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WEBINAR: Connectivity – Underpinning our tech and sustainability enabled world

Watch our webinar where Clifford Chance lawyers Mark Fisher, Julia Dreosti and Chris Grey, along with guest speaker Ivan Zaitsev (Director, Market Access at OneWeb) discussed: What are the different elements enabling connectivity though modern communications networks, including private networks? What role does connectivity play in wider sustainability and Tech (e.g. PropTech, InfraTech…) initiatives? And What are the legal and regulatory challenges for sustaining connectivity in the future given advances in technologies, the advent of quantum communications, and the introduction of new industry players?
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WEBINAR: Data Centres – A boom foretold

Watch our webinar where Clifford Chance lawyers Brian Harley, Nadia Kalic, Rob Donell, along with guest speakers Martina Kitts (Director Legal & Commercial at NTT Global Data Centers) and Ismail Afara (Investment Leader, Private Infrastructure at Partners Group) discussed: the attractiveness of data centres as an asset has drawn new types of investors; data centres and energy consumption; national security and M&A and the global shortage of semiconductors.

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WEBINAR: Fibre Optics – The backbone to the world's connectivity

Watch our webinar where Clifford Chance lawyers Jaap Tempelman and Charlotte Madden, along with guest speakers Debanjan Banerjee (Operating Partner at DTCP Infra), Madhavi Ramachandran (GM Legal & Regulatory at MTN GlobalConnect) and Robert Wallin (Managing Director at Natixis CIB), discussed the opportunities and challenges of fibre network rollout and investments across multiple regions in the world. Key topics covered are: What does: the landscape for investing in fibre rollouts look like? legal and regulatory challenges? And key opportunities when investing in fibre networks?

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The UK National Security and Investment Act: We outline its likely impact?

The UK Government's new investment screening regime under the National Security and Investment Act 2021 (the "Act"), has garnered significant interest due to the broad-reaching powers granted to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to review, and potentially intervene in, the acquisition of certain interests in legal entities, assets and intellectual property if the UK Government identifies a national security concern.

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Amended Telecoms Security Requirements – What's in Store for Public Communications Providers?

To bolster the protection of the UK's public telecoms networks and services (PECN/S) against security compromises, the government introduced the Telecommunications (Security) Act 2021 (the Act). The Act provides a framework for the introduction of new regulations and codes of practice that place specific security obligations on providers of PECN/S (Providers).

Extension of Australia's national security investment protections

Our sister Antitrust/FDI blog looks at an expansion to Australia's critical infrastructure legislation sees an extension to the scope of the foreign investment restrictions applying to national security businesses

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Netherlands introduce act on telecoms

Protection Against Undesired Control in Telecommunications in the Netherlands

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Netherlands to introduce new cross-sector FDI-regime

Our sister Antitrust/FDI blog looks at how the proposed Act will serve as a review mechanism for investments that could pose a risk to the national security of the Netherlands. The proposed Act is still being discussed in parliament and is thus subject to change.

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Predictions 2022

2022 Predictions on Infratech from Nadia Kalic, Partner

Partner Nadia Kalic says this year will be a gamechanger for how the energy transition can be achieved as she shares her exciting predictions for Infratech: including - DLT and asset tokenisation, and the metaverse

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Upcoming events

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30 April: AI Series: Regulating AI – examining global developments (online)

This session will look at the global development of regulatory frameworks for AI, including emerging trends and diverging approaches being taken in different jurisdictions. This will include the EU’s AI Act, US developments at federal and state level, the UK perspective and the measures being taken in China to tackle regulation of generative AI and deepfakes.

Time:  08:00 EDT / 13:00 BST / 14:00 CEST / 20:00 HKT

To Register, please complete the online registration form.

Video recordings Video recordings are available following each session and can be accessed on the Clifford Chance Client Portal and the Financial Markets Toolkit. 
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