Fielding a multidisciplinary team comprising legal, policy, and regulatory experts, Squire Patton Boggs has a strong track record in advising AI companies on corporate finance, regulatory compliance and IP ownership issues. The firm also focuses on employment and related data protection issues, with the head David Naylor being a specialist on all aspects of digital media and privacy affairs. From Birmingham, Stuart James has expertise in open-source software licensing issues, London’s Andrew Wilkinson assists on the procurement of large technology systems, and Francesco Liberatore is knowledgeable on communications and competition law.

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  • ‘Experienced and extremely detailed-oriented.’

Key clients

  • Sopheon plc
  • Safari Bidco Limited
  • Snowy Bidco Limited
  • LDC
  • Chiltern Capital
  • Maximus
  • Action Artificial Intelligence Limited
  • Capital D
  • Supponor
  • Brandtech
  • Connecterra
  • Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Work highlights

  • Advising Maximus, Inc. a $4bn NYSE listed global government services business, on developing its global internal AI governance and development framework, to enable its international software engineering and commercial teams to build, acquire and deploy artificial intelligence solutions across multiple countries, ensuring that the group’s activities have AI regulatory compliance and AI commercial, IP and data risk mitigation ‘built-in’ from the outset.
  • Advising Logically, a technology company that helps governments and NGOs counter harmful online misinformation using advanced AI, on a complex transaction that enabled further investment in the company by Vitruvian Partners.
  • Advised Sopheon plc, a global AI-enabled innovation management software and services provider, in connection with its proposed £115 million recommended takeover by Wellspring Worldwide Inc. (a portfolio company of private equity firm Resurgens Technology Partners) to be implemented by means of a scheme of arrangement.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

David Naylor

Other key lawyers

Stuart James, Andrew Wilkinson, Francesco Liberatore, Andrea Cropley, Emma Ball, Tim Stead, Robert Bray, Sam Tibbetts, Richard Armitage