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Digital Transformation - Understanding Your Ecosystem: Structuring Vendors & Contracts
Posted: 13/03/2025
Vendor relationships and contract structuring are critical to any successful digital transformation, but many businesses fail to take a holistic approach when engaging with new technology providers. In this episode, Sarah Kenshall, Joanne Vengadesan, and Phillip D’Costa discuss how businesses should assess existing contracts......>>
Getting Started - The Significance of the Statement of Work
Posted: 13/03/2025
A well-structured Statement of Work (SoW) is the foundation of a successful digital transformation project, ensuring clarity between all parties involved. In this episode, Sarah Kenshall and Oliver Kidd explore why an SoW is crucial in defining project scope, deliverables, and responsibilities......>>
Navigating Regulatory Challenges - Data Flows and AI
Posted: 13/03/2025
As businesses integrate AI and automation into their digital strategies, navigating data privacy and cybersecurity regulations becomes increasingly complex. In this episode, Charlotte Hill and Dan Lovett break down the legal frameworks governing AI and data flows, examining the EU AI Act, UK regulations, and sector-specific compliance requirements......>>
Legal Due Diligence in M&A and Investor Scrutiny
Posted: 13/03/2025
Digital transformation is a key focus in M&A transactions and investment due diligence, with investors scrutinising contracts, intellectual property rights, and regulatory compliance before committing to deals. In this episode, Oliver Kidd and Joanne Vengadesan discuss the legal risks that arise when acquiring or investing in businesses undergoing digital transformation......>>
Managing Project Difficulties and Exit Strategies
Posted: 13/03/2025
Digital transformation projects often encounter delays, disputes, and unexpected challenges, many of which stem from misaligned expectations, unclear deliverables, and inadequate contractual protections. In this episode, Joanne Vengadesan and Phillip D’Costa explore the common pitfalls businesses face, particularly in data migration, change management, and project implementation......>>
Risk Management in Digital Transformation
Posted: 13/03/2025
Digital transformation introduces a range of risks, from cybersecurity threats and regulatory breaches to financial instability and supplier insolvency. In this episode, Sarah Kenshall, Matt Clarke (Cyber Director, Partners&), and Phillip D’Costa outline the key corporate, technological, and contractual risks businesses must address......>>
Biometric recognition technologies: what are your data protection obligations?
Posted: 27/01/2025
Biometric recognition technologies offer enhanced security, efficiency and convenience, but their use also brings enhanced data protection obligations. Organisations using these systems, particularly educational institutions, must be alert to the risks they pose and the steps that must be taken to mitigate these. Many organisations use systems......>>
Clinical trials and AI – legal challenges and pitfalls: Penningtons Manches Cooper’s inaugural life sciences conference
Posted: 12/12/2024
The life sciences sector group at Penningtons Manches Cooper chose the topic of AI for its inaugural life sciences conference, given its relevance to all life sciences companies wishing to put their products into clinical trials, both now and in the future. The conference began with its keynote, ‘Unlocking Potential - Using AI in Clinical Research’......>>
Data protection and privacy: safeguarding trust in the digital age
Posted: 11/12/2024
In the UK, the collection and use of personal data is governed by an adapted version of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. The UK GDPR broadly mirrors the EU GDPR, but has been amended to allow it to operate effectively post-Brexit. The legislation sets out seven principles that govern......>>
The impact of finfluencers on Millennial and Gen Z investment preferences
Posted: 26/11/2024
Social media, in recent years, has witnessed a significant rise in ‘finfluencing’ (financial influencing), with many finfluencers amassing followings into the millions as younger consumers increasingly turn to social media for investment information and advice.The hugely extensive public reach of finfluencers was made clear by a 2023 study......>>

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