Binder Law & Strategy

Artificial Intelligence

We are an AI-native firm, and we represent the companies building and deploying artificial intelligence — along with the investors backing them. Our focus is the work an AI company actually needs from corporate counsel: forming the entity and structuring founder equity, raising capital through SAFEs and priced rounds, and negotiating the commercial and licensing agreements at the center of an AI business — customer contracts, technology and data licenses, and the provisions that allocate risk around training data, model inputs, and AI-generated outputs.

We also help companies put practical AI governance in place: acceptable-use policies, contractual guardrails for the responsible use of AI tools, and the diligence questions that arise when AI technology is acquired, licensed, or sold in a transaction. The aim is to let clients move quickly and capitalize on the technology while managing the real risks that come with it. Where a matter calls for specialized patent prosecution or in-depth privacy and regulatory work, we coordinate with trusted specialists so that the corporate and commercial strategy stays coherent and cost-effective.

This is counsel informed by transactional experience at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Taft Law, delivered with the efficiency of a practice that uses modern tools and AI in its own work, providing sophisticated advice when and where it matters.

National in scope, led personally. While Binder Law is based in the Midwest and active in the region's growing technology community, our work with AI and emerging-technology companies is national in scope.* Every engagement is led by a senior attorney with elite law firm experience — Nick Binder — who is personally involved in all aspects of the engagement.

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* Nick Binder is licensed to practice law in Michigan. The firm advises clients nationally on matters of federal law, Delaware corporate law, and transactions not requiring local bar admission; where local-law advice or local admission is required, we will associate with appropriately licensed counsel.