Episode 2 of our podcast series Going for Green on Real Estate Transactions explores the key areas of ESG focus for developers/landlords and tenants on pre-letting transactions as well as how ESG issues are impacting the terms of Agreements for Lease and related documents.

In this episode, Christine Wong and Camille Tewari explore cyber class action risk and explore why it emerged as the top concern among class action risk areas in our Rethinking Risk: Inside Class Actions” report.

Read our report: https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/insights/2024-09/rethinking-risk-inside-class-actions

Join Jason Betts and Melissa Gladstone as we explore the class actions landscape and perception of class action risk as they discuss the class action risk areas concerning corporate Australia, what has changed in the last five years regarding their risk assessment and key class action risk areas to be aware of.

Read our report: https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/insights/2024-09/rethinking-risk-inside-class-actions

In this podcast series, we explore all things cyber, including the legal, regulatory and policy developments that impact corporates around the world. We look at the evolving cyber risk landscape, by speaking to those people who are on the frontline, protecting companies from cyber incidents and shaping the legal and regulatory environment.

In this episode, Cam is joined by Kaman Tsoi, an advisor to boards and a leader in corporate governance advice. Together they cross-examine Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind.

Commissioner Kind takes on her first role in the public sector after a successful career working in human rights law with the UN (spending time in Geneva, New York and London) and then moved into privacy (and the intersection of human rights with technology). She has worked on strategic litigation and privacy policy advice. She is the founding director of the Ada Lovelace Foundation.

In today’s podcast we talk about the privacy reform agenda, the role of the regulatory in strategic enforcement and the efficacy of the notifiable data breach regime.

Today, we shift focus to some of the more challenging themes.

Commissioner Kind is an impressive individual, who brings a very practical approach to the role.

Thanks again for listening. This is Cross Examining Commissioner Kind. Here we go…

This podcast explores how ESG is changing the way in which construction projects are being delivered, and the agreements and contracts involved, as well as what lawyers can do to help deliver a client's ESG objectives on commercial development projects.

Speakers: Matthew Bool, Partner, HSF, London, Charles Horne, Project Director, British Land, Becky Johnson, Professional Support Lawyer, HSF, London, Gabrielle Coppack, Professional Support Lawyer, HSF, London

Cyber risk is a major issue for pension schemes. Antonia Pegden, a commercial disputes lawyer at HSF who focuses on insurance, pensions, and professional negligence, joins The Pensions Exchange to discuss cybersecurity. We consider the steps which trustees should take, to guard against cyber attacks and to be ready should the worst occur.

You can follow our latest thinking on our UK pensions blog and Cyber and Data Security blog.

Speakers: Antonia Pegden, Partner and Richard Evans, Professional Support Lawyer

In this episode of our public M&A podcast series, we look at Practice Statement 31, which was updated by the Takeover Panel earlier this year. Practice Statement 31 describes the Takeover Panel's approach to formal sale processes, strategic reviews and private sale processes.

In the podcast, we discuss:

• formal sale processes under the Takeover Code and the dispensations available on those;
• what a private sale process (PSP) is; and
• what dispensations the Panel may grant on a PSP and the advantages of obtaining the dispensations.