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Practical legal analysis for corporate risk.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Podcasts is a broad professional feed of legal analysis from the firm's speakers. Recent episodes move through union rights, workplace crises, APAC corporate crime, executive separations, M&A tax mechanics, and financial services enforcement with practical attention to what companies should do next.
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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Podcasts is a professional legal feed with a wide practice-area spread. Its centre of gravity is corporate risk. The recent episodes cover employment reform, workplace health and safety, crisis communications, white collar investigations, hate crime legislation, industrial relations, executive separations, M&A taxation, and financial services regulation. Each topic is treated as a practical problem for organisations rather than as abstract legal news. The style is measured. Speakers usually begin from a defined change, such as the Employment Rights Act 2025, Australia's new federal hate crime legislation, a corporate crime trend guide, or an Upper Tribunal decision involving Bank Havilland. From there, the conversation turns to implementation detail. Employers hear about statutory annual leave records, union statements, recognition thresholds, electronic balloting, collective redundancy protective awards, and the shifting balance of industrial relations. Australian workplace episodes bring in health and safety professionals, legal professionals, risk managers, executives, and directors. They also connect legal response with reputation management, including the reality that serious workplace incidents can arrive at difficult moments. The Investigate 360 material is especially focused on corporate crime and enforcement exposure across Australia and the Asia-Pacific. It links new offences, AML and counter-terrorism concerns, screening processes, supply chains, and the need for documented escalation systems. The tax episodes are transaction-heavy. Earnouts and contingent consideration are discussed through performance metrics, TOFA, payment timing, rollover relief, and the risk of mismatched tax outcomes for buyers and sellers. Financial services episodes lean into attribution, integrity obligations, enforcement decisions, mitigation, and the subjective nature of regulatory fines. The feed can be dense, but the density is the point. It assumes a listener who already understands the stakes of board reporting, deal negotiation, employment compliance, and regulatory scrutiny. There are lighter moments, particularly when colleagues introduce one another or describe the pressures of crisis work. Those moments do not turn the show into entertainment. They make the expertise feel grounded in practice. For PlayNext, the show belongs in the lane of senior legal and commercial analysis: calm, detailed, jurisdiction-specific, and designed for people who may need to act on the answer.
Made for: Designed for lawyers, executives, directors, HR and IR professionals, risk managers, compliance teams, tax advisers, and deal practitioners who need commercially usable legal context. It is best for listeners comfortable with detailed regulatory and transaction mechanics.
What sets it apart: Its strength is breadth without losing technical depth: employment, safety, investigations, tax, M&A, and financial services are handled by speakers who keep returning to operational consequences. The feed is less about headline reaction than about what boards, employers, advisers, and companies need to prepare, document, or reconsider.
A series of thought leading podcasts ranging on topics and sectors by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. For more information please visit www.hsfkramer.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed practitioner conversations make the legal, regulatory and transaction consequences of corporate decisions easier to follow.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Podcasts turns legal and regulatory change into working conversations about corporate decisions. Its rotating partners, senior associates and guests move from Australian M&A and tax to UK financial-services enforcement, workplace reputation and…
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A clear, practical look at how union-rights reforms could reshape recognition campaigns and onboarding.
Employment Espresso: The Employment Rights Act 2025: Union Rights gives a clear account of a pro-union shift in UK industrial relations, from recognition-threshold changes and electronic voting to the duties employers are expected to face in October 2026.
A practical review of how earnout design can affect tax outcomes in private M&A.
Earnouts and contingent consideration have become a familiar way to close valuation gaps in private M&A, and this episode gives a clear tax-focused read on what happens when price depends on post-completion performance.
A careful, practice-minded guide to attribution and corporate accountability in Bank Havilland.
The Bank Havilland reference to the Upper Tribunal gives the episode a clean, important question: when does conduct by senior individuals become conduct by the firm?
A launch episode that treats regulatory timing as the deal issue that matters most.
Deal Talk opens as a launch episode that frames a new podcast around key M&A issues in Australia and around the world. Mia Hosenkalf is joined by Jeff Kerrigan and Lillian Yeo to look back at 2025 and ahead to what 2026 may bring for dealmakers in Australia and beyond.
A board-level AUSTRAC briefing that treats AML compliance as a governance responsibility.
This discussion with AUSTRAC CEO Brendan Thomas treats AML and CTF reform as a practical governance issue for corporate Australia, with risk, accountability, and board oversight at the center.
A measured look at how sustainability reporting and geopolitical pressure are reshaping banking strategy.
Sustainability comes through as a banking strategy shaped by instability, fast-moving technology, and mixed pressure around ESG and the workplace.
A measured look at how employee experience can become market-facing reputation risk.
Reputation comes through here as a workplace, safety, and market risk, not just a communications problem. Shane Allison, CEO and founder of Sydney-based issues and crisis management consultancy Phronesis, gives the conversation a steady frame by linking the firm's name to…
Trial craft, verdict stories, and lawyer reps.
Queensland estate planning, made concrete.
Heike Schmitz hosts Ed Wilcock to discuss embedding sustainability into banking as a strategic imperative, based on HSF Kramer's 2025 Global Bank Review.
Shane Allison, CEO of Phronesis, discusses the cost of reputation in Australian workplaces.
This episode discusses significant English arbitration developments in 2025, including the new Arbitration Act and a Court of Appeal case on anti-suit injunctions, with insights from legal experts.
This episode analyzes the Full Federal Court's decision in Commissioner of Taxation v Hicks, focusing on tax implications of a business restructure involving pre-CGT assets and anti-avoidance provisions.
Jenny Andrews, Sian McKinley, and Anna Henderson of the HSF Cramer London Employment Team explain how the Employment Rights Act 2025 shifts UK industrial relations toward unions.
This episode features an interview with Shane Allison, CEO of Phronesis, discussing workplace crisis and reputation management in the context of Australian employment law and safety practices.
This episode features a webinar discussion with legal experts analyzing key trends and updates in corporate crime and investigations across the Asia-Pacific region for 2026, based on their recently published Corporate Crime 360 Guide.
This episode examines Australia's new federal hate crime legislation, focusing on its implications for businesses, including corporate liability, compliance requirements, and connections to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism efforts.
This episode explores the complexities of executive and CEO separations in Australian employment law, featuring insights from legal experts on termination issues, corporate governance, and succession planning.
This episode discusses the current pressures on collective bargaining in Australia, focusing on negative real wages growth, union demands for wage increases, and the economic environment affecting enterprise bargaining.
AUSTRAC's expectations come back to board accountability.
March arrives and Deal Talk is looking at the M&A year ahead.
The FSR Brief examines the Upper Tribunal decision on Bank Havilland and a number of its employees, following an FCA decision notice finding a breach of Principle 1: the duty for firms to conduct business with integrity.
Toby Eggleston, a partner in the Melbourne office, and Nason Seery, a senior associate in the Melbourne team, unpack the taxation of earnouts and contingent consideration in M&A.
This episode discusses how sustainability has become a strategic imperative for global banks amid increasing complexity from geopolitical, technological, and regulatory pressures.
This special combined episode of Inside Employment, Inside IR, and Inside Safety reviews key developments in Australian employment, industrial relations, and safety law for 2025, highlighting increasing crossover between these traditionally separate legal specializations.