Michelle Luo is a member of the Technology Transactions, Intellectual Property, and Data, Cyber + Privacy Groups. She advises global companies on the legal issues arising from the development, procurement, deployment, and commercialization of technology, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence (AI), data protection, cybersecurity, digital regulation, and commercial contracts.

She has experience advising organizations on their regulatory and compliance requirements, including in relation to:

• data protection laws (e.g., regarding cross-border data transfers, privacy policies, cookie compliance, and individual rights requests);
• the EU AI Act (e.g., conducting risk analyses and helping clients with their AI governance and product development processes);
• cybersecurity laws (e.g., assessing applicability and compliance with UK Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulations and EU cyber regulations, such as NIS2 Directive, Critical Entities Resilience Directive, and Cyber Resilience Act, and assisting with registration); and
• online safety and consumer regulations (e.g., advising on risk assessments and age assurance requirements under the UK Online Safety Act).

Michelle also assists with commercial negotiations of services agreements, IP development and assignment agreements, and SaaS-based and software licensing agreements. She has a particular focus on addressing the commercial, IP, data protection, liability, and other legal consequences of AI technology in the context of commercial agreements. She has worked on a wide range of technology-based commercial arrangements (such as drafting online terms of use and other digital agreements supporting clients’ channels to market). And she has worked extensively on the IP, IT, data-related, and commercial contracts aspects of M&A transactions.

Michelle actively contributes to MoFo’s pro bono initiatives by supporting a number of charities with their commercial agreements and privacy obligations, as well as supervising free legal advice sessions on IP, technology, and commercial issues.

Michelle studied jurisprudence at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford and subsequently completed her M.Sc. with distinction in law, business, and management at the University of Law. She is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales.