Digital Legal Delivery

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Digital adaption is presenting businesses with efficiencies and opportunities at pace – Herbert Smith Freehills is no different.

Continuing to support our clients with this rapid change, we created a team of the best analytical legal minds backed by investments in cutting-edge tools and technologists in our multi-strand Digital Legal Delivery group.

Delivering a holistic response to clients, our problem solvers support businesses needing invention and fresh thinking from their legal advisers alongside the technical excellence you expect from a leading global law firm.

Leveraging experience to map the intersections where people and tech deliver results, our group supports businesses undergoing their own digitisation projects and those who seek freedom from the manual and inefficient processes of traditional legal services delivery.

Experienced at delivering large and complex legal services, we are experts in the delivery of data-intensive mandates.

Imagining possibilities, our Digital Legal Delivery group is implementing the best solutions today, while experimenting with emerging tools to understand their practical applications for tomorrow.

Evolving through design thinking, legal project management, advisory and new law frameworks, generative AI came as no surprise to HSF’s digital team, neither will the next big digital transformation.

Experience

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.

The Financial Conduct Authority

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.

Dekon Group's Hong Kong IPO

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 (Corporate) and Digital Advisory 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.

Lendlease

Supporting in class action proceedings in the NSW Supreme Court against claims alleging misleading or deceptive conduct and continuous disclosure breaches by Lendlease in respect of the performance of its Engineering and Services Business. The Digital team provided document review and eDiscovery support and worked closely with the HSF Disputes team to review in excess of 150,000 documents utilising a variety of technology and smart review processes.

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.