AI Vendor Contracts: Data Rights, IP, Risk Allocation, and Compliance

Mr. Galkin has dedicated his legal practice to representing Internet, SaaS, e-commerce, information technology and new media businesses across the U.S. and around the world. He serves as a trusted adviser to startup, emerging, established and multinational corporations on their core commercial transactions including licensing, development, alliance, distribution, outsourcing arrangements, IP licensing and transfer, regulatory compliance, and agreements for SaaS and online businesses. Mr. Galkin's broad experience gained during more than 20 years in practice allows him to provide cutting-edge, creative and practical solutions to complex problems relating to information technology, intellectual property licensing and other commercial transactions that impact daily business operations. He has served as an adjunct professor of Computer Law at the University of Maryland School of Law; an adjunct professor of Business Law at the Merrick School of Business at the University of Baltimore; Special Intellectual Property Counsel for the Office of the Maryland Attorney General; and Chairperson of the “Crimes in Cyberspace Panel” for the National Information Systems Security Conference (Sponsored by the National Security Agency).

Ms. Miller leads ZwillGen’s commercial transactions group where she advises clients on all manner of commercial transactions, particularly as they relate to technology, data, and content. Her years working in-house in media during a period of major disruption in industry and technology informs her business-minded and practical approach to deal making and problem solving. Ms. Miller counsels both vendor and customers and has a keen sense of how the market is evolving across various verticals and the intellectual property, privacy and commercial issues that are often at the center of these arrangements. Her clients include companies at every stage of growth, from start-ups that are gearing up for their first product launch, to mature companies advancing their technology stack or forming new partnerships to adapt to industry changes. Ms. Miller helps clients craft term sheets for business partnerships, assists with drafting and negotiating inbound and outbound licensing deals, and negotiates technology agreements of all sorts with an ever-increasing focus on AI-enabled tools. 

Mr. Scherzer counsels clients on cutting-edge technology and privacy law matters, with a specific emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI) matters, and complex information technology, outsourcing, and intellectual property transactions. He has extensive and varied experience in these areas garnered over more than 20 years as a partner at large national and international firms and at a pioneering technology law boutique in New York City.