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TMT - Technology, Media & Telecommunications

Fuelled by increased consumer demand for cutting edge products and low-cost services, you face a constant battle to offer ‘more for less’. Innovation drives growth, provided you overcome significant regulatory and commercial hurdles.

Having worked on a broad range of cutting-edge technology, media and communications matters in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) over the past two decades, our market-leading specialists in the region have dealt with every risk and challenge you face in a rapidly evolving market, from IP infringement and anti-trust issues to the complex issues that arise as markets adapts to transformative technologies – big data, the cloud, e-health and the internet-of-things.

Many companies are also joining forces as they seek to meet highly capital-intensive demands for investment in technology and building networks. Our experts in CEE, many of whom have worked in-house in leading technology, media and communications companies, have led on a significant proportion of the limited number of network sharing arrangements that are in place across Europe.

We understand that technological convergence coupled with the rapid spread of new technologies has opened up a wealth of opportunities in your industry and you must move swiftly to capitalise on them. To stay ahead of the competition, you need to spot and pre-empt legal difficulties before they arise. From M&A to investment and financing, from tax to licensing and product liability, from intellectual property to employment and environmental issues, from network sharing to outsourcing, our multi-disciplinary teams can help guide you towards the most commercially successful outcome.

Our Prague TMC team advise clients locally and internationally, in connection with TMT due diligence projects, corporate acquisitions, review of IP policies and TMT contracts and other transactional work. The team advises clients on specific as well as very complex legal matters involving registration, protection and enforcement of all forms of intellectual property rights, including protection of know-how, trade secrets and unfair competition claims

We are actively involved in the industries in which you operate including telecommunications, technology, sourcing, sports and media, and are able to develop innovative solutions for you. Recognising the ever growing demand for and importance of data privacy, CMS has a dedicated data privacy team focusing on the full range of data privacy compliance matters, from privacy audits through to data security, transmission and management, as well as issues such as safe harbor and Big Data at both local and EU level.

High­lights of our ex­per­i­ence in Tech­no­logy, Me­dia & Com­mu­nic­a­tions in Czech...
Clari­on Cap­it­al Part­ners on its first in­vest­ment in Europe with the pur­chase of a ma­jor­ity stake in Moravia IT, a glob­al loc­al­isa­tion and trans­la­tion busi­ness headquartered in Brno, in­clud­ing the re­view...
CMS In­ter­act­ive Guide to On­line Gambling Reg­u­la­tion in Europe
CMS Ex­pert Guide to 5G
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26/05/2023
Per­form­ing ser­vices in a de­cent­ral­ised man­ner un­der Mi­CAR
At the end of April 2023, the European par­lia­ment de­cided on a uni­form reg­u­la­tion of crypto as­sets across the EU by vot­ing on the MiCA reg­u­la­tion (i.e. mar­kets in crypto-as­sets). The in­ten­ded in­nov­a­tions...
24/05/2023
De­Fi and MiCA: How much de­cent­ral­isa­tion is enough?
The European Uni­on Coun­cil has re­cently ad­op­ted a reg­u­la­tion on Mar­kets in Crypto-As­sets (MiCA) that ap­plies to crypto-as­sets, their is­suers and ser­vice pro­viders, and cov­ers a range of ser­vices that...
18/05/2023
5G reg­u­la­tion and law in the Czech Re­pub­lic
1. What is the state of 5G de­ploy­ment in your coun­try? All mo­bile net­work op­er­at­ors (MNOs) have de­ployed 5G net­works fo­cus­ing on the cov­er­age of the most pop­u­lated areas and spe­cific­ally cit­ies. Voda­fone...
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09/05/2023
On­line gambling law and reg­u­la­tion in the Czech Re­pub­lic
NotesAll reg­u­lated forms of gambling can be offered on­line, with the ex­cep­tion of tombola and small card tour­na­ments. Games of chance are con­sidered to be op­er­ated in the Czech Re­pub­lic if they are even...
04/05/2023
Di­git­al health apps and telemedi­cine in Czech Re­pub­lic
Di­git­al Health Apps/Soft­ware 1. How is the soft­ware with­in di­git­al health apps clas­si­fied in your jur­is­dic­tion, and what reg­u­la­tion(s) ap­ply? 1.1 Is it con­sidered a “med­ic­al device” or a “product”...
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21/04/2023
Key changes for com­pan­ies re­lated to the new Gen­er­al Product Safety Reg­u­la­tion
On 30 March 2023, the European Par­lia­ment ad­op­ted the Gen­er­al Product Safety Reg­u­la­tion for con­sumer products, which re­places the Gen­er­al Product Safety Dir­ect­ive of 2001 (2001/95/EC). The Coun­cil must...
05/04/2023
EU Data Act – Fo­cus on Cloud Ser­vices: in­ter­op­er­ab­il­ity stand­ard­isa­tion...
In the fourth Law-Now in our cloud ser­vices series on the Data Act (the “Act”), we fo­cus on the pro­posed meas­ures to in­crease in­ter­op­er­ab­il­ity of data pro­cessing ser­vices.  The re­cit­als to the Act...
28/03/2023
European Par­lia­ment and Coun­cil ready to start ne­go­ti­ations on EU Data...
In Feb­ru­ary 2022 the European Com­mis­sion presen­ted its pro­pos­al for the EU Data Act, which – if ad­op­ted - will in­tro­duce a far-reach­ing leg­al re­gime on ac­cess to and use of non-per­son­al data in the...
13/03/2023
Get­ting Brexit Done? The UK Re­tained EU Law and what it means for UK com­pan­ies
If the Re­tained EU Law (Re­voc­a­tion and Re­form) Bill is passed in its cur­rent form, nearly 50 years of EU-de­rived rules and reg­u­la­tions that had be­come part of the fab­ric of UK law across a wide range...
12/03/2023
Sil­ic­on Val­ley Bank’s cur­rent po­s­i­tion and what to do about it
Please refer to our latest pub­lic­a­tion Up­date to Sil­ic­on Val­ley Bank's cur­rent po­s­i­tion and what it means for the most up-to-date guid­ance. The team here at CMS has been saddened by the col­lapse of the...
23/02/2023
EU Data Act - Fo­cus on Cloud Ser­vices: switch­ing charges - who should shoulder...
In the third Law-Now in our cloud ser­vices series on the EU Data Act (the “Act”), we fo­cus on the pro­posed meas­ures to re­duce and re­move switch­ing charges. The Act aims to fa­cil­it­ate cus­tom­ers switch­ing...
20/02/2023
Sun­rise peri­od of the Uni­fied Pat­ent Court to be­gin 1 March
After the fi­nal ver­sion of the UPC Rules of Pro­ced­ure had been ad­op­ted and the judges of the UPC had been se­lec­ted and ap­poin­ted, the start of the Sun­rise Peri­od, ori­gin­ally planned for 1 Janu­ary 2023...