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Provided by Alexander Yap
Cybersecurity & Data Protection; Corporate & Commercial; FinTech; Intellectual Property; Technology & Corporate Intellectual Property; Technology, Media & Telecommunications
Alexander is Co-Head of the Firm’s FinTech Practice and a Partner in the Technology & Corporate Intellectual Property 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.
He advices 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.
The Singapore chapter of Confidentiality Consideration: Overview [2025], Practical Law
Employee Data Privacy: Pre-employment Screening and Data Protection Law Requirements [2025], Practical Law
The Oxford Handbook of the Foundations and Regulations of Generative AI: Generative AI in Singapore [2025], Oxford University Press
The Singapore chapter of Lexology In-Depth: FinTech Law [2025], Law Business Research
The Singapore chapter of ICLG: Digital Health [2025], Global Legal Group
The Singapore chapter of Lexology In-Depth: FinTech Law [2024], Law Business Research
The Right of Private Action – Did Allowing Emotional Distress Create Real Risk? [2022], Personal Data Protection Digest
Proskauer on Privacy: A Guide to Privacy and Data Security Law in the Information Age [2016-2023], Proskauer Rose LLP
The Singapore chapter of International Encyclopedia of Agency and Distribution Agreements [2022], Kluwer Law International
The Data Breach Notification Obligation and Case Studies for Financial Institutions and Employers [2021], Personal Data Protection Digest
Civil Proceedings under the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 [2020], Personal Data Protection Digest
Personal Data and Customer Information in the Age of Fintech [2018], Personal Data Protection Digest
A Practical Approach to Data Intermediaries [2017], Personal Data Protection Digest
English
Graduated from the University of Oxford with an M.A. in Jurisprudence
Provided by Chambers
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He has got good technical knowledge and is very responsive.
Alex has a commendable breadth and depth of knowledge in his area of expertise and beyond, and his practical approach is much appreciated.
He has got good technical knowledge and is very responsive.
Alex has a commendable breadth and depth of knowledge in his area of expertise and beyond, and his practical approach is much appreciated.