Artificial Intelligence

AI is reshaping how organisations operate, innovate, and manage risk. As regulatory frameworks mature and adoption accelerates across every sector, we help you harness the benefits of AI while navigating complex legal, ethical, and commercial challenges.

Overview

AI continues to evolve and mature at pace, creating opportunities such as improving efficiency, strengthen decision making, and develop new digital services. As organisations explore these possibilities, they are also managing evolving regulatory expectations, new governance responsibilities, and the challenges linked to data use, cybersecurity, and intellectual property.

We help you navigate these issues with advice that reflects both the legal landscape and the practical realities of developing or deploying AI in your organisation. Our work spans technology, regulation, data privacy and cyber, intellectual property, and commercial matters, ensuring that all aspects of AI adoption are considered in a joined-up way.

We support clients as they assess how AI can be embedded into products, business processes or strategic programmes. This includes early exploration of potential use cases, supplier evaluation, procurement planning, and contract development. We also help organisations understand the data flows and security measures required for safe AI use, along with the intellectual property considerations that arise when tools are developed, trained or commercialised. Our team works closely with organisations with cross‑border operations or technology ecosystems that span multiple jurisdictions.

Our work covers the full lifecycle of AI adoption. We advise on regulatory requirements, procurement, risk management, review contractual protections, and help clients embed governance structures that promote responsible use. We also assist with projects in industries where AI is subject to heightened scrutiny, including insurance, financial services, healthcare, and technology-driven services, helping clients understand sector-specific requirements and risk profiles.

Our expertise includes:

  • AI regulation and compliance, including the EU AI Act, UK guidance, and global frameworks
  • Governance and ethics, including transparency and accountability
  • Data protection and cybersecurity support for AI systems, including AI related DPIAs
  • Commercial contracts for AI development, licensing, procurement, and distribution
  • Supporting scaling businesses that require adaptable legal frameworks for AI enabled growth

Advice on deploying AI in regulated or high risk environments, including insurance and healthcare

Featured experience

Procurement and governance of an AI platform

Advising a major insurer on the procurement and governance of an AI platform designed to analyse underwriting data and support pricing decisions.

Drafting tailored AI clauses

Drafting tailored AI clauses for an organisation developing an AI tool used to support medical negligence related legal claims.

Preparing AI policies

Reviewing AI tools used by a global brand agency and preparing an AI policy to support compliant and ethical deployment

EU AI Act

Supporting clients with strategies for compliance with the EU AI Act, including risk classification and governance structures

Contracts and compliance

Helping scaling businesses establish the contractual and compliance foundations needed to expand AI‑driven products and services

FAQs

AI raises regulatory, contractual, governance, data protection, and cybersecurity considerations. Organisations must understand how their AI systems are classified under relevant laws, ensure data is used lawfully, and put in place clear contractual terms that address IP, liability, and oversight responsibilities. Additional, sector specific requirements may also apply.
We advise on regulatory classifications, documentation, governance structures, and risk management measures required under the EU AI Act and emerging global frameworks. This includes assessing your AI systems, developing compliant processes, and updating procurement and contracting materials.
Yes. We draft and negotiate development agreements, licensing terms, and procurement contracts for both buyers and suppliers of AI solutions. Our work ensures clarity around data rights, IP ownership, performance expectations, liability, and regulatory obligations.
We support scaling companies by helping them create legal frameworks that can adapt as they grow. This includes support with commercial contracts, data protection compliance, and governance arrangements that allow AI enabled products or services to be deployed confidently, and responsibly.
We help organisations understand how AI can be deployed safely in highly regulated or commercially sensitive settings. This includes sectors such as insurance, financial services, healthcare, digital media and brand-driven industries. Our work spans procurement support, reviewing AI tools for suitability, preparing policies for responsible use and developing contractual terms that reflect sector-specific risks and regulatory expectations.

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Qui sommes-nous ?

Pourquoi choisir DAC Beachcroft ?

Nous sommes un cabinet commercial à large assise, au service d'un grand nombre de secteurs, avec un solide héritage dans les domaines de l'assurance, de la santé et de l'immobilier. Nous combinons d'excellentes compétences juridiques et une expertise de pointe en matière d'exécution pour concevoir des solutions
qui répondent aux besoins de nos clients - souvent en utilisant intelligemment la technologie.