Tech and Innovation

Overview

Our market-leading Tech and Innovation practice defends and advises leading technology platforms and disruptive innovators in their most critical business strategies and challenges, protecting our clients’ product strategies and freedom to operate in an increasingly complex landscape of regulation, competition and government enforcement.

Our practice group leaders and platform include former tech industry leaders with decades of experience launching leading-edge products and platforms, successfully navigating the strategic regulatory, public policy, PR, customer, partner, and consumer dynamics that shape the landscape in data-driven innovation. They are a go-to strategic resource for boards, senior management, legal, and product teams who rely on our tech-forward team as key partners in solving critical business problems – not merely legal problems – and developing options and strategies that unlock opportunity, increase efficiency, and build business velocity.

Collectively, our group has unmatched experience navigating multiple waves of technological upheaval, working in the trenches with product leaders and engineers, and counseling diverse clients across cultures and geographies on a broad range of applications and new technologies, including online marketplaces, gaming platforms and products, video conferencing, social media and entertainment platforms, app stores and developer ecosystems, mobile operating systems, autonomous vehicles, search and discovery, digital assets and blockchain ecosystems, ad tech and analytics, biometrics and identity verification, LLMs and GenAI foundation models, cloud based architecture, and digital media distribution – some of the many technologies that our team is actively working with in real time.

Our Tech and Innovation team brings decades of experience to guide end to end strategies and protect the business at every stage of the product and business lifecycle and in every jurisdiction around the globe, including:

• Advising on key risks and requirements during the product launch cycle, deploying our Art of Product Counseling Method™ to design regulatory, product, comms, marketing, customer, and partner strategies that mitigate key risks and ensure a successful launch.
• Operational and technical strategies to effectively implement new regulation, including mapping global regulation to business priorities and product impact and designing compliance strategies that maintain optionality and empower our clients to take responsible, informed risks.
• Designing proactive strategies to successfully engage regulators, governments and key stakeholders and to secure necessary licenses before launch –leveraging our strong relationships with regulators and policy makers around the world to advocacy for our clients and protect their ability to innovate and compete.
• Navigating crisis moments with clear-eyed perspective and muscle memory to define options and empower good decisions in the face of intense external scrutiny, bringing sharp execution and cross-functional expertise to manage every dimension of a crisis.
• Structuring partnerships, transactions, and key supplier and vendor relationships and agreements to optimize for IP strategies, flexible and successful deployment, and to mitigate and ring-fence risks without slowing down the business.
• Effectively advocating for our client’s roadmap and business priorities at every stage of a government or regulatory investigation, while leveraging our leading regulatory, litigation, constitutional and administrative law practices to prevent government overreach and resolve contentious regulatory matters from a place of strength.
• Shaping the legal landscape for novel technologies and new laws and regulation, with an unparalleled track record of winning industry-defining litigation at the motion, trial and appellate stages.