Allen & Overy is an international legal practice and trusted counsel to the world’s leading companies, financial institutions and public sector organisations. In this series of podcasts, our lawyers share their perspectives on today’s most significant global legal, regulatory and commercial issues. Disclaimer: Podcasts are not legal advice. Laws may have changed since a podcast was recorded.
What role does intellectual property play in the metaverse and do clients need to change their behaviour towards their brands and copyright?
In this podcast, members of A&O’s global IP group, Victoria Pied, Elise Romelly and Beverley Potts, discuss the trade mark, design and copyright issues raised by the metaverse.
In this edition of our Allen & Overy Advanced Delivery podcast we discuss how the in-house legal function has changed, what this means for law firms and how technology plays a key role in the evolution of the legal landscape. We invited Caroline Coesemans (Head of Legal BeNeLux & Nordics at Google Belgium) and Laurens De Koster (Legal Counsel at BNYM in Belgium) to share their experiences and views with us!
What is the metaverse, who controls it and what does it look like?
In this podcast, members of A&O’s international IP group, Victoria Pied, Elise Romelly, Laetitia Nicolazzi and Beverley Potts, discuss the fundamentals of the metaverse and how it is quickly evolving to mimic reality.
In this episode of Allen & Overy’s Market Horizons podcast series, partners in A&O’s Debt Capital Markets team, Daniel Fletcher (London), Hervé Ekué (Paris), Salvador Ruiz (Madrid) and senior associate Philippe Noeltner (Luxembourg) look at what the future may hold for the capital markets. Together, they discuss Digital Bonds – which some are calling the future of debt capital markets – and look at some of the potential benefits and challenges of adopting these new structures.
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In this episode, New York Intellectual Property partner Paul Keller sits down with New Jersey Department of Transportation Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti.
New Jersey recently announced a $5 million grant for the Trenton Mobility & Opportunity: Vehicles Equity System or MOVES Project. The grant to the City of Trenton will support the planned start up and eventual deployment of 100 Autonomous Vehicles that will provide an on-demand automated transit system to serve the 90,000 residents of Trenton.
In this episode, Diana Billik, head of our Paris Capital Markets practice, and New York-based Capital Markets partner Justin Cooke give a concise overview of the proposed climate disclosures put forward by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that SEC registrants (both domestic and foreign) would be subject to.
They discuss: corporate governance and risk management in relations to a climate focused framework; climate related impacts to financial statements; greenhouse gas emission under the proposal (Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 disclosure mandates), including companies’ own emissions and their supply-chain emissions; and how the proposal could apply to current net-zero carbon emission goals.
In the third episode of our podcast series featuring topical conversations with leading figures in the global financial services industry, capital markets partner Tim Conduit speaks to Christian Leitz, Head of Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Historian at UBS, Duncan Lee, Director of Investment ESG at AIA and Jenn-Hui Tan, Global Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investing at Fidelity International, about what sustainability means for a bank, insurer and asset manager.
The group discuss the evolving landscape of sustainable finance, the future of a net-zero economy, the role boards and senior management should play in moving the industry in the right direction, and the position of financial institutions in driving meaningful collaborative change.
This episode was recorded in February 2022.
Why are divisional patent applications important to consider when litigating a parent patent?
In this podcast, Rafi Allos, Erin Currie and Elizabeth Taylor, members of our intellectual property team, discuss litigating divisional patents and the strategies used when such patents are in play, such as Arrow declarations, issue estoppel and case management.
In this podcast Nikki Johnstone and Jamie Greenwood, members of Allen & Overy's payments regulatory practice, and Claire Haydon from the A&O Consulting team discuss the key legal and practical implications of the latest FCA proposals for the Consumer Duty for payments and e-money firms, including what they need to do to prepare for the April 2023 deadline.
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Funds and Asset Management Counsel, Kamar Jaffer is joined by Andrew Pitts-Tucker, Global Head of ESG at Apex ESG Ratings to discuss ESG integration into investment decision-making, data collection, reporting and measuring impact both at a global level and in the Middle East.
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This Great Fund Insights podcast will be of interest to sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, family offices, fund managers and portfolio companies with a focus on the Middle East.
