On June 2, 2026, the White House issued an Executive Order that aims to strengthen U.S. cybersecurity infrastructure through AI-enabled defenses while maintaining the administration’s permissive regulatory environment for AI development. The Order imposes a series of short-term action items on federal agencies intended to improve the nation’s posture on cybersecurity and creates a voluntary framework for collaboration between the government and private AI developers.

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Photo of Kieran Dwyer Kieran Dwyer

Kieran Dwyer advises cloud providers and technology companies on technology transactions and partnerships, product development, artificial intelligence (AI), and regulatory compliance. He works with businesses across software, telecommunications, consulting, health care, financial services, and energy industries, working closely with go‑to‑market, product, and partner…

Kieran Dwyer advises cloud providers and technology companies on technology transactions and partnerships, product development, artificial intelligence (AI), and regulatory compliance. He works with businesses across software, telecommunications, consulting, health care, financial services, and energy industries, working closely with go‑to‑market, product, and partner teams. Kieran’s practice covers cloud agreements, strategic partnerships, AI development and deployment, privacy and data protection, competition law, cybersecurity, digital advertising, software and open-source licensing, IT outsourcing, and international expansion. He also engages with regulators on matters involving data use, technology interoperability, and competition, including inquiries by data protection authorities, the FTC, and U.S. congressional and agency staff.

On the commercial side, Kieran structures and negotiates cloud services agreements, channel and resale arrangements, strategic collaborations, and product co‑development engagements. He has experience developing contracting frameworks tailored to regulated industries and partner ecosystems. Kieran has led teams in negotiating multiple strategic deals valued at more than $1 billion, spanning industries such as telecommunications, financial services, automotive, logistics and supply chain, payments, and sports and media. That work includes product development initiatives involving 5G network architectures, intelligent vehicle data platforms, cybersecurity, large‑scale application migrations, and data analytics.

Kieran has been advising clients on AI since 2017. He supports AI and machine learning service launches, including drafting service terms, developing responsible AI policies, and advising on marketing and privacy compliance. In addition to his legal and advisory work, Kieran brings experience as a business executive, having led AI adoption for an organization of more than 6,000 employees. He was responsible for AI productivity and change management initiatives, and working closely with engineering teams on the design and development of AI tools.

Kieran counsels clients on privacy, data protection, and competition compliance with a focus on global sales and marketing activities. He has led in-house privacy teams and designed global privacy compliance programs for GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, and dozens of other data protection regimes around the globe. He has also guided responses to U.S. congressional, FTC, and EU agency inquiries regarding data practices.

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Photo of Andrew (A.J.) Tibbetts Andrew (A.J.) Tibbetts

Leveraging his technical proficiency and prior software engineering career, Andrew (A.J.) Tibbetts provides business-oriented IP legal counseling for software, AI and electronics-based technologies. His strategic approach incorporates open source practices and trade secret policies alongside patents, and he advises clients on licensing, enforcement…

Leveraging his technical proficiency and prior software engineering career, Andrew (A.J.) Tibbetts provides business-oriented IP legal counseling for software, AI and electronics-based technologies. His strategic approach incorporates open source practices and trade secret policies alongside patents, and he advises clients on licensing, enforcement, diligence, and defense against infringement accusations. A.J.’s patents have directly led to clients closing funding rounds, and software patents A.J. wrote for clients have survived PTAB invalidity challenges and been enforced against competitors. He co-authored influential amicus briefs cited favorably by the U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Court of Appeals relating to patentability of software.

A.J. counsels traditional software and electronics companies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) across a variety of domains, networking/telecom/CDN, fintech (including market data and infrastructure), blockchain and distributed ledger tech, speech recognition, natural language processing, and more. As “software eats the world,” a growing number of companies look to A.J. for advice protecting new investments in software and data science, including life sciences, biopharma, medtech, medical devices, radiology, digital health, health care IT, and healthtech companies. A.J. advises a broad clientele, from multinational corporations to small enterprises, serves on the boards of MassMEDIC and HealthTech Build, as well as on a digital health advisory panel for MassBio.

Prior to his legal career, A.J. worked as a programmer for IBM/Lotus, contributing to the development of Lotus Notes. He also served for several years as the lead developer for a sales analytics tool, overseeing its end-to-end implementation, including planning, coding, documentation, testing, and roll-out.

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Photo of Robert Mangas Robert Mangas

Rob is a shareholder in the firm’s Federal Government Law & Policy group. He has represented clients before Congress and federal agencies from a variety of industries and in multiple policy areas, including trade, energy, environment, health care, biotechnology, transportation, financial services, information…

Rob is a shareholder in the firm’s Federal Government Law & Policy group. He has represented clients before Congress and federal agencies from a variety of industries and in multiple policy areas, including trade, energy, environment, health care, biotechnology, transportation, financial services, information technology, artificial intelligence, manufacturing, tax, education, pensions, defense, and foreign relations. Rob has a depth of understanding of the rules of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and he has deep experience in legislative drafting. He previously served as chief of staff to U.S. Senator Wendell Ford, the former Senate Majority Whip.

Rob is a member of the firm’s Tariff Task Force, a multidisciplinary initiative that draws on the firm’s global platform to guide our clients through what comes next in regards to tariffs, including tariff refund matters, tax, litigation, and M&A activity spurred by these global shifts.

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Photo of Reena Bajowala Reena Bajowala

Reena R. Bajowala has deep experience in artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, data privacy, and information technology law. With advanced certifications as a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), a Certified Information Privacy Professional U.S. Private-Sector (CIPP/US), and a Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT), and…

Reena R. Bajowala has deep experience in artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, data privacy, and information technology law. With advanced certifications as a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), a Certified Information Privacy Professional U.S. Private-Sector (CIPP/US), and a Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT), and being named a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, Reena is a trusted advisor to clients navigating complex privacy and cybersecurity challenges. Her leadership extends to her role as Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Business Law Section’s Cyber and Tech Committee and serving on the Steering Committee of the U.S. Secret Service’s Chicago Cyber Fraud Task Force. Reena was previously selected as a 2021-2023 Fellow of the ABA BLS’s Cyberspace Law Subcommittee.

Reena helps companies stand up AI governance programs, including creating policies, procedures, disclosures, vendor management, and trainings for a defensible compliance program. She drafts agreements for companies that are developing and/or deploying AI tools. She keeps up to date on AI legislation and regulatory enforcement domestically and globally. She has helped regulated companies institute programs that navigate complexities of existing privacy regulation and artificial intelligence laws.

When faced with a data breach, including in business email compromise, ransomware, or wire transfer fraud scenarios, clients turn to Reena to investigate, remediate, and comply with legal obligations. She conducts risk assessments, develops privacy and InfoSec compliance programs, and leads proactive incident response planning, including developing incident response and communications plans, and conducting executive tabletop exercises. Reena helps regulated entities comply with cybersecurity requirements.

Reena’s compliance and investigation guidance is informed by her historical wide-ranging litigation and trial experience, including over 100 days of first-chair trial experience. She continues to represent buyers and providers of IT services regarding issues ranging from billing and performance disputes arising from Master Services Agreements and Service Level Agreements to copyright and licensing disputes pursuant to Software Licensing and SaaS agreements in pursuing pre-litigation resolutions, working with the Firm’s experienced litigators as needed to pursue formal claims. Reena also works to protect the interests of companies during software audits.

Reena has been widely recognized for her leadership and pro bono work. She has been named a “cornerstone” of SABA North America, a “best under 40” by NAPABA, and a “powerful and influential woman” by the Illinois Diversity Council. Her dedication to justice has earned her accolades from organizations such as the Shriver Center on Poverty Law and the Public Interest Law Initiative. In 2005, she founded the University of Michigan Law School’s Origins Public Interest Fellowship, which has provided hundreds of thousands of dollars of funding to public interest students.

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