HUB Talks

In this episode of Talking Sports Law, host John Wilson and co-host Trevor Gates sit down with Nick Brown, Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Arthur M. Blank Sports and Entertainment, the ownership group of the Atlanta Falcons football team and the Atlanta United soccer team. Nick shares insights from his transition from private practice to the business side of sports, where he helps oversee operations for an ownership group with franchises spanning multiple professional leagues. He discusses the skills that shaped his career, the unique challenges of working in a multi-team sports organization, and the evolving legal and business landscape of professional sports.

In this episode of Talking Sports Law, host John Wilson and co-host Trevor Gates are joined by Christopher McCleary, former General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC). McCleary discusses his experience with the USOPC, his current role as president of the Sports Lawyers Association, and his perspective on emerging trends in the sports law industry.

In this episode of Talking Sports Law, host Trevor Gates and co-host John Wilson are joined by Michael Donadio, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of the Pittsburgh Penguins. Michael discusses his role within the organization, his career path, and his perspective on key trends shaping the sports law industry.

Peter Morton (Partner, London) is joined in a discussion of the potential benefits of the mediation of aviation industry disputes and the key features of the Mediation Rules of the Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation (the HCAA) by David Bartlett (arbitrator and mediator,  former head of dispute resolution for GECAS and Member of the Advisory Board of the HCAA) and Paul Ng (Head of Aviation at Rajah & Tann, Singapore and  Co-Chair of the HCAA's Mediation Standing Committee)

In this episode of Talking Sports Law, host Trevor Gates and co-host John Wilson are joined by Marissa Meli, Associate General Counsel of the Green Bay Packers. Marissa discusses her path from law school to working for a National Football League team and shares her perspective on key trends shaping the sports law industry.

On this episode of Talking Sports Law, host Trevor Gates and co-host John Wilson are joined by Guiselle Torres, General Counsel for Denver Summit FC. On her second Talking Sports Law episode Guiselle gives insight into her new role as general counsel for a new expansion team in the National Women's Soccer league. 

Declan Gallivan (Senior Associate, London) speaks with two leading arbitrators, Lucy Greenwood and Klaus Reichert SC, to discuss how adjustments in the approach to the arbitration procedure can lead to a more focused, efficient and productive process. In this episode 4, we focus on arbitral awards.

Declan Gallivan (Senior Associate, London) speaks with two leading arbitrators, Lucy Greenwood and Klaus Reichert SC, to discuss how adjustments in the approach to the arbitration procedure can lead to a more focused, efficient and productive process. In this episode 3, we focus on the final hearing and related issues, touching on artificial intelligence.

Declan Gallivan (Senior Associate, London) speaks with two leading arbitrators, Lucy Greenwood and Klaus Reichert SC, to discuss how adjustments in the approach to the arbitration procedure can lead to a more focused, efficient and productive process. In this episode 2, we focus on the document production and witness statements.

Declan Gallivan (Senior Associate, K&L Gates, London) speaks with two leading arbitrators, Lucy Greenwood and Klaus Reichert SC, to discuss how adjustments in the approach to the arbitration procedure can lead to a more focused, efficient and productive process. In this episode 1, we focus on the early stages of the arbitral process including Procedural Order No. 1 and the First Procedural Meeting.

While not specific to mergers and acquisitions, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed in 2025, contains tax provisions set to impact the structure, valuation, and negotiation of M&A deals. In this episode of The Inside Basis, host Randy Clark unpacks six key ways this significant piece of tax legislation is expected to influence the M&A market.

On this episode of Talking Sports Law, host Trevor Gates and co-host John Wilson are joined by Grecia Barboza, Counsel for the San Francisco 49ers (National Football League).

Joan Lim-Casanova is joined by Vivekananda Neelakantan (Registrar of the SIAC) to discuss current trends in arbitration under the SIAC Arbitration Rules 2025, including as to users of SIAC arbitration, digital security, AI and the key challenges currently faced by the SIAC as an administering institution.

Joan Lim-Casanova is joined by Vivekananda Neelakantan (Registrar of the SIAC) to discuss some of the key features of arbitration under the SIAC Arbitration Rules 2025, including the recent amendments to the Rules.

In this episode of Lay of the Land, K&L Gates Real Estate lawyer David Rubenstein is joined by Paul Manzer, principal and data center market leader with Navix Engineering, to explore the evolving landscape of data center construction. We dive into the unique civil engineering challenges—from site selection to due diligence—and trace the evolution of these challenges from past limitations to present-day complexities like supply chain issues and legal hurdles.  Looking ahead, we discuss future trends driven by AI and emerging technologies, examining how legal strategies and engineering innovation can address these challenges. We provide key takeaways for developers and investors, emphasizing the critical collaboration between legal and engineering teams.

On this episode of Talking Sports Law, host John Wilson and co-host Trevor Gates are joined by Fred Rivera, former Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Seattle Mariners. Rivera describes his time with the Mariners and what his next professional chapter looks like.

K&L Gates Tax partner Will LeDoux joins Randy Clark for a discussion of the 2018 Supreme Court case South Dakota v. Wayfair and its impact on sales tax nexus and subsequent transaction considerations.

On this episode of Talking Sports Law, host John Wilson and co-host Trevor Gates are joined by Bob Caldwell, VP and General Counsel of Real Salt Lake (Major League Soccer) and Utah Royals (National Women's Soccer League). 

On this episode of The Inside Basis, host Randy Clark discusses some common issues in F-reorganizations involving S-corporations, a popular structural approach used in private equity transactions.

In our second episode of The Inside Basis, Randy Clark is joined by Marion Zeller, a tax partner in our Luxembourg office, and David Mussche, an associate director with Howden M&A's tax team, to discuss the state of tax insurance in Luxembourg and its impacts on deal process and risk mitigation.

Peter Morton (London) is joined by Paul Jebely, the Founder and Chairperson of the Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation (HCAA), to discuss the origin and aims of the HCAA and some of the key features of arbitration under the HCAA Arbitration Rules.

In our inaugural episode of The Inside Basis, Randy Clark is joined by Sarah Bowman, one of our estate planning and trust administration lawyers, and Lauren Anderson, a wealth advisor at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, to discuss estate and gift planning, recent trends in the setup of and transfers to trusts, and the impact of scheduled changes to federal estate and gift exemptions.

In episode two of our Baltic States series, Ian Meredith is joined by speakers from Ellex Valiunas - Vilija Vaitkute Pavan, Dr. Tadas Varapnickas, and Simona Budreikaitė to discuss the topical and investment related issues of international arbitration within the Baltic States.

The first episode in our two-part Baltic States series, Ian Meredith is joined by speakers from Ellex Valiunas - Vilija Vaitkute Pavan, Dr. Tadas Varapnickas, and Simona Budreikaitė - who offer an overview of international arbitration in and involving parties across the Baltic States, with a focus on Lithuania.

In the second episode of our Interstate Arbitration series, Ian Meredith continues the conversation with Professor Stephen Minas. In this episode we will dive into some specific aspects of interstate arbitration. Ian and Stephen discuss the particular role that interstate arbitration plays/could play in the ongoing war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, as well as its role in the road to reach Net Zero. They also touch on the potential obligations of states in relation to the High Seas Treaty and the potential relevance of interstate arbitration to the management of pandemics.

In this first episode of our Interstate Arbitration series, Ian Meredith talks with Professor Stephen Minas of Peking University Transnational Law School, to introduce the general ins and outs of interstate (or State vs State) arbitration and how it differs from other forms of arbitration, the basis for jurisdiction in interstate arbitration, and its potential role in resolving major international disputes.

Major residential condominium construction has seen a decade-plus lull, due in part to an onerous warranty statute applicable only to condos. The Washington State Legislature significantly changed that statute in 2019, and the statute of limitations has now expired on the first condos subject to the new changes.  Insurance professional Aaron Laing, an account executive with Parker, Smith & Feek, joins this episode to discuss the current state of play for condo liability, insurers' thoughts on these projects, and whether the time is right to re-evaluate the potential for condominiums as partial solutions to the housing crisis in Washington.

In this episode, hosts Alex Kaplan and Heather Horowitz speak with guest Andrew Son, President of District Wharf Properties. The Wharf is one of the largest and most successful real estate projects developed in Washington, D.C. over the last several decades. In this episode, Andrew discusses The Wharf's unique features, symbiotic relationships among property uses, and practical navigation through the COVID-19 pandemic and challenging markets.

In this episode, Thomas Nietsch, a partner in our Berlin office, sits down with Jelena Kljujic (Privacy Officer at Cisco, EMEA) and Gabriela Mercuri (Managing Director at Scope Europe) to discuss strategies for ensuring compliance while using cloud services. The speakers will discuss various codes of conduct that businesses should follow, including tips on choosing a cloud provider, implementing security measures, and training staff on compliance issues.

In this episode, our hosts and other industry leaders discuss the federal and local economic incentives for businesses expanding to the Washington, D.C., region—including the Inflation Reduction Act, Vitality Fund, and incentives available from the Department of Energy.

K&L Gates' partners Dominic Fleeton, Dylan G. Moses, and David C. Lindsay compare and contrast the approaches to regulating and enforcing the management of psychosocial risks and hazards in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

As part of a mini-series exploring arbitration in Asia, Ian Meredith (K&L Gates, London) speaks with Dr. Mingchao Fan, the Executive Vice President of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission, regarding arbitrations administered by the Commission, the key features of arbitration under the Commission's Arbitration Rules, and the plans of the Commission going forward against the context of current and anticipated future developments in dispute resolution in the PRC and internationally.

In this episode, our hosts speak with Alex Iams, executive vice president of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority. This discussion centers on attracting business and investment to the Northern Virginia suburbs outside D.C., contrasting with our previous conversations focused on trends in central business districts.

In this episode, our privacy lawyers, Claude-Étienne Armingaud, Whitney McCollum, and Camille Scarparo, sit down with Arya Tripathy, a partner at Priti Suri & Associates in New Dehli, and discuss together India's newly published Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP) and how it may compare or differentiate to GDPR and other existing frameworks, and what she believes is the best practices for companies during this data privacy transition period in India.

 In this episode of Lay of the Land, our hosts speak with housing, economic development, policy, and land use professional Andrew Trueblood. Focusing on trends in office and residential real estate markets in Washington, D.C., this discussion explores unique challenges and opportunities of the local office market, influences of the substantial federal government presence, and municipal government efforts to attract capital to the District while serving the needs of regional businesses and residents.  Our hosts and guest provide additional insight into District collaborations with investors, the federal government, and surrounding jurisdictions creating the conditions necessary for the development of world-class mixed-use projects and development areas.

In our second episode of Lay of the Land, hosts Heather Horowitz, Jen McCosker, Christian Major, Tobias Gries, and Anna Amprimo discuss office asset market trends in the United States, Australia, the UK, Germany, and Italy. Touching on key issues in 2023 and beyond—including ESG matters, perceived flight-to-quality, and potential office conversions—this podcast addresses viewpoints relevant for owners, developers, investors, and lenders.

In the inaugural episode of our Lay of the Land podcast, Real Estate practice area leaders from K&L Gates discuss the firm's real estate capabilities, our regional practices, and global market trends.

In this episode, Declan Gallivan (Senior Disputes Associate in London) speaks with Florian Haugeneder (Partner and Co-Chair of the Arbitration Practice of the Austrian law firm KNOETZL) to discuss a simple spelling mistake which ultimately led to an important arbitration-related judgment of the Austrian Supreme Court. The two discuss the implications of the judgment and how it demonstrates that Austria is a reliable and arbitration-friendly jurisdiction.

Our Seattle partner Jake Bernstein, along with Seattle associate Eric Vicente Flores discuss the newly adopted Colorado Data Privacy Act that went into effect on 1 July 2023. This will be the third state privacy law in the US, and the second new law in 2023. Jake and Eric explain who the law applies to, along with the correlating rules and regulations.

In this episode, partners Amigo Xie, Corey Bieber, and Whitney McCollum focus on the China Data Privacy laws, the recent China Standard Contract that took effect 1 June 2023, and the effects and restrictions it may have on China data privacy and protection going forward.

Have you ever met your hero? Our corporate partner, David Edgar, recently had the opportunity to sit down with one of his. Iconic deal lawyer Jim Freund is a master in understanding the ins and outs of complex mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Jim was at the negotiating table for many of the most significant M&A deals in history and has influenced generations of lawyers and M&A professionals over his long career as a lawyer, author, teacher, and mediator.  His many books include Anatomy of a Merger: Strategies and Techniques for Negotiating Corporate Acquisitions and Smart Negotiating: How to Make Good Deals in the Real World. During their discussion, David and Jim talk about the art of doing deals and dive into Jim's most important negotiating lessons he's learned over a lifetime of getting the most challenging deals done. We hope you enjoy this fascinating conversation with one of the legends of M&A.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is known for protecting consumers against unfair and deceptive business practices, so how does data privacy and cybersecurity tie into that? In this episode, Jake Bernstein and Whitney McCollum discuss FTC's role as the De Facto US Data Privacy Enforcer and how they are becoming more prominent in the privacy and security sector.

In this episode, Claude-Etienne Armingaud, Eleonora Curreri, and Camille Scarparo celebrate the fifth year anniversary of GDPR along with lawyers from our European offices; Thomas Nietsch and Andreas Müller (Berlin), Nóirín McFadden (London), and Gianmarco Marani (Milan). They reflect on how embedded GDPR has become in the cultural scene and with private enforcement. They also touch on the future for UK GDPR and the Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill.

Janice Lin, founder and CEO of impact-driven consulting firm Strategen–and founder and president of the Green Hydrogen Coalition–has witnessed firsthand the recent, significant changes to the renewable energy market in the United States. With two decades of industry experience in clean energy, Janice joins host Molly Barker to discuss this promising evolution, as well as the job creation potential, infrastructure conversion abilities, and emerging administrative strategies advancing the progress toward economy-wide decarbonization across sectors.

In this episode, Elizabeth Crouse meets with Bentina Terry, Senior Vice President of Georgia Power's Customer Strategy and Solutions, to discuss the tools available to utilities to address the operational pressures of climate change and an evolving economy while always putting their customers and communities first.

In this episode, Claude Etienne Armingaud, Eleonora Curreri, and Camille Scarparo introduce a case regarding a U.S. company's data privacy breach, the consequences a company may face for being non-compliant with GDPR for companies established outside of the EU, and which steps companies can take to prevent these situations.

Join co-hosts John Wilson and Trevor Gates for their conversation with Mali Friedman, Chief Legal Officer for the NFL's Washington Commanders.  Ms. Friedman has enjoyed a long and extensive career in sports law, including work with the NHL, Golden State Warriors, and XFL prior to joining the Commanders.  The conversation focuses on Ms. Friedman's journey to the NFL, what a typical day looks like in her role, and thoughts on "hot topics" in the world of sports law.

Effects of climate change continue to impact the Pacific Northwest, from California wildfires to smoky Seattle summers. Our guest on this episode of Sustainable Outlook concentrates on the financial facets of resource efficiency in order to slow, reduce, and reverse these effects on both ecosystems and communities. Rachel Brombaugh serves as Washington Managing Director with PACE Equity, a financial services company funding construction and renovation development projects seeking to lower carbon emissions. Rachel joins host Alyssa Moir to discuss the financial incentives for carbon reduction and compliance with the Clean Buildings Act; the need for policy and infrastructure to support personal sustainable practices; and her vision of a "thriving, low-carbon society" in the Pacific Northwest.

In this episode of Sustainable Outlook, host Alyssa Moir is joined by Monique Dyers, principal and CEO of Ensight Energy Consulting, an engineering and management consulting firm serving the energy and renewable energy sectors. Monique details the range of roles played by the firm throughout the evolution of its energy projects, as well as her own roles as an engineer, entrepreneur, advocate, and trailblazer for Black women in the industry.