AI & Machine Learning

End-to-end guidance for AI companies, powered by technical depth, sector expertise, and investor insight

AI & Machine Learning

End-to-end guidance for AI companies, powered by technical depth, sector expertise, and investor insight

Deep AI expertise and legal solutions that complement the whole company lifecycle make Fenwick a go-to law firm for AI innovators, from emerging startups to global leaders. This combination empowers the firm to be as agile and collaborative as the companies we serve, and our relationships with founders, funders, and clients across a swath of AI’s most exciting industry sectors validate this winning approach.

We represent hundreds of AI and machine learning companies across diverse industry sectors, including autonomous transportation and shared mobility, fintech, healthtech, retail, security, drug discovery and development, robotics, deep technology, and other research areas. Our clients include companies building AI solutions or seeking to integrate AI to their existing businesses, as well as the foundational infrastructure companies powering next-generation intelligence through advances in compute, data, chips, models, and cloud platforms.

From Infrastructure to Application

Our team has guided AI companies through every stage of growth, from incorporation and early funding rounds to IPOs and transformative M&A, ensuring continuity and strategic foresight from the start. We help clients anticipate downstream pitfalls and structure smarter deals in an environment where technology, regulation, and markets evolve rapidly.

Protecting Innovation

Fenwick’s integrated IP team enhances and protects the value that AI companies create by combining technical depth with practical experience to shepherd cutting-edge inventions through high-stakes disputes and licensing strategies that maximize commercial impact.

AI Across Industries

We bring deep vertical expertise in healthcare, life sciences, fintech, consumer, enterprise technology, and autonomy/robotics helping clients apply AI with industry-specific foresight. By representing both founders and leading venture capital firms, we have unique insight into how investors assess risk, value, and differentiation across sectors, enabling you to negotiate from a position of strength.

Leadership in AI Policy

Our lawyers have helped establish industry-standard practices in big data and automation, including pioneering offering models and widely adopted, first-of-their-kind deal structures. Our team includes the co-author of “Responsible AI: A Global Policy Framework” and a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology working group on AI risk management; contributing to the governance frameworks shaping the industry’s future.

Industry Perspectives

A leading customer engagement platform that gives customers user-level data and AI orchestration to push notifications, in 70+ patent matters, as well as licensing, privacy and cybersecurity, litigation, employment and corporate matters, as well as several acquisitions.
An AI-enabled software company that allows businesses to digitally improve financial operations and automatically manage AP/AR and corporate spend in its $2.5B acquisition of an intelligent accounts payable software company, as well as in licensing, trademark, patent litigation, general corporate, M&A, securities and general employment matters.
A developer of AI guidance system that converts regular construction equipment into autonomous robots through AI, GPS and camera in dozens of patent matters, as well as licensing, general corporate and employment matters.
A developer of computer systems for complex AI and deep learning applications in patent, trademark and general corporate matters.
A cloud-based AI data engine and derived business content provider of insightful data to optimize business decisions in patent, licensing, general corporate and M&A matters, including its acquisition by a multinational computer technology company.
A pioneer in AI for enterprise service management in trademark, licensing, privacy and cybersecurity and general corporate matters.
An AI-powered self-driving technology in nearly a dozen patent matters.
An enterprise AI assistant designed to transform the management of the workforce in licensing, trademark, privacy and cybersecurity and general corporate matters.

Recent client work includes counseling:

A leading customer engagement platform that gives customers user-level data and AI orchestration to push notifications, in 70+ patent matters, as well as licensing, privacy and cybersecurity, litigation, employment and corporate matters, as well as several acquisitions.
An AI-enabled software company that allows businesses to digitally improve financial operations and automatically manage AP/AR and corporate spend in its $2.5B acquisition of an intelligent accounts payable software company, as well as in licensing, trademark, patent litigation, general corporate, M&A, securities and general employment matters.
A developer of AI guidance system that converts regular construction equipment into autonomous robots through AI, GPS and camera in dozens of patent matters, as well as licensing, general corporate and employment matters.
A developer of computer systems for complex AI and deep learning applications in patent, trademark and general corporate matters.
A cloud-based AI data engine and derived business content provider of insightful data to optimize business decisions in patent, licensing, general corporate and M&A matters, including its acquisition by a multinational computer technology company.
A pioneer in AI for enterprise service management in trademark, licensing, privacy and cybersecurity and general corporate matters.
An AI-powered self-driving technology in nearly a dozen patent matters.
An enterprise AI assistant designed to transform the management of the workforce in licensing, trademark, privacy and cybersecurity and general corporate matters.