The Allen & Overy Podcast archive

Introduction to the UK’s Brexit legislative Framework

Lucy Aconley (Senior Associate in the Global Restructuring practice), Emma Danforth (Senior Associate in the Global Funds and Asset Management practice) and Oonagh Harrison (Senior PSL in the A&O Brexit team) consider the role of the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 in the UK Government’s no deal “hard” Brexit contingency planning and explore its core objectives.

Implementing the Withdrawal Act and transitional arrangements

This podcast looks at what would need to be done to ratify the article 50 withdrawal agreement and political declaration on the future UK/EU27 relationship. The podcast was recorded prior to the political endorsement on 25 November 2018, however, the overview of the steps required remains valid. This podcast is led by Paul Sampson (a Senior Associate in the global funds and asset management practice), Jennifer Cresswell (Counsel in our international debt capital markets practice) and Oonagh Harrison (Senior PSL in the A&O Brexit team).

’Retained EU law’ explained

Charlotte Haworth (Senior PSL in the Global Banking practice), Karen Birch (Counsel and Head of Know How in our Litigation practice) and Oonagh Harrison (senior PSL in the A&O Brexit team) explore the scope and impact of the new body of law being created under the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 which is referred to as ‘retained EU law’.

Preparing for a hard Brexit – ten points relevant to mainstream debt capital market issuance

The UK Parliament has voted against the Brexit deal. Whilst a hard Brexit is not inevitable, it remains a possibility and understanding the implications of that for the mainstream debt capital markets is gaining urgency.

In this episode in our Brexit podcast series, International Capital Markets partner Amanda Thomas and Jennifer Cresswell, a counsel in the International Capital Markets practice, discuss ten points for action and issues for consideration to assist issuers and other participants in the mainstream debt capital markets in preparing for a hard Brexit.

Data protection post-Brexit: What to expect and how to prepare

With less than 130 days remaining before the UK leaves the European Union (EU) on 29 March 2019, understanding the practical impact of Brexit on issues such as the transfer of data to and from the EU is gaining urgency for organisations operating in the UK that currently have to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

In this, the second episode in our podcast series on the GDPR, data protection partners Jane Finlayson-Brown and Nigel Parker join Ali Parvin, Peerpoint Consultant, and David Smith, A&O’s special adviser for data protection and a former Deputy Data Protection Commissioner at the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, to assess the issues that organisations should consider as they prepare for Brexit.

What will Brexit mean for European cross-border restructuring and insolvency?

The Brexit negotiations are continuing apace, but with no signs of a clear resolution as yet in sight, understanding the implications of a no-deal outcome for cross-border restructuring and insolvency is gaining urgency.

One particular issue that is attracting a significant amount of scrutiny is the question of what a hard Brexit could mean for the English scheme of arrangement, a widely used restructuring tool, in the context of European cross-border restructuring.

In the second episode in our Brexit podcast series, restructuring partner Jennifer Marshall and Lucy Aconley, a senior associate in the firm’s restructuring group, join Oonagh Harrison, a senior PSL in Allen & Overy’s Brexit group, to discuss the potential impact of a hard Brexit on cross-border restructuring and insolvency procedures in Europe.

English governing law and jurisdiction clauses - making an informed decision after Brexit

One of the key questions that commercial parties continue to raise in relation to Brexit, both at a policy level and when negotiating transactions on a day-to-day basis, is whether English governing law and jurisdiction clauses are still an attractive proposition.

With so much debate and speculation surrounding this topic, it is critically important that parties understand the full practical implications of continuing to use English governing law and jurisdiction clauses and of taking a different approach.

In this podcast, senior partner Wim Dejonghe​ is joined by senior litigation counsel Karen Birch​ and Sarah Garvey​ to discuss the issues and questions that parties should consider in order to make an informed decision as to the preferred approach in any particular case.

Navigating the new data protection landscape

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on 25 May. Our data protection team examines what companies could be doing even now to move further towards compliance as well as the longer-term issues they should be considering once GDPR is in force.

In this episode, data protection partners Jane Finlayson-Brown and Nigel Parker join Charlotte Mullarkey, PSL Counsel, and David Smith, A&O’s special adviser for data protection and a former Deputy Data Protection Commissioner at the UK ICO, to discuss a broad range of topics including the potential impact of the new enforcement regime, how to set data protection priorities and what a good privacy programme should look like.