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Ready to launch: US stock markets are poised for a strong 2024

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US IPO markets have been lackluster during the past 24 months, but, as interest rates stabilize and stock valuations recover, the backdrop for US IPOs in 2024 is improving - Despite high interest rates and geopolitical...more

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Market overview: The global IPO landscape

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Global IPO markets endured a difficult 2023 in the face of rising interest rates and geopolitical uncertainty. But after a challenging 12 months, the outlook for IPO activity in 2024 is brightening This past year has been one...more

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A Human Rights Impact Assessment of Microsoft's Enterprise Cloud and AI Technologies Licensed to U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies

Microsoft is one of the world’s leading technology companies. Its products and technologies are in offices, classrooms, and homes. Additionally, governments use them to help conduct vital public services. Microsoft is also...more

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New Technologies in the Consumer & Retail Industry – Key Legal Issues and Risks

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The consumer and retail industry has experienced a rapid growth in the use of new technologies, as both online businesses and brick-and-mortar sellers converge into multi-channel players and compete for customers and for...more

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Technology leads the charge yet again

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Technology continued to drive M&A activity in 2022 despite the odds being stacked against the sector - Although the record-breaking deal activity of 2021 spilled over into 2022, headwinds in the first quarter developed...more

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Sector overview: Strong M&A activity pervades nearly every sector

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Dealmakers in almost every industry had an outstandingly busy 2021. With just a few exceptions, the M&A boom swept across the US economy with deal values, in particular, up significantly on 2020 totals. Nevertheless,...more

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Envisioning the New Normal: Real Estate + Technology: Part 4: Retail

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This article is the fourth of a multi-part series examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on select real estate sectors and the considerations around how technologies will shape future operations and accelerate means to...more

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ICSC RECon 2019: In Pursuit of Innovation

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The Las Vegas Convention Center hosted ICSC RECon 2019 this week from May 19-22. This year’s conference was held under the motto “Less traditional. More Innovative”, reflective of the dynamic changes taking place in the...more

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Shoptalk 2019 - The Transformation of Retail on Full Display

“I sleep like a baby . . . I wake up every two hours crying.” - Jim Donald, President & CEO of Albertsons when interviewed at Shoptalk about how he deals with the pace of certain competitors. “The industry is in such a sea...more

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Peak performance: US M&A in 2018: Consumer deals slip as digital disrupts

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Digital disruption and its impact on physical retailers once again weighed on the consumer sector in 2018. Consumer M&A volume was down 13 percent year-on-year to 465 deals in 2018. Value decreased 28 percent to US$119...more

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British and EU negotiators have reached a draft Brexit deal that PM May now needs to sell to her “deeply divided” cabinet. Not that her challenges would end there, mind you, as any deal would then face a skeptical Parliament...more

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Is Amazon The Next Big Case? – GAFA Under Antitrust Scrutiny

Margrethe Vestager, head of the European Union’s Directorate-General for Competition (“DG Comp”), recently announced that the EU was once again investigating actions of a high-profile tech company – Amazon....more

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Retail Applications for Conversational AI

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As commerce has increasingly moved online, retailers are finding new ways to meet the customer service needs of their customers remotely, including conversational commerce. ...more

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The Journal reported yesterday that the DOJ will allow Bayer to move forward with its plans to acquire Monsanto, a deal valued at more than $60 billion, after the companies “pledged to sell off additional assets to secure...more

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AR/VR Industry is Growing and Facing New Challenges, Perkins Coie Survey Finds

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Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are showing clear signs of a growing industry—with increased investment, exciting new content (and types of content) and technological advancements. But with growth comes new...more

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Facial Recognition in Retail: “Attention all Shoppers: We Already Know Everything about You”

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Are you worried that “Alexa” is listening to your conversations? Do you cover your laptop camera with tape and refuse to store your passwords on your devices? Well, it looks like even stepping into the mall may require a...more

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Update on Floating Warehouses and Drone Delivery

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In the age of instant gratification, retail giants are turning to technology to fill customers’ orders as quickly as possible. The once-unimaginably-fast two-day shipping standard is starting to seem outdated and sluggish....more

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Rise of the Drones: Flying Over Newton and Registration Requirements Reinstated

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The skies are a little friendlier for drones now that the Dutch police have suspended their squad of drone-hunting eagles. This is also great news for retailers, as drone popularity continues to soar with overall electronics...more

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European authorities have opened an investigation into Inter Ikea, one of the Swiss retail giant’s two primary divisions based in the Netherlands, over “concerns that it may have been given unfair tax advantages”....more

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Technology in the Property Industry

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Hogan Lovells hosted the Reading Real Estate Foundation Breakfast Forum (RREF*) on 17 November 2017. This year’s topic was: Technology in the Property Industry and provided digital food for thought from three key areas....more

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As retailers do all they can to fight the e-commerce wave, some bricks-and-mortar shops are experimenting with a rather counterintuitive strategy: smaller spaces and a showroom-style approach....more

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Digital Innovation and the Experiential Evolution of Retail

Since the rise and ubiquity of e-commerce, it’s no secret that brick-and-mortar retailers have seen a decline in foot traffic. Retailers are facing store closures, and some perceive digital as a threat to their existence....more

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Tesla’s hoping that a manufacturing plant in China—the first in the country wholly owned by a foreign manufacturing company—will translate into big sales in the Chinese market. With the Chinese government loath to give up the...more

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Robots Will Reshape – Not Replace – Retail Work

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As we have discussed in earlier blog posts, rapid changes in the retail landscape due to the rise of e-commerce and a shift in customer’s interests from old-school, one-stop department store shopping to experiential retail,...more

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Advanced Weather Data: Vital for the Future of Commercial Drone Operations

Back in December 2016, Amazon executed its first customer delivery by drone in the United Kingdom. Now, as Amazon, and other large retailers, aim for widespread deployment of drones for the delivery of goods to consumers, it...more

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