ADESANYA AI ADVISORY™
EU AI Act Compliance · AI Governance

The lawyer who
reads code.

Your lawyers wrote the policy. Your engineers built the system. I check that they match — before the EU AI Act does.

Begin in writing → Take the two-minute AI Act assessment
Counting down to enforcement…
The EU AI Act reaches wherever your AI operates — and so do we.
01 · Practice

Six practice areas. One discipline.

01

EU AI Act Readiness

Risk classification, gap assessment, a roadmap. Ready before August 2026.

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02

AI & Technology Contracting

Procurement, licensing, MSAs, SaaS, data transfer. Clauses written for AI, not retrofitted.

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03

AI Governance & Risk

Audit frameworks, policies, incident reporting. A board that is never surprised.

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04

Data Privacy & GDPR

DPIAs and privacy frameworks, aligned to GDPR and AI Act obligations.

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05

IP & Licensing

Technology transfer, patent and trademark licensing, diligence that holds in M&A.

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06

Responsible AI Frameworks

Ethics by design. Operating models that outlast the news cycle.

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02 · The practice

Independent. Deliberate. Dublin.

Adesanya AI Advisory™ is Ireland's specialist EU AI Act compliance advisory — the lawyer who reads code. One principal. No hand-offs. The work arrives finished.

A background in technology, IP and commercial law — LLM in Intellectual Property and IT Law from University College Dublin, with engagements supporting Google and Meta. The practice does one thing: it moves enterprises from paper governance to runtime compliance.

Regulation is not a deadline. It is a discipline.
15+Years in technology, IP and commercial law
4Jurisdictions tracked live — EU, Ireland, US, Nigeria
EU AI ActAdvisory, current to the Digital Omnibus
ISO / IEC 42001AI governance standard, advisory current
03 · The practitioner

Abdulwahab B. Adesanya, LLB, BL, LLM

LLB, BL, LLMLLM · Intellectual Property & IT Law · UCDInt'l Compliance Assoc.

EU AI Act Compliance Specialist · ISO/IEC 42001 AI Governance · MCP Runtime Security. LLB, BL, LLM — with a master's in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law from University College Dublin. Member of the International Compliance Association.

A career grounded in technology, IP and commercial law — engagements supporting Google and Meta, with earlier work at IONA Technologies, Progress Software and Orcawise. LLM in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law, UCD. The rare combination of legal training and technical fluency, now applied to one question: does your governance hold under enforcement — not just on paper?

04 · Engagements

Four ways to begin.

Every engagement begins with a written letter, a defined scope and a fixed or capped fee. No meters running.

01 ★ Most Popular

EU AI Act Readiness Assessment

Risk classification, gap analysis, and a remediation roadmap. Typically two to four weeks. Fixed fee. Ready before 2 August 2026.

Fixed fee · 2–4 wks →
02

AI & Technology Contract Review

Fixed fee per contract, or by the day. Clauses written for AI, not retrofitted from older precedents.

Fixed fee or day rate →
03

AI Governance Programme

Project-based and aligned to ISO/IEC 42001. Governance built to be audited, not just documented.

Project · ISO/IEC 42001 →
04

AI Governance Retainer

A monthly retainer. Advice on hand before the question becomes urgent. One principal, no hand-offs.

Monthly retainer →
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05 · Insights

Notes from the practice.

On the August 2026 transparency deadline, the contract clauses that matter, audit frameworks, and governance built as infrastructure. Written to be read once, and used.

Case Law · Data Protection

Onimisi v. GTCO: what a Nigerian data protection judgment tells every GDPR-regulated company

A court orders a major bank to disclose its data broker sources and declares its direct marketing unlawful. Five things GDPR teams should act on.

Read Governance

The organisations most at risk are not the ones that moved too slowly

Deploying AI without governance architecture is the real exposure.

Read EU AI Act

What the August 2026 deadline means for in-house teams

The obligations landing first — and how to be ready before they bite.

Read Contracting

Five AI-specific clauses every technology contract now needs

Model terms for data use, liability allocation and model provenance.

Read Governance

Building an AI audit framework: where to start

From risk register to incident reporting — an operating model, not a policy PDF.

Read
06 · AI Law & Regulation Radar

The law, watched daily.

A live record of AI legal developments across the EU, Ireland, the United States and Nigeria — courts and bar included. Refreshed daily.

🗞️ Daily Briefing A new page every working day — the developments that matter, briefed in plain English. 📚 Reference Library 42 curated sources — EU AI Act, GDPR, case law, governance frameworks. Annotated with a practitioner's take. ⚖️ Legislation Library Primary texts, regulations, and statutory instruments — the source material behind every advisory engagement.
Refreshed daily
Free Resource

EU AI Act Compliance Checklist

A practical checklist covering all four risk tiers — Prohibited, High-Risk, Transparency, and Minimal — aligned to the 2025/2026 enforcement timeline. Built for General Counsels, CISOs, and AI leads.

  • ✓  Prohibited practices audit (in force Feb 2025)
  • ✓  High-risk conformity assessment checklist
  • ✓  Transparency obligation controls
  • ✓  ISO 42001 governance alignment items

Request the checklist

This checklist is provided as part of an initial written enquiry. Begin in writing and we will include it with our response.

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Interactive Tool

Where does your AI system sit?

Answer a few questions and get a free indicative EU AI Act classification — with the obligations and deadlines that apply. Takes two minutes.

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Step 1
07 · Contact

Start your enquiry.

Write briefly. Say what is on your desk. A reply usually follows within one business day.

  1. Written enquiryComplete the intake form. We respond within one business day.
  2. Scope & feeA written engagement letter. Fixed or capped.
  3. The workFocused delivery, clear checkpoints.
  4. HandoverDeliverables your team can act on.
abdulwahab@adesanyaaiadvisory.com
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