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England - London • TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
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Artificial intelligence

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CMS advises across the full AI lifecycle, from product development and investment to commercialisation and compliance. Jointly led by Matthew Bennett and Anthony Waller, the team acts for governments, regulators, hyper-scalers, industry leaders and startups, offering a fully integrated AI legal service. It is particularly noted for supporting major content owners and corporates in deploying AI strategies and tools. Rachel Free is a recognised authority on AI, computer-implemented inventions and patents.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Charles Kerrigan is clearly a serious practitioner, with strong commercial judgment. Lisa McClory has exceptional technical knowledge and wide-ranging insights into IT, tech-reg, law reform, policy issues and cross border issues.’

  • ‘Charles Kerrigan - one of the few lawyers with a deep and technical knowledge of AI law. An extremely bright and creative thinker. Erica Stanford - With a background investigating and writing about the players and crises in the crypto world, Erica is rapidly gaining an equivalent deep knowledge of the AI industry.'

  • ‘The team are at the forefront of crypto asset regulation.' 

  • 'Charles has encyclopaedic knowledge of this new and rapidly-emerging area of law.'
  • 'Lisa McClory has a wealth of knowledge and experience.'

  • ‘Charles Kerrigan is our stand-out partner at CMS and in the wider legal community. He is certainly a leader in the tech space and helps others to navigate the way.’

Key clients

  • Vsim Technologies
  • Windward
  • Microsoft

Work highlights

Advising Microsoft on the prosecution of over 2,000 live European patent applications, including patents for technologies such as generative AI, quantum computing, and AI accelerators.
Advised Vsim Technologies on its $21.5m seed funding round led by EQT Ventures.
Advised AIM-listed maritime AI company Windward on its £216m recommended cash takeover by US private equity firm FTV.

Practice head

Matthew Bennett; Anthony Waller

Other key lawyers

Rachel Free; Ben Hitchens; Charles Kerrigan; Sam De Silva; Lisa McClory; Sarah Hopton; Jack Rigelsford