10 Jul, 2024 Games and interactive entertainment legal trends 2024: Mid-year update By Alex Roberts Verity Egerton-Doyle Jennifer Calver At the mid-year point we take stock and refresh our top five trends shaping the legal outlook for games and interactive entertainment....
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...
10 May, 2024 China: Guidelines on data classification and important data identification adopted – highlights and implications By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke On 15 March, the National Cybersecurity Standardisation Technical Committee of China (or TC260, China’s leading committee on technical...
08 May, 2024 Issues for Boards 2024: Steering businesses to success By Jennifer Calver The responsibilities of business leaders and corporate boards have expanded beyond traditional strategic oversight. In an everchanging...
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...
22 Mar, 2024 China: The wait for liberalisation of cross-border data transfers is over! By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke Late September last year, tech and other multinationals with operations in the world’s second largest economy breathed a sigh of relief...
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...
27 Dec, 2023 Not a game: How China’s proposed new games laws will tighten restrictions on online games industry By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke On 22 December, the National Press and Publication Administration of the People’s Republic of China (NPPA) published proposals to further...
18 Dec, 2023 GBA Standard Contract released: An alternative solution to facilitate cross-border data transfer across the Greater Bay Area? By Alex Roberts Jasmine Yung Tiantian Ke Zoe Dong +1 more... Show less On 13 December, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau (ITIB) in Hong Kong SAR...
11 Dec, 2023 Germany’s Future Financing Act - game changer for the start-up scene or too short a leap? By Maximilian Mann Mario Pofahl Oliver Rosenberg Carolin Jost +1 more... Show less The German legislator has passed the Future Financing Act (Zukunftsfinanzierungsgesetz), which promises to modernize outdated legal...
08 Dec, 2023 China: Further opening-up of data exports for Fintechs and other financial services players? By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke Hunter Li On 7 December 2023, Mainland China’s State Council released the ‘Overall Plan for Fully Integrating International High Standard Economic...
23 Nov, 2023 Competition Regulation and Digital Markets - Our 5 Themes in 5 Minutes Report By Verity Egerton-Doyle William Leslie Arthur Peng John Eichlin Jonathan Ford +2 more... Show less In 2023, competition-based regulation of digital markets continued to evolve at pace. The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into force,...
09 Nov, 2023 Merger control and foreign investment issues in Asia M&A By Niranjan Arasaratnam I recently joined my colleague Marcus Pollard, an antitrust and foreign investment partner in our Hong Kong office, on our Asia Bitesize...
31 Aug, 2023 Germany Shares U.S. Concerns over Investments in China By Jonathan Gafni Anna Gooding Ray Hou Austin Lowe +1 more... Show less Recent trends in foreign investment regulation reflect shared concerns on both sides of the Atlantic over diversifying supply chains and...
31 Jul, 2023 Mid-Year Trends in Global M&A Litigation: Digital assets, AI and ESG in the Crosshairs By Joshua Klayman Lev Loukhton Lillian Childress As of mid-year 2023, clear trends in M&A disputes have emerged globally, with disputes involving disruptive technologies and services –...