Another exiting episode of "Tech Law Bits" where Martin Schirmbacher interviews Alethea Au from Toronto, Canada and Moritz Maurer from Zurich, Switzerland. Their topic at the round table session of the 6th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference in Berlin will be on insuring reps and warranties.
Alethea and Moritz will discuss challenges in tech transactions when insurers of representations and warranties come into play. We speak about the consequences of a third party appearing in technology deals.

In the next episode of "Tech Law Bits" Martin Schirmbacher speaks with Raphael Dana of Dana.Law from Paris, France, on his table topic during the Hot Topics Roundtables session. Together with Astrid Wagner of Arendt in Luxemburg and Roland Marko of Wolf Theiss in Vienna, Austria, he will speak about data protection issues in cloud computing.
The three will discuss where cloud computing issues can be obsticles in technology transactions. The scenario they will be discussing is an American Investment Fund intending to invest in a European company from the health care sector with all their systems in various clouds world wide. Fun coming in :-)

In this episode of "Tech Law Bits" Martin Schirmbacher speaks with Rabindra Jhunjhunwala from Mumbai, India and Raz Tepper from Tel Aviv, Israel. Their topic at the round table session of the 6th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference in Berlin will be bad news: It is on downrounds in the technology sector.
The title is: "When the sky gets cloudy: Dealing with financing challenges / Downrounds". Attendees will talk about how to deal with the need for fresh money when evaluation goes down and how to avoid downrounds.

In the second episode of "Tech Law Bits" Martin Schirmbacher speaks with Soeren Skibsted of Kromann Reumert in Copenhagen, Denmark on his table topic during the Hot Topics Roundtables session. Together with Joacim Johannesson and the attendees in the three rounds Soeren will discuss how to find and avoid IT security risks as a buyer in technology transactions.

In this first episode of "Tech Law Bits" Martin Schirmbacher interviews Elisa Henry of BLG in Montreal, Canada and Erik Valgaeren of Stibbe in Brussels, Belgium on their table topic during the Hot Topics Roundtables session.
Before jumping to the topic Erik briefly explains what the around the tables session is all about and how attendees can participate.
Topic of Table #13 is Data privacy: lessons learned and future outlook. Thus colleagues visiting this table will discuss newest developments in privacy issues and the relevance for tech deals.

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