Tag: Compliance Programmes & AI Tools

UK FDI bill consultation responses will aim to narrow sector scope amid new agency capacity concerns

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by PaRR

Responses to the UK government’s consultation on mandatory notification under the National Security and Investment Bill published yesterday (11 November) will seek to narrow the proposed sector definitions, lawyers told this news service.

There are also concerns that a new agency within the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) tasked with policing the regime will be inundated with deal cases, lawyers noted.

“It is absolutely crucial […] to further refine the list,” Samantha Mobley, competition partner at Baker McKenzie said. Given proposed “draconian penalties” for failure to file, definitions have to be “crystal clear”, she argued.

The government has identified 17 such “core sectors”: advanced materials, advanced robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), civil nuclear, communications, computing hardware, critical suppliers to government, critical suppliers to the emergency services, cryptographic authentication, data infrastructure, defence, energy, engineering biology, military and dual use, quantum technologies, satellite and space technologies and transport.

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Adding new, very broad sectors such as communications, data infrastructure, energy, computing hardware and transport into the existing oversight regime under the Enterprise Act (2002) “has the potential to extend the reach [of FDI screening] considerably,” said Becket McGrath.

To read the full PaRR article: https://lnkd.in/dU3m46A

An array of clusters and interlacing threads (Deep dive into other technologies)

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Legility and Euclid Law teamed up for a series of articles that will guide companies and their legal and compliance teams through the challenges of the Information Age.

In this fourth and last article in the series, “An array of clusters and interlacing threads (Deep dive into other technologies)”, written by Rebecca Cronin, Director at Legility (EMEA) and Marie Leppard, Partner at Euclid Law, we explore the use of culling and unsupervised learning technologies, like near-duplication, email threading and conceptual clustering. This fourth article will help you navigate through this array of powerful technologies and provides practical advice on how and when to use them.

To read the full article, click here.

Is it CAR, TAR, RAR….? (Deep dive into Predictive Coding)

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Inventus (EMEA) and Euclid Law teamed up for a series of articles that will guide companies and their legal and compliance teams through the challenges of the Information Age.

The third article in the series, “Is it CAR, TAR, RAR…? (Deep dive into Predictive Coding)”, written by Alex Woodrow, Director at Inventus (EMEA) and Marie Leppard, Partner at Euclid Law, explores the use of Predictive Coding in the world of compliance. This third article will help you navigate through the various models of predictive coding available and provides practical advice on how and when to use them.

To read the full article, click here.

Cross your Techs and Dot your AIs

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Inventus and Euclid Law have teamed up to write a series of articles highlighting what companies and their legal and compliance teams need to know about the use of technology in competition law as well as guiding on how to tackle each step and overcome the challenges that come with it.

The second article in the series, “Cross your Techs and Dot your AIs”, written by Rebecca Cronin, Director at Inventus (EMEA) and Marie Leppard, Partner at Euclid Law, explores the use of Artificial Intelligence in the world of compliance. The article will help you navigate through the various technologies available and provides sound and practical advice on how and when to use them.

To read the full article, click here.

Marie Leppard speaks about Antitrust Compliance at the 2nd Annual ECLA 2019 Conference

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The final panel of the European Competition Lawyers Association (ECLA) annual conference on antitrust compliance took place on Saturday 25 May 2019 in Prague, moderated by Elena Garcia Aguado and with outstanding contributions by Marie Leppard, Nikiforos Iatrou, and Ondrej Dostal.

The discussion centered around the implementation of Antitrust compliance programs in many companies, with emphasis on the value of such programs for competition authorities / national court and the impact of new technologies as a valuable tool assisting companies in proving that they have effective compliance programs in place.

The full program can be downloaded here.