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EY
EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Powered by data, technology and an extensive partner ecosystem, our diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

About EY.ai
EY.ai is the unifying platform that brings together EY people, ecosystems and artificial intelligence (AI) to help drive business transformation through confident and responsible use of AI. It combines leading-edge AI capabilities, including the EY large language model, EYQ; is underpinned by the award-winning technology backbone, EY Fabric; and is supported by multi-disciplinary experience. All EY services and solutions, from strategy, transactions, consulting, assurance and tax draw on this capability, enhanced by a holistic ecosystem spanning technology, business and academia.

EY.ai builds confidence, helps create exponential value and augments people's potential. To know more, visit: ey.ai.

Akin is a global law firm with more than 900 lawyers and advisors who pride themselves on dedication to their clients and their communities. With 18 offices worldwide, we are renowned for numerous market-leading practices; our strengths in complex transactions and restructurings, high-stakes litigation, and public policy and regulatory matters; and our unyielding pro bono commitment. We partner with clients from both established industries and cutting-edge markets to deliver creative solutions to business-critical issues, helping them seize opportunities and anticipate challenges. Driven by our forward-thinking leadership, we have built a strong culture of innovation and collaboration as well as a talented and diverse workforce committed to the success of our clients and each other. We are intentional about fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees are supported and given the tools to succeed.

Our industry-leading technology lawyers assist clients in bringing new and emerging technologies to market while navigating the rapidly evolving legal, policy and regulatory landscape. These client-focused practitioners anticipate developments that can impact our clients’ success, then outline the opportunities, assess the risks and execute the transactions.

Akin is always looking over the horizon for developments in tech that affect our clients. For example, we assembled a multidisciplinary team of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) lawyers and advisors with industry intelligence and deep experience to advise clients in that burgeoning space. From assessing the value and risks of AI/ML technologies to financing and implementation, our team guides clients through AI/ML-related deals, regulations, disputes and investigations. Akin’s AI/ML lawyers are adept at assisting clients on the development and deployment of AI/ML technologies and navigating related legislation and regulation.

Freshfields helps the world’s leading international organisations make the right decisions in a fast-changing world. We have a long-standing track record of successfully supporting our clients on their ground-breaking and business-critical mandates.

In virtually every important field of tech (including AI), we are trusted advisers to the market leaders. Our global transactional expertise is best-in-class in every jurisdiction. Our global regulatory lawyers are relied on to handle our clients’ most challenging assignments, often involving parallel reviews by multiple regulators and related litigation.
 

Latham & Watkins is a global full-service law firm, drawing on practice and industry expertise from more than 3,000 lawyers, across one integrated global platform, in the world’s major financial, business and regulatory centres. We help shape the deals and win the disputes that transform markets. Latham combines an unrivalled global platform with deep tech experience to understand the evolving complexities and opportunities relating to artificial intelligence, which allows us to deftly guide clients in the financial services sector and beyond through their most complex legal, commercial and regulatory challenges.

Linklaters is a leading international law firm and has advised on significant deals in over 100 countries. In addition to serving clients from our 31 offices and via our alliance firms, our team has expertise in all the key business jurisdictions across the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
With more than 2,800 lawyers around the world, our clients access more market-leading practices and experts in relevant practice areas than any other law firm.
One of our key areas of differentiation lies in our ability to provide market-leading advice across the full spectrum of legal specialities relevant to technology. We can offer clients our unparalleled cross-border depth of legal and regulatory knowledge and experience across a broad spectrum of cross-sector technology trends, such as fintech, AI, blockchain, digital health, e-commerce and mobility. This ensures that all of our clients receive commercially innovative and technically strong advice.
We are organized as one firm, with one consistent set of structures, training, systems and processes globally. As a result, we work as one united team offering seamless service across practices and offices, with a common focus on innovation, efficiency and agility – putting our clients at the heart of all we do.
 

The smartest business solutions come when we work together – international, but operating as one integrated team.

Collaborative, agile and partner led: that’s Simmons & Simmons. A law firm that challenges, creates new possibilities and offers opinions not just option. A law firm that acts as your business partner and works with you, not for you.

We focus on four highly regulated sectors (asset management and investment funds, financial institutions, healthcare and life sciences and technology, media and communications) – using our specialist skills to understand your business, and the forces at play around it. All grounded in exceptional knowledge of the legal detail.

This is how we consistently deliver smarter, more efficient ways to tackle our clients’ most complex challenges.

Holistic AI is an AI Risk Governance, Risk, and Compliance company. Our mission is to empower enterprises to adopt and scale AI with confidence. 
Our cutting-edge AI GRC platform provides a single dashboard for risk posture management, role-based reporting, and automated workflows. This enables enterprises to maximise the value of their AI, minimise reputational, legal and commercial risks, and accelerate innovation.  
We have pioneered the field of AI Risk Management and have deep practical experience auditing AI systems, having reviewed over 100+ enterprise AI projects covering 20k+ different algorithms. Our clients and partners include Fortune 500 corporations, SMEs, governments and regulators.