Led by Chris Eastham and Tommy McKenna, the team at Fieldfisher advises on AI governance, regulatory compliance and commercial mandates. Eastham focuses on governance frameworks, risk management and AI procurement, while McKenna contributes expertise in copyright disputes and data use in model training. The team also handles EU AI Act readiness work and regulatory assessments for AI platform launches, with recurring work centred on compliance, contracting and deployment across AI systems.
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Testimonials
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- They have been able to cut through the noise of emerging AI laws and give us sensible and future-centric advice on our AI governance prioritization for EMEA.
- Sam Jardine and Chris Eastham are pragmatic, responsive, and take the time to proactively understand us as clients, with deep technical expertise combined with commercial judgment.
Work highlights
Represented Getty Images in its landmark claims for infringement of copyright and trade marks against Stability AI in relation to its generative AI model Stable Diffusion.
Advised Pearson Education on the legal implications of using student exam answers to train AI models.
Advised Dunnhumby on a wide range of AI-related matters, including contract, regulatory, and risk management advice.
Practice head
Chris Eastham; Tommy McKenna