Technology, Media and Telecommunications + Competition Law Convergence of Antitrust and TMT/Data Privacy Issues

Lai Ling heads the TMT Practice Group at Raja, Darryl & Loh. She works with a range of clients in the TMT sector, and advises on IT and telecommunications contracts, including agreements relating to procurement, software development, maintenance and support services, outsourcing, service level agreements, e-commerce, cloud services and privacy policies. She also advises clients from a variety of industries on compliance with cyber laws and data protection. The Legal 500 Asia Pacific included Lai Ling in its TMT “Hall of Fame” in its 2021 - 2023 editions. She has also been ranked highly by Chambers Asia Pacific in its 2019 – 2024 editions. In addition the Who’s Who Legal 2023 has recommended Lai Ling as a National Leader for Southeast Asia – Data 2023. She is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and is currently serving as the Vice-Chair of the TMT Committee of the IPBA.

Biography

Co-chair of Winston Strawn’s global Antitrust/Competition Practice and recognized as one of the nation’s “Top 250 Women in Litigation” by Benchmark Litigation US, Eva Cole focuses her practice not only on civil antitrust litigation and class actions, but also on international cartel investigations led by enforcement agencies around the world. She represents companies across industries—Itechnology, financial services, food & beverage, automotive, fashion—Iin a wide range of antitrust matters, including claims involving price fixing, bid rigging, group boycotts, no-poach, and monopolization, as well as those involving pricing algorithms. On the prevention side, Eva regularly works with multinational companies to develop robust antitrust-compliance programing, including reviewing and updating existing policies and conducting training. Her experience in the technology space includes defending Panasonic in massive price-fixing multi-district litigations; obtaining a major victory for an online real estate database company against allegations of impropriety involving an algorithmically generated estimate of real estate market value; and defeating class certification in a case against major credit card networks and card-issuing banks to eliminate competition on the transition to EMV technology and merchant steering designed to create interchange rate competition among the networks and banks. Recognized by esteemed publications like The Legal 500 US and Lawdragon, Eva stands as a leading lawyer in the antitrust space.

Biography

Kentaro’s main areas of practice include advising on global compliance matters such as antitrust and competition laws, international trade, business and human rights, whistleblower protection laws, and bribery regulations.

He has been selected as a Next Generation Partner in the Antitrust and Competition category of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific from 2020 to 2023. In addition, in Nikkei Newspaper, he has been ranked in the fields of international trade and economic security (2022) and business and human rights (2023) in “the Ranking of Lawyers Selected by the Companies”.