25 Jun, 2020 Open for investment but not exploitation: UK foreign investment gets a v 2.0 upgrade By Linklaters I've previously written on whether the uptick in the UK Government’s (“Government”) intervention rate was symptomatic of the UK public...
25 Jun, 2020 ICO’s six data protection steps for organisations By Linklaters The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has posted a blog post setting out six key steps for organisations to consider as they come out...
25 Jun, 2020 Objections to facial recognition app in Europe By Linklaters The European Data Protection Board has set out its doubts on the lawfulness of Clearview AI’s facial recognition app in a letter to...
25 Jun, 2020 Should competition authorities enforce the GDPR? By Bernd Meyring Taming tech giants with competition law tools proves a laborious exercise that is full of surprises. The German Supreme Court's Facebook...
23 Jun, 2020 Tech prospers in the pandemic By Niranjan Arasaratnam In this new digital-first economy, it is clear that the most tech-savvy, agile and cash-rich companies can thrive. Covid-19 has...
19 Jun, 2020 Cutting off tech’s nose to spite the West’s strategic face? By Alex Roberts The disruption of Covid-19 is subsiding in many markets (at least for now). Regulators are coming up for air. As predicted in our...
19 Jun, 2020 First UK enforcement cases: price gougers beware By Linklaters Yesterday the UK competition and consumer enforcer: the Competition and Markets Authority, announced its first investigations for...
19 Jun, 2020 Stricter German Foreign Investment Rules Adopted By Christoph Barth Foreign investment rules have been on the rise for a few years but the COVID-19-pandemic as well as recent European initiatives act as a...
18 Jun, 2020 Foreign subsidies: the next gap case By Bernd Meyring Over the last few decades, Europe has focused on consumer benefits from a more and more globalised economy. Imports from countries with...
15 Jun, 2020 German UPC Ratification 2.0 - Can the quick fix be the solution? By Bolko Ehlgen For those who have been following the year-long saga around the UPC, 2020 has already provided several turns of events. First, the UK,...
12 Jun, 2020 New "level playing field" powers for the Commission? By Linklaters In a white paper due to be published on June 17, the Commission will propose new powers for reviewing foreign subsidies. A twin track is...
12 Jun, 2020 5G under scrutiny by “five eyes” but business blinks first By Alex Roberts The British Business Awards 2020 has just been launched by the British Chambers of Commerce here in China. It was great to be able to...
11 Jun, 2020 Paving the way for autonomous vehicles By Danny Greenland Rumours of an Amazon investment into autonomous vehicle start-up Zoox, and a new co-operation agreement between Ford, Volkswagen and Argo...
11 Jun, 2020 A merger ban? Really? By Bernd Meyring The M&A world is getting prepared for the opportunities and readjustments that may arise as valuations and economic outlooks are becoming...
10 Jun, 2020 Rumours and (not so) Little Lies: Disinformation and Covid-19 By Ben Packer The Covid-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a wave of false or misleading information about the origin of the virus, its effects and...
05 Jun, 2020 Where next for commercial space applications? By Danny Greenland For many, SpaceX’s recent launch was an introduction to a new and exciting era of the commercialisation of space, but it was just one...