David’s key AI advisory credentials include:
Member of the Policy Steerco for, and legal advisory to, Partnership on AI, the global AI organisation that sets standards around responsible AI deployment by businesses around the world and informs the standards for regulation of AI.
Established and leads A&O Shearman’s AI Working Group, through which a syndicate of more than 70 global clients (including numerous G-SIFIs) receives syndicated advice on substantive legal questions and issues affecting businesses deploying generative AI (see further below).
Advising a UK-based G-SIFI on their generative AI strategy, with advice spanning the design and build of an AI risk assessment tool for triaging AI use cases, AI use policies, AI vendor risk assessment tools, and a range of generative AI license agreements.
Assisted global pharma company in designing and drafting AI policies, including policies on AI use, AI development, and AI licensing, and advising on how these fit within broader AI governance framework.
Assisted global pharma company in updating global information security policy to reflect use of AI systems by internal personnel and by third party vendors, as well as to incorporate latest cybersecurity standards.
Designed and built a global risk assessment system for global pharma company covering key areas of focus for risk control functions when assessing proposed AI use cases.
David’s key legal tech credentials include:
Creation of various technology solutions, including ContractMatrix, IBORMatrix, BrexitMatrix and MarginMatrix™, each of which represented an innovation in the legal tech space. For example, MarginMatrix™ is an online regulatory compliance tool, and involved a joint venture with Deloitte to help several global banks with the negotiation of thousands of contracts which have been auto generated by the system. Margin Matrix was ranked "Standout" in the FT Innovative Lawyer Awards.
He also created Default Management, an online tool which helps manage major counterparty defaults, and OpinionNet, an on-line tool for the delivery of netting opinions. These were ranked "highly commended" and "commended" (respectively) in the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards.
David’s key industry leader credentials include:
Member of the Policy Steerco for Partnership on AI, the global AI organisation that sets standards around responsible AI deployment by businesses around the world and informs the standards for regulation of AI.
Established and leads A&O Shearman’s AI Working Group, through which a syndicate of more than 70 global clients (including numerous G-SIFIs) receives syndicated advice on substantive legal questions and issues affecting businesses deploying generative AI (see further below).
Created and chaired industry initiatives and working groups relating to various large-scale challenges, most recently with respect to the transition away from LIBOR and other interest rates. David has advised financial institutions at an industry and individual level on issues relating to LIBOR, including as an advisor on the UK FCA Tough Legacy Task Force. David also helped design the governance around a new interest rate, working with the central bank and the industry participants of a major Middle Eastern country.
Advised leading financial institutions, both individually and as an industry, on their Eurozone crisis contingency planning and on banking crises in Greece, Portugal and Cyprus.
