Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Podcasts

Rachael McCarthy, Studio Director at Bates Smart, joins a panel of our Employment, IR and Safety experts, including Drew Pearson (Partner), Aaron Anderson (Partner) and Sophie Beaman (Senior Associate), to discuss a range of topics covering workplace design, employment and safety law and a practical operations perspective.

Note: This is an audio recording of a live webinar in our Catalyst series of webinars. As markets move from response to recovery, our focus is shifting too. We understand that navigating the pace of change, and defining your new normal can be overwhelming, so we are continuing to develop insights to help you recover, rebuild and reform. To watch the webinar on demand and access the resource materi...

Operator obligations: "reasonable and prudent" in challenging circumstancesSpeakers: Tomas Furlong (Partner, Dispute Resolution), Irina Akentjeva (Of Counsel, Corporate), Mitchell Dearness (Associate, Dispute Resolution)

Consumer sector companies are regularly changing and it is interesting to look ahead to see what the future consumer sector company will look like. A number of themes such as digital transformation have been accelerated by the impact of Covid-19. Other themes are emerging with the increasing importance of trust – in products, people, places and technology. Thomas Rüdiger Smith, leading Consumer Se...

In this episode, Ante Golem, Cameron Hanson and Gregg Rowan discuss the important considerations that help to inform the settlement of a class action, including the preparation for virtual mediations given current Covid-19 restrictions.

In this episode we discuss the most recent employment and IR issues and developments for HR practitioners and general counsel. Our panel canvass the lessons and insights they have been sharing with clients during this most uncertain economic period in a generation. We provide an update on COVID-19 and JobKeeper, how the federal governments IR reform is progressing, the recent state government ‘wag...

In our Corporate Crime & Investigations podcast we look to bring you timely and incisive commentary on key developments in the CC&I space. In this third episode we discuss recent activity regarding Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs). We focus specifically on three DPAs secured by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) involving Guralp Systems, Airbus and G4S Care and Justice Services. Speakers...

Note: This is an audio recording of a live webinar in our Catalyst series of webinars. As markets move from response to recovery, our focus is shifting too. We understand that navigating the pace of change, and defining your new normal can be overwhelming, so we are continuing to develop insights to help you recover, rebuild and reform. To watch the webinar on demand and access the resource materi...

We discuss the background to and contents of this guide, prepared to help our clients understand the ways in which Russian law restricts the choice of law in contracts and the types of dispute resolution mechanisms that can be used for Russia-related commercial contracts. Speakers:Nick Peacock, Partner, International Arbitration – LondonJeremy Garson, Partner, Dispute Resolution – LondonMaria Dolo...

Building from the themes discussed in our "Parenting and working from home" session, Dr Paula Barrett joins Merryn Quale, a partner in our Melbourne office for our next CATALYST webinar. Dr Barrett, an internationally recognised clinician, scholar and researcher in the field of child psychology speaks about positive coping skills to build resilience during these uncertain times.

Addressing a failure to provide funding and avoiding the splintering of a JVSpeakers: Paula Hodges QC (Partner, Global Head of International Arbitration), Maguelonne de Brugiere (Senior Associate)

Misalignment on expenditure – partner funding and sole risk  Speakers: Chris Parker (Partner) and Charlie Morgan (Senior Associate)

In this episode, our financial services regulation expert Fiona Smedley joins Ruth Overington, Christine Tran and Elizabeth Poulos to discuss the controversial new funding regulations applicable to litigation funding schemes used in class actions and its potential impact on class action proceedings.

Carla Liedtke, cyber security specialist from Control Risks is joined by our privacy expert, Kaman Tsoi, and IP Disputes partner, Rebekah Gay, to discuss cyber risk levels and activity in the wake of Covid-19 – cyber criminals really are thriving; what businesses can and should be doing to address these heightened risks; and what should you do if an attack does happen.

What is oversailing, and why does it matter? Kathryn Oie and Fiona Sawyer discuss what permissions and consents might be needed to oversail, what variations there are on oversailing, such as undersailing, and what can be done where it’s not possible to get the relevant consents. Speakers: Kathryn Oie, Of Counsel, Real Estate, London and Fiona Sawyer, Professional Support Lawyer, Planning, London

We have seen shareholders influence the outcome of a bid in a number of ways recently, including: agitating for a bid; blocking a bid; challenging a scheme at the sanction hearing; and bumpitrage. In the latest episode in our public M&A podcast series, we look at the different tactics shareholders may use and what bidders and targets can do to protect a deal. Speakers: Harriet Forrest and Anto...

In our latest podcast, Deputy Head of Global Arbitration Andrew Cannon and Professional Support Consultant Vanessa Naish analyse the revisions and highlight the more significant changes in the recently released LCIA Rules 2020.  Speakers: Andrew Cannon, Deputy Head of Global ArbitrationVanessa Naish, Professional Support Consultant

In our sixth episode, The Hon Justice Jonathan Beach of the Federal Court, Damian Grave and Stefanie Wilkinson discuss the Myer shareholder class action. The class action against Myer was the first shareholder class action in Australia to proceed to judgment. Justice Beach was the Trial Judge in that class action and in this podcast we explore some of the issues in that case and with shareholder c...

As Victoria settles into Stage 4 lockdown and Australia tries to keep new coronavirus outbreaks under control, many parents and carers are again facing the difficult juggle of work, parenting, and home-learning responsibilities. We want to support working parents and carers through this stressful and often tiring period. Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, renowned psychologist, author, broadcaster, and childr...

In our monthly update podcast, we look at 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 Ajay Malhotra. You can find links to our blog posts on the cases covered in this podcast below:Untangling, but not killing off, the Japanese knotweed: Suprem...

How investment treaties can protect foreign investments against State action Even investments into relatively stable ‎jurisdictions may be affected by changes in the political and financial landscape. No investor can completely insulate their investment from such changes, but access to an investment treaty can be critical for investors. Speakers: Andrew Cannon , Partner, Co-Head of Public Internat...

Episode 3: The biodiversity gain objective and urban greening in LondonSpeakers: Martyn Jarvis, Senior AssociateFiona Sawyer, Professional Support Lawyer

Class Action Fireside EP5: Product liability class actions by Herbert Smith Freehills Podcasts

Industry experts George Sutton, National Managing Partner - Business Risk at Grant Thornton, and Cory Davie, Managing Partner Australia Pacific at Control Risks join Merryn Quayle, Partner in our Melbourne Disputes team to explore risk and opportunity in a legal and broader commercial context, including how to re-position the relationship between risk and opportunity from ‘what could go wrong?’ to...

Episode 2: Achieving the biodiversity gain objectiveSpeakers: Martyn Jarvis, Senior AssociateFiona Sawyer, Professional Support Lawyer