8/26/2021 3:29:07 PM Non-material damages and the GDPR – Germany By Christoph Werkmeister Philipp Roos Annabelle Hamelin In our global data breach risk report, we covered litigation risk and damages claims across a range of jurisdictions. In a new series of...
8/25/2021 1:41:57 PM Germany’s parliamentary elections: what the parties say on high-speed internet and 5G By Andreas Schuler On 26 September, after 16 years of Angela Merkel and her CDU party (plus different coalition partners) being in power, Germany will elect...
8/23/2021 5:40:47 PM AML Update: Recent Enforcement Actions Demonstrate Continued Focus on Crypto By Olivia Radin Jane Peng Alessandra Scalise Three recent enforcement actions brought by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN),...
8/17/2021 4:06:14 PM ESG x Fintech: how to buy a green fintech By Claire Harrop Mark Brewer Fintech M&A has consistently been in the news, even during the last 18 months. CB Insights reported in April 2021 that there had been 67...
8/16/2021 7:35:36 AM The EU’s proposed AML law: the impact on crypto-asset service providers By Alexander Glos Marius Raetz Corinna Wiedenmann Daniel Klingenbrunn +1 more... Show less The growing popularity of crypto-assets has led to their increasing use in money-laundering schemes. A Europol study cited in the...
8/13/2021 10:05:32 AM New London SPAC rules: how do they help founders, investors and targets? By Jennifer McCarthy Mark Austin Tom Godwin The London market has changed its rules on SPACs, removing the presumption that a SPAC should have its listing suspended as soon as it...
8/13/2021 9:19:38 AM ESG x Fintech: Investing sustainably By Lauren Moorin Cyrus Pocha Fran Kaehr Sustainability is perhaps the hottest of all topics currently, and its relevance to financial services has come into sharp focus in...
8/12/2021 8:09:23 AM Mobile apps under scrutiny: German competition watchdog concerned about widespread privacy failings By Michael Schwaab Konrad Riemer In July 2021, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt – FCO) published its report (PDF, in German) on the mobile apps sector....
8/10/2021 5:53:58 PM New Administration Cyber Initiatives Place Additional Demands on Private Sector By Brock Dahl This blog was co-authored by summer associate Saraphin Dhanani. The Biden Administration has recently announced several new initiatives...
8/4/2021 2:32:12 PM Another step towards EU digital sovereignty: the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud By Corinna Wiedenmann Christoph Werkmeister On 19 July 2021, the European Commission (EC) launched the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud. The Alliance aims to...
8/3/2021 9:03:55 AM UK litigation: the impact of diversity, inclusion and technology By Sarah Parkes Being forced to switch – almost overnight – to remote hearings was very dramatic for UK litigation. However, the quest for equality and...