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Risks and responsibilities: exploring AI liabilities
May 2025 | COVER STORY
As the AI landscape rapidly advances, companies must prepare for potential risks associated with AI failures. To manage and mitigate liability, they can take proactive steps to address pertinent issues.
Gathering steam: trends in tech M&A
May 2025 | FEATURE
As evidenced, all indicators point to tech sector M&A experiencing a significant resurgence. Momentum is returning, with companies prioritising acquisitions that accelerate innovation and differentiation in an increasingly competitive landscape.
JV governance: navigating challenges and opportunities
May 2025 | FEATURE
While the pursuit of JV deal opportunities can be lucrative for those that choose to undertake them, they also carry significant risk, often involving activities which require optimum operational excellence and performance on the part of the strategic alliance concerned.
The new frontier: the rise of Agentic AI
May 2025 | FEATURE
Growth in the Agentic AI market will be driven by technological advancements, increasing demand for automation across various industries, and the rising necessity for efficient and intelligent systems that can autonomously manage complex tasks.
FinTech regulation
May 2025 | WORLDWATCH
The global FinTech sector is a trillion-dollar market. As technology continues to evolve, the innovative products and services provided by FinTechs will continue to reshape the financial services landscape as we know it. FW moderates a discussion between Suhuyini Abudulai at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Ying Yi Liew at CMS Holborn Asia, Yulia Makarova at Cooley (UK) LLP, Andrew J. Zammit at GVZH Advocates, Sophie Anne Clark at Norton Rose Fulbright Australia, and Desiree Reddy at Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Inc.
Q&A: Private equity investment in sport
May 2025 | SPECIAL REPORT
PE firms bring innovation and competitiveness, but profit-driven measures must align with the sport’s culture and not burden fans. FW discusses private equity investment in sport with Matt Bonass, Craig Giles, Richard Bush, Jon Goldsworthy and Intisar Abdi at Bird & Bird LLP.
Q&A: Strategies for maximising value in complex transactions
May 2025 | SPECIAL REPORT
It is critical that internal stakeholders align on the vision for the integrated business from the outset. FW discusses strategies for maximising value in complex transactions with Nicola Longfield, Hannah Twist, John Moth, Francesca Scott and Gareth Jones at KPMG in the UK.
Silent AI – a new and unintended threat to traditional policies?
May 2025 | SPOTLIGHT
Lessons from silent cyber are under review to avoid the rise of ‘silent AI’ – the unintended cover provided for losses generated as a result of the implementation, embedded or otherwise, of AI technologies and unexpected risks.
Infrastructure M&A
May 2025 | TALKINGPOINT
Transactions in the infrastructure sector typically involve increased interactions with regulators and require a deep understanding of the regulatory regime and associated risk. FW discusses infrastructure M&A with Elena Rubinov, Vinita Sithapathy, Michael Rodgers, David Martin and Michael Honan at Linklaters LLP.
Data centre M&A in 2025
May 2025 | TALKINGPOINT
The rise in demand for digital infrastructure is being driven by a combination of technological innovation, evolving business needs, the explosion of data and the broader global shift toward digitalisation. FW discusses data centre M&A with Chelsea Pullen, Joshua B. Forman, Shawn K. Ronda at Greenberg Traurig, Martin Lerda at Tecto Data Centers, and Michael Borchetta at Harrison Street.
Managing transactional risk and insurance in Japan
May 2025 | TALKINGPOINT
More businesses in Japan are likely to integrate W&I insurance into their M&A transactions to mitigate risks and enhance deal certainty. FW discusses transactional risk and insurance in Japan with Kosuke Inada, Toshifumi Kajiwara and Takuya Miyazawa at Time Machine Underwriters.
Responsible business in private capital
May 2025 | TALKINGPOINT
Responsible business principles can, over the long term, help create a resilient business that can better adapt to rapidly changing conditions in an increasingly volatile world. FW discusses responsible business in private capital with Beth Balkham, India Benjamin, Sophie Giblin and Simon Ward at Farrer & Co.
Foreign business in Russia: legal insights for those staying or planning a return
March 2025 | RISK MANAGEMENT
We are entering a new historical era, one that is markedly different from the past five decades. The age of globalisation – both in everyday practice and in law – is giving way to fragmentation. This shift is reflected in events such as Brexit and the abolition of the ‘non-dom’ regime in the UK, the…
Prospects for asset recovery and confiscation in the EU
March 2025 | FRAUD & CORRUPTION
European asset recovery provisions are part of the common European strategy against organised crime, corruption and money laundering, falling within the international parameters of the United Nations Convention against Organised Crime, the United Nations Convention against Corruption…
Brazil’s new insurance risk ‘note’: contribution to insurance and reinsurance
February 2025 | FINANCE & INVESTMENT
Inspired by insurance-linked securities (ILS), Brazilian Law No. 14,430 of 3 August 2022 introduced the legal framework for accepting insurance, supplementary pension and health, reinsurance or retrocession risks from one or more counterparties and financing them through the issuance…
Impact of recent legislative developments on employment and human resources
February 2025 | LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT
On 8 July 2024, the ‘Law of Foundations and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentinians’ No. 27,742 was published in the Official Gazette and came into effect on 9 July 2024. Likewise, on 26 September 2024, regulatory decree No. 847/2024 on the regulation of sections 82 to 98 of Title V…