Topic: Blog post

The UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (the Bill) has started making its way through Parliament. The Bill proposes amendments to the UK’s Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 (NIS Regulations). The NIS Regulations implemented Directive (EU) 2016/1148, the EU’s first NIS Directive, and already impose cybersecurity obligations on some sectors.

The UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (the Bill) has started marking its way through Parliament. The Bill proposes amendments to the UK’s Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 (NIS Regulations). The NIS Regulations implemented Directive (EU) 2016/1148, the EU’s first NIS Directive, and already impose cybersecurity obligations on some sectors.

The video gaming industry is an alluring target for cyber criminals. In response, regulators in various jurisdictions have sought to bring video gaming into scope of critical infrastructure legislation or have adopted sector-specific rules.

Thailand’s legal sector, both the courts and the Lawyers Council, is beginning to develop frameworks, standards and guiding principles for AI utilization by lawyers and the judiciary that aim to maximize public benefit while ensuring transparency, accountability and the preservation of human decision-making authority.

The Regional Court of Munich (LG München I) has issued a landmark judgment in GEMA v OpenAI (Case No. 42 O 14139/24), holding that the use of copyrighted song lyrics for training generative AI models without a licence violates German copyright law.

The judgment was passed down on 4 November 2025 in Getty v Stability AI, the UK’s first case on infringement of intellectual property by generative AI.

Following our European and US tech sector M&A updates, outlook and overview of key regulatory trends, we turn our attention to China, and look at what we’re seeing in the market during 2025, and where we expect the opportunities to be as we head into 2026.

Following our European tech sector M&A update, outlook and overview of key regulatory trends, in the next video we discuss the United States (US) tech M&A market, and share what we’re seeing, highlighting trends since the new US Administration at the beginning of the year.

There were high hopes heading into 2025 that we would see a rebound in M&A around the world, however geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty meant the market was more subdued than many had been hoping for.

Thailand is once again moving forward with AI regulation in an effort to establish a comprehensive framework for the use of artificial intelligence in the country. On 1 October 2025, the National Cyber Security Agency, the agency under the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, published the “AI Securities Guideline” (the Guideline).