The UK Competition & Markets Authority (“CMA”) has published the first in a series of anticipated merger control decisions in the artificial intelligence (“AI”) space, providing insight on its approach to the application of...more
On 8 February 2023, the UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, announced his government’s decision to restructure the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), splitting it into a number of separate departments....more
To help organisations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more
10/12/2022
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Competition ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Marketplace ,
Digital Service Providers ,
Digital Services ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Germany ,
Net Neutrality ,
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) ,
OFCOM ,
Online Platforms ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Telecommunications ,
UK
Last week saw the first publicly disclosed uses by the UK Government of its new and expansive powers to investigate deals on national security grounds under the National Security and Investment Act (“NSIA”), which came into...more
5/31/2022
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Corporate Counsel ,
Foreign Investment ,
Investigations ,
National Security ,
Popular ,
Risk Assessment ,
Secretary of State ,
Strategic Planning ,
UK ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
On March 29, 2022, global container handling equipment providers [Cargotec and Konecranes] abandoned their proposed $5 billion merger after the United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the U.S. Department of...more
4/19/2022
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
European Commission ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Mergers ,
Popular ,
Supply Chain ,
UK ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)