Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises significant opportunities, creating value, driving growth and delivering innovation. There are risks, often novel, which need to be managed carefully by regulators and business as technology and use cases evolve. Our multidisciplinary technology team is highly skilled in helping organisations across multiple sectors embrace cutting edge technologies.
Our experts combine deep technical knowledge with keen understanding and insights into how public sector and businesses procure, design, develop and deploy AI. We provide commercially relevant, pragmatic advice to help you navigate AI regulation and risk, while maximising the strategic benefits this technology offers. As well as supporting clients who are investing in and deploying AI, our team is regularly called upon to provide expert guidance on regulation and other developments in the UK, EU and internationally.
Areas of focus
From AI regulation to commercialisation and risk management, we empower you to navigate the complex and fast-evolving legal landscape with confidence.
- Technology and data - Supporting businesses to safely develop, use, protect and exploit technology. We can advise you on how best to utilise your data and technology.
- AI regulation - Helping organisations navigate legal, regulatory and compliance requirements, and engage with regulators and governmental authorities.
- Business growth and funding - Advising businesses on entering into commercial collaborations and partnerships, expanding internationally (into or from the UK) and making investment decisions, including early stage, venture capital, growth capital, development capital and venture debt transactions and M&A.
- Business protection - Helping you manage regulatory and operational risks, reviews, investigations and commercial disputes. Developing and protecting IP, ensuring data privacy compliance and achieve cybersecurity objectives.
AI training, AI literacy and thought leadership
We regularly provide tailored training to public sector and private sector clients on AI-relevant regulation (enacted and proposed) and legal risk. Examples include training on the EU AI Act, UK proposed regulation, AI system governance and contracting.
We are thought leaders in AI law, producing practical content, including:
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Our team lead and co-wrote the chapter on Public Law and Procurement Law and AI in the second edition of practitioner's textbook The Law of Artificial Intelligence (Sweet & Maxwell, 2024), with co-authors Professor Rebecca Williams (University of Oxford) and Azeem Suterwalla and Will Perry (Monckton Chambers). We also wrote the LexisPSL practice note on the EU AI Act, and the Chambers and Partners UK guide to AI regulation (2024)
We regularly speak at industry events, including the Society for Computers and Law AI Conference, Responsible AI and Risk Management Conference, AI Summit, London International Disputes Week, amongst others.
Our team has also obtained specialist AI accreditations from the University of Oxford.