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Trade secrets can account for a large proportion of a company’s value. The EU Trade Secrets Directive has imposed new obligations on trade secrets owners when protecting their assets, and caseloads are increasing in the UK and Asia. Lawyers from Europe and APAC will discuss the following topics: hard-learned lessons from litigation using real-world examples of disputes; technological means for identifying trade secrets theft and how to gather solid evidence of misappropriation; and how to implement practical and legal protections to avoid the loss of trade secrets and prevent disputes from the outset.
The 29th Conference of the Parties is taking place from 11 November in Baku. Join our panel to hear insights on what COP can achieve against a continuing complex geopolitical backdrop. Our speakers will cover major themes including climate finance, renewables and carbon markets, and will contextualise what’s on the agenda.
In this session we will examine what the Purdue case really means for the ongoing viability of Chapter 11 as a restructuring process of choice and whether it will now lead US and other investors to place greater reliance on the established restructuring tools and procedures available in the UK and across the EU.
Organisations developing, deploying or using AI systems and tools must navigate privacy, data protection and cybersecurity requirements alongside AI-specific regulations. These parallel, and at times overlapping, frameworks and rules raise new challenges but also enable fresh opportunities for organisations. Our global panel will share practical and market insights at the intersection of these developments, including in the context of governance and compliance programs, risk management and contractual negotiations.
CRD6 will create new requirements for non-EU banks offering services on a cross-border basis to EU clients from 2026. Our panel of regulatory specialists will examine the new regime in detail, with a focus on scope, exemptions, issues to look out for in national implementation, and the impact on currently used cross-border arrangements. We will also discuss the new CRD6 provisions governing EU bank branches. In particular, we will consider the new restrictions from both the bank and borrower perspective, including bank implementation challenges and how some borrowers are thinking about the restrictions and how to adapt to them. We will get input from panellists representing key jurisdictions including France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
We have seen a variety of liquidity solutions being used during the past 24 months, as private markets experienced a period of adjustment to a “new normal” of slower dealmaking, exits and fundraising, coupled with largely challenging IPO conditions. Our global panel will discuss the state of the market for liquidity solutions, covering key terms and trends across continuation funds, securitisations and NAV and other fund-level financings. As markets begin to show encouraging signs of recovery, we will also examine whether such liquidity solutions are a temporary coping mechanism or a permanent set of new tools, and what this means for managers seeking to differentiate their offerings and strategies.
The benefits of using blockchain or distributed ledger technology for bond issuances into the capital markets is a topic that has garnered strong interest in recent years. Our panellists will look at the latest legal, regulatory and market developments that have shaped the digital bond landscape, explore what the future for digital bonds may look like, and discuss how true scaling of the digital bond ecosystem may be achieved in the years to come.
The returning M&A market and the need for strategic and financial acquirors alike to find growth opportunities outside of their home markets are leading to a resurgence of interest in cross-border M&A. Buyers, sellers and other stakeholders involved in these investments need to navigate competing laws, market norms and regulatory regimes across global jurisdictions in order to successfully execute transactions. Our panel will look at the latest M&A market dynamics in the UK, US and Europe, and how these are impacting key deal and market terms.
Following on from our COP29 preview session, this webinar will take place shortly following the end of the negotiations in Baku. Our speakers will draw out key outcomes from the negotiations and provide their perspectives on the implications for businesses.
New technologies, major shifts in the global regulatory landscape, and the need for digital resilience require global enterprises to fundamentally rethink their outsourcing strategies and outsourcing relationships. In this session, we will look at the key trends and developments that are shaping the future of outsourcing and the strategies that organisations can adopt to meet these new challenges.
With the rise of AI, demand for data continues to grow exponentially raising questions as to how the rapid roll-out and development of data centres will be financed over the next five to 10 years. In this webinar, Clifford Chance lawyers Emma Matebalavu, Matt Dunn, Claire Fawcett, Mike Niekoop and Will Sutton from across infrastructure finance, project finance, real estate finance and asset backed finance discussed the innovative financing structures we see for data centres including Europe's first public data centre ABS and shared views on financing trends in the digital infrastructure sector
In this webinar, our global panel featuring Naomi Griffin, Daan Lunsingh Scheurleer, Maxine Mossman, Joseph Ostoyich, Luke Tolaini and Samantha Ward discussed lessons learned and the best strategies for defending collective actions across major jurisdictions including the UK, the US, the Netherlands and Australia. We also considered developments in stock-drop, antitrust and climate change claims, how collective actions are playing out in the courts and the strategies clients can deploy when responding to these claims.
In this webinar, our panel which featured Laura Dietz, Alice Dunoyer de Segonzac, Marie Karle, Rae Lindsay and Thomas Voland discussed early lessons from applying the German Supply Chain Act, the French Vigilance Law, the EU Deforestation Regulation, the EU Batteries Regulation and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
This summer saw the most significant changes to the listing regime affecting London-listed companies and IPO candidates, in 40 years. In this webinar, Charlie Walker (Deputy CEO of London Stock Exchange plc), Kevin Desmond (Senior Director, Capital Markets of PricewaterhouseCoopers) and Clifford Chance partners Alanna Hunter, Katherine Moir and Simon Thomas, assessed the impact for issuers, their directors, investors, advisers and deal counterparts. The panel focused on expected market practice in the context of M&A and other significant transactions involving a London-listed bidder, including strategy dynamics, investor engagement ahead of deals and the new role of sponsors and other advisers. We also looked ahead to the broader reform of the UK capital markets ecosystem.
The global increase in regulatory and reputational risk stemming from proliferating legal requirements creates unique challenges for the healthcare sector. In this webinar, our global panel – Torsten Syrbe, Naomi Griffin, Steve Nickelsburg, Peter Dieners, Gunnar Sachs and Janice Goh of Cavenagh Law LLP – surveyed compliance and governance trends relating to greenwashing, use and protection of data, use of AI, and geopolitical change, and discussed how compliance structures built for concerns such as anticorruption and reimbursement fraud may or may not be fit to address today’s opportunities and threats.
We are seeing increased global efforts to enhance anti-money laundering (AML) measures to combat financial crime. In this webinar moderated by David DiBari, our panel included Jamal El-Hindi, Michael Lyons and Gerson Raiser from Clifford Chance’s Regulatory Investigations and Financial Crime team, along with Janice Goh of Cavenagh Law LLP. They provided an overview of global AML developments and what they mean for business and compliance processes and discussed the EU’s AML package, the US’s FinCEN regulations, Singapore’s new Anti-Money Laundering and Other Matters Bill and advancements in the UK and Germany, together with practical suggestions for steps that can be taken to adapt to the evolving AML environment.
Clifford Chance is committed to helping our clients stay ahead of legal and market trends, and hold regular seminars, training and events. In the Spring 2024 Perspectives Series, we welcome guest speakers and experts from across the Clifford Chance network to present on a range of legal and business topics.
Clifford Chance is committed to helping our clients stay ahead of legal and market trends, and hold regular seminars, training and events. In the Autumn 2023 Perspectives Series, we welcome guest speakers and experts from across the Clifford Chance network to present on a range of legal and business topics.
Clifford Chance are committed to helping our clients stay ahead of legal and market trends, and hold regular seminars, training and events. In the Spring 2023 Perspectives Series, we welcome guest speakers and experts from across the Clifford Chance network to present on a range of legal and business topics.
Clifford Chance are committed to helping our clients stay ahead of legal and market trends, and hold regular seminars, training and events. In the Autumn 2021 Perspectives Series, we welcomed guest speakers and experts from across the Clifford Chance network to present on a range of legal and business topics.
Clifford Chance are committed to helping our clients stay ahead of legal and market trends, and hold regular seminars, training and events. In the Spring 2022 Perspectives Series, we welcome guest speakers and experts from across the Clifford Chance network to present on a range of legal and business topics.
Clifford Chance are committed to helping our clients stay ahead of legal and market trends, and hold regular seminars, training and events. In the Autumn 2022 Perspectives Series, we welcome guest speakers and experts from across the Clifford Chance network to present on a range of legal and business topics.
Following on from our COP28 preview session, this webinar took place shortly following the end of the negotiations in Dubai. Our speakers – David Alfrey, Clare Burgess, Adam Hedley, Kumar Iyer, Roger Leese and Jeroen Ouwehand – drew out key outcomes from the negotiations and provided their perspectives on the implications for businesses.
Our international panel – David Evans, Nigel Howorth, Daud Khan, Roger Leese, Angela McEwan and Deborah Zandstra – provided insights on what COP can achieve against a complex geopolitical backdrop. Our speakers also covered major themes including renewable energy, financing and the role of private capital, and carbon markets, and contextualised what’s on the agenda.
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