William A. Tanenbaum is a technology, IP, data, and healthcare technology lawyer who represents companies that develop and sell technology and data services and companies that buy technology and use AI and data-driven business models. He is a partner in those practice groups at Moses & Singer LLP. Bill has over 30 years of experience helping clients through disruptive technology cycles, and draws on his experience as a former partner at an IP firm, to negotiate agreements that are comprehensively protective, forward-looking, easy to operationalize and empower data and to devise creative solutions to business problems raised by new technologies and IP challenges.

Bill was named the "Lawyer of the Year" in IT in New York by US News & World Report, served as the youngest president of the International Technology Law Association, and has top-tier legal rankings by researchers who find that he is "well-known and respected" lawyer with a "solid national reputation" "who makes excellent judgment calls" and who is at "the very top of the market" in technology," an "IP Star," a "leading name in AI," a "go-to" lawyer on data, who "knows exactly how to get a deal done" and "brings extremely high integrity, a deep intellect, fearlessness and a practical, real-world mindset to every problem." (Chambers, Who's Who Legal, Best Lawyers in America, and World's Leading IP Strategists). He is a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York’s Task Force on Digital Technologies and the Co-Chair of the Subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence. Bill leads Moses & Singer’s dedicated AI & Data Law Practice Group, which focuses on data as a business asset and making it regulation-ready. In Healthcare, Chambers says his "technology approach and understanding of healthcare is a winning combination."

Representative matters:

NASA, commercialization

Morgan Stanley, IT outsourcing

Johnson & Johnson, digital health

KPMG, IT outsourcing

Bar Association of the City of New York, IP

Hawaii, Washington State, Finland, government IT

Ryder, outsourcing, dispute resolution

Summary judgment in Alice litigation for CLS

Airbus and other aerospace companies, technology, and outsourcing

Costco, established online store in China

Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation, healthcare IT

Gene editing company

USTA and Miami Heat, IT

Practising Law Institute, IT

In AI & Data:

Data issues in M&A, divestitures, and joint development agreements

Data playbooks for corporate law departments

Data licensing, including using his "Decision Rights" paradigm

In Healthcare:

Negotiated complex IT and data agreements for the nation’s largest hospital systems

Advise companies that sell digital healthcare tech

Bill is a graduate of Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa), Cornell Law School (named a notable alumnus), and the Bob Bondurant School of High-Performance Driving.