The Clifford Chance Podcast

Clifford Chance lawyers from around our global network discuss with Paul Landless, co-head of the firm's global Tech Group and one of the leaders of the Fintech practice, the key highlights that surprised, challenged and inspired them at this year's Singapore Fintech Festival. In this second of three podcasts, they discuss major shifts in artificial intelligence, digital currency and cybersecurity...

Clifford Chance lawyers from around our global network discuss with Paul Landless, co-head of the firm's global Tech Group and one of the leaders of the Fintech practice, the key highlights that surprised, challenged and inspired them at this year's Singapore Fintech Festival. In this first of three podcasts, they discuss perspectives and predictions from the Festival, and the impact of the pandem...

In the third episode of our Alternative Credit podcast series, Clare Burgess, James Pay and Alexandra Dimsdale-Gill focus on infrastructure investment, touching on the short and medium term impact of Covid-19, the winners and losers through the crisis and then go on to look beyond that, giving their take on the future trends in the infrastructure sector.

In the fifth episode in our Alternative Credit series, Simon Crown chaired a discussion on structured finance with Oliver Kronat from our Frankfurt office and Jessica Littlewood and Simeon Radcliff from our London office. Against a backdrop of a real economy severely impacted by Covid-19, the panel discussed the market for asset backed securities, covering trade receivables, securitisation and syn...

Changing perspective, the sixth episode in our Alternative Credit series focused on fund financing, the ways in which funds raise finance for onward investment. The discussion, chaired by Simon Crown with insights from Julia Tsybina, Andrew Husdan and Oliver Marcuse, explored the development of fund financing markets, types of fund structures and techniques which have contributed to the rapid deve...

Alternative Credit - private credit provided by non-banks - has grown substantially in recent years to become a key segment of the global asset management industry. In the first of a series of podcasts focusing on various aspects of the alternative credit markets, Simon Crown, Anthony Stewart, Faizal Khan and Owen Lysak provide an introduction to the issues that will need to be considered by those...

Real estate debt and the market for non-performing loans is a highly dynamic market, where the effects of the pandemic have been significant, presenting both challenges and opportunities. Simon Crown chairs the discussion in this the fourth episode of our Alternative Credit series, as Alis Pay, Barry O'Shea, Alexandre Couturier and Emma Matebalavu share their observations on recent developments.

2020 has seen strong interest in setting up debt funds, driven in part by the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the second episode podcast in the Alternative Credit series, Gerard Saviola, Richard Kalaher, Jonathan Bray and Lily Marcel provide an introduction to the key issues for financial investors who may be considering creating or expanding their fund portfolio to include debt funds.

In the second episode of our ISDS (investor-state dispute settlement) podcast series, senior associate Vlada LeMaic and associate Adrian Fourie discuss damages and how damages are quantified in investor-State disputes, with a particular focus on disputes arising out of the energy and resources sectors.

In this fourth and final episode of Australian arbitration podcast series, counsel Robert Tang and associates Alexandra Zhu and Haeran Chung discuss cybersecurity risks that could arise in the context of international arbitrations and explore some of the solutions that parties can adopt to protect their sensitive and confidential data from these potential risks.

In the first episode of our ISDS (investor-state dispute settlement) podcast series, senior associate Nathan Eastwood, associate Matt di Marco and trainee Amelia Hirst, discuss the importance of advance consent in investor-state arbitration.

In the final episode of our Asia Pacific Funds & Investment Management podcast series, Hong Kong partner Viola Lui and senior associate Benjamin Lohr talk about the regulatory aspects of the Hong Kong limited partnership fund regime.

In the third episode of our Australian arbitration podcast series, counsel Robert Tang, and associates Alexandra Zhu and Stephanie Brown, explore the circumstances in which an arbitration agreement might be extended to third parties.

In the second episode of Clifford Chance's Australian arbitration series, counsel Robert Tang and trainee Christine Wang discuss how it is becoming increasingly important to consider whether, and if so, how third-party funding costs can be recovered, in light of the rise in funding activity in the international commercial arbitration space.

This is the first episode of Clifford Chance's Australian arbitration podcast series. In this episode, Robert Tang and Daniel Forster discuss the arbitrability of disputes which arise in connection with the external administration of corporations in Australia.

In the fourth episode of our Asia Pacific Funds & Investment Management podcast series, partner Viola Lui and senior associate Benjamin Lohr in our Hong Kong office discuss the redomiciliation option for foreign private funds to register as Hong Kong LPFs proposed in the Limited Partnership Fund and Business Registration Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2021.

In the second episode of our Asia Pacific Funds and Investment Management podcast series, partner Viola Lui and senior associate Benjamin Lohr are joined by consultant Anthony Fay who shares his insight into the tax aspects of Hong Kong's new limited partnership fund regime, including the unified funds tax exemption and the proposed carried interest tax concession.

What distinguishes a successful cyber security strategy? As European businesses are increasingly gathering and monetising data, they are, at the same time, becoming more at risk of significant cyberattacks - it's critical to know the right steps to take before, during and after a cyber breach. Tech Group partners Dessislava Savova, Eduardo García, Marcin Ciemiński and Thomas Voland outline what bu...

A group of our antitrust and tech specialists - Gail Orton, Michel Petite, Katrin Schallenberg, Ashwin van Rooijen and Stavroula Vryna - talk us through the latest thinking from the European Commission about how to address competition concerns in the digital age and bring outdated e-commerce laws up to date.

Partner Charlotte Madden talks to Alex Nourry, Dimitri Slobodenjuk and Emily Xueref-Poviac about foreign direct investment regimes. This episode explores the reforming foreign direct investment rules and provides an overview across the key European jurisdictions, specifically focusing on Germany, France and the UK.

In the first episode of our new Asia Pacific Funds and Investment Management podcast series, partner Viola Lui and senior associate Benjamin Lohr in Hong Kong discuss the driving forces behind why Hong Kong is establishing a limited partnership fund regime, the history and development of Hong Kong partnership law, and what this means for sponsors, managers and investors in private funds.

Associate Isabel Palacios talks to Employment department head Juan Calvente and senior associate Efraína Fernández about the return to the workplace, the use of remote working and the main health and safety measures that must be observed by companies post-state of emergency.

Nuestros socios Iñigo Villoria y Eduardo García debaten sobre las oportunidades y desafíos para los deudores en el actual contexto de crisis con Francisco García-Ginovart, director de Houlihan Lokey.

In the second episode of our Best Delivery series exploring Clifford Chance's journey of growth, development and learning with our Innovation programme, Global Programme Director for Best Delivery Tom Slate is talking to our Legal Project Managers around the world.

Associate Monica Gemes talks to partners Lee Coney and Markus Stephanblome about some of the key considerations for financial investors contemplating P2Ps in Europe.