31 Jan, 2022 Five Life Sciences trends for 2022 By Claire Smith What trends do we expect to see in the Life Sciences sector for 2022? We’ve had a look into our crystal ball and picked out some of the...
28 Jan, 2022 VAT on break payments: to pay or not to pay? By Dhara Reddy A recent judgment from the Scottish Court of Session has considered the impact of HMRC’s Revenue and Customs Brief 12 (2020) (“RCB 12/20”...
27 Jan, 2022 Is this IoT component-level FRAND licensing? No... By Bristows Nokia and Nordic Semiconductors announced today what is said to be a "pioneering new approach" to licensing IoT SEPs. Whilst that is...
27 Jan, 2022 Real estate and the value of building data By Tim Allen It was a pleasure to work with my colleague Toby Headdon on a brief article for our "value in data" series. We looked at how data is...
27 Jan, 2022 Recognising the potential value of data in real estate By Tim Allen The pressure on investors and property managers to consider investing in technology in order to collect and extract value from building...
26 Jan, 2022 The UK creates a data transfers brains trust, but can it do the impossible? By Bristows The UK has formed a new Government Council on international data transfers, comprising world-leading data privacy experts from legal,...
25 Jan, 2022 Unlocking the metaverse - the next big thing on the horizon for brand owners in 2022 By Bristows With the demand for access to the virtual world evidently increasing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we take a look at these key...
21 Jan, 2022 Pharma and Biotech in 2022: year of the creative collaboration? By Ellen Lambrix As Bristows partner Claire Smith wrote in her recent look back at 2021, while deal making activity in the pharma and biotech sector...
20 Jan, 2022 What could the competition concerns be for the Microsoft / Activision Blizzard deal? By Matthew Hunt There has been a lot of chatter over the last few days about the game-changing announcement that Microsoft is acquiring Activision...
20 Jan, 2022 Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for ~£70bn - will Call of Duty become Xbox exclusive and Xbox Games Pass become OP? By Charlie Purdie Microsoft has announced that it is acquiring Activision Blizzard, surprising almost everyone in the games industry. The news was met with...
20 Jan, 2022 New incident reporting thresholds for digital service providers By Bristows Another year, another amendment to the NIS Regulations. But with fresh Covid restrictions, the festive season and seemingly endless...
20 Jan, 2022 The value in data By Mark Watts Over the coming weeks, Bristows will be posting a series of articles looking at the value in data – different types of ‘value’, some...