In today’s digital age, technology and AI are rapidly transforming the way businesses operate and compete in the global marketplace. This transformation brings with it a range of opportunities, but also poses significant challenges in terms of contract management and legal risks for companies. Managing these challenges properly is crucial if companies are to take full advantage of the benefits of technology and AI, while minimising the associated risks.
Implementing advanced technologies, such as AI solutions, requires addressing a number of legal risks: privacy and data protection risks, challenges when it comes to protecting IP, important issues related to the distribution of liability and security-related issues between customers and providers, and the need to establish an ethical, transparent framework for operations.
Our team – equipped with extensive knowledge of the most disruptive technologies and decades of experience advising on contracts and technology risks – offers clients comprehensive contractual, regulatory and litigation advice.
We handle:
- AI governance within companies: developing policies, procedures and protocols to ensure compliance with the applicable legal and ethical principles required by regulations, management of risks and liabilities arising from the use of AI, etc.
- Implementation of the AI Act, which establishes an EU framework for how AI systems should be developed and used. It classifies them based on risk and establishes specific requirements and obligations for providers and deployers.
- All other legal aspects of AI and technology: cybersecurity, taxation, competition law, criminal risks, and more.
- Negotiation of complex agreements involving AI, robotics and software contracts, which involves accurately defining the scope, services, party rights and obligations, contingencies and cybersecurity duties, among other aspects.
- Issues relating to the contractual, judicial and out-of-court protection of IP rights over AI technology, software and tools, as well as the inputs, outputs and databases used. This includes analysis, protection, exploitation and defence of copyrights, patents, trademarks, designs and trade secrets, along with advice on licences, assignments, transfers and infringements of such rights.
- Cloud contracts, IT infrastructure and complex technological services, as well as outsourcing contracts and policies, both to third parties and within the same group.
- Digital identity issues and electronic trust services, such as electronic signatures.
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