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Crowell & Moring U.K. LLP announced today the addition of a top ranked team of IP lawyers and support staff, led by partners and experienced patent prosecutors and litigators, Dr. Justin Hill and Marie Jansson Heeks. The move strengthens Crowell’s internationally recognized IP practice and broadens the firm’s abilities to advance the interests of intellectual property owners as they seek to grow and innovate. The team joins from Dentons UK & Middle East in London, where Hill served as Co-Head of Intellectual Property.

DataBahn.ai, a leader in AI-powered, security-native data pipeline platforms for modern enterprises, has secured $17 million in Series A funding led by Forgepoint Capital, with participation from S3 Ventures and GTM Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $19 million. Crowell represented Forgepoint Capital, a leading venture capital firm that partners with transformative cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and infrastructure software companies protecting the digital future, in the transaction. The investment will accelerate DataBahn.ai’s product roadmap for agentic AI—autonomous agents that automate data engineering tasks—and support global expansion as the company cements its position as a trusted foundation for enterprise data pipelines. Already trusted by Fortune 50 and Global 2000 organizations, DataBahn.ai’s technology has helped customers reduce telemetry processing costs by over 50%, automate most data engineering workloads, and eliminate blind spots across SIEM, observability, and AI pipelines.

Please join us for the GSCS 2025 Brussels (Global Sustainability and Competitiveness Summit) on Thursday 25 September 2025 where we will share the latest insights and thinking on all things sustainability law and policy, both in Europe and in the USA.

Crowell & Moring Partner Linda Malek, a member of the firm's Health Care and Privacy & Cybersecurity Groups, will be speaking at the Cultivating Research Integrity Summit, taking place on August 4, 2025 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her presentation, "Artificial Intelligence and Research Integrity," will take place at 2:00 PM ET.

Join Crowell & Moring for the International Trademark Association (INTA) Roundtable "Is it Really You? NIL, Deep Fakes, and Personal Branding." Andrew Avsec and Fan Cheng will host a collaborative discussion on Right of Publicity hot topics, including the rise of NIL in athletics, deep fakes, synthetic influencers, and how brand owners can leverage NIL rights to build authentic and resonant campaigns, and the underlying risks.

These ESG claims were purported to be overstated, misleading, or false and unsubstantiated. While these early cases focused on false advertising and consumer protection law violations, recent cases have focused more on misleading ESG funds and investment products, net-zero targets, and carbon-neutral claims, sometimes coordinating claims across jurisdictions including the EU, UK, Australia, and the U.S.

We invite you to join the Health Care Group at Crowell for our Health Care Opportunities, Oversight, Policy, and Strategy (HOOPS) Summer Webinar Series. 

Federal climate policy in the United States is undergoing significant turmoil. But what is happening on the other side of the Atlantic? The European Union continues to pursue policies that address climate change, including through reporting requirements and carbon trading and border taxes. European judges are also seeing more and more litigation related to these and other policies, meaning that court cases are increasingly playing a role in shaping the future direction of European climate policy.