On-demand webinar: Corporate structures under pressure: Managing Head Office Liability risks

Head office liability is reshaping the risk landscape for multinational businesses and their insurers, as claimants increasingly seek to hold parent companies directly responsible for harm connected to overseas subsidiaries. Evolving legal approaches across jurisdictions are creating complex questions around corporate governance, direct duties and insurance exposure.

In this on-demand webinar, our panel of global specialists, including Neil Beresford, Marcella Hill, Gareth Horne, Ellen Snow, David Meheut, Henning Schaloske, Matthijs Stevens, Priya Gobal and Daniel Le Roux, explore the expansion of head office liability across key jurisdictions and what this means for multinational businesses and their insurers as claimants increasingly seek to hold parent companies responsible for harm connected to overseas subsidiaries.

The session highlights:

• How head office liability is developing across key jurisdictions, including the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa.
• The circumstances in which a parent company’s conduct, control, governance or public commitments may give rise to direct duties and legal responsibilities.
• Why corporate structure alone may not protect a parent company where it has become involved in strategic decisions, group policies or overseas operations.
• How collective actions, litigation funding and cross-border proceedings can increase the scale, duration and cost of head office liability claims.
• Key insurer considerations, including local and global insurance programmes, defence costs, aggregation, allocation and potential claims against multiple group entities.
• Practical steps for multinational businesses and insurers, including clearly documenting decision-making responsibilities, reviewing governance arrangements and aligning public commitments with how responsibility is exercised across the group.

Now available with Spanish subtitles
Spanish subtitles are now available for this on-demand webinar.

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