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This summer, TLS attended the “M&A Spotlight: Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)” breakfast seminar hosted by Wolf Theiss and Mergermarket in London. Our attention was refocused on this emerging yet developed region, where businesses are reaping the rewards of an active mergers and acquisitions (…

The rate information is generated continues to increase exponentially. By 2020, the digital universe will be 44 zettabytes large, meaning there will be “40 times more bytes than there are stars in the observable universe.” [i] Concurrently, traditional information borders disintegrate or cease to…

fn{ vertical-align:super; font-size:12px; } During the first year since Australia’s Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme was rolled out in early 2018, there have been 964 data breaches reported.1 Of those, 60% were reported as malicious or criminal in nature, and another 30% related to human…

One of our experts was lucky enough to attend the annual General Counsel (GC) Summit in Sydney, Australia, in early May. It was a genuinely enthralling event, with senior speakers from a variety of industries walking through their challenges, failures, solutions and lessons learned. We have…

On June 5, 2019, TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS) teamed up with Suffolk Law School to host an educational event filled with lively conversations about the most important issues affecting the intellectual property (IP) community here in Boston. As a leading provider of legal technology solutions…

Clinical trial subjects will have new privacy rights with the implementation of the EU’s upcoming data privacy regulation—GDPR.

For many businesses, the acronym GDPR has become synonymous with “greatest operational and legal challenge over the next five years.” In turn, you have probably been targeted with buckshot marketing campaigns introducing solutions that will supposedly save you and your loved ones from impending…

As patients, we expect healthcare providers to keep our personal information safe and secure. We also expect them to make healthcare as accessible as possible. Providers have responded to demand by offering mobile apps, paperless transfer of medical records, online bill payment, and email-based…

One of the core advantages that drives parties to arbitrate is the promise of confidentiality. Unlike court proceedings, which are open to the public, arbitrations provide parties with a private forum through which to air and resolve their disputes. This advantage, however, is threatened by…

The new Federal Rule 37(e) governing the imposition of “spoliation sanctions” (i.e., remedial measures that judges may impose against a party for failing to preserve potentially relevant evidence) became effective December 15, 2015.  The rule change was intended to:

Patent portfolios are a fundamental building block, and an important revenue stream, for today’s global companies. The USPTO reported a 10% increase in the number of patents issued from 2012 to 2013, with the total number of assignees increasing by more than 4,000. Among PCT filing countries, China…

Last month, TransPerfect held its annual internal conference which made a pleasant change of pace from my attic confines of the last two years. The event was as intense, thought-provoking and instructive an experience as I’ve had in a professional workplace. The key themes outlined below are of…