She also advises clients on a broad range of transactional law issues, specializing in banking and finance. Her expertise includes extensive knowledge and use of various types of legal technologies, including AI, document automation and deal management platforms. Her legal background covers the full spectrum of secured and unsecured corporate debt finance, as well as other transaction matters.

Karen played a key role in developing A&O Shearman’s proprietary, generative AI-powered contract drafting and negotiation tool, ContractMatrix, which is used internally by thousands of A&O Shearman lawyers, as well as licensed to clients. ContractMatrix, which is based on GPT technology, was developed in partnership with Microsoft and Harvey, making A&O Shearman the first ever law firm to collaborate with Microsoft to develop a software product. Karen was also involved in the firm-wide deployment of Harvey, the OpenAI-backed large language model (LLM) that has been fine-tuned for law, in December 2022, which made A&O Shearman the first firm in the world to deploy generative AI at enterprise level.

Karen is also part of a cross-practice group that advises businesses on the safe deployment of AI and leads our teams on the deployment of AI for lending. To this end she has developed customized AI tools that are able to review pools of loans for transfer and beyond. Additionally, Karen is part a team associated with the implementation of EU Directive 2024/1619 (known as “CRD VI”) and has developed proprietary AI tools which provide AI workflows for review and outreach associated therewith.

Karen is admitted to practice in New York and received a BS from Fordham University and her JD from Fordham University School of Law.