3/5/2025 7:35:49 PM Data meets competition: fostering cooperation between the ADLC and the CNIL By Estella Dannhausen Jérôme Philippe Thomas Retière Laéna Bouafy Elaine Pajeot +2 more... Show less As you browse the internet, you may notice an increasing number of tech companies promoting their ‘privacy-friendly’ services. This shift...
1/28/2025 8:13:39 PM 10 Key MedTech Themes for 2025 By Vinita Kailasanath Shannon O'Hara Note: this article originally ran in MedCity News The MedTech industry is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. As AI reshapes the...
1/27/2025 7:48:38 PM Life sciences – what to watch in 2025 By Adam Golden Kristen Riemenschneider Madeleine Tavcar We asked more than 200 Freshfields lawyers – across geographies and practice areas: what are the 1-2 issues top of mind for you and your...
6/11/2024 1:56:35 PM The UK’s digital roadmap: CMA consults on draft digital markets guidance By Rikki Haria Martin Dickson Saif Gilani Within minutes of the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (the DMCC Act) receiving Royal Assent on the evening of 24...
12/8/2023 3:33:49 PM Not over yet: UK DMCC Bill enters the House of Lords with some key questions still up for debate By Sharon Malhi Rikki Haria Sarah Jensen Martin Dickson Abigail Legge Milo Noone +3 more... Show less The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the Bill) is still expected to come into force in Autumn 2024. Although the overall...
4/26/2023 12:41:27 PM The wait is over: UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill introduced to Parliament By Sharon Malhi Michele Davis Karen Slaney Justin Chen +1 more... Show less After months of waiting, the UK government has now introduced into Parliament the text of the hotly anticipated Digital Markets,...
4/20/2023 3:49:14 PM New Dutch guidance on the EU Platform-to-Business Regulation By Felix Roscam Abbing Alvaro Pliego Selie In brief On 14 April 2023, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) issued a press release accompanying new guidelines...
12/19/2022 12:11:28 PM The FCA and the “demi-gods of data” – Regulatory focus on Big Tech in financial services By Michael Raffan Lauren Moorin Fran Kaehr In a speech earlier this year, Nikhil Rathi, the CEO of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) predicted that “from masters of the...
11/22/2022 3:08:56 PM UK Government accelerates major reforms to competition and consumer law regimes and digital regulation in a drive for supply side growth By James Aitken Andrew Austin Sarah Jensen Rikki Haria Sarah Mitchell Kate Collister +3 more... Show less The UK government has committed to bringing forward the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill (the Bill) in the current...
10/13/2022 4:37:33 PM The EU Digital Markets Act is formally enacted – what next? By Sharon Malhi Sascha Schubert Tone Oeyen Rikki Haria Aaron Green Sarah Mitchell +3 more... Show less The EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 12 October 2022 and will enter into force...
7/6/2022 5:40:40 PM The European Parliament approves the final text of the Digital Markets Act By Sharon Malhi Sascha Schubert Tone Oeyen Eugene McQuaid Rikki Haria Konstantin Bondarenko +3 more... Show less On 5 July 2022, the European Parliament approved—by an overwhelming majority—the final text of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the new...
5/12/2022 1:14:23 PM Hold the Queen’s virtual horses: an opportunity to consider further the UK’s new rules for digital firms and their place in the wider reform jigsaw? By Daniel Wylde James Aitken Sharon Malhi Rikki Haria Sarah Mitchell Luke Becker +3 more... Show less Following Tuesday’s Queen’s Speech, it appears that both the broader reforms to the UK’s competition and consumer laws (see here) and the...