The Allen & Overy Podcast archive

Naomi’s story

Naomi Buchanan is a Senior Associate & Head of Advanced Delivery in Belfast. Here she shares what it takes to get to the top and lead a high-performance team.

Luke’s story

Luke Rogan is a Senior Scientific and Technical Analyst in A&O’s Advanced Delivery Legal team, based in Belfast. Here he talks about the office culture and quality of work he has experienced whilst being part of the team.

Angela’s story

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“The work we get involved with in Belfast is compelling because people come to A&O for the most complex litigation, the most innovative banking and finance transactions, and the high-end corporate work; this is an opportunity to work on really interesting matters.”- Angela Clist, Partner and Head of Advanced Delivery Legal. 

Selecting your Fund Domicile: British Virgin Islands

We are delighted to launch Selecting your Fund Domicile, a new series of  podcasts that features offshore law firm experts and focuses on manager considerations for setting up a fund and choosing the most appropriate domicile.

In the inaugural episode of Selecting your Fund Domicile Middle East-based partner Kamar Jaffer (Funds) discusses topical fund trends in the British Virgin Islands with Paul Waldron and Tom Cochrane, both partners at Walkers law firm.

This podcast forms part of the Great Fund Insights series, a global resource providing practical insights into legal and regulatory developments affecting fund managers and institutional investors across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the U.S.

The developing cryptoasset landscape in the UAE podcast: Spotlight on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing

The UAE is developing its financial crime compliance credentials in order to position itself as a global leader and innovator in the cryptoassets space. This means that a proper understanding of the intersection between AML/CTF considerations and cryptoassets regulation is essential for those involved or interested in the cryptoasset landscape in the UAE.

In this episode, Middle East-based senior associates Victoria Ferres (Financial Services Regulatory) and David Berman (Litigation, Investigations and Contentious Regulatory) discuss the unique AML and CTF issues relevant to cryptoassets in the UAE and explore recent regulatory developments in this space in the UAE. 

This podcast will be of interest to legal practitioners, individuals working in any financial services sector and other designated non-financial businesses or professions, and those interested in cryptoassets generally. It forms part of a series where we will be focusing on key considerations relevant to the developing cryptoasset landscape in the UAE.

Great Fund Insights podcast: US tax matters

US federal tax treatment can be relevant to funds in a variety of contexts and provides a range of risks and benefits depending on the type of investor. 

In this podcast episode, Middle East-based Partner Kamar Jaffer (Funds) and US-based Senior Counsel Caroline Lapidus (Tax) discuss the key US tax considerations relevant to any funds with either US or sovereign investors or activities and investments in the US.

This podcast forms part of the Great Fund Insights series, a global resource providing practical insights into legal and regulatory developments affecting fund managers and institutional investors across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the U.S.

Annual reports and AGMs – what you need to know this year

In our latest podcast our team of A&O experts bring you up to speed with the key issues company secretaries and their teams need to think about when preparing for their next Annual Report and AGM. 

These include:

diversity on boards and in executive management;
market trends and new requirements for environmental and climate reporting;
current high profile aspects of remuneration reporting; and
best practice for the format and business of AGMs in 2023.

Episode 2: Deconstructing Crypto: Emerging RICO applications to digital assets

In September 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released a series of reports regarding the development of digital asset markets. 

In one of the reports, titled Implications for Consumers, Investors and Businesses, the Treasury Department, highlighted a series of “conduct risks” associated with crypto assets. 

The U.S. Department of the Treasury observed: “Crypto-assets and markets that operate out of compliance with applicable laws and regulations, or are unregulated, can breed fraud, abusive market practices, and disclosure gaps. Certain practices in the crypto-asset ecosystem have resulted in financial harm to consumers, investors, and businesses; unfair and inequitable outcomes; and damage to the integrity of the market.”

As mentioned in our first installment of Deconstructing Crypto, standalone violations of the federal wire fraud, bank fraud and securities fraud statutes could be packaged together as a potential charge under the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statute. In this second episode, New York Litigation Partners Todd Fishman and Eugene Ingoglia take us through an explanation of:

1. What is RICO?
2. The elements of a RICO Charge
3. Criminal applications to digital assets
4. Civil applications to digital assets

#Employmenttalk: Erste Praxiserfahrungen mit dem Nachweisgesetz

Auch noch knapp zwei Monate nach Inkrafttreten des neuen NachwG erreichen uns täglich Anfragen zur rechtssicheren Umsetzung der neuen Nachweispflichten im Arbeitsvertrag oder Nachweisschreiben. Aufgrund der noch fehlenden Rechtsprechung ist vieles noch nicht abschließend geklärt, etwaige gegebenenfalls bußgeldbewehrte Versäumnisse gehen allerdings zu Lasten der Arbeitgeber. Wir lassen die letzten Wochen mit dem neuen NachwG Revue passieren und besprechen häufige Themen aus unserer Beratungspraxis, u.a.:

• Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es, um dem Schriftformerfordernis zu genügen?
• Wie konkret müssen Vergütungsbestandteile ausgewiesen werden?
• Was bedeuten die neuen Anforderungen für die betriebliche Altersversorgung (bAV)?
• Wie verweist man richtig auf Betriebsvereinbarungen und Tarifverträge?
• Was heißt "vereinbarte" Arbeitszeit und wie geht man mit „gelebten“ Arbeitszeitmodellen wie Vertrauensarbeitszeit um?
• Welche Risiken drohen bei Versäumnissen neben einem Bußgeld und wer kontrolliert die Einhaltung?

Great Fund Insights: Five questions on sustainability-linked fund financing

In this podcast, Greg Brown (Partner, London) and Joanna Pecenik (Counsel, Luxembourg) discuss sustainability-linked fund financing: what it is, the main EU regulatory drivers and the key issues that fund managers and lenders need to consider when agreeing terms to document a sustainability-linked fund financing. 

Topics discussed in this podcast include:

• Sustainability-linked lending in the context of fund finance
• Key EU and UK regulatory drivers towards sustainability-linked financing for limited partners and fund managers
• Key issues that fund managers and their lenders need to consider when agreeing terms to document a sustainability-linked fund financing
• How participants in sustainability-linked financings can look to protect themselves from accusations of ‘Greenwashing’
• What we see on the horizon.