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Hill Dickinson advises UK bio-tech business Clean Food Group on investment by Clean Growth Fund

27 March 2024

We recently advised UK-based bio-tech business Clean Food Group Limited on a £2.5 million investment by Clean Growth Fund, a climate-specific UK venture capital fund. Click for more.

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Data protection: ICO publishes new guidance on biometric recognition

26 March 2024

The ICO has published new data protection guidance on biometric recognition (such as face-ID, fingerprints or speech recognition)...

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The crypto succession conundrum

25 March 2024

The benefits of decentralisation, cryptographical security and anonymity, which make crypto-assets so appealing to many, are also the things causing real issues when such assets form part of a...

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The future of transport data: innovating UK maritime, logistics and freight

22 March 2024

The UK Parliamentary Transport Committee has been considering how technological innovations, specifically the use of more sophisticated data, could be used to bring improvements and greater...

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Life and Death in the Metaverse: Succession Planning for the Digital World

27 February 2024

Imagine a time when your digital footprint is a 3D representation of you, which owns valuable digital fashion, digital land, stores countless digital memories and has a digitally recorded ...

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Hill Dickinson confirms new finance partner to bolster its London offering

20 February 2024

We're pleased to welcome corporate partner James Harmer to our London office where his specialism in debt capital market transactions will complement and enhance our existing corporate offering

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Securing seed capital for university spin-outs and how your lawyer can help

13 February 2024

Seed capital is money that is used to start and grow your business. New and growing businesses raise funding from various sources to cover the costs of developing, improving and getting their product

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Contentious Business Update - February 2024

08 February 2024

Welcome to our Contentious Business Update where we focus on some topical and interesting legal issues affecting businesses. We hope you find this edition informative and insightful...

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MASSive development in autonomous shipping

07 February 2024

On 16 and 17 January 2024, the UK Maritime Autonomous Systems Regulatory Working Group (MASRWG) held a virtual conference titled 'MASSive Development,' attended by Hill Dickinson.
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Making crypto tax less cryptic: taxpayer information to be shared by crypto platforms

05 February 2024

The UK, alongside 48 other countries, has signed the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) requiring crypto platforms to start sharing taxpayer information with tax authorities with a view to...

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AI - Judicial Guidance

05 February 2024

Much of the press in general, and particularly the legal press during 2023 focussed on the implications of AI. In December 2023, a number of the most senior judges in the UK (including Sir Geoffrey...

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Court finds compliance with third party disclosure did not contravene applicable sanctions

30 January 2024

Industry press has been reporting widely on the ongoing legal battles between a number of aircraft leasing companies and their insurers and reinsurers with regard to payouts for 'lost' aircraft and ai

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