WilmerHale represented a consortium of ten major investment banks and other investors, in connection with a strategic financing and licensing transaction for an AI-powered research platform with Aiera, Inc., a company that is developing an LLM that will be based on research content contributed by the investment banks. This was a ground-breaking transaction focused on the development of a common AI-driven research platform that has the potential to change the way sell-side research firms and buy-side research clients deliver and use research products.  

The WilmerHale team consisted of Lisa Firenze, Stephanie Evans, Rob Finkel, Stephanie Nicolas, Ariel Soiffer, Elese Hanson, Helen Park, Martin Braun, Ross Firsenbaum, Franca Harris Gutierrez,  Kirk Nahra, Hartmut Schneider, George Shuster, Meghan Walsh, Kim Wethly, Julie Williams, Itsiq Benizri, Ali Jessani, Ben Kelsey and Gannam Rifkah.