The Clifford Chance Podcast

Nick discusses Ares' strategy in Australia and New Zealand, what makes an opportunity attractive, the importance of operational value creation, and why private equity investors need to distinguish between a good business and a good investment. He also explores the Redback Boots investment, Australia's potential for global growth, the convergence of private capital strategies, AI and productivity, and the lessons he's learned about leadership, trust and building high-performing teams.

In part one of this two part series, Clifford Chance partner David Clee sits down with Frank Danieli, Managing Director and Head of Global Credit Solutions at MA Financial for an open discussion on private credit as a risk management business and building scale through diversification, origination and portfolio construction.

In the final episode of this two-part series, David Clee speaks with Michael Caristo, Co-founder of Genesis Capital, on memorable transactions, the importance of hunger and curiosity in new hires, maximising opportunities in an AI world and what keeps Mike up at night as the Managing Director of a successful private equity firm. He also considers the role of both discipline and timing in building Genesis and discusses the Pacific Smiles transaction supported by Clifford Chance.

In this short podcast episode, the team discusses some great events from the week and covers takeaways around merger enforcement, antitrust litigation and tech and AI.

In part one of this two part series, Clifford Chance partner David Clee sits down with Michael Caristo, Co founder and Managing Director of Genesis Capital – a Sydney based specialist private equity firm – to talk about healthcare investing, Mike's pivot from a med student to an entrepreneur to an investment professional, and partnering with Chris Yoo to found Genesis Capital.

Our global Antitrust team shares highlights from the 2025 Antitrust Spring Meeting.

Paul Landless, Jesse Overall, Steve Gatti and Cliff Cone discuss key questions around Trump 2.0 and what to expect in digital assets legislation and regulation and the use of DLT in the financial services sector.

US Head of Antitrust Leigh Oliver sits down with partner Brian Concklin and counsel Lauren Rackow to discuss the FTC's recently published and much anticipated final changes to the HSR Form.

In this episode of our UK Pensions Podcast, we discuss the upcoming general election and what this could mean for pensions. We also consider the Pensions Regulator's recently published corporate plan. This episode accompanies our September 2024 UK Pensions Update newsletter.

In this episode of our PE Risks podcast series, senior associate Mark Inkester hosts a discussion with partner Stephen Reese and counsel Daryl Fairbairn on the value of IP as an asset class and the potential risks involved with developing and maintaining IP.