Paul Hastings Launches Technology Transactions Platform With Addition of Market-Leading Partner in AI and Disruptive Technologies

NEW YORK – Paul Hastings LLP today announced that Chambers-ranked technology lawyer Amir Ghavi has joined the firm as a partner in New York to launch a destination global Technology Transactions practice.

Ghavi is a leading authority at the forefront of technology and intellectual property, with a profound understanding of AI and other disruptive technologies. He advises broadly across the technology ecosystem, including representing leading AI foundation model developers and corporations adopting AI on product development and counseling, data procurement, AI governance and strategy, regulatory and government affairs, IP and M&A matters. Significantly, his work has included representing AI model developers as defendants in multiple AI litigations that raise issues of first impression around copyright related to AI technology. He joins from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, where he served as the co-head of the same practice.

“Amir was highly recommended to us by our shared clients. His reputation in the market and his exceptional industry knowledge will help establish Paul Hastings as a technology transactions leader,” said firm Chair Frank Lopez. “Amir is reflective of our focus on attracting premier talent in areas where we believe we can increase our market share with our clients and in parts of the legal sector that provide an opportunity for meaningful growth driven by industry trends.”

Beyond his disruptive technology practice, Ghavi is experienced in advising a wide spectrum of technology transactions, such as corporate and asset acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings and financings; IP-centric joint ventures; data use and licensing; software development; and digital transformation. His technology-focused clients include G42, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Snowflake, T-Mobile, Mistral AI, Cohere, Liquid AI, Palantir and Infosys.

“I look forward to collaborating with the exceptional corporate and IP lawyers at Paul Hastings to build a best-in-class Technology Transactions practice dedicated to serving clients worldwide,” said Ghavi. “This also provides an opportunity for my clients to benefit from the remarkable talent that the firm continues to attract on its incredible trajectory — and I’m delighted to be a part of that story.”

Ghavi is also a lecturer at Cornell Tech and MIT Sloan School of Management, where he teaches seminars on AI and the law. He is a frequent speaker, panelist and media commentator and resource on matters involving AI, digital assets and quantum computing.

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