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.
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.
Suncorp Group sale of Suncorp Bank to ANZ
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.
Related insights
Awards and Accolades
The Australian Financial Review’s Most Innovative Companies 2024
Professional Services category
Band 1: Law Firm LPO (Global Wide), Chambers NewLaw Guide 2024
"HSF Digital Legal Delivery is incredibly responsive and provides excellent client service throughout. It makes us feel like the most important client." Law Firm LPO (Global Wide), Chambers NewLaw Guide 2024
Band 1: Litigation Services (Global-wide), Chambers NewLaw Guide 2024
"I'm very satisfied with HSF; they're exceptionally bright lawyers who know their stuff inside and out. It's a really good client relationship - everything gets done quickly and to your satisfaction." Litigation Services (Global-wide), Chambers NewLaw Guide 2024
Band 1: Legal Transformation Consulting (Global-wide), Chambers NewLaw Guide 2024
“The Legal Operations team at HSF are one of the best in the business. They can provide the full range of legal operations capabilities required for their clients to deliver.” Legal Transformation Consulting (Global-wide), Chambers NewLaw Guide 2024
Band 2: Contract Lifecycle Management (Global-wide), Chambers NewLaw Guide 2024
"HSF have a well resourced team of extremely adept lawyers ready to support any manner of complex and thorny matters. We have only encountered very able and pragmatic lawyers throughout the HSF team." Contract Lifecycle Management (Global-wide), Chambers NewLaw Guide 2024
Band 2: Alternative Legal Service Providers (Asia-Pacific Region), Chambers NewLaw Guide 2024
“Herbert Smith's commercial awareness is very strong.” Alternative Legal Service Providers (Asia-Pacific Region), Chambers NewLaw Guide 2024
Band 3: Flexible Legal Staffing (Global-wide) , Chambers NewLaw Guide 2024
Key contacts
Lyn Harris
Partner, Legal (Disputes) - UK, US and EMEA and Digital (Legal Technology) - Global, Belfast
