Disruptive Technologies (DTECH)

Leading provider of legal services to highly digitalized businesses and tech companies

Our disruptive technologies (DTECH) team is a cross-functional group of greatly skilled, multi-practice lawyers with extensive professional knowledge in the digital and technological sector. It includes experts from several legal practices including IP, corporate, labor, tax, public law, competition and litigation law.

Challenged by digital and technology issues across the globe, we provide a seamless, customized service with a single-office approach, managing and responding to the daily challenges of new technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, IoT, robotics, cybersecurity, augmented reality, virtual reality, cloud computing, social media, data analytics, and new digital business models.

We advise companies from a variety of industries, including some of the world’s largest technology companies, on digital strategy, contract negotiation, regulatory issues, data protection, cybersecurity threats, and tax challenges arising from digitalization. Along with our ongoing and transactional advice, we keep our clients up to date on changes to regulations affecting the digital and technological sector.

• Cybersecurity: we work with our clients across the full cybersecurity life cycle, helping them design and embed cybersecurity policies and procedures, including incident response planning, training and education. We also advise on regulatory compliance (such as financial services regulation and data protection), procurement and supply chain risk, including contractor vetting and cyber contractual provisions, and cyber issues in the context of corporate due diligence, joint ventures, projects and outsourcing.
• Blockchain: we have expertise in cryptocurrencies, proof of existence and smart contracts, advising key industry players and ensuring they have the law on their side when taking advantage of the many commercial opportunities offered by blockchain.
• Cloud computing: we advise service providers and customers of cloud-based services in a variety of contexts, including multinational software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and information-as-a-service (IaaS) engagements, from drafting terms and conditions to examining data security, and advising on funding, growth strategies, and corporate governance.
• Digital services industry: we are focused on monitoring new developments and regulations on the taxation of digital business, both at OECD and EU level, and on analyzing their implications for European and non-European companies providing digital services.
• Big data and AI: we advise on issues of big data processing, including the legal challenges of decisions made by software, and on introducing Ai systems.
• E-commerce: we deal with all legal implications of this new industry, advising on commercial law, tax, employment, labor law, regulatory issues and consumer regulations.
• Robotization: we tackle the legal challenges arising from the introduction of robots in the industry, including employment and labor, health and safety, IP, data protection and regulatory issues.