11 Jul, 2024 The Brussels effect? Impact of the EU’s AI Act – in the EU and beyond By Alex Roberts Tanguy Van Overstraeten Kris Ekdahl Ieuan Jolly +1 more... Show less The EU has been the global leader in the regulation of AI, starting with its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This regulation...
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...
15 Aug, 2023 China seeks to grease the wheels of its economy with data-related initiatives By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke Ruoyi Lu With repeated talk of decoupling in some of world’s most high-profile boardrooms, the mainland Chinese government on Sunday took steps to...
03 Jul, 2023 I spy China with my little eye By Alex Roberts Ruoyi Lu Top 3 data-related risks for H2 Our China team is increasingly fielding questions and being asked to advise on substantive projects by...
26 Jun, 2023 Restricting outbound investment in key technologies By Christoph Barth Jonathan Gafni A lot has been written (including by us) about the rise and expansion of FI regimes that regulate inbound investments by foreign...
12 Jan, 2023 A new year and three new reports for the Tech Sector: Tech Legal Outlook 2023, Fintech Legal Outlook 2023 and Crypto & DeFi By Jennifer Calver Clare Murray As the tech sector faces up to big challenges in 2023, our global cross disciplinary tech and fintech teams have produced three new...
16 Sep, 2022 CFIUS Executive Order’s aggregate analysis standard raises questions about transparency and challenges for parties evaluating CFIUS risk By Jonathan Gafni On September 15, President Biden issued Executive Order 14083, using his authority under Section 721(f)(11) of the Defense Production Act...
30 Jun, 2022 The outlook for US-China tech rivalry By Alex Roberts Global markets continue to be impacted by rulemaking that seeks to decouple the US and China’s technological dependences. However, it...
21 Jun, 2022 US-China Tech: Between an IT rock and a hard place By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke Report to whom? Competing security vulnerability rules of the US and China On 26 May 2022, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)...
09 Jun, 2022 China in the spotlight: US federal data and privacy bill unveiled By Alex Roberts Tiantian Ke From an explicit namecheck to provisions that suggest China is a regulatory influencer, links between the US and China remain evident in...
03 May, 2022 China lockdown leeks – more data- than vegetable-related By Alex Roberts Key drafter reveals internal re-cut of Guideline for Identification of Critical Data As Shanghai and 86 of China’s other 100 largest...
21 Jan, 2022 China’s standard bearers flag what data is critical. Almost. By Alex Roberts On 13 January, the National Information Security Standardisation Technical Committee of China (or “TC260” to use the catchier title of...
07 Jan, 2022 China’s new year resolution: Supervision of foreign IPOs is a must. Or is it? By Alex Roberts CAC releases final form of revised Cybersecurity Review Measures China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (or...
14 Nov, 2021 China tech IPOs to be further funneled onshore? By Alex Roberts Draft Network Data Security Management Regulations were released by the Cyberspace Administration of China on Sunday afternoon for a...
01 Nov, 2021 China’s strict border controls extended to data By Alex Roberts Draft data export security assessment procedures released Almost on the eve of China’s new Personal Information Protection Law coming...
18 Aug, 2021 China kicks the critical information infrastructure can down the road By Alex Roberts 4 years, 1 month and 7 days: the time between the draft of China’s Regulations for the Security Protection of Critical Information...