Work Area: Transactions

Plaintiffs pursuing Marriott in the wake of a massive data breach have named its cybersecurity provider as a defendant.

14 August 2019

The UK’s antitrust authority has ordered Salesforce to stay separate from data visualisation software company Tableau while the agency investigates the acquisition.

06 August 2019

Though the UK Information Commissioner’s Office is yet to publish its reasoning behind the record intended fines it revealed last week, they suggest the regulator is anticipating Brexit and cementing its position as “one of the most respected data protection regulators in the world.”

17 July 2019

With hurricane season under way, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States has partnered with Facebook to access the company’s “disaster maps” feature.

20 June 2019

The head of Germany’s Monopolies Commission has praised Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon for investing in innovation – but said they need to grant greater access to rivals.

04 June 2019

Companies’ collection, use, commercialisation and transfer of data has risen enormously over the last few years. GDR gathered partners from top firms in New York to discuss how the explosion in data has affected the world of technology transactions.

14 May 2019

Morrison Foerster has added partner Matthew Karlyn to its new Boston office.

26 April 2019

Remedies involving access to datasets have to be adopted very carefully and only when such access is “practically essential to compete”, a senior European Commission official has said.

02 April 2019

Data regulation like the GDPR is affecting the valuation and timeline of M&A deals, Californian GCs have said.

29 March 2019

The introduction of the GDPR has increased awareness of data protection issues in M&A, but companies often underestimate the technical aspects of dealing with data in deals, lawyers have said.

28 March 2019