13 Sep, 2024 Roadblocks – when should the essential facilities doctrine apply in EU competition law? By William Leslie Eoin O'Reilly Marilena Nteve Historically, EU competition law has allowed dominant firms to refuse to deal with competitors except in very specific circumstances...
25 Jul, 2024 Focus on critical infrastructure: Hong Kong SAR proposes new cross-sector cybersecurity regime By Albert Yuen Jasmine Yung Eunice Lee Hong Kong is moving closer to releasing an omnibus cybersecurity legislation for critical infrastructure operators (CIO). Based on recent...
19 Jul, 2024 Changing of the guard: What the tech and fintech sectors can expect from the UK's new Labour government By Jennifer Calver Simon Treacy Clare Murray Elton Qemali +1 more... Show less In the Labour Party’s 2024 manifesto, one word stood out more than others: Change. Technology is at the heart of Labour’s industrial...
09 Jul, 2024 Tech Legal Outlook 2024 Mid-Year Update: Driving value from AI By Jennifer Calver Clare Murray Elaine Choo AI is accelerating digital change and it continues to shape the outlook for 2024, bringing disruption and opportunity. But it remains a...
10 Jun, 2024 Europe primed for data centre ABS financing as investment soars By Elisabeth Johnson Patrice Doat Barbara Lauer Global investment in data centres reached $36bn last year with $22bn invested in the first five months of this year alone, according to...
04 Jun, 2024 Powering Up to Go Green: Singapore announces at least 300 megawatts increase in data centre capacity with a focus on green energy - Key takeaways By Ee Ning Low Jia-Yi Tay Adrian Fisher Alaister Johnson +1 more... Show less On 30 May 2024, as part of Singapore’s Green Data Centre Roadmap, Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority announced that...
02 May, 2024 Unlocking opportunities: China introduces new telecom pilot program for foreign investors By Betty Yap Adrian Fisher Niranjan Arasaratnam John Xu Alex Roberts +2 more... Show less In a landmark announcement earlier this month, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) unveiled its latest...
04 Jan, 2024 A new year for the Tech Sector: Tech Legal Outlook 2024 and Fintech & Payments Legal Outlook 2024 By Clare Murray Jennifer Calver Elaine Choo Laura Onyeocha +1 more... Show less In case you missed it, we launched our annual legal outlook series last month. Our global cross-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional...
28 Jul, 2023 China’s Central Bank releases draft data security measures By Colette Pan Alex Roberts Jennifer Wu Ruoyi Lu +1 more... Show less China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China or PBoC, released a set of draft administrative measures on data security management...
11 Jul, 2023 GBA exemption: Is data to become China’s next bubble? By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke Jasmine Yung Ruoyi Lu +1 more... Show less The Cyberspace Administration of China and Hong Kong SAR’s Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau signed an MOU on 29 June 2023 that...
11 May, 2023 TMT M&A Leadership Panel – Where are the deal opportunities in digital infrastructure in Asia? By Niranjan Arasaratnam Alaister Johnson Emerging from a challenging 2022, the question of who will lead investment in the digital infrastructure space in Asia was front and...
19 Jan, 2023 Podcast - ESG in the digital infra space in Asia: In conversation with Control Risks By Alex Roberts In our Tech Legal Outlook 2023, our team talked about how achieving Net Zero will require significant new investment in tech and the...
02 Sep, 2022 Head in the Clouds – The French Competition Authority launches a public consultation as part of its cloud sector inquiry By Daniel Green Anne Dos Following the opening of a sector-wide enquiry on the cloud sector in January 2022 (see our previous blog post), the French Competition...
08 Apr, 2022 UK Space Spectrum Strategy refresh - and what it means for satellite constellation operators By Nicholas Puschman UK Space Spectrum Strategy update - and what it means for satellite constellation operators Ofcom has opened a consultation on an update...
31 Jan, 2022 A promise is a promise: the French Competition Authority launches a market study in the cloud computing sector By Daniel Green Violette Grac-Aubert Following the launch of the market study on the cloud computing sector, although it is hard to predict the outcomes, we expect France's...
04 Nov, 2021 So hot right now: a booming market for data centre investments attracts FI regulatory heat By Linklaters It seems almost every aspect of our home and working lives has an online aspect – a reality following the Covid-19 pandemic that has...