Commercial lawyers often treat an IP assignment as one of the cleanest transactions in private law. The assumption is that rights move, consideration changes hands, and the parties walk away with no residual obligations. The drafting tends to be sparse because the subject matter—intellectual property—is intangible, conceptual, and seemingly exempt from the rules governing ordinary commercial goods. That assumption is wrong. And in many transactions, dangerously so. For exampl

Artificial intelligence is no longer simply a “tech feature”—it is now infrastructure subject to legal regimes, across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously. For companies building AI systems or deploying them internationally, the compliance challenge is real, urgent, and unavoidable. Below is a contextualised overview of four key jurisdictions: the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. The European Union: Binding regulation, lifecycle obligations

In recent decades, the global economic landscape has undergone a significant transformation. This shift has seen a move away from...