Alexander Yap

Practice Areas

Cybersecurity & Data Protection; Corporate & Commercial; FinTech; Intellectual Property; Technology & Corporate Intellectual Property; Technology, Media & Telecommunications

Career

Alexander is Co-Head of the Firm’s FinTech Practice and a Partner in the Technology & Corporate Intellectual Property Practice. He advises on three key pillars:

• the acquisition, divestiture, provision, sharing, and receipt, of data, technology and intellectual property-related services and assets, including cryptographic tokens and digital assets;

• data breach and cybersecurity strategy, communications, management and compliance; and

• emerging and frontier technologies, such as autonomous driving, metaverses, large language models, transformer neural networks, and generative AI.

He advices on licensing, research & development, sponsorships, collaborations, franchising, online gaming, ‘as-a-service’ platforms (IaaS, PaaS, etc.), and on consumer-facing agreements and activities, such as lotteries and other promotions in compliance with gaming/gambling legislation.

Publications

The Singapore chapter of Lexology In-Depth: FinTech Law [2024], Law Business Research

The Right of Private Action – Did Allowing Emotional Distress Create Real Risk? [2022], Personal Data Protection Digest

Proskauer on Privacy: A Guide to Privacy and Data Security Law in the Information Age [2016-2023], Proskauer Rose LLP

The Singapore chapter of International Encyclopedia of Agency and Distribution Agreements [2022], Kluwer Law International

The Data Breach Notification Obligation and Case Studies for Financial Institutions and Employers [2021], Personal Data Protection Digest

Civil Proceedings under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 [2020], Personal Data Protection Digest

Personal Data and Customer Information in the Age of Fintech [2018], Personal Data Protection Digest

A Practical Approach to Data Intermediaries [2017], Personal Data Protection Digest

Languages Spoken

English