Digital Legal Delivery

AMP Limited

Supporting on shareholder class action proceedings in the NSW Supreme Court. Five competing class actions were brought against our client, in one of Australia’s largest class actions, arising from ASIC investigations and the Royal Commission into the Financial Services Industry. The Digital group supported on various workstreams and leveraged continuous active learning technology to reduce the number of documents for review from approximately 260,000 to 75,000 which resulted in a significant cost saving for the client. Our group also provided ongoing support during the evidence phase of the matter, including assisting with the preparation of privilege schedules and chronologies

A cross-practice team of lawyers, technologists and legal operations advisory specialists from across Herbert Smith Freehills have teamed up with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to design and build a digital solution to help businesses impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic check to see if they’re potentially eligible to make a claim under their insurance policies. This work won us multiple innovation awards from the The Lawyer, The FT, and other organisations

Supporting on the certification and other document-intensive workstreams for China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Securities Limited and Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited as joint sponsors of Dekon Food and Agriculture Group (02419.HK)'s listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Financial services client

The Digital Legal Delivery teams are working with a multinational investment bank to review, update and streamline all legal documentation that sits within the bank's digital ecosystem that provides its clients and bankers with tools to facilitate research, trading and other investment activities. This project is of strategic importance for our client

Multinational transportation company

Supporting our client on the $400 million sale of its interest in a proprietary mobile app to one of the world's largest technology and investment groups. The Digital Legal team provided multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional DD support to ensure "round-the-clock" service in order to meet extremely tight deadlines for the review of circa 12,000 documents, in addition to assistance in relation to high-volume disclosure verification

Providing a multi-disciplinary Digital Legal Delivery team to support on the due diligence, data room management and merger authorisation aspects of Suncorp Group’s landmark sale of Suncorp Bank to ANZ