Clifford Chance

Tuesday 7 March

Webinar starts: 13:00 GMT
Webinar ends: 14:00 GMT

Competition authorities around the world have increased their focus on fintech as part of a broader increase in intervention in financial services and tech markets. Deals have been blocked, fines have been imposed and fintech firms taken to court. Our international panel will discuss the risks and opportunities that come from new developments and legislative reforms.

Register for the webinar 'Fintech and competition law – the next frontier'

Tuesday 14 March

Client registration:    from 4:30pm
Seminar start time:  5:00pm
Seminar end time:    6:00pm

This in-person session will offer an interactive analysis of recent English case law of significance for the financial markets. This will include the circumstances when banks must disregard their customers and when directors must disregard their shareholders. We will also cover when anti-assignment clauses allow defendants to disregard subrogated insurers and when ISDA events of default may never be disregarded.

Register for the session 'Recent cases in the English courts affecting financial institutions'

Tuesday 21 March

Webinar starts: 13:00 GMT
Webinar ends: 14:00 GMT

With increasing global demand for batteries to power the clean energy transition (including in automobiles), the opportunities and risks are multiplying. Our international team will survey the issues arising from new technology, new markets, and new deals, including those associated with mineral extraction (human rights and supply chain), regulatory changes and the race to find funding.

Register for the webinar 'Betting on Batteries'

Tuesday 28 March

Client registration:    from 4:30pm
Seminar start time:  5:00pm
Seminar end time:    6:00pm

We are continuing to see stress in the real estate sector, with rising refinancing costs and asset values below their peaks. Our speakers will identify the important legal and commercial considerations for stakeholders to take into account to ensure that they maximise their returns. We will also consider the range of contractual and non-contractual options being used to rebalance capital structures.

Register for the session 'Restructuring and insolvency – maximising value in distressed real estate'

Thursday 30 March

Webinar starts: 13:00 BST
Webinar ends: 14:00 BST

Our panellists will discuss the new EU Pilot Regime (which takes effect from 23 March 2023) for distributed ledger technology (DLT), and the extent to which its success or failure will impact the adoption of DLT in financial services in Europe. We will compare it with the UK’s financial market infrastructure sandbox proposal, as well as consider digital bond issuances and the link between the development of DLT market infrastructures and the tokenisation of financial products both in the EU and UK.

Register for the webinar 'Distributed Ledger Technology and European financial services – the impact of the new EU Pilot Regime'

Tuesday 18 April

Webinar starts: 13:00 BST
Webinar ends: 14:00 BST

The cryptoasset markets are facing an extended period of volatility and uncertainty following the bankruptcy filings of significant market participants. Our international panel will discuss the key issues for crypto market participants right now, including the lessons learned from the recent market challenges and what steps businesses, regulators and other market participants should be taking to protect themselves against future liquidity and solvency concerns.

Register for the webinar 'How to navigate crypto distress'

Tuesday 25 April

Webinar starts: 13:00 BST
Webinar ends: 14:00 BST

The EU and UK have both undertaken reviews of their respective securitisation regulatory schemes in the last 18 months and we are at a point where it looks likely that the two jurisdictions will start to diverge. Our panellists will discuss the progress so far on either side of the channel and how the European securitisation markets might cope with the increasing divergence.

Register for the webinar 'Securitisation regulation – a fork in the road'

Tuesday 11 May

Webinar starts: 13:00 BST
Webinar ends: 14:00 BST

Private debt funds are increasingly making use of “back leverage” to enhance internal rates of return on their lending positions and to enable them to write the sizeable loans that traditionally were the preserve of investment banks, reflecting developments in the commercial real estate market and elsewhere, including risk retention financing. We have advised on a wide variety of back leverage structures in Europe and the US whether in the form of loan on loan, repo (both US and European), structured repos, total return swaps (TRS) and CRE collateralised loan obligations (CRE CLOs). We will discuss their principal features and some of the key market issues and trends.

Register for the webinar 'Bringing “back leverage” to the fore'

Tuesday 16 May

Webinar starts: 13:00 BST
Webinar ends: 14:00 BST

The consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been far-reaching – impacting growth, inflation, energy, food and other supply chains. This has resulted in commercial pressure for a range of public and private entities. We will examine the legal risks and challenges they face, and the remedies and opportunities that may be available to them.

Register for the webinar 'Legal challenges for businesses arising from the crisis in Ukraine'

Tuesday 23 May

Webinar starts: 13:00 BST
Webinar ends: 14:00 BST

Driven by the green transition, national security concerns, and commitments to support domestic production, countries are increasingly taking measures to develop green economies and energy systems, and to stimulate the production of green technologies at home. New legislation in the US, especially the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, and EU responses (including the proposed Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age) are creating new challenges and opportunities for clients. Our global team will examine these latest developments and likely future trends, and what all of this means for business.

Register for the webinar 'What you need to know about the industrial policy revolution'

Tuesday 23 May

Clifford Chance offices in Canary Wharf / Online (Webex)
Start time:  5:00pm

Louise Gullifer, who is the first woman to be appointed to the prestigious role of Rouse Ball Professor of English law at Cambridge University, will talk to us in her capacity as a member of the UNIDROIT working group on Principles on digital assets and private law, and the implications for English law.

Register for the event 'Digital assets and private law'

Tuesday 6 June

Webinar starts: 13:00 BST
Webinar ends: 14:00 BST

The EU and the UK are currently revising their respective prospectus regimes. We will consider the context for the EU Listing Act proposals and draft illustrative UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Public Offers and Admissions to Trading) Regulations 2023 and associated changes, and will discuss the impact of diverging approaches.

Register for the webinar 'EU and UK debt prospectuses – the diverging outlook for listing, disclosure and offers'

Tuesday 13 June

Webinar starts: 13:00 BST
Webinar ends: 14:00 BST

Decommissioning is an integral part of the energy transition journey. The move by oil and gas majors to decarbonise their operations often leads to a transfer of the ageing assets to new, and often under-resourced, players. This can create opportunities but is also fraught with complexities and challenges for both outgoing and incoming operators. We will discuss the key risks arising in decommissioning operations, offer suggestions on how to mitigate and manage those risks and key factors for any robust decommissioning strategy.

Register for the webinar 'Energy in transition – the role of decommissioning'

Thursday 15 June

Webinar starts: 13:00 BST
Webinar ends: 14:00 BST

The legal landscape for cross-border data sharing is complex and evolving. Privacy laws and data localisation requirements are developing globally, and data transfer is in the regulatory spotlight. Joining this legal landscape are legislative proposals requiring the sharing of certain data, which may include personal data. We will examine recent legal developments impacting data flows, related international cooperation efforts and how organisations can navigate the challenges of international data transfer.

Register for the webinar 'International data flows – navigating the global legal landscape'

Tuesday 20 June

Webinar starts: 13:00 BST
Webinar ends: 14:00 BST

2023 marks a turning point when it comes to insurance recovery and resolution, following the publication of the EU Commission’s legislative proposal for an Insurance Recovery and Resolution Directive (IRRD) and HM Treasury’s consultation for an Insurance Resolution Regime (IRR). Both proposals appear to be moving in a similar direction, namely, establishing insurance recovery and resolution frameworks similar to those we have seen on the banking side, and aligning the EU and the UK with international standards set by the Financial Stability Board. We will discuss how the proposed regimes will work, their differences and the implications for the EU and UK insurance sectors and groups.

Register for the webinar 'EU and UK resolution frameworks for insurers – a new horizon'

Thursday 22 June

Webinar starts: 13:00 BST
Webinar ends: 14:00 BST

The industries, products and focus of class actions is expanding and changing with the rise of ESG and a rapidly evolving regulatory and legal framework. Corporate accountability is increasingly demanded by society and Courts are responding to new and novel claims. The risk of class action claims, therefore, is only going to increase and businesses must be alive to the changing international landscape. We will discuss these global trends and the implications for businesses across all sectors.

Register for the webinar 'Class actions – global trends'