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  • Jeff Cox Named 125th President of the Dayton Bar Association

    DAYTON, OH — June 3, 2026 – Jeff Cox was installed on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, as the 125th President of the Dayton Bar Association.  Jeff is a partner at Faruki PLL, a complex business litigation boutique, with offices in Dayton and Cincinnati, Ohio.  Jeff is the third partner of the firm to lead the...

  • When you can’t trust the evidence: deepfakes force a forensic reckoning in Dublin

    Editor’s Note: Deepfakes have moved from novelty to operational threat, and a standing-room session at the Dublin Tech Summit on Thursday made the stakes plain: the forensic test that has governed digital evidence for 30 years no longer settles the question. HaystackID’s John Wilson and Jeff Shapiro walked a packed room through the 2024 Arup...

  • Ireland’s AI regulator role gets a hard look at Dublin Tech Summit

    Editor’s Note: AI, privacy and policy experts put a number on Ireland’s AI ambition, and a price tag on it. On the main stage early on day one of the Dublin Tech Summit, a law-firm partner, OpenAI’s Irish chief and a former Twitter policy head agreed the country is positioned to lead AI governance, then...

  • HaystackID brings AI privacy and discovery stack to Dublin as European compliance pressure mounts

    Editor’s Note: European enterprises are walking into a regulatory year unlike any other. The EU AI Act currently lists Aug. 2, 2026, for Annex III high-risk obligations, subject to a pending Digital Omnibus delay to Dec. 2, 2027. NIS2 transposition and early enforcement activity are underway, DORA has been live since January 2025, and GDPR...

  • High Risk AI System Guidance Published

    Last week the European Commission published long awaited draft guidance on classifying high-risk AI systems under Article 6 of the EU AI Act (the Guidance). The draft Guidance is currently open for public consultation until 23 June 2026.  The Guidance is aimed at providers, deployers and market surveillance authorities. It focuses exclusively on classification (i.e....

  • Key Points from the AI Omnibus Deal

    The Council of the EU has announced that a provisional agreement has been reached on proposed measures to amend the EU AI Act with the aim of streamlining rules and facilitating compliance. Whilst the full text of the proposal has not yet been published, we outline below the key points which have been announced.  High-risk...

  • Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory report: January - March 2026

    Welcome to the January – March 2026 issue of our Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory report for asset management and investment funds. This quarter brings a significant range of developments across both Irish and EU frameworks: Central Bank developments across tokenisation, prohibition notice procedures and its Regulatory and Supervisory Outlook for the year ahead. Streamlined procedures for AIFMD II / CP161 162 filings for existing Irish UCITS and AIFs, as well as for AIFMs performing loan origination and the finalisation of EU liquidity management rules. Wider EU reforms across EMIR 3, venture and growth capital funds, benchmarks regulation and sustainability reporting. Key dates for 2026 - 2027, covering AIFMD II, ESG ratings, the EU single AML rulebook and the move to T+1 settlement.

  • Mid April 2026 Reincorporation Update

    With proxy season getting underway, I’m sharing the updated list since my post about this in March. We have another 6 companies added to the list since March 23, a rate of about two companies a week. Five announced departure plans were from Delaware and one from Ireland. In terms of destinations, four companies announced...

  • Bloodlines, Beneficiaries, and the Black Stuff: How Sir Benjamin Guinness’s Estate Plan Preserved a Dynasty—and What It Teaches Us About Modern Succession Law

    In the Netflix series House of Guinness, the reading of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness’s will serves as a pivotal moment in the narrative: Heirs are divided, fortunes are threatened, and the brewing empire appears poised for collapse. This fictionalized portrayal transforms history into a spectacle fit for television, depicting a will riddled with emotional manipulation that...

  • Legitimate interest in practice: EDPB report on one stop shop decisions applying legitimate interest

    Last year the European Data Protection Board commissioned me to write a report on legitimate interest as part of the series of One Stop Shop thematic digests and I’m delighted that this has now been published. The report surveys every publicly available OSS decision applying legitimate interest as a legal basis, finding a significant number of...