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Where law meets the stack.

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Embedded Systems Safety

Counsel at the intersection of functional safety standards and product liability — ISO 26262, ISO 21448 SOTIF, and UL 4600 for automotive and safety-critical embedded electronics.

ISO 26262SOTIFUL 4600Product Liability

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Automotive Cybersecurity

ISO/SAE 21434 compliance, UNECE R155 type approval, and CIRCIA incident reporting obligations across the automotive supply chain.

ISO 21434UNECE R155CSMSCIRCIA

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Electronics Safety

Counsel for safety-critical E/E/PE systems under IEC 61508, AI-powered on-board electronics, and ISO 42001 AI governance across industrial, medical, and infrastructure domains.

IEC 61508ISO 42001AI SafetyEU AI Act

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Aviation

FAA compliance for UAS manufacturers and BVLOS operators, Remote ID obligations, and aircraft title and lien searches in cross-border transactions.

BVLOS / UASRemote IDFAAAircraft Title

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Technology IP

Invention triage, patent portfolio management, trade secret strategy, and open-source license compliance for embedded systems and software companies.

PatentsTrade SecretsOpen SourceSBOM

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Privacy & Cybersecurity

GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and SEC cybersecurity disclosure for technology companies with connected products, automotive telematics, and cross-border data obligations.

GDPRCCPASEC DisclosureIoT Privacy

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Start-up Advisory

Entity selection, IP assignment, Series A preparation, and outside general counsel for technology founders building engineering-intensive businesses.

Entity FormationOutside GCSeries AIP Assignment

Your lawyers shouldn't need a translator.

Most legal counsel advises your legal team, leaving engineers and product managers to interpret and implement alone. guibert.law works directly with your technical leaders, in the language they use, at the depth they expect.

With 30 years of engineering leadership across embedded systems, automotive electronics, and software-defined products, combined with formal legal training and professional certifications in functional safety and cybersecurity, this practice understands the full stack.

Engineering-fluent counsel

ISO 26262 / ISO 21434 certified. Your HARA, TARA, and FMEA are not a foreign language here.

Outsourced general counsel

Full-spectrum legal coverage without the overhead of an in-house team.

Start-up to scale

From entity formation and IP strategy to SEC filings and international expansion.

Nicolas Guibert de Bruet, Attorney at Law and Technology Consultant

Three disciplines.
One counsel.

Nicolas Guibert de Bruet has worked as a technical expert and engineering manager in the electronics and software industry for three decades, leading globally distributed teams on projects spanning connected vehicles, electric propulsion, and computer vision systems for autonomous driving safety electronics.

After earning his Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School and being admitted to the State Bar of Michigan, he built a practice that uniquely combines deep engineering expertise with full legal capability, advising clients who need counsel that can meet them where the engineering decisions are made.

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Embedded & Safety

Beyond ISO Numerology: The Layered Architecture of Trust in Modern Electronics

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