Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence (AI) & machine learning (ML) are reinventing operations and upending business models across industries. With business and government around the world pivoting toward AI, the one certainty is that fascinating and revolutionary change is on the way.

Akin’s AI/ML team advises our clients on existing and emerging legal, policy and regulatory issues triggered by AI/ML platforms and tools, including generative AI, quantum computing, deep learning/neural networks and cognitive computing, all of which provide the foundation for machines to imitate human intelligence and capabilities. Among many other high-profile matters, Akin recently represented OpenAI in its multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment from Microsoft.

We have professionals and lawyers on the ground, in the world’s key financial and innovative centers in the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, assisting clients on the responsible development and deployment of AI (including generative AI) & ML platforms. We also closely track the evolving legislation, regulation and legal proceedings applicable to AI & ML.

Broad Client Base

Our clients include highly sought-after innovators at the forefront of generative AI, as well as businesses that operationalize related state-of-the-art and pioneering technologies such as computer vision, speech recognition, data analytics, drug discovery and autonomous systems. In addition, we represent professional investors in these areas.

With a broad international client base, Akin’s global AI/ML team advises companies and organizations spanning an array of sectors, including:

  • Banks and other financial institutions
  • Fortune 500 companies
  • The leading tech platforms and companies
  • Governmental agencies and officials
  • Investment management firms, including private equity and hedge funds, venture capital and sovereign wealth funds
  • Manufacturers of AI/ML applications, platforms and technologies
  • Life sciences and biotechnology innovators
  • Multinational conglomerates
  • Satellite, health care and automotive technology companies
  • Start-up and early-stage companies.

Industry Leaders

Akin’s AI/ML lawyers are industry-leading practitioners widely recognized for their cutting-edge practices. We have former members of Congress and other lawyers and professionals with considerable public and private sector experience.

Our team includes the former Chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology (Science Committee), who was the first member of Congress to hold a hearing on AI; former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS); former Chief Counsel to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY); and lawyers named among California’s Top Cyber/Artificial Intelligence Lawyers and Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Europe Women in Business Law Award, among many other distinctions.

Depth of Experience

Akin has a multidisciplinary team of AI/ML lawyers and advisors with deep industry intelligence and experience. We advise on the responsible development and deployment of these technologies with a careful eye on regularly compliance, intellectual property management and litigation risk management and prevention.

From assessing the value and risks of AI/ML technologies to the financing and implementation of those technologies, our team guides clients through AI/ML-related deals, regulations, disputes & investigations. Akin’s AI/ML lawyers have a great depth of practice, including experience providing counsel on:

  • Antitrust & International Competition
  • Confidentiality and the Protection of Proprietary Information
  • Corporate & Finance Transactions and Investments
  • Crisis Management
  • Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Protection
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Environment & Natural Resources
  • Export Controls & Economic Sanctions
  • Foreign Investment & National Security
  • Government Contracts
  • Health Care & FDA Regulations
  • Intellectual Property
  • International Trade
  • Investment Management
  • Litigation, Class Actions & International Arbitration
  • Lobbying & Public Policy
  • Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
  • S./EU/U.K. Regulatory, Compliance & Risk Management
  • State Attorneys General
  • White Collar Defense & Government Investigations.

Spotlight on Regulatory, Compliance & Risk Management

Akin advises a wide range of individuals, companies and investors in various compliance, regulatory and risk management matters, including the representation of:

  • Boards of directors
  • CEOs and company officers, including compliance, information, knowledge management, innovation and technology officers
  • General counsel and legal teams
  • State and federal officials
  • Investment advisers and funds, including fund founders, principals and managers.

In addition, we provide counsel on corporate policies and controls to protect against the dissemination of trade secrets and proprietary information/data. Further, we advise on AI governance structures such as AI risk committees and internal task forces around the use of AI in investments, internal operational efficiencies and applicable governance structures and risks.

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