Tech & Digital

De Brauw advised Parcom and GoodHabitz's founders on the sale of a majority stake in GoodHabitz to Prosus. GoodHabitz is a fast-growing provider of online-training for the corporate market with eight offices throughout Europe.

De Brauw has assisted ICT Group on reaching an agreement with a consortium led by NPM Capital on a recommended full public offer of EUR 14.50 (cum dividend) in cash per issued and outstanding ordinary share of ICT Group, following a competitive bidding process. The public offer for ICT Group represents an equity value of approximately EUR 140.6 million. More information can be found in the press release.

Our Competition Law in the Digital Age newsletter, a quarterly publication intends to provide insights on modern-day competition law developments in a bite-sized format.

In their recent master class, our experts Axel Arnbak, Oscar Lamme and Ties Boonzajer Flaes looked at the various aspects of dealing with the ever-changing AI landscape, including EU and Dutch regulatory developments in this area.

The ongoing intertwinement of data protection, competition and consumer law (see our earlier article) explains why authorities of all stripes are turning the spotlight on companies’ personal data collection and monetisation practices. Does this mean that competition and consumer authorities can enforce data protection law on par with or instead of the DPAs? Do the various authorities work together or compete with one another? What does this mean for consumers and do individual claims for damages offer more meaningful protection than enforcement by public authorities? These questions were in the spotlight at a panel discussion organised by De Brauw at the recent IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress. De Brauw's Axel Arnbak moderated the discussion between the Netherlands Competition and Consumer Authority's chairman Martijn Snoep and two partners from our Best Friends network, Vera Jungkind (Hengeler Mueller) and Jordan Ellison (Slaughter and May). This article highlights key insights from the panel.