August 2025

Artificial Intelligence at work: Legal issues in French labour law

Laure Joncour — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:06:58 Z

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly present in our professional lives—whether in recruitment, human resources management, task automation or decision-making. Employees use AI to enhance their efficiency or to assist with repetitive tasks, often without informing their managers.

Explain yourself: The legal requirements governing explainability

Marcus Evans, Rosie Nance, Lily Hands, Lisa Fitzgerald — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:31:57 Z

Agentic AI brings the promise of AI making a range of decisions autonomously. It has been proposed as the way forward for some of the most impactful decisions in our lives: interacting with customers and actioning requests, triaging requests for medical appointments, and hiring candidates — to name a few.

Integrating artificial intelligence in M&A processes: A new strategic era – Part 1: Leveraging AI and its advantages

Jérémie Wyatt, Imran Ahmad, Domenic Presta — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:26:29 Z

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming established practices in multiple areas across all industries, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are not immune to this transformation. From the exploratory phase to due diligence, including contract drafting and negotiations, AI enables M&A teams to leverage powerful tools for analysis, automation, and prediction, thus improving efficiency, accuracy, and objectivity.

Technology contracts in the ADGM: New requirements under the Cyber Risk Management Framework

Shabnam Karim, Kerri Gevers — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:27:56 Z

Regulated financial services sector firms in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) have six months to comply with the new Cyber Risk Management Framework announced by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) on 29 July 2025.

Cyber risk management in the ADGM: an analysis of the new regulatory framework

Shabnam Karim, Kerri Gevers, Simon Lamb — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:09:48 Z

On 29 July 2025, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) announced the implementation of a new Cyber Risk Management Framework that will apply to financial sector firms under its supervision.

EU design law reform: Implications for businesses

Ronak Kalhor-Witzel — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:35:57 Z

On 1 May 2025, the first phase of reform of European design law entered into force. Regulation (EU) 2024/2822 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/73 together, as phase I, form part of a broader modernisation initiative (the so-called “Designs and Models Package”) being implemented in two phases.

German Federal Court refers ad blocker case back to Hamburg Higher Regional Court

Ronak Kalhor-Witzel — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:20:54 Z

On 31 July 2025, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) issued its decision (decision of 31 July 2025 - I ZR 131/23) in the long-running dispute between Axel Springer and Eyeo (Adblock Plus), referring the case back to the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg for further examination. (Our previous blog, Germany: Copyright and ad blockers, summarises the earlier stages of this litigation.)