Growing your Technology business
Portfolio optimization allows focus on core assets and growth strategies. Challenges continue around addressing Foreign Investment Regimes, with a trend towards greater deal regulatory scrutiny globally. For complex transactions, we provide an integrated end-to-end service that includes corporate, tax, merger and foreign investment control, as well as IP, data privacy/cybersecurity, employment, tax and compliance advice.
In the face of capital constraints, geopolitical risk and global economic headwinds, we can advise on M&A, joint ventures and strategic alliances to access the right technology to support your business strategy.
We help you to manage funding challenges and downstream vendor stability, and deliver the intended value from your investment decisions through robust post-deal integration to ensure smooth transitions of strategic transactions. We can also improve liquidity and enable greater focus on your core businesses operations through carve-outs and spin-offs.
Protecting your Technology business
We help to navigate the global patchwork of regulations affecting clients in the Technology Sector, especially sector specific regulations and investigations eg DMA, DSA, anticipating challenges and mitigating risk. With increased scrutiny on the Technology sector — and regulatory bodies racing to keep pace with technological advancement — clients need seamless, real-time advice from specialists on the ground in all markets.
We help clients avoid and address disputes, including with tax authorities around digitization, IP, cybersecurity, ESG, product quality and the implementation of Pillars 1 and 2. Our assistance also includes defending class action litigation, including that arising from new legislation, and helping to steer our clients through business-to-business disputes including around service implementation and the exit of contracts.
Rising protectionism and geopolitical tensions are affecting supply chains and trade. We help clients to navigating the ever-evolving sanctions enforcement landscape to avoid facing material fines, reputational damage and criminal charges.
Technology companies are facing unprecedented fiscal policy change. We can help to Help to manage risk across all aspects of the tax lifecycle, including re-evaluations of tax strategy, assistance with increased tax dispute complexity and obtaining certainty around Pillar 1 and 2.
Future-proofing Technology businesses
With the emergence of new business models and technology offerings, we ensure clients have considered the full gamut of issues, including around reputational concerns, ESG requirements, ethical considerations and inclusion and diversity matters.
Our experts navigate challenges around technologies such as AI, virtual worlds and gaming, from risk mitigation and management to dispute resolution and enforcement measures. We ensure contracts are watertight, structuring digital asset contracts to comply with financial and other regulations. And we facilitate proactive cooperation and policy discussions to contribute to the broader development of the sector.
The technology sector has seen a recent increase in employee activism, with a growing trend towards mass walk outs as we as virtual activism. Employee activism may also spur/align with investor and consumer activism. We help technology companies with their industrial and employee relations strategies. In addition to providing advice on reputation management we can help to review company policies.
Sustainability and ESG issues are of increasing importance to technology companies around issues such as CSRD regulations, energy, data centers, environmental requirements, forced labor, supply chains and more. We can help with compliance and reporting requirements and horizon scanning of ESG issues.
