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Government proposes new changes to Hong Kong’s data privacy law to tackle doxxing This article concerns the proposed changes to Hong Kong’s data privacy law regarding doxxing and the new powers of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data. As foreshadowed in the paper prepared by the Hong Kong Government on the proposed reforms...

Cross-Border Insolvency in Hong Kong - An Order to Recognise and Assist This client briefing considers the recognition and assistance which Hong Kong courts may give to foreign insolvency proceedings. “Since the court resumed hearings in May [2020] more than half the petitions I have heard have involved listed companie...

Data Privacy Newsletter - Issue 16 Selected legal and regulatory developments in data privacy for July 2021 It was so very close… But, unlike the football, we got the result we wanted… On 28 June, the EU adopted its adequacy decisions for the UK under the EU GDPR and t...

Competition & Regulatory Newsletter (9 - 22 June 2021) European Commission publishes initial findings in Internet of Things sector inquiry European Commission publishes initial findings in Internet of Things sector inquiry On 9 June 2021 the European Commission published its preliminary findings in its sect...

Global Investigations Bulletin (June 2021) Our latest Global Investigations Bulletin for June 2021 is now available. This month, we take a look at the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, set out the latest news in global investigations and enforcement actions, and provide key horizon scanning upd...

Outsourcing and third party risk management: The PRA's stance on risk and controls This briefing looks at the PRA's Policy Statement on outsourcing and third party risk management (PS7/21) and accompanying Supervisory Statement (SS2/21) which ‘clarifies, develops, and modernises’ longstanding regulatory requirements...

Global Investigations Bulletin (May 2021) Our latest Global Investigations Bulletin for May 2021 is now available. This month, we review corporate convictions for bribery in the UK, set out the latest news in global investigations and enforcement actions, and provide key horizon scanning updates....

Europe's Groundbreaking Draft Artificial Intelligence Act The EU broke new ground on 21 April 2021 by issuing the draft of its proposed harmonised legal framework on AI (the "AI Act"), the first attempt worldwide to specifically regulate this rapidly developing and often misunderstood branch of technol...

Asset Management – Hot Topics, Spring 2021 Against the backdrop of COVID-19 and the end of the Brexit transition period, the Spring 2021 edition of our Asset Management – Hot Topics series discusses some of the significant developments currently affecting the sector. Welcome to the Spring 2...

Reinventing the 9-5 - Working from... where? And when? The legal restrictions preventing us from attending the workplace unless it is not “reasonably possible” to work from home no longer apply. Instead, we now have legal restrictions on gatherings, unless these are “reasonably necessary&rdq...