Cobalt has advised BaltCap on its investment in Fitekin and Onea software platforms of the Unifiedpost Group.
The State of Web Scraping in the EU
High-quality, diverse, and extensive datasets are fundamental for improving machine learning model performance, and web scraping helps gather the necessary data to develop more robust and generalizable models. Web scraping pose different legal challenges, such as data protection, copyright and contractual law related issues. Intellectual property concerns arise as website content, like text, images, and data, is often copyrighted, and scraping without the copyright owner’s permission may lead to infringement claims. Further to this, many websites prohibit scraping in their terms of service, and violating these terms can also result in legal action against the operators of web scrapers.
Greenberg Traurig and Clifford Chance Advise on CVC Capital Partners' Tender Offer for Comarch Shares
Greenberg Traurig has advised CVC Capital Partners on its tender offer for all shares in Comarch. Clifford Chance advised Comarch's shareholders – the Filipiak family. Oles Rysz Sarkowicz and White & Case reportedly advised other sellers.
Cobalt Advises Karma Ventures on Leads Pactum AI’s USD 20 Million Series B Round
Cobalt has advised Karma Ventures on leading the USD 20 million Series B funding round for Pactum AI with other investors including 3VC, Atomico, Project A, Superangel, PortfoLion, and Maersk.
Petra Zunova Becomes Director of Legal Affairs at Phrase
Former White & Case Associate Petra Zunova has become the Director of Legal Affairs at Phrase.
Artificial Intelligence and Patent Law
Amidst the adoption of the Artificial Intelligence Act by the European Union Council, as the world’s first legislation setting a global standard for regulating artificial intelligence (“AI“), we are entering into the still unregulated territory of the relationship between patent law and AI.
CMS and Mamic Peric Reberski Rimac Advise on Marlink's Acquisition of Diverto
CMS, working with White & Case's London office, has advised Marlink on its acquisition of Diverto. Mamic Peric Reberski Rimac advised Diverto.