Watson Farley & Williams Podcast

About Watson Farley & Williams Podcast

Watson Farley & Williams is a leading international law firm with offices in Athens, Bangkok, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanoi, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. We provide legal services of the highest quality through a combination of technical excellence and industry knowledge in the sectors we know best, principally; energy comprising oil and gas, power, natural resources and renewables; infrastructure including airports, digital and e-infrastructure, ports and terminals, rail, roads, bridges and tunnels and social infrastructure; and transport including aviation, maritime and rail. Our lawyers apply their specialist skills and experience to provide effective, commercially-focussed advice across a broad range of corporate, finance, dispute resolution, tax, employment and regulatory matters. Across our podcast series we will share our latest insights, exploring the key themes and developments that impact our core sectors. The information provided in this podcast is for general and illustrative purposes only and is not intended to provide advice, please see here (https://www.wfw.com/accessibility-compliance/).

Publisher

WFW

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Oct 2023

Latest episode

30 Nov 2023

Latest episodes

8 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Nov 2023

   Countdown to COP: Bonus Episode

   Welcome to the Bonus Episode of our ‘Countdown to COP: Financing and Fuelling the Future’ podcast series where we turn the tables on our series host, Dubai Projects Partner Mhairi Main Garcia, who answers questions from WFW’s Global Sustainability Lead, Ben Churchill. This episode discusses the key takeaways from the series overall including the need for improved regulation, transparency, and collaboration across industry and sector participants to drive transition, the cost of inaction and t...

2. 

   22 Nov 2023

   Countdown to COP: Infrastructure

   Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) is delighted to launch episode seven of our ‘Countdown to COP: Financing and Fuelling the Future’ podcast series. This week, Mhairi Main Garcia is joined by Finance Partner José María Anarte to discuss the journey to net zero in the infrastructure sector, touching both on social infrastructure and transport infrastructure as well as emerging sub-sectors such as data centres. The key challenge facing the sector is ageing or a lack of existing infrastructure, ...

3. 

   7 Nov 2023

   Countdown to COP: Aviation

   Watson Farley & Williams is delighted to launch episode six of our ‘Countdown to COP: Financing and Fuelling the Future’ podcast series. This week, Mhairi discusses the aviation sector with Global Aviation Sector Co-Head, Jim Bell.While the aviation sector is pushing toward achieving net zero by 2050, it faces serious challenges. Not least the challenge of the physics of flight and the associated limitations, but also challenges around the timing required for safety and testing before new...

4. 

   1 Nov 2023

   Countdown to COP: Renewables

   Watson Farley & Williams is delighted to launch episode five of our ‘Countdown to COP: Financing and Fuelling the Future’ podcast series. This week, Mhairi is joined by Madrid Partner Rodrigo Berasategui, who has more than 20 years’ experience advising on a broad range of renewables transactions, to discuss the sector at the heart of the drive toward net zero. There is undoubtably a healthy pipeline of projects in the sector and strong support to finance them, not only through traditional...

5. 

   25 Oct 2023

   Countdown to COP: Oil & Gas

   Watson Farley & Williams is delighted to launch episode four of our ‘Countdown to COP: Financing and Fuelling the Future’ podcast series. This week, host Mhairi Main Garcia is joined by Joe Levin, a Projects Partner from our London office, specialising in oil and gas. Mhairi and Joe discuss the important role of the oil and gas industry in the drive towards achieving net zero, placing a huge responsibility on the sector. The oil majors, in particular, have the financial power, technical s...

6. 

   18 Oct 2023

   Countdown to COP: Maritime

   Watson Farley & Williams is delighted to launch episode three of our ‘Countdown to COP: Financing and Fuelling the Future’ podcast series. This week, host Mhairi Main Garcia sits down with Singapore Maritime Finance Partner Lizzie Roe, a key contributor to our 2023 The Sustainability Imperative Part – 2 thought leadership report. Despite a clear desire to meet net zero targets across the maritime sector, only 28% of industry participants interviewed in The Sustainability Imperative - Part...

7. 

   11 Oct 2023

   Countdown to COP: Rail

   Welcome back to Watson Farley & Williams ‘Countdown to COP: Financing and Fuelling the Future’ series. In this week’s episode, host Mhairi Main Garcia talks to Frederik Lorenzen, a Finance Partner based in our Frankfurt office. Mhairi and Frederik discuss rail, a sector that will play a key role in achieving net zero but which faces its own challenges. These include real and perceived issues around reliability, efficiency and, potentially, affordability if the sector is to reach its full ...

8. 

   4 Oct 2023

   Countdown to COP: Mining & Commodities

   Watson Farley & Williams is delighted to bring you the first episode in our ‘Countdown to COP: Financing and Fuelling the Future’ series. This week, host Mhairi Main Garcia is joined by London Projects Partner Daisy East to discuss financing the road to net zero in the mining and commodities sector. The discussion focusses specifically on mining and metals, a space in which the projects are complex with often competing challenges and demands, particularly when considering ESG, new technol...

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