, Freshfields engages with the further development of its own legal work. The firm combines legal experience with digital tools, AI-supported solutions and improved processes. This concerns the question of how complex tasks can be organised efficiently and how legal services can be adapted to changing requirements.

The Freshfields Lab plays a central role in this. There, technology-supported solutions are developed and deployed together with and for clients. Legal knowledge is brought together with competencies in technology, data and design. This allows specific challenges from advisory practice to be addressed and new ways of working to be tested.

The firm’s own experience with the development, introduction and governance of AI in turn feeds into its advisory work. In this way, Freshfields combines the legal assessment of new technologies with a practical understanding of their organisational and technical implementation.

For the Legal Tech environment, Freshfields thus stands for the combination of an international commercial law firm and practice-oriented innovation. The focus is on making technological possibilities usable for demanding legal tasks and supporting companies in their digital transformation. Legal quality, commercial understanding and a responsible design of new working processes form the basis for this.