Irving: Former Kirkland Executive Committee Member Builds AI-Native Transactional Firm
David Fox, who served on Kirkland & Ellis's executive committee and is credited as a key architect of its rise to the first $10 billion law firm, has co-founded Irving — an AI-native transactional firm — and Irving Technology, the software company powering it. Irving currently employs fewer than ten people (a mix of lawyers and engineers) and has already advised on a handful of small deals before
BY FRONTIER DESK · AUGUST 3, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
David Fox, who served on Kirkland & Ellis's executive committee and is credited as a key architect of its rise to the first $10 billion law firm, has co-founded Irving — an AI-native transactional firm — and Irving Technology, the software company powering it. Irving currently employs fewer than ten people (a mix of lawyers and engineers) and has already advised on a handful of small deals before its official public debut. Irving Technology raised a seed round from Narya Capital (co-founded by JD Vance), Addition, Hammes, and Fox's own Antiportfolio Ventures. The firm's technology was trained on existing LLMs with input from practicing deal lawyers and is designed to handle tasks such as research and document drafting, freeing senior lawyers to focus on client relationships and strategy. The structural bet is explicit: unlike traditional BigLaw practices that rely on armies of associates, Irving operates with a small team and a heavy AI stack. For innovation leaders and new legal venture builders, Irving represents the most significant signal of incumbency disruption this year — not because of its current scale, but because of who is doing it and what they are abandoning to do so.