Key Points - Following our Alert last month addressing the United Kingdom Government’s intentions to improve the workings of the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA), the U.K. Government has now published two new...more
5/28/2024
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Key Points - On Thursday, the UK government announced its intention to improve the workings of the NSIA, “ in these dangerous and uncertain times [when] our economy is increasingly the target for our adversaries.” In November...more
On 7 November 2023, in the King’s Speech, the UK government announced three draft laws aimed at supporting tech companies’ growth and competitiveness: the Automated Vehicles Bill (AV Bill), the Digital Markets, Competition...more
12/1/2023
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On 21 November 2023, as part of its inquiry into large language models (LLMs), the UK’s Communications and Digital Lords Committee considered the role of regulators and emerging trends regarding LLMs, including evidence from...more
On 18 September 2023, following its initial review of artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models (FMs), the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published its eagerly awaited report (the “Report”).The Report has...more
On 10 July 2023, the European Commission (EC) adopted its long awaited Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) implementing rules (the “Implementing Regulation”). The Implementing Regulation lays down, inter alia, the timings and...more
On 6 July 2023 (or 5 July 2023 in the US), Meta launched ‘Threads’—a text-based social media platform that is linked to users’ Instagram accounts. The launch of Threads closely followed the announcement by the European...more
On 25 April 2023, the same day on which the European Commission (EC) adopted its first designation decisions under its Digital Services Act (DSA), the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament published its long-awaited Digital Markets,...more
The last 12 months have seen dramatic falls in fintech and payments valuations, but with the payments sector now a core part of the financial services ecosystem, strategic imperatives will continue to drive deals despite...more
The UK government introduced into Parliament a wholesale change to its State aid rules under the new Subsidy Control Bill on 30 June 2021 (the “Bill”). The regime, which is set to come into effect in H1 2022, subject to...more
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On April 27, 2021, the German government adopted the 17th Regulation for the Amendment of the German Foreign Trade Regulation (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung (AWV)). The regulation, which came into force on May...more
- On April 16, 2020, the Chinese competition authority finally announced its conditional approval of Nvidia’s $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox.
- The Chinese SAMR approved the acquisition after a yearlong investigation...more
- On April 17, 2020, the CMA provisionally cleared Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo in light of the deterioration in Deliveroo’s financial position caused by COVID-19.
- The CMA has provisionally concluded that...more