Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Podcasts

This webinar explores global litigation risk issues, insurance and risk mitigation, featuring: Anne Hoffmann, a Partner specialising in insurance, financial services and cyber; Paul Lewis, HSF’s London-based Global Co-Head of Disputes and a commercial and insurance litigation specialist; Melissa Gladstone, a Partner specialising in class actions and regulatory issues; Mark Smyth, a Partner special...

In this episode Silke and Jannis will discuss the significance of the upcoming COP28 and some of the key themes likely to be covered at the conference. Speakers: Silke Goldberg, Partner and Jannis Bille, Senior Associate

In this FDI Friday episode, Sandhya Foster (Director) and Stewart Payne (Senior Associate) discuss practical insights into foreign investment regulation in South Africa with Ruth Allen (Professional Support Lawyer), drawing on their experience of the review process. Speakers: Sandhya Foster (Director, Competition and Foreign Direct Investment), Stewart Payne (Senior Associate, Competition and Fore...

Our new podcast, The Fraud Files: Decoding the Economic Crime Act, breaks down everything you need to know about the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, its impact on corporate criminal liability and the new offence of failure to prevent fraud. In this initial episode, Susannah Cogman, Elizabeth Head and Jessica Chappatte provide an overview of the key provisions of the new Act and its...

Postcard from Bangkok! Tony Damian and Andrew Rich chat with M&A partner Nonnabhat Paiboon on the latest on Thai and South East Asian M&A.

In episode 21, Emma and Rebekah talk all things Barbie and how Mattel has transformed the BARBIE brand into an empire using trade mark licensing and enforcement.

In this 21st episode of our series of commercial litigation update podcasts, we look at developments relating to litigation funding since the Supreme Court's dramatic decision in Paccar in late July, as well as brief updates on ADR, pre-action conduct and costs. We also discuss developments relating to Russian sanctioned parties, and the disqualification proceedings brought against former non-exec...

In this FDI Friday episode, Nonnabhat (Niab) Paiboon (Partner) and Pannalin Jantadee (Senior Associate) discuss practical insights into the application of the Thai FDI regime with Ruth Allen (Professional Support Lawyer), drawing on their experience of advising on the review process. Speakers: Nonnabhat (Niab) Paiboon (Partner, Head of Corporate, Bangkok), Pannalin Jantadee (Senior Associate, Corp...

Lucy McCullagh, Alice Molan and Anna Coroneo take the wheel to debrief their key takeaways from the Australian Sustainable Finance Summit 2023, including Australia’s progress toward a financial system aligned with sustainability commitments, the creation of an Australian sustainable finance taxonomy, the development of disclosure and reporting standards and the importance of transition financing....

There is still a good level of activity with the consumer and energy / resources sectors taking leading roles, Tony Damian and Andrew Rich wrap Q3!

In this podcast, Sarah Boyce, Associate Director of the Association of Corporate Treasurers, joins Oliver Henderson, Chelsea Fish, Nick Rutter and Emily Barry of Herbert Smith Freehills to discuss how the Corporate Debt landscape has evolved in 2023. They touch on lending options, the US private placement market and hedging, and look ahead to the launch of the 2024 Corporate Debt Report.

In the second part of our TechQuake discussion, Emerging Technology Group co-head Alex Cravero discusses the hottest topic in cutting edge tech: artificial intelligence (AI). Driven by audacious breakthroughs in generative AI such as ChatGPT, triggering an investment boom and anxious debates over social impacts and the potential for fake news, the technology has captured popular imagination. Looki...

In this FDI Friday episode, Nanda Lau (Partner) and Gavin Guo (Partner) discuss practical insights into the application of the Chinese FDI regime with Ruth Allen (Professional Support Lawyer), drawing on their experience of advising on the review process. Speakers: Nanda Lau (Head of Corporate, China), Gavin Guo (Corporate Partner, Kewei) and Ruth Allen (Professional Support Lawyer, Competition an...

In this FDI Friday episode, David Dawborn (Partner) and Cellia Cognard (Partner) discuss practical insights into the application of the Indonesian FDI regime with Ruth Allen (Professional Support Lawyer), drawing on their experience of advising on the review process. Speakers: David Dawborn (Partner, Corporate), Cellia Cognard (Partner, Corporate) and Ruth Allen (Professional Support Lawyer, Compe...

In this edition of our banking litigation podcast, we consider some recent cases that will be most relevant to in-house lawyers at banks and financial institutions. This episode is hosted by John Corrie, a partner in our banking litigation team, who is joined by Ceri Morgan and special guest Charlotte Benton. You can find links to our blogs on the cases covered in this podcast below: • High Court...

In this podcast, Alan Watts, Gregg Rowan and Maura McIntosh look at where class actions are now in England and Wales, and how we see things developing in the next few years. The presenters are all authors of Class Actions in England and Wales, a textbook authored by Herbert Smith Freehills lawyers and published by Sweet & Maxwell. This is the ninth and final episode in our series of podcasts to ma...

In this FDI Friday episode, Hubert Segain (Partner) , Marius Boewe (Partner) and Daniel Barrio (Senior Associate) discuss the cooperation mechanism introduced by the EU FDI Regulation with Ruth Allen (Professional Support Lawyer), sharing their insights into how this is impacting cross-border M&A transactions in practice. Speakers: Hubert Segain (Partner, Head of Corporate, Paris), Marius Boewe (P...

In this FDI Friday episode, Lode Van Den Hende (Partner), Kyriakos Fountoukakos (Partner) and Morris Schonberg (Senior Associate) discuss the new EU foreign subsidies regime with Ruth Allen (Professional Support Lawyer), sharing their insights into the impact on investors and what companies can be doing already to prepare for new notification obligations. They are joined by James Robinson (Partner...

In this episode, join Partner Andrew Eastwood, Senior Associate Ed Einfeld and Solicitor James Samartzis as they explore what ASIC will bring to the table as a co-regulator of the upcoming Financial Accountability Regime.

An insight into recent venture capital deals: Dive into the market’s current soft valuations and whether they are holding true or not with host Malika Chandrasegaran, Partner from our Singapore corporate M&A team and special guests Claire Thompson, Co-Head of VC (Australia) and Victor Chiew, Director at our associated Singapore law firm Prolegis. Hear their thoughts on the changing ‘Market Standar...

Rounding off our TechQuake series tackling the high-impact technologies shaking up business and society, our two-part discussion explores the development of a host of emerging tools and platforms in a period in which such advances have often dominated the headlines. Joining forces with our Emerging Technology Group, the discussion looks back on the developments in The Metaverse, Crypto Assets and...

Tony Damian and Andrew Rich sit down with Nicole Pedler who discusses all things 2023 Public M&A Report, along with a special thank you...

In this episode of our shareholder activism podcast series, we discuss activism and AGMs, including: • why we see more activism around AGMs, • the sorts of areas that activists target and • what companies can do to prepare ahead of their next AGM. Speakers: Mark Bardell, Antonia Kirkby and Gareth Sykes

In the first of a new season of Employment Espresso Pods, Partner Tim Leaver, together with Consultant Peter Frost and Senior Associate Sian McKinley, discuss the key employment-related proposals put forward by the Labour Party in its Green Paper last year and the recent party conference. Particularly eye-catching proposals on Labour's agenda discussed in this podcast include: (1) a new single sta...

In the second episode of our Inside IR mini-series on the ‘Closing Loopholes’ Bill, Rohan Doyle, Anthony Wood and Lucy Boyd discuss four significant elements of the Bill, being: the new casual employee definition, the new definition for working out whether a worker is an employee or contractor, and the new workplace delegate rights. Rohan, Anthony and Lucy explore the consequences of these propose...