Key HireOctober 27, 2025· Confirmed
Davis Polk Hires Goodwin Capital Markets Partner to Build AI-Focused Emerging Companies & VC Practice
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Why this matters
This firm is buying the talent to run AI at scale. A meaningful marker of where the firm's capability is heading.
Davis Polk hired Jared Fine, a capital markets partner from Goodwin Procter, to build a new Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice in New York explicitly covering AI, digital health, fintech, enterprise software, robotics, and cybersecurity clients. Firm chair Neil Barr and corporate head Michael Kaplan framed the hire as a strategy to capture AI-driven startup and venture financing work earlier in the client lifecycle, with reporting tying it directly to the AI funding boom.
""Jared has significant experience advising a wide range of private companies and the venture capital funds that invest in them. We are pleased to welcome him to Davis Polk as we build an emerging company and venture capital practice..." — Neil Barr, Chair and Managing Partner, Davis Polk"
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