The Linklaters Podcast

In this short podcast, our Head of Hong Kong Employment & Incentives Samantha Cornelius joins Joshua Li, a Managing Associate within the team, in discussing the most typical questions being asked by employers when developing a staff vaccination policy for Covid-19 in Hong Kong SAR, including mandating of vaccines, the underlying legal risks and implications, and the collection of data on vaccinati...

Episode 7: Competition Litigation Podcast Series In the seventh episode, James Hennah and Alice Shaw discuss disclosure and confidentiality in competition litigation.

Episode 1: Global Foreign Investment Podcast Series Our first podcast features Nicole Kar, Head of London & Dublin Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group, alongside Chris Blairs, Deputy Director, and Andy Ormerod-Cloke, Head of Policy at the new Investment Security Unit (ISU), BEIS. Together they discuss the operational aspects of the ISU and filings from 4 January once the NSIA takes effect. Topics...

Episode 9: Global Business Crime Outlook In our ninth episode Alison Saunders is joined by Adam Lurie, Elly Proudlock and our guest speaker, Christopher Kerrigan, Partner at Allens in which they discuss the current DPA regimes in the UK and US as well as the proposed new regime for Australia. We also focus on the challenges that the UK and US authorities have faced with DPAs and try to examine wha...

Episode 6: Competition Litigation Podcast Series In the sixth episode, Harriet Ellis, James Hennah and Alice Shaw discuss the English courts approach to jurisdiction in competition litigation claims.

Episode 8: Operational Resilience Raza Naeem, Clare Wiles and Simon Treacy assess how prepared the UK asset management sector is for operational resilience rules to take effect. Raza Naeem, Counsel: “At this stage and over the next year or so there’s still time to pin down that legal analysis and recalibrate if necessary.”

Episode 5: Competition Litigation Podcast Series In the fifth episode, Tom Cassels and Jason Shardlow-Wrest discuss what ‘applicable law’ means, and how issues of applicable law might arise in competition litigation.

Episode 1 Whilst at COP26 in Glasgow, Matt Sparkes, Global Head of Sustainability at Linklaters, interviewed Linklaters alumnus Olivia McKendrick and National Geographic photographer Chris Rainier, co-founders of the  Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation . The Foundation's mission is to protect indigenous cultures, which are crucial in the global fight against climate change and wilderness destruction....

Our China Head of AFIG Fay Zhou together with Arthur Peng shares with Marcus Pollard about the latest Draft Amendments to the Anti-Monopoly Law in China, expected to be the largest set of changes to the country’s competition law since it came into force, as well as other recent highlights developments around SAMR’s draft platform guidelines and the Price Law. Diving into the substantial changes pr...

Episode 12: ESG Soundbite Series In our second podcast, David Ballegeer and Linda Taylor , together with Els Janssens , explore how the proposed EU Green Bond Standard fits into the broader EU sustainability plan, in particular the taxonomy and its new reporting requirements and key performance indicators (KPIs). They also discuss how it interacts with Sustainability-Linked Bonds (SLBs), where KPI...

Episode 4: Competition Litigation Podcast Series In the fourth episode, Sarina Williams and Haidee Barratt discuss what ‘limitation’ means, why it’s important, and the key statutory rules and court decisions which determine limitation periods applicable to competition damages claims in the UK.

Episode 4: The FCA’s Consumer Duty In this podcast episode we discuss aspects of the FCA's proposed financial services consumer duty that may have particular implications for both retail and wholesale asset managers - including how the duty can apply to various firms in the distribution chain, how the consumer duty could go beyond existing TCF obligations, and a focus on communications and fair va...

In this episode, Linh Bui from Allens’ Ho Chi Minh City office is invited to join Marcus Pollard in discussing how the competition landscape in Vietnam has evolved over the recent years under the new law and what they anticipate to come next especially with a new competition enforcer to be established next year. Our experts share the notable features of the country’s current merger control regime...

Episode 3: Competition Litigation Podcast Series In the third episode, we discuss the rise of collective actions for competition damages claims in the UK, including the Merricks, Le Patourel and boundary fares certification decisions. Sarina Williams and James Hennah are joined by Lesley Hannah from Hausfeld LLP, who provides key insights from a claimant perspective.

Episode 7: Operational Resilience Sumit Indwar, Eugénie Levy and Kishore Bhindi discuss the SFC’s circular on operational resilience and remote working and how the Hong Kong approach compares with the UK regime. Sumit Indwar, Partner: “Firms may already have much of this in place, but it will be a case of clearly documenting and flagging those measures as part of their operational resilience plans...

In this episode, our Jakarta-based partner Yolanda Hutapea shares with Kathleen Gooi the latest enforcement priorities of KPPU, the Indonesian antitrust regulator, following the extensive legal reforms under the Omnibus Law, and gives an update on KPPU’s increasing attention in the digital sector and new developments of the country’s post-notification regime including the creation of the largest t...

Episode 2: Countdown to IFPR and the new pay rules How the MIFIDPRU pay code ramps up the requirements, the proportionality threshold for non-SNI firms and some tricky issues with remuneration committees requirements, malus and clawback policies and setting the fixed to variable pay ratio.

Episode 21: Payments Monthly In this month’s payments podcast, Harry Eddis, Jean Price and Simon Treacy cover the Treasury’s consultation on buy-now pay-later and one of the team tries out BNPL for the first time.

Episode 2: Competition Litigation Podcast Series In the second episode, we focus on the developments in the Litigation Funding market. Tom Cassels and James Hennah are joined by Simon Latham from Augusta Ventures who provides valuable insights from a funder’s perspective.

Our Asia Head of TMT Adrian Fisher joins Marcus Pollard in a discussion exploring the impact of digitalisation and the increasing interaction between the emerging regulatory winds on data and competition law in Singapore and in the region. Starting with an overview of how both antitrust and privacy regulators are responding actively to the use and protection of consumer data, our experts share the...

Episode 1 Earlier this year, the FCA and TPR issued joint guidance for pension scheme trustees and employers on providing support to members without needing to be subject to FCA regulation. In this first episode of our Insurance and Pensions Regulation podcast, John Sheppard, Jean Price and Jimi Piggott take a look at the guidance and discuss how trustees and employers can provide effective at-ret...

Episode 8: Global Business Crime Outlook In our eighth episode Kerstin Wilhelm and Florence Danis discuss the key aspects of the newly established EPPO which was set up on 1 June 2021. They will discuss what the EPPO does, how it is organised and what the future may hold.

Episode 9: Non-financial misconduct and whistleblowing In this podcast episode we discuss the FCA, PRA and Bank of England's joint discussion paper on their plans to monitor, track and improve diversity and inclusion in regulated firms. We examine how D&I will become a regulatory risk issue; the links drawn between D&I and non-financial misconduct; and the proposed D&I policy options and difficult...

Episode 5: IBOR Soundbites In this podcast, Benedict James and Bobby Butcher discuss recent regulatory and legislative developments in relation to synthetic LIBOR and contractual continuity and consider how they will affect English law loans and linked hedges in the new year. They also discuss the market appetite for Term SOFR based lending and the regulatory guidance around use of that product.

In this episode, our Bangkok-based partner Sutthipong Koohasaneh gives an update on Thailand’s merger control regime and shares with Kathleen Gooi about some of the most distinctive characteristics of the Office of the Trade Competition Commission’s enforcement, known to be active in both behavioural matters and merger control review, under the new Trade Competition Act. Listen now and get up to s...