Tech & Digital

Our multi-disciplinary Tech & Digital group focuses on global tech firms, significant digital platforms and other major players in data-heavy industries. The experts in our group cover digital platforms, fintech, industrial tech and venture capital. They work together to offer clients a well-rounded proposition covering various topics. These include strategic boardroom advice; data privacy & cybersecurity; mass claims; consumer protection; artificial intelligence; cryptocurrency, competition & regulation; intellectual property; media law; internal investigations; enforcement actions; foreign direct investment; M&A; and funding.

We understand the opportunities and the risks associated with the platform economy and help our digital clients to navigate this dynamic and fast-paced landscape.

Track record

• Just Eat Takeaway in all M&A and competition aspects relating to its acquisition of Delivery Hero in Germany, its merger with Just Eat and its acquisition of Grubhub in the US
• Salesforce as lead counsel in the first mass damages claim under new regulatory regimes for class actions under EU privacy law and Dutch civil law
• AirBnB in its defence against civil class actions in the Netherlands in relation to the alleged unlawful double charging of service costs
• Booking.com in proceedings against German hotels in relation to price-parity clauses
• A leading sales platform in a global trademark dispute

EXPERTS IN INDUSTRIAL TECH

As part of our group, we have a multidisciplinary team, with vast experience working for tech-heavy industrial clients. This dedicated Industrial Tech team focuses on arbitration in tech-focused disputes; pan-European and cross-border patent litigation in pharma, life sciences, telecoms and consumer goods markets; UPC litigation; and IP contracting and licensing, joint ventures and IP-heavy M&A.

Track record

• Advising a client in the construction sector in major FRAND proceedings
• Representing a FMCG client in high stake litigation including questions of competition and patent law, resulting in a successful complaint before the French Competition Authority
• Advising a technology client on the disentanglement of one of its major business units as well as on the sale of that division