1. BUILDING THE LEGAL KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
FOR SMART COMPLIANCE SERVICES IN
MULTILINGUAL EUROPE
www.lynx-project.eu
3 Business Cases on top of the
Lynx Legal Knowledge Graph
Webinar 2, January 14th 2021

2. Agenda
• The Lynx project - 5’
Elena Montiel Ponsoda, Lynx project lead, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• Geothermal Energy Compliance, DNV GL - 15’
Pieter Verhoeven, Senior Consultant / Digital Innovation Manager at DNV GL
• Contract Analysis Pilot, Cybly - 15’
Christian Sageder, Managing Director at Cybly GmbH
• Labor Law Pilot, Cuatrecasas - 15’
Pascual Boil, Consultancy and Applications Director at Cuatrecasas
Elsa Gomez, ECM Applications Responsible at Cuatrecasas
• Questions & Answers - 10’
Moderation: Martin Kaltenboeck, Co-Founder & CFO of Semantic Web Company

3. The Lynx project
ICT14-2016-2017 (IA) Innovation action
Pillar: Industrial Leadership
Work Programme Year: H2020-2016-2017
Work Programme Part: Information and Communication Technologies
TOPIC : Big Data PPP: cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data integration and
experimentation
Duration: 40 months
Starting date: 1st December 2017
Estimated Project Cost: €3,638,065.00
Requested EU Contribution: €2,959,247.52
Project Officer: Johan BODENKAMP/Pierre-Paul SONDAG

5. Our Aim

6. Our Mission
Smart services
to better manage
compliance
LKG of
European legal
and regulatory
open data
Multilingual and
multijurisdictional
data

7. Our Pilots
Contracts Analysis Labour LawGeothermal Energy

8. Lynx Pilot 1 Geothermal Energy
About the LYNX use case
Energy transition as umbrella a theme:
• Technology adoption can be accelerated or
constrained by legislation and regulation
• Energy transition will require policy
advancements by al EU and all its member
countries
• Emerging information technologies can also
help knowledge an information sharing on
adjacent themes like environmental and safety
risk
About DNV GL
• Global assurance and risk management expert
• Vision to tackle global transformations, such
as energy transition
• Sectors: Maritime, Power & renewables and
Oil & Gas.
• Visit www.dnvgl.com/energy-transition to learn
more about our expert forecast of the most
likely energy future through to 2050, modeling
10 regions and the impact on 3 industry
sectors

9. What is Geothermal Energy?
Geothermal energy is thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth. A
geothermal energy plant actively injects water into wells to be heated and
pumped back out. This energy can be consumed directly (heating and
cooling) or converted in electricity
Image credits: Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (2014)

10. Geothermal Energy Plants
Image source: IRENA (2017), IRENA Project Navigator – Technical Concept Guidelines for Geothermal Power Projects, International Renewable
Energy Agency, Abu Dhabi

11. Geothermal Energy use case
How can we help geothermal energy practitioners to get an instant overview of regulatory information (e.g.
permits) based on their task at hand?
• Search, based on keyword
• Recommender, based on input document (PDF or TXT)

12. Demo

13. Summary
We believe Knowledge Graphs technology can add value by connecting Information fragmented by
language, jurisdiction and domains
Acceleration and adoption of emerging sustainable energy alternatives is a promising use case given the
transition required
Single point of access to relevant regulatory information and industry best practices helps mitigating
regulatory, safety and environmental risks
For more information on this use case visit https://lynx-project.eu/publications/deliverables
or get in touch with us via pieter.verhoeven@dnvgl.com

14. Contracts
Christian Sageder

15. Pilot - Contracts
Develop process-oriented, integrated IT solutions for legal,
finance and compliance and all other areas with a legal or
regulatory background
Customized digitalization of entire legal processes

16. Pilot - Contracts
• Unmanageable number of documents, less and less time to
perform tasks
• Only a minimal dataset is stored for automatic processing
• No information about: Sensitive clauses e.g. Termination clauses, Index
clause, SLA clauses
• Document hierarchy, e.g. main contracts, amendments, …
• Ever increasing number of laws,
new decisions / changes in law
• Which contracts are affected?
• increase in risk, decrease in quality,
high internal & external costs

17. Pilot - Contracts
• How can we help companies to get an instant overview?
• Automated contract processing
• Automated linking of contract related documents
• Alert to relevant changed laws, regulations and case law
• Input for contract production / changes
• Passing information back to existing systems
• With this solution we are helping our customers to gather
more knowledge over their contracts
-> winning efficiency, increase quality and reducing risk

18. Pilot - Contracts

19. Demo

20. Labour Law
Pascual Boil, Elsa Gómez

21. ABOUT
Tax
Corporate/M&A
Administration
Finance
Litigation and
Arbitration
Competition
IP/IT Capital Markets
Labor and
Employment
Award for most innovative firm
in “Managing and Developing
Talent”
FT Innovative Lawyers, 2019
Award for most innovative law
firm in the "Strategy &
changing behaviours“ category
FT Innovative Lawyers, 2018

22. 22
Knowledge
& experience
Law firm of the year
Forbes, 2019

23. * Our offices in Casablanca, Luanda and Maputo work in collaboration with local firms.
Flexible international
network
Offices in Beijing, Brussels,
Casablanca*, London,
Luanda*, Maputo*, New
York and Shanghai
5 international desks
European network
with leading law firms in
France, Germany and Italy
23
Local expertise, unique methodology
and shared global resources to guarantee
specialized, personal advice for each client.
Maximum presence
on the Iberian
Peninsula
14 offices in Spain and
2 in Portugal
LATAM focus
Offices in Chile,
Colombia, Mexico and
Peru.
Over 20 years’
experience in the Latin
American market.
Crossborder
vision

24. LABOR LAW. HIGHLIGHTS
• Problem space
• fragmented landscape of sources (legislation and regulations) in
multiple languages (in the labour domain)
• changing regulation
• Solution space
• demonstrate how search and Q&A can help the user to find the
correct answer to a legal question

25. LABOUR LAW - USE CASE
We are an Iberian law firm but with global/international
coverage for our customers
• Business are global, our customers are global but we
have different languages and also different country laws
• 2 main use cases:
• (internal – our lawyers) We as a international law firm participate in
global acquisitions (M&A) or geographic expansion
• (external – customers) We have big/global customers with
international coverage
• What are the main differences between countries?
• How are the equivalent norms there?

26. TARGET USERS
• For the internal use case …
• Cuatrecasas’ “junior” labour lawyers involved in international
operations
• For the external/customer use case …
• In-house lawyer or business executive from international companies
• But also interesting for big corporations, non-international but with
complex internal regulations and agreements, involving several
divisions and industries (large groups)…

27. EXAMPLE OF QUESTIONS LIST

28. THE SOLUTION
Legal
questions
(in natural
language)
Legal
answers
(direct texts
from the law)

29. THE SOLUTION
Legal
questions
(in natural
language)
Legal
answers
(direct texts
from the law)

30. Demo

31. Lynx Webinar Series
• Webinar 1: Lynx overall introduction
When: 10.12.2020, 10.30am CET (1 hour)
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiamvjcw-ljxZla9M2Cjzeg
• Webinar 2: 3 Business Cases on top of the Lynx Legal Knowledge Graph
When: 14.1.2021, 10.30am CET
Recording: to be announced soon
• Webinar 3: The Lynx Services Platform (LySP) - Part 1: Overview
When: 11/02/2021, 11.30am CET
Registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5556043772288317453
• Webinar 4: The Lynx Services Platform (LySP) - Part 2: The Services
When: 18/02/2021, 10.30am CET
Registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6255506890391068941
• Final Event: Lynx - Compliance made easy
When: 17/03/2020; 09.30 - 12.00pm CET
Registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1747701631044349709

32. CONTACTS
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