Using AI in M&A: A Deal Lawyer's Take on Prompts, Governance, and What Not to Automate

Aaron Binstock has seen both sides. As a Partner at Cooley LLP, he's worked on transactions from sub-million dollar deals to $7B+ exits — and he's been inside Cooley's push to actually build AI into legal practice, not just pilot it and move on. He ran the Innovation Cup that surfaced their real-world use cases. He's watched a tax partner catch an AI error that would have cost a client seven figures. And he's had to build governance protocols for the clients who specifically opt out of AI use.

We'll get into the prompts that work, the ones that blow up, where Buyer-Led M&A™ meets the new reality of AI-assisted diligence, and what the buyer's job looks like when the markup draft arrives in seconds instead of days.

​Live Q&A at the end — bring your deal questions.