Freddie graduated from the University of Exeter with an English degree in 2014, followed by a Graduate Diploma in Law in 2015 and an MSc in Law, Business and Management in 2016. He then trained at Weil, qualifying as an English-law solicitor in 2018. He was an Associate in the Restructuring & Insolvency team at Linklaters for over four years, where he advised banks, funds and companies on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency work, workouts, stressed financings, adminstrations and liquidations.