The Freshfields Podcast

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.

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.

Historic changes to the US tax code could disrupt global business, creating new risks for some and new opportunities for others. 

Freshfields Regional Managing Partner Peter Lyons interviews tax partners Robert Scarborough and Claude Stansbury about two key takeaways from the reforms: the expected impact on M&A and the new – and significant – incentives for relocating certain business segments to the US.

Whether you’re on the buy or sell side of an M&A auction, acting quickly and confidently is more important than ever.  

Our co-heads of global M&A, Matthew Herman and Bruce Embley, are joined by partner Arun Balasubramanian to discuss the increasingly fast-paced world of M&A auctions, including an examination of current trends and effective strategies in the US, UK and Asia.

A US business looking to acquire a company in the UK or Germany first needs to understand how different dealmaking can be in those two jurisdictions.

Freshfields US Regional Managing Partner Peter Lyons speaks with leading M&A colleagues – Jennifer Bethlehem and Piers Prichard Jones (UK) and Rick van Aerssen (Germany) – about their markets, diving deep into the regional differences that might influence your company’s decision on how – and where – it expands through outbound M&A.

When scrutinising concentrations, the EU and US antitrust authorities have traditionally worked together closely. But their approaches are beginning to diverge.

Freshfields partners Matthew Herman, Paul Yde and Thomas Janssens talk through what this means for big cross-border mergers – and make their predictions for the future.

How does a mining giant embed human rights in its business operations?

Jan Klawitter, principal, government relations at Anglo American, discusses his company’s approach to human rights with Freshfields partner Paul Bowden.

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