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Digital Regulation

The nature of a digitalisation strategy often means businesses are shifting direction or "pivoting" into new areas. More often than not, this means complying with different regulations to those you've been dealing with on a day-to-day basis.

This can be an intimidating prospect – your legal and business teams may be out of their comfort zone and need to upskill quickly to understand the new regulatory landscape, its impact on your proposed products and services and how it may affect your regulatory risk profile.

For example, shifting from selling your products or services via an intermediary to going direct to the end user, or building a digital customer journey, may mean the business is now subject to consumer and e-commerce regulation and has far greater exposure to data protection laws. It might also mean you'll be advertising for the first time, so have to get a handle on applicable advertising and marketing law. Moving to a subscription or "as a Service" model could possibly trigger financial services regulation. As your workforce moves to a digitally-enabled distributed structure, you'll also need to rethink how you meet your health and safety responsibilities to your staff.

More widely, regulators are having to change in response to the explosion of digital technology that is impacting on all aspects of society, on a global scale. We support our clients at a policy level in educating and influencing both regulators and legislators, helping to shape regulatory reform and ensure our clients' commercial interests are well represented in the debate.

What’s on the horizon?

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Nick Johnson
Partner, International Head of Tech, Media & Comms, UK
+44 20 7105 7080 Email Nick Full biog
John Davidson-Kelly
Partner, International Sub-sector Leader, Media & Entertainment and Digital Regulation, UK
+44 20 7105 7024 Email John Full biog
Catherine Hammon
Digital Transformation Knowledge Lawyer, Head of Advisory Knowledge, UK
+44 207 105 7438 Email Catherine Full biog
Luis Castro
Partner, Spain
+34 91 576 44 76 Email Luis Full biog
Claire Bouchenard
Partner, France
+33 1 84 82 45 30 Email Claire Full biog
Katherine Kirrage
Partner, Transformation Manager – Digitalisation, UK
+44 207 105 7514 Email Katherine Full biog
Konstantin Ewald
Partner, Head of Tech, Media and Comms, Germany
+49 221 5108 4160 Email Konstantin Full biog
Catherine Wolfenden
Partner, Disputes & Risk Practice Group Head, UK
+44 117 917 3600 Email Catherine Full biog
Benjamin Docquir
Partner, Belgium
+32 2 515 93 36 Email Benjamin Full biog
Julián Matos
Partner, Spain
+34 93 419 18 18 Email Julián Full biog
Dr Thomas G. Funke, LL.M.
Partner, Germany / Belgium
+49 221 5108 4210 Email Thomas Full biog
Simon Hobday
Partner, UK
+44 20 7105 7530 Email Simon Full biog
Marcus Sacré, M.A.
Partner, Germany
+49 221 5108 4190 Email Marcus Full biog
Hannah Drew (née Willson)
Legal Director, UK
+44 20 7105 7184 Email Hannah Full biog
Dr Sebastian Hack, LL.M.
Partner, Germany
+49 221 5108 4210 Email Sebastian Full biog
Rafael García del Poyo
Partner, Spain
+34 91 576 44 76 Email Rafael Full biog
Xavier Pican
Partner, France
+33 1 84 82 45 88 Email Xavier Full biog
Alexandre Le Mière
Partner, France
+33 1 84 82 46 48 Email Alexandre Full biog
Arty Rajendra
Partner, Head of IP Disputes, UK
+44 207 105 7850 Email Arty Full biog
Kevin Barrow
Partner, UK
+44 20 7105 7030 Email Kevin Full biog
Mary Lawrence
Partner, UK
+44 117 917 3512 Email Mary Full biog
Matthew Sharkey
Associate Director, UK
+44 20 7105 7582 Email Matthew Full biog
Georgina Graham
Partner, UK
+44 117 917 3556 Email Georgina Full biog
Penny Coombs
Associate Director, UK
+44 20 7105 7368 Email Penny Full biog
Nick Price
Partner, UK
+44 207 105 7496 Email Nick Full biog
Henry Fox
Associate Director, UK
+44 20 7105 7510 Email Henry Full biog
Adrian Schneider
Partner, Germany
+49 221 5108 4370 Email Adrian Full biog
Arne Katharina Ruhwinkel
Associate, Germany
+49 221 5108 4086 Email Arne Katharina Full biog
Dr Flemming Moos
Partner, Specialist lawyer for IT law, Germany
+49 40 55436 4054 Email Flemming Full biog
Leonie Schneider
Senior Associate, Germany
+49 221 5108 4160 Email Leonie Full biog

How we've helped our clients

Drone regulation

Advised a leading manufacturer of cameras on the global launch of a drone product, including gathering advice on drone regulation across 24 jurisdictions and a global overview on drone law

Cyber-attack

Defending a children's electronic toy manufacturer in relation to a data protection investigation following a major cyber-attack

E-commerce

Advising clients on global e-commerce launches, including all applicable areas of compliance: financial services, marketing and advertising, consume protection and data protection.

Digital regulation

Advising clients on the launch of global subscription services and the digital regulation implication

Digital economy

Advising a range of clients in engaging with competition regulators and government on reforms to competition law for the digital economy, including the European Commission's e-commerce sector inquiry, the UK Competition and Markets Authority's Digital Advertising market study and the UK Digital Taskforce's call for input on digital regulation.

AI x insurance

Advising an innovative AI developer on the competition and regulatory implications of the use of AI in the insurance sector

Connected vehicles

Advising a leading insurer on the regulatory implications of data gathering from connected cars

Brexit and digital regulation

Advising clients on the impact of Brexit on the digital regulation landscape

Online to offline retail

We have advised clients on the launch of physical retail stores, to complement their online offerings

Drone regulation

Advised a leading manufacturer of cameras on the global launch of a drone product, including gathering advice on drone regulation across 24 jurisdictions and a global overview on drone law

Cyber-attack

Defending a children's electronic toy manufacturer in relation to a data protection investigation following a major cyber-attack

E-commerce

Advising clients on global e-commerce launches, including all applicable areas of compliance: financial services, marketing and advertising, consume protection and data protection.

Digital regulation

Advising clients on the launch of global subscription services and the digital regulation implication

Digital economy

Advising a range of clients in engaging with competition regulators and government on reforms to competition law for the digital economy, including the European Commission's e-commerce sector inquiry, the UK Competition and Markets Authority's Digital Advertising market study and the UK Digital Taskforce's call for input on digital regulation.

AI x insurance

Advising an innovative AI developer on the competition and regulatory implications of the use of AI in the insurance sector

Connected vehicles

Advising a leading insurer on the regulatory implications of data gathering from connected cars

Brexit and digital regulation

Advising clients on the impact of Brexit on the digital regulation landscape

Online to offline retail

We have advised clients on the launch of physical retail stores, to complement their online offerings

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