The EU AI Act was written in Brussels, not in Manhattan. Most NYC advisors translate it from the outside in. I was trained in two EU jurisdictions, spent close to a decade practicing EU regulatory law, and now advise NYC companies from within the US market. That dual position is not a coincidence — it is the reason this practice exists.
I studied law in Romania and Spain, qualified with the Spanish Bar (Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, nº 5961), and spent close to ten years practicing EU regulatory law — with deep work in data protection, immigration and administrative procedure, and more recently AI governance. My training is native to the European regulatory mindset: how a Regulation is structured, how the text is read, which recitals carry interpretive weight, which national authorities set precedent, how enforcement actually moves through member-state markets.
From New York, I now advise companies whose AI systems touch European users, employees, or operations. The advantage is structural. An advisor who learned EU law by reading summaries written for a US audience is translating twice — once from the Regulation to summary, once from summary to the client. I translate once, directly from primary sources, in the professional register they were drafted in.
In practice, this means: Annex IV documentation drafted to the specification that EU market surveillance authorities will actually inspect; Article 9 risk management systems designed around how European regulators think about risk, not around how US compliance teams typically structure risk frameworks; Article 2 scope assessments that do not under-count the extraterritorial reach.
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Where a matter requires US legal representation — a DCWP investigation, an EEOC charge, litigation — clients engage qualified US counsel and I coordinate as the EU AI Act technical lead. This is how global compliance matters are staffed at serious firms: the right person for the European regulation alongside the right person for the US proceeding.
Constantin Răzvan Gospodin Florea is a Spanish-barred lawyer (Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, nº 5961) with legal training in two EU member states and approximately a decade of practice experience in EU regulatory law. He is an IAPP AIGP candidate, author of the Guilty Algorithm blog-as-book on AI regulation in criminal justice and immigration law, and founder of Lexara Advisory LLC.
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