Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Podcasts

In the latest podcast from Herbert Smith Freehills’ pension team, Rachel Pinto, Partner, is joined by Rosie Fantom, Partner at Barnett Waddingham and Uzma Nazir, Head of Origination Structuring at Pension Insurance Corporation. They discuss small to medium sized schemes and how these schemes can best prepare for transactions. In their conversation, Rachel, Rosie and Uzma cover: What size of scheme...

Our panel discuss the 2022 Australian Federal Election, the workplace reform agenda and potential impacts on our clients. Visit our hub .

In this podcast, Tim Smith, Pensions Professional Support Consultant, is joined by Richard Smith, Pension Dashboards Consultant at the Pension & Lifetime Savings Association to discuss the industry's hopes for pension dashboards and what schemes must do to get ready. In particular, he: explains what dashboards are and what it is hoped they will achieve highlights key elements of the propo...

In episode 13, Emma and Rebekah are joined by Sebastian Moore, a partner in Herbert Smith Freehills’ London & Milan offices, to discuss Europe’s new Unified Patent Court and unitary patents.

In the latest podcast from Herbert Smith Freehills’ pension team, Rachel Pinto, Partner, is joined by Rosie Fantom, Partner at Barnett Waddingham and Matt Richards, Senior Business Development Manager at Standard Life. They discuss the reasons why some schemes may choose to do a series of bulk annuity transactions, rather than a single transaction covering all of the scheme's liabilities. In...

In our first episode of INside Asia M&A, host Nanda Lau (Head of Corporate, China) explores with Joseph Fisher (Partner, Tokyo) and Ernst Müller (ESG and Natural Resources Law specialist, Johannesburg ) why ESG has become so important to dealmaking in APAC and how are ESG issues affecting M&A in the region. Joe and Ernst share with us examples of ESG considerations changing the nature of M...

In this episode, our Employment, Industrial Relations and Safety team take the wheel, with Olga Klimczak and Nerida Jessup hosting special guest, David Burroughs, Chief Mental Health Officer at Westpac. It’s an important, and lively, discussion on how organisations are shaping work and workplace culture so that our jobs are ‘good’ for our mental health. David speaks candidly about the issues corpo...

James Allsop (Tokyo) and Kathryn Sanger (Hong Kong) discuss the key issues arising out of their recent experience of contentious termination and expiry of distribution agreements, including utilising escalation steps in dispute resolution clauses, self-help remedies, interim-measures and brand protection. Visit our series here: https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/insight/the-future-of-consumer-%...

In this latest podcast from the Herbert Smith Freehills’ pension team, Mark Howard, Of Counsel, discusses the latest developments in the world of ESG with Head of Investment Proposition at Smart Pension, James Lawrence. In their conversation, Mark and James discuss: How Smart Pension is responding to investment in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine; How the trustees of the Smart Pension Master T...

In episode 12, Emma and Rebekah discuss patent trolls, the traditional targets of patent trolling activity and the emergence of a new trend in the renewable energy space.

Focusing on the resurgence of cartel enforcement by competition authorities as the COVID pandemic comes to an end (fingers crossed), Daniel Vowden , Adrian Brown , Agathe Esch and Pilar Carrasco discuss significant developments of key importance to businesses and their advisors.  Topics covered in our latest episode include the use of innovative sanctions to punish and deter cartels, the re-emerge...

Peggy Chow and Kaman Tsoi discuss the latest regulatory trends and future directions including the use of third party tracing cookies, the overlap between privacy and competition, proposed new laws on targeted advertising and cookies in the EU, the US, Japan and Australia, facial recognition and less privacy intrusive alternatives such as contextual advertising and Google's new Topics API tec...

In this mini-series, we discuss the recent sanctions measures implemented in the US, EU, and UK as a response to the crisis in Ukraine. In this episode, Jonathan Cross , Lode Van Den Hende , Elizabeth Head , and Brittany Crosby-Banyai focus on the recent sanctions that impact the Russian energy sector. We will continue to monitor developments in this area, and encourage you to subscribe to be kept...

グローバル案件における審査制度の不確実性（日本語版）日本国内外の企業結合届出や対内直接投資の規制改革により、取引がどのような場合に規制当局の審査対象となるかの予測が困難になっています。今回のエピソードでは、当事務所シニア・アソシエイト、 ジョエル・ルーベン がアンダーソン・毛利・友常法律事務所のパートナーである 金子涼一弁護士 を特別にお招きして、今般の改革の概要と、その結果もたらされた不確実な状況に...

In a special episode, HSF Tokyo senior associate Joel Rheuben is joined by Ryoichi Kaneko , a partner at leading Japanese law firm Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. Joel and Ryoichi discuss recent changes in merger control and foreign direct investment rules in and out of Japan that make it more difficult to predict when transactions can be subject to review by regulators. This podcast provides an ov...

In this podcast Tim Leaver and Sian Greenley discuss the impact of endometriosis on the workforce to mark endometriosis awareness month. Endometriosis is a chronic condition that affects around 1 in 10 individuals assigned female at birth. This podcast raises awareness of the potential impact this condition can have on the workforce and the steps that employers can take to support their employees...

Mel and Tim discuss a key battleground ahead of the election, climate change action, with Graham Phelan, ESG Lead for Frontier Economics. Graham takes a look back at previous election results to predict whether climate change action and the recent natural disasters will influence the 2022 election outcome – and considers if it’s time to put carbon pricing back on the agenda. Graham discusses the i...

In this 13th episode of our series of commercial litigation update podcasts, we give an update on recent cases relating to force majeure in the context of US sanctions, trial witness statements, draft judgments provided under embargo, and privilege, as well as cases and developments concerning cryptocurrencies. This episode is hosted by Anna Pertoldi , a partner in our litigation team, who is join...

In this latest podcast from the Herbert Smith Freehills pension team, Tim Smith, our Pensions Professional Support Consultant, discusses recent developments relating to the launch of pension dashboards with Professional Support Paralegal, Olivia Kettleborough. In their conversation, Tim outlines: what pension dashboards are and when they will be launching what schemes need to do to ensure they are...

Partner Anthony Wood and Senior Associate Lucy Boyd have a conversation with Maurice Blackburn Principal Josh Bornstein about sexual harassment and the recent Respect@Work report. Josh has acted for plaintiffs in some of Australia’s most high profile recent sexual harassment claims. Although often on opposite sides of employment litigation matters, it might surprise some viewers that we agree on m...

香港民事訴訟的流程繁多，一般公司就準備訴訟（或是避免訴訟）所採取的措施或會有不同的了解。上一集本所爭議解決部兩位成員：合夥人范芷君律師（ Jojo Fan ）和王曦彤律師（ Jocelyn Heng ）介紹了香港民事訴訟的流程，這一集將與大家探討訴訟開始後要注意的事項。 范芷君律師 （ Jojo Fan ）, 香港爭議解決部合夥人 王曦彤律師 （ Jocelyn Heng ）, 香港爭議解決部律師

In the second of our Diversity and Inclusion Podcast Series, Christine Young, Hywel Jenkins and David Palmer discuss the key points for regulated firms in light of the regulators' increasing focus on diversity and inclusion.

In this episode of our Private Wealth & Charities podcast series, Richard Norridge, Phoebe Fox and David Clarke, Chief Operating Officer (and formerly Director of Services) at the Royal National Institute of Blind People, discuss in more detail the charity's past, present and future. Part 2 of 2.

Kam Jamshidi and Malika Chandrasegaran discuss the rise in ESG consciousness and integration into the M&A process to manage risks whilst also driving consumer demand, with the energy transition providing valuable insights for consumer sector companies. Kam and Malika see four phases of ESG driven M&A including portfolio review, consolidation of ESG challenged businesses, private capital fo...

In this episode of our banking litigation podcast, we discuss and debate the key recent judgments likely to be of interest to 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 Phoebe Fox. You can find links to our blogs on the cases covered in this podcast below:•Privy Council considers reformulat...