Artificial Intelligence (AI) overview

Our global team of focused lawyers advises businesses across the AI technology stack, including those investing in, developing or adopting:

Applications: Applications and other tech-leveraging AI.
Models: Foundational AI technology, including frontier models, large language models and proprietary data sets.
Infrastructure: Physical and digital infrastructure powering foundational AI technologies, and the applications and services leveraging them.

Our offering

Our full-service AI capabilities draw on virtually all of our practice areas, covering comprehensive legal needs across:

Transactions

Our team provides full-service cross-border representation on increasingly complex matters ranging from strategic investments, M&A, private equity and joint ventures to financings and capital markets transactions for AI companies, products and infrastructure.
We advise on antitrust and merger control, FDI/CFIUS and related trade considerations arising from AI-driven deals and partnerships.
We support clients on sophisticated cross-platform and technology collaborations, integrations and strategic alliances—including complex licensing and data-sharing agreements—as well as all other types of AI-related technology agreements.

Disputes & investigations

We guide clients through a rapidly evolving and largely uncharted AI disputes landscape, where companies face growing AI-related exposure.
We act in intellectual property (patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark) data privacy, consumer protection, antitrust, contract, private enforcement and other AI-related commercial disputes before courts and arbitral tribunals, and in regulatory investigations and enforcement actions worldwide.
We are counsel of record in some of the most signification AI litigations to date, leveraging our established technology disputes and regulatory practices.

Strategic advisory

We help clients navigate a fragmented and complex global regulatory landscape with heightened scrutiny and enforcement risk.
We provide product counseling and design comprehensive compliance strategies that integrate privacy, antitrust, intellectual property, cybersecurity, trade, content and consumer protection standards, alongside the emerging body of AI regulations.
We develop internal and external AI policies and procedures to support the safe and effective deployment of AI products and services, including with respect to bias and discrimination, consequential or high-impact automated decisions, and related governance issues.

Digital infrastructure

Our dedicated international data center team advises on the full life cycle of AI data center projects, including construction, engineering, supply, financing, operation, leasing and customer contracting, as well as power procurement, planning, emissions legislation, facilities management and related ESG considerations.
We advise on complex trade issues relating to the infrastructure and components powering AI technology, such as semiconductors and GPUs, including export controls and sanctions, supply chain regulations, FDI screening, free trade agreements and data localization measures.

Complex and consequential matters

Much of our most significant AI work is confidential. We advise many of the world’s largest AI developers, together with other tech companies, AI infrastructure players, investors, financial institutions and multinational businesses in AI-related mandates. Our select public matters include:

Intellectual property litigation

We are defending ROSS Intelligence in a high-profile, first-of-its-kind appeal against Thomson Reuters, testing the application of US copyright law to AI technology. This case will likely be a landmark appeal on the question of "fair use" of copyrighted materials to train an AI model.

White collar investigations

In one of the first regulatory investigations involving the application of AI to a business product, our team recently secured a highly favorable settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on behalf of Presto Automation. We are representing several other companies in "AI washing" investigations in connection with various claims, including the alleged misrepresentation of their AI capabilities.

Antitrust litigation

We recently defeated one of the first major antitrust attacks on hotel algorithmic pricing, successfully defending Four Seasons and other hotel groups in a US class action (and parallel litigation). It was the first ruling of its kind to dismantle a new wave of "AI collusion" lawsuits.

M&A/Investments

We recently advised Legora, a leading AI-driven legal technology platform, on its acquisitions of AI companies Graceview and Cadastral, highlighting our M&A strength at the intersection of AI, legal technology and data-driven solutions.

Capital markets

We advised WhiteFiber (NASDAQ: WYFI), a leading provider of AI infrastructure and high-performance computing solutions, on a series of significant financing transactions including WhiteFiber's IPO on the Nasdaq Capital Market, an upsized US$230 million private offering of convertible senior notes, and a bridge term loan facility of up to US$150 million paired with related governance advice.

Data centers

We advised SoftBank Group on its commitment to develop and operate 5 GWs of AI data center capacity in France, representing an investment of up to €75 billion and marking SoftBank's largest AI infrastructure investment in Europe.