Data as an Asset
Data as your most valuable asset
Data often doesn’t receive as much attention as conventional media, software and technology applications. Increasingly emerging technologies, machine learning and AI rely on data to drive efficiencies. However, this often cuts across existing proprietary rights, including rights in data and confidential information. Having robust data governance, coupled with an effective data strategy, is essential.
We can support you in developing your data governance program, and, if required, can act as your outsourced Chief Data Officer (or CDO) to help support you in managing your data strategy.
We have developed a specific, dedicated, cross-practice, interdisciplinary and holistic ‘Data as an Asset’ service offering. This is designed to protect, unlock, enable and maximise value from your data assets – any issues arising from licensing in, and commercialising, others’ data. This combines our experience as regulatory data lawyers with complimentary fully integrated skills from our competition, commercial, technology, intellectual property and tax teams.
Securing your data (and digital) assets is a serious business which is reflected by the importance both stakeholders, rightsholders and regulators place on the value of data. For instance, fines in certain jurisdictions can now be as much as up to 5-10% of a group’s global annual turnover for serious breaches of legislation such as: data protection, cybersecurity, open data (eg EU Data Act and Data Governance Act), competition, consumer and AI regulation. Sanctions of this kind not only influence damage to reputation and trust, but may also result in material decreases in investment, exit multiples, goodwill and share price. Agentic and traditional AI can magnify these risks, as can the ability to re-identify individuals and confidential information through large language models (LLMs) and quantum computing.
Featured experience
Education research body
Providing legal advice and sector-specific guidance on the creation of an AI model that was designed to be trained on staff and pupil personal data, ensuring a data protection by design and default approach, including advice on data minimisation, lawful basis and ensuring data subject rights could be upheld.
Manufacturing companies
Integration of product-related data protection advice, and creation of go-to-market contract and product compliance playbooks.
Life sciences company
Providing risk training and compliance advice in relation to confidentiality and trade secrets.
Global consultancy
Advising on the development of a new confidentiality compliance tower function and carrying out a multitude of interviews with stakeholders to produce and present a risk assessment to the board.
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