Lawyers

Alexander Yap

Alexander Yap

Work Department

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

Position

Co-Head of the Firm’s FinTech Practice

Career

Alexander is Co-Head of the Firm’s FinTech 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.

This involves advising 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.

Languages

English.

Education

Graduated from the University of Oxford with an M.A. in Jurisprudence.

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