All Insights

Corporate

Crypto and blockchain in M&A: how to address issues around volatility, validity and valuation

The value of crypto-funded deals has doubled over the last couple of years, but there are specific challenges for parties
Tech, Media and Comms

Blockchain in the metaverse: what international regulatory challenges lie ahead?

A metaverse unleashed by blockchain technology raises big questions for digital, financial and data regulators the world over
Financial Services

The EU steps up the debate on a proposed regime for crypto-asset markets

What are the objectives of the recently adopted MiCA text and how does it promote market competitiveness?
Blockchain

Retail central bank digital currencies: are they inevitable if the metaverse is inescapable?

What are the chief characteristics of CBDCs and their talking points in Singapore, Hong Kong, China and India?
Digitalisation

Not everyone's cup of NFT

Are NFTs a type of property and what fraud and security risks arise from their technical implementation?
Urban Dynamics

Future living: How proptech is transforming home buying

Increased technology usage since the pandemic began has fundamentally altered the residential transaction process
Blockchain

Law Commission concludes English law supports smart contracts

Businesses can take comfort that smart contract technology can create legally binding agreements, but should be aware of remaining areas
Digitalisation

Digitalisation | Five legal and regulatory predictions for 2022

As another year gets underway, and digitalisation continues to transform businesses across all sectors, we offer five predictions for tech
Blockchain

Singapore cautiously weighs up the future of blockchain

As the world gets to grips with blockchain, what regulatory and industry developments have come with its take up in
Blockchain

Report on the UK's blockchain landscape confirms London as global hub

The Big Innovation Centre highlights the strength and breadth of UK's blockchain ecosystem in its new report
Blockchain

What are the legal issues around NFTs?

Our international blockchain, technology, data, intellectual property and finreg specialists discuss the legal issues raised by the growing commercial activity
Tech, Media and Comms

Metaverse Report

A joint Osborne Clarke and Newzoo report on the games industry's early embrace of the metaverse and the legal issues