Areas of Focus
Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation appear in every industry and facet of daily life. We help clients harness the power of AI to achieve business objectives while keeping pace with the fast-evolving legal and regulatory actions seeking to contend with AI growth and use.
- Domestic and international AI regulations, including the EU AI Act, ethical considerations, and transparency
- AI-related mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, and specialized contracts for specific technologies, assets, and companies
- IP and AI advice, including patents, licenses, copyrights, and trade secrets and contracting for the procurement or supply of AI-enabled products, managing risks involved in corporate data sharing, and IP in the use of AI solutions
- Data privacy laws, cybersecurity measures, and AI-use policies that protect sensitive information
- Litigation and risk management, including class actions, antitrust claims, complex IP disputes, and employment claims
Data centers are a unique asset subject to sophisticated technical, regulatory, and operational challenges. We guide industry constituents through all elements of the data center realm—technological, commercial, regulatory, and legal.
- Regulatory and tax solutions across overlapping international, federal, state, and local laws and regulations
- Financing, planning, construction, and data center operation, investment, M&A, and best practices
- Real estate, including permitting, environmental issues, leasing, and co-location arrangements
- IP counseling and licensing
- Power purchase and procurement strategies and contracts
Our global reputation for excellence in telecom and telecom infrastructure results from our multidimensional understanding of the industry’s history—from the evolution of the sector decades ago to future opportunities and potential roadblocks.
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and state public utility regulations, and advocacy in regulatory proceedings
- Transactional counsel for mergers and acquisitions, investments, and divestitures, including regulatory approval, contract negotiation, and due diligence
- Franchises, rights-of-way access, pole attachment agreements, and other commercial arrangements
- Telecom-related litigation, including disputes involving the Telecommunications Act, pole attachments, data protection, and tariffs
- Acquisition and use of radio spectrum for 5G and other services and assisting with data privacy compliance and cybersecurity
From single-software-application startups to multi-brand Fortune 500 companies, we offer a full range of global transactional, litigation, regulatory, and compliance services on software-related issues.
- IP counseling, including licensing transactions and trademark and patent prosecution, counseling, and enforcement
- Dispute resolution and litigation across antitrust, tax, white collar crime, intellectual property, and employment disputes
- Immigration matters, including those involving Asia, Europe, and South America
- Groundbreaking technology mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing, and financing transactions; innovative corporate strategies; and standards-body formations
- Tax compliance and management, including transfer pricing
Drawing from a team with backgrounds from chemistry, materials science, and semiconductor tools and processing to circuit design and electrical engineering, we help electronic and semiconductor industry clients anticipate and manage risk while seizing emerging opportunities.
- Corporate advice, including regulatory and tax counsel and transfer pricing as well as unique technology transactions, outsourcing and partnership arrangements, and M&A transactions
- IP counseling, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, noncompetition, and privacy and data security
- Equipment and device manufacturer solutions pertaining to manufacturing equipment, electronic design automation (EDA), devices and device fabrication, circuits, and masks
- High-stakes commercial, IP, and antitrust dispute resolution and litigation
- Workforce solutions, executive compensation, benefits, outsourcing, and immigration
We understand the social technology impacting how companies and individuals engage with one another, as well as the overlapping legal issues that stretch the bounds of existing laws and regulation across this distinct market.
- IP, including ownership, monetization, and virtual IP infringement, theft, and fraud mitigation and defense
- Virtual business compliance across the contractual, data privacy, and regulatory aspects of virtual commerce, events, and marketing under platform-specific terms of service and community guidelines
- Digital asset and property rights, including legal frameworks for virtual property ownership and jurisdictional and liability concerns across decentralized, cross-border, online environments
- Corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, and regulatory compliance
- AI, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and blockchain integration, NFTs, and related transactions, as well as resolution of complex litigation involving virtual assets, cryptocurrencies, and digital identities
