We connect with Ricky Cohen, former General Counsel and Legal Product Architect at Nivaura, a Fuse start-up that delivers capital markets automation solutions. As an A&O alumni, Ricky explores the transition from working in a global law firm to life in a tech start-up.

We connect with one of A&O’s legal tech specialists, a trainee who went on secondment to our ideas and innovation team, and a participant in our advanced delivery graduate scheme. They discuss legal tech use and development as well as graduate opportunities in this space.

The popularity and volume of capital call financings (also called subscription lines or equity bridge facilities) have steadily increased over the past few years (including in Luxembourg) and this trend is here to stay. In this podcast Bénédicte Kurth (Counsel, Banking), Joanna Pecenik (Counsel, Investment Funds) and Yannick Arbaut (Partner, Investment Funds) explain the logic and key features of capital call financings.

We connect with Chantal du Toit, a Senior Legal Counsel at Shell and former A&O Associate in Arbitration. She talks about her transition from private practice to in-house and her experience as an in-house lawyer at a high-profile global company.

Luxembourg is about to add the missing piece to its legislative framework to enable the issuance of crypto-securities using decentralised ledger technology (“DLT”).

In this podcast, Natacha Oskian is joined by Philippe Noeltner, a lawyer and associate who is part of Allen & Overy’s Luxembourg International Capital Markets team, to discuss the following:

the objectives of Bill 7637 concerning the issuance of dematerialised securities on DLT devices, such as blockchain and Ethereum;

the importance of Bill 7637 for Luxembourg Capital Markets ecosystem and how this Bill may lead to a new era for crypto-securities in Luxembourg;

the use of DLT-based wallets to operate an issuer’s issuance account, and investors’ securities accounts;

how both legal certainty and investor protection are ensured; and

grey areas and opportunities.

We connect with Gareth Price, who was recently elected as the firm's Global Managing Partner. He discusses the election process, what the role entails, A&O's future direction and how trainees and associates can be a part of it.

The inclusion of virtual asset service providers in the scope of the AML Act 2004 and the additional restrictions on the use of anonymised e-money instruments showcase the need to address the “Fintech” spread in the financial sector and to mitigate the potential threats they pose to the current AML/CTF framework. Counsel Carole Schmidt and Senior Associate Baptiste Aubry discuss the implications of those measures while reminding of the need to embrace new technologies and the bright side of legal or reg-tech as powerful tools to improve AML/CTF processes, for both customers and professionals.

Artur Rutkowski, prawnik w kancelarii Allen & Overy w Warszawie doradzający klientom w obszarze zakresu bankowości i finansów, omawia umowę wsparcia projektu. Niniejsze nagranie poświęcone jest konstrukcji umowy oraz rodzajom udzielanego wsparcia. Zapraszamy do wysłuchania podcastu.

Counsel Thomas Berger and Senior Associate Baptiste Aubry discuss the extraterritorial effects of the AML Act 2004 in light of the recent implementation of 5MLD into Luxembourg law. They shed some light on the impact of these effects on obliged entities and on the particular measures to apply where high-risk countries are in the picture.