Legal updates | Simmons & Simmons

Please join us for immediate reactions from senior members of our restructuring and special situations team to this morning’s judgment from the Supreme Court on Sequana, which provides the first guidance from the highest court in the UK on the duties owed by directors to creditors prior to the commencement of insolvency.

In this episode, we consider the published decision of Lord Mance in the arbitral proceedings brought by policyholders against their insurers. The claims were made under a clause similar to a clause which had been held not to cover by the Divisional Court in the FCA Test Case.  Lord Mance considered the extent to which the Divisional Court’s decision withstood the subsequent analysis of the Suprem...

Jack Simmons from Barclays shares his story about how reimagining Barclays contract template for commercial partnerships has had a massive impact.

Nick Schneider, Head of Division 511 – New technologies and data use, German Federal Ministry of Health- This session will discuss how the EHDS might overcome existing obstacles and enable EU actors to make use of the potential offered by a safe and secured exchange, use or reuse of health data, and what pitfalls should be avoided.

Prof. Alexander Radbruch, Chair Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University of Bonn - Join our session with Prof Alexander Radbruch, head of the newly created Clinic for Neuroradiology at the University Hospital Bonn. As one of Europe’s most influential researchers in radiology, he integrates digitalisation and artificial intelligence to improve oncological diagnostics.

Johannes Holzmüller, Director Football Technology & Innovation, FIFA - Technology advances at a tremendous pace in our daily life and the same applies to the sporting world. The presentation will focus on the potential of emerging technologies in football.

Lukas Staub, Attorney-atLaw / Policy advisor, Swiss Federal State Secretariat for International Finance - This session will discuss the potential effect the MICA, if adopted in the latest draft published in March 2022, will have on the EU market.

Rasmus Rothe, Co-founder and CTO, Merantix Labs/AI Campus - The use of AI applications in business is widespread, from process optimisation and enhanced monitoring to generative tasks. This session will discuss, through case studies, how Merantix’ AI applications are implemented in businesses today and what effect they have.

Christopher Götz, Minesh Tanna, Nina Fischer, Simmons & Simmons LLP - An overview of forthcoming AI regulation and policy in the EU, the UK and the Middle East. The presentation gives participants an understanding of draft regulations, national AI strategies and other similar legal issues that are currently being discussed in the field of AI in the various jurisdictions.

Nicole Formica-Schiller, CEO & Founder Pamanicor Health AG, Board German AI Association, OECD.AI Expert, Head EU AI-Regulation - This session will discuss how investors and companies should react to evolving regulations such as European AI Regulation and Data Act, in order to succeed on a global scale.