The Freshfields Podcast

Fuji-Xerox: don’t copy this

The recent Fuji-Xerox deal made headlines for all the wrong reasons.

US partners Peter Lyons, Matthew Herman and Linda Martin, along with associate Marissa Yu, take a look at what happened – and what the takeaways are for your next major transaction.

The rise of people analytics

From sentiment analysis on emails to optimising the recruitment process, people analytics are an emerging tool in human resources. But should employers use them to make decisions about their workers?

Partners Caroline Stroud and Boris Dzida discuss the legal – and ethical – issues people analytics raise.

Class actions go global

US-style class actions are not the norm in Europe – but that may be changing.

Freshfields US litigation partner Linda Martin leads a conversation with three of her colleagues from around the firm – Michael Rohls (Germany), Mark Sansom (UK) and Jeroen van Hezewijk (Netherlands) – about recent developments in their countries, as well as what changes are on the horizon.

Definitely maybe. Investigating M&A deal certainty

Deals are becoming more complex, more international and subject to increasing regulatory intervention.

Freshfields’ co-heads of global M&A, Matthew Herman and Bruce Embley, discuss how these factors and other macro events are affecting the likelihood of deal success.

Data and merger control

Antitrust regulators exist to preserve competitive markets. But in a world where digital businesses can become very powerful very quickly, they are struggling to keep pace.

Partners Rafique Bachour, Bruce McCulloch and Kaori Yamada look at how authorities around the world are adapting their tools for the 21st century – and what this means for M&A.

Foreign investment review: Broadcom–Qualcomm

Broadcom's blocked bid for Qualcomm broke new ground for foreign investment review on a number of fronts.

Freshfields’ co-head of global M&A, Matthew Herman, and US counsel Christine Laciak and Shawn Cooley take a deep dive.

Foreign investment review: the state of play

Regulators are taking longer to look at international deals involving critical infrastructure and technology.

Matthew Herman, Freshfields’ co-head of global M&A, is joined by Germany partner Frank Roehling and US counsel Christine Laciak and Shawn Cooley to explore the current state of play for foreign investment into the US, the EU and Germany, and what the future holds.

GDPR for US companies

The EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) sets a new standard for how companies can deal with individually identifiable information.

Adam Siegel, the head of the litigation practice group for Freshfields in the US, interviews two of his European colleagues, Giles Pratt (UK) and Norbert Nolte (Germany), about the ins and outs of GDPR and what the law is likely to mean for US companies.

Introducing the Freshfields digital podcast series

In the face of disruption, established companies are having to harness emerging technologies and boost their digital offering. But as a result they face a new set of challenges.

Antitrust partner Mary Lehner introduces the digital topics we will be exploring over the coming months with our panels of experts.

What’s different about digital deals?

If you are buying a business that looks like your own, the deal process is equally familiar. But apply traditional methods to a digital acquisition and you will miss many of the most important issues.

Partners Natasha Good, Giles Pratt and Julian Pritchard discuss how to mitigate risk in tech M&A – and avoid the pitfalls that can put your investment at risk.