TMT

From its offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Clyde & Co's TMT group works with clients on a broad spread of commercial and regulatory matters, such as the development or expansion of e-commerce platforms. In addition, it regularly assists with digital transformation initiatives, as well as procurement agreements relating to business-critical software. Clyde & Co is perhaps best known for its strong presence in the data protection field, where it has considerable experience counselling clients which are victims of data breaches or ransomware attacks. The core TMT group is backed up by the firm's market-leading arbitration team, which is well versed in representing media clients.

"Clyde & Co has a critical mass of knowledge and lawyers."

"The team helped us with deep industry and domain insights, and steering decisions in the right direction."

"Clyde's team is well resourced and has a wide range of capabilities."

"They're good at simplifying technical language for non-legal people. They're very good at being collaborative, available, pragmatic, and at digesting feedback and coming back with a solution."

Clyde & Co represented the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority in its negotiation of a 'data bridge' agreement with the UK Government to permit personal data transfers compliant with UK GDPR.