Our Digital Regulation practice covers the full spectrum of digital rules, from AI regulation and platform regulation, to online harms and content regulation, and data access and portability. Clients look to us to offer practical, risk-adjusted advice that helps them navigate this ever more complex landscape – and to innovate at speed.

From our London, Brussels, Hong Kong and Beijing offices, we advise clients worldwide on all areas of digital regulation. The practice complements the firm’s Tech and Digital, Cyber and Data Privacy practices, which offer business-critical advice in crucial areas of the digital landscape.

Platform regulation

We advise several tech clients on various issues under the EU DMA, UK DMCCA and similar emerging regimes worldwide. We have represented clients in all areas of platform regulation, from designation, compliance and enforcement to offensive strategies.

AI regulation

We advise various clients on the AI regulatory landscape, including the EU AI Act, across all areas, including implications for training and development, product launches, internal use cases and approach to global compliance. We also advise clients on the intersection of AI and other digital regulation regimes (including the DMA and DMCCA).

Online harms and content regulation

We advise major digital clients on complex issues under EU and UK online rules, including the EU Digital Services Act and UK Online Safety Act. These are inherently sensitive areas of regulation, with political currents that call for judgment and an informed view of the enforcement framework. 

Data access and portability

Complemented by our Data Privacy practice, we advise clients on all issues concerning data access and portability, including under the EU Data Act, and UK Data (Use and Access) Act and broader Smart Data initiatives, and at the intersection with other regimes including the DMA. This is an emerging area which presents significant opportunities, and risks, for organisations worldwide.

KEY EXPERIENCE

  • Google in relation to its obligations as a “gatekeeper” under the DMA, as well as its response to the CMA’s “strategic market status” investigations under the DMCCA.
  • Meta in relation to various issues under the DMA, DMCCA and other similar regimes.
  • A major tech platform in an offensive strategy against a designated gatekeeper under the DMA and in relation to comparable regimes in other jurisdictions.
  • A major hardware provider in connection with its UK regulatory strategy under the DMCCA.
  • A major ecommerce platform on potential exposure under the DSA and related questions on product development and strategic approach.
  • A global multi-platform provider on the application of the DSA and OSA across various services and related compliance strategies.
  • A major media company on digital regulation issues.
  • A major business software company on digital regulation issues.
  • A Fortune 500 US personal finance company on the use of a cloud-hosted AI solution for the generation of certain content for retail customers.
  • LexisNexis on the application and implementation of the EU AI Act across various aspects of their product offering.
  • A regulated FMCG company on the review of the company’s current position and key risks on using generative AI.
  • A leading aerospace company on the application of the EU AI act to their medium and long term product development and on the deployment of AI in their internal operational efficiency programmes, including supporting a global AI compliance strategy.
  • A major streaming service on the application of the DSA.