Technology

The Technology Group at A&L Goodbody is one of the largest tech practices in Europe. We are a market leader, with deep expertise across the broad spectrum of legal areas relevant within the technology sector, including data protection, online platform and content regulation, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, telecoms, intellectual property and commercial contracts. This diverse skill-set, housed within the one team of lawyers, allows us to provide end-to-end legal solutions tailored to the unique challenges faced by the world’s leading technology-driven enterprises.

Located in Dublin, at the heart of Ireland’s EU technology regulation hub, we advise clients at the forefront of innovation and development. As a practice, we are unique in Ireland as our group provides a seamless, comprehensive legal service to our international clients by offering expertise and experience to cover both the contentious and non-contentious aspects of any mandate. Our team is composed of the leading tech advisory and litigation lawyers in Ireland.

We provide strategic advice on product and service developments, help navigate regulatory compliance and mitigate civil litigation risk. We have unmatched experience in managing regulatory engagements with the principal tech regulators at an Irish and EU level. Our services encompass active client representation before key Irish technology regulators, such as the Data Protection Commission, Coimisiún na Meán, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, and the Commission for Communications Regulation, across both supervisory and contentious engagements. At a European level, our regulatory engagement experience includes extensive direct interaction with the European Commission.

Our team has influenced and shaped the legal and regulatory jurisprudence in the “tech reg” area, having been involved in most of the leading cases passing through the Irish Courts over the last 20 years, including high profile successful challenges to Irish regulators before the Court of Justice of the European Union. We are also heavily involved in instances of civil litigation arising as a follow-on from regulatory investigations, including representative actions.

We offer a single point of contact for the entire lifecycle of legal advice required by our clients. Our goal, at all times, is to obtain an in-depth understanding of our clients' products, services, and strategic objectives - so we can deliver premium advice to help our clients achieve their objectives. 

We also utilise our online blog - Techlaw.ie - to provide our views and informative updates on this dynamic area of law.