Boris Feldman, Partner at Freshfields

Today, my guest is Boris Feldman, a Partner at Freshfields who specializes in securities litigation, mergers and acquisitions, fiduciary duty and disclosure counselling and who has represented many of the leading technology companies: Google, Facebook, Genentech, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Snap, and Hewlett-Packard (complete list here).

Boris has also represented legendary entrepreneurs, including Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Herb Boyer, Sergey Brin, Vint Cerf, Carly Fiorina, Arthur Levinson, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg. Boris was born in South Bend, Indiana. He attended Yale College on a National Merit Scholarship. At Yale, he was President of the Yale Debate

Association and Speaker of the Yale Political Union. Boris graduated from Yale, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with distinction in history. Boris graduated from Yale Law School, where he served as Note & Topics Editor of The Yale Law Journal. He was also the Director of Debating for Yale University while a law student.

In this candid conversation, Boris shares his journey from an inherently argumentative childhood to his recent lateral move to Freshfields, discussing his perspective on the future of virtual lawyering, his creation of an innovative recruiting program, and his unique hobby of street photography.