Sophie Laurent-Brecht

Profile

Sophie Laurent-Brecht is counsel in the Brussels office of Corvane Ryle LLP and a member of the firm's Artificial Intelligence practice. She advises developers, deployers and platform businesses on the EU AI Act, the Digital Services Act and related European digital regulation, and on the data protection questions that accompany them under the GDPR.

Sophie works with technology and retail clients to translate new obligations into practical compliance programs, from classifying systems and mapping duties to preparing documentation and engaging with the AI Office and national authorities. Before joining Corvane Ryle she worked in a European regulatory institution.

Her insights include EU AI Act Transparency Duties for Chatbots and Synthetic Content, Green Claims in the EU and EU-US Data Transfers: Stress Testing Your Reliance on the Data Privacy Framework. She also works with the firm's Privacy & Cyber team.

Experience

Sophie Laurent-Brecht's representative matters include the following, many of which are confidential and described in general terms.

• Advised a global software company on its obligations as a provider of general-purpose AI models under the EU AI Act and the voluntary code of practice.
• Counseled Kestrel Systems on the classification of its AI-enabled products under the EU AI Act and the related conformity assessment strategy.
• Advised Halvern Retail Group on transparency obligations for customer-facing chatbots and AI-generated product imagery in the EU.
• Represented Arvelo Health in discussions with a national authority regarding a clinical decision-support tool and its interaction with medical device rules.
• Advised Quillon Payments on the deployment of automated fraud scoring across EU member states, including GDPR rules on automated decision-making.
• Led an EU AI Act readiness program for a multinational consumer products group, covering inventory, risk tiering and vendor contracts.
• Advised Brightmoor Foods on the EU Empowering Consumers Directive and the substantiation of environmental claims.
• Counseled an online marketplace on the Digital Services Act, including risk assessments and trusted flagger arrangements.
• Advised a European media company on text and data mining opt-outs and licensing terms for the use of its archive in model training.
• Represented Meridian Arc Therapeutics on data protection aspects of an AI drug discovery collaboration with a European research institute.
• Advised Tidewater Logistics on the GDPR and AI Act dimensions of warehouse automation and driver monitoring systems.
• Counseled a NYSE-listed technology company on its response to the EU Data Act and cloud switching obligations.
• Advised a bank on the use of generative AI tools by customer service teams across five EU countries.

Qualifications

Bar admissions

• Brussels Bar (French-speaking section, list of EU lawyers)
• Paris Bar

Education

• LLM, European Law, KU Leuven
• Master en droit, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas