Work Area: Transactions
CMA raised concerns about football data deal
The UK’s competition watchdog previously expressed concerns when the sole provider of official live data for several UK football leagues chose to grant exclusive access to certain datasets to a single provider, a tribunal has heard.
04 October 2022
Personal Data Protection in the Context of Mergers and Acquisitions
Featured in The Guide to Data as a Critical Asset - Edition 1
In today’s digital landscape, corporate transactions are increasingly affected by privacy and data protection issues, making it essential that purchasers and investors, sellers and corporate lawyers understand their effects on mergers and acquisitions.
08 April 2022
How Best to Protect Proprietary Data in Data-Sharing Deals
Featured in The Guide to Data as a Critical Asset - Edition 1
Protecting proprietary data in data-sharing deals requires assessing the legal rights that can control access, use and dissemination of the data and deciding how to apply each dimension of control over data sharing.
08 April 2022
MEPs clear data sharing framework
The European Parliament has overwhelmingly approved the Data Governance Act, which aims to ease the sharing of personal and non-personal data across the EU.
06 April 2022
Arizona bill would ban taxpayer-funded ransomware payments
Cybersecurity experts say an Arizona proposal to ban publicly funded ransomware payments is a step in the right direction, but needs to be coupled with IT upgrades for public agencies.
13 January 2022
Data monetisation drives Sanofi investment in Owkin
Sanofi’s $180 million investment in AI biotech Owkin is the latest of several recent developments suggesting that barriers to the vast commercial potential of healthcare data are about to be torn down.
03 December 2021
Satellite operator to be sold again
Satellite communications operator Inmarsat is set to be sold to Viasat for $7.3 billion two years after agreeing to bolster its cybersecurity capabilities.
08 November 2021
US government sanctions NSO Group
The Department of Commerce has sanctioned Israeli firms NSO Group and Candiru on the grounds that they developed and supplied spyware used to maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers.
03 November 2021
Blackstone’s Ancestry.com acquisition violated genetic data law, lawsuit claims
Ancestry.com users say they had no way to prevent investment management company Blackstone from collecting their genetic data following the announcement of last year’s acquisition.
02 November 2021
Can California achieve data adequacy?
As negotiations between the US and EU over trans-Atlantic data flows move at a snail’s pace, a member of California’s newly constructed privacy regulator has floated the idea of the state achieving GDPR adequacy.
13 September 2021