The Freshfields Podcast

Arbitration Insider is a podcast series focusing on international arbitration, produced by the New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

In this first episode, co-hosts Rekha Rangachari, Executive Director of NYIAC, and Olivier André, Client Relationship Advisor at Freshfields, focus on the trend towards climate change and arbitration. This topic has become a hot issue over the past few months as the public and private sectors are faced with increased pressure to engage more actively in combating climate change and to reach the targets set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.  In that context, arbitration is increasingly being used to resolve various climate change related disputes and the international arbitration community itself is embracing various initiatives to reduce its own carbon footprint.

Podcast guests include Lee Rovinescu (International Arbitration Partner, Freshfields), Eric Franco (Disputes Global Expert & General Counsel, Engie Peru), Lucy Greenwood (Independent Arbitrator & Founder of the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations), Christoffer Coello Hedberg (Legal Counsel, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce) and Kiran Sanghera (Special Counsel, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre).

Reference materials:

• Campaign for Greener Arbitrations – A Framework and Green Protocols

The third episode in our Essential Antitrust Asia podcast series in which we speak with local experts in Asia to bring you the latest competition law trends and updates in the region. 

This episode focuses on Vietnam’s new Competition Law and features Tony Foster, the Managing Partner of Freshfields’ Vietnam practice; An Hoang Ha, a Senior Associate based in Hanoi with more than 15 years of experience advising investors on Vietnamese law; and Le Hai Duong, an associate based in Ho Chi Minh City. Alastair Mordaunt, co-head of the Antitrust, Competition and Trade practice in Asia, moderates.

In this session, our colleagues will discuss:

[01:37] – An update on inbound investment into Vietnam

[04:29] – An introduction to the new Competition Law and merger control regime in Vietnam

[10:13] – The filing thresholds and nexus requirements under Vietnam’s merger control regime

[13:46] – Filing trends under the new regime

[20:23] – Practical tips for clients on navigating Vietnam merger control regime

In the US, there are sweeping proposals in Congress for stricter merger control laws. In the EU, the European Commission is encouraging referral requests from Member States, even where transactions fall below merger control thresholds. In the UK, the revised Merger Assessment Guidelines seek to give the CMA more flexibility to find competition issues. All the while, different regulators are on record calling for tougher overall enforcement against consolidation.  Intensified merger control around the globe will mean more – and less predictable – merger filings, making deal-making more complex.

In our 12th episode, Jenn Mellott speaks with Alastair Chapman, Meghan Rissmiller and Sascha Schubert about how companies can navigate the increasingly daunting merger control landscape.

When the Darkside group launched a cyber attack on Colonial Pipeline, it took the business offline and starved much of the US East Coast of fuel.

In our latest podcast (featuring Boris Feldman, Kimberly Zelnick, Giles Pratt, Nabeel Yousef, Lauren Honeyben, Shannon McGovern and the latest recruit in our cyber and data practice, Brock Dahl, former deputy GC at the National Security Agency) we explore what’s known about the shadowy hacking collective, explain the risks board members face from ransomware strikes - and reveal the questions directors should be asking to protect themselves and their companies.