Kriti Sharma is an overachiever, having held senior tech and advisory roles at HSBC, Sage, the UN and Barclays, and been named among Forbes’ 30 under 30 list. She still heads up an NGO she founded called AI for Good. Now, she is also chief product officer, legal tech at Thomson Reuters.
In this text, we would like to present the main trends related to criminal law issues in daily business practice. In our day-to-day practice, we mainly handle white-collar crime cases. We provide legal services at all stages of the proceedings for clients both as attorneys of injured parties, and as defence counsels. Usually we deal …
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At the Danish law firm Horten, partner Christina Steen and lawyer Ninna Thalund have a wide knowledge of trends on the insurance market, regarding both regulatory and dispute matters. Christina and Ninna highlight three significant trends.
Since the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect in May 2018, there has been an increased interest in consumer data protection and privacy around the world. California was the first US state to take action, and enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (‘CCPA’), a landmark legislation that was …
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Robust requirements to counteract cybersecurity incidents Introduction In the last few years, some of the biggest multinational companies (MNCs) have fallen victim to major cyberattacks affecting over a million individuals. While India does not have a dedicated law on cybersecurity at present, the applicable provisions on cybersecurity are somewhat fragmented under the umbrella legislation of …
Mexico is considered as the 15th largest economy in the world1. Foreign direct investment in 2022 reached over $35bn, the highest since 20152. Even though the current public policies from the President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and its legal system has different windows of opportunity, Mexico is an attractive investment destination. Business in Mexico imply …
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The Personal Information Protection Law of the PRC (the PIPL) provides three mechanisms to export data out of China, namely the data outbound security assessment (the security assessment), the personal information outbound transfer standard contract (the CN SCC), and the personal information outbound transfer security certification (the security certification). The first two are compulsory, and …
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It’s the rare businessperson who wants to have an important issue or, worse, a company’s fate decided by a judge or jury. The vast majority of lawsuits are settled before it comes to that. But trial happens, sometimes with billions or hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.
Since 25 May 2018, the principal data protection legislation in the EU, and therefore in Sweden, is Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the ‘General Data Protection Regulation’ or ‘GDPR’).
In recent times celebrity high profile litigation across the globe has taken place with actors, Gwyneth Paltrow’s successful defence of a claim arising from a ski collision on the slopes of Utah, and Jonny Depp winning his defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard, though losing an earlier case in London against UK newspapers in 2018. Such …
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