2025 has seen unprecedented global geopolitical shifts, trade wars, and conflicting regulatory regimes, which are affecting organisations throughout Europe and creating a fragmented global landscape. Gain insights into what you should expect to see in the coming months to help you prepare your organisation’s strategy. 

• Gain a comprehensive understanding how the current geopolitical shifts are likely to affect legal leaders going into 2026 and beyond.
• Insights into how you can maintain strong reputation across diverse jurisdictions, despite complex geopolitical difficulties.

In today's complex business environment, risk extends far beyond traditional legal and compliance concerns. Cyber threats, supply chain disruptions, and geopolitical instability all present significant operational risks that can impact legal and compliance obligations. Recognise how these risks interconnect and understand how integrated risk management platforms can enable your organisation to break down silos and create a cohesive defence.

• Learn how to identify the dependencies and cascading effects of different risk types.
• Foster enhanced communication between legal, compliance, IT, security and other departments involved in risk management. Explore practical strategies for breaking down silos and sharing information effectively.
• Recognise the actionable insights and informed decision-making that integrated risk management tools provide through advanced data analytics and AI, streamlining your risk management operations.

At last year’s Exchange, a common theme emerged, ‘How do you survive as a GC and CCO in 2024?’. The demands placed on legal and compliance teams have continued to expand throughout 2025, including deepening regulations and more complex litigations. How do you, as GCs and CCOs, meet and exceed the demands from external stakeholders, as well as manage internal pressures to be an effective leader of the people in your legal and compliance teams?

• Come prepared with questions to ask our General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer on our legal hot seat about the complexities and challenges they face in their roles.
• Hear how others are balancing demands placed on them by both external and internal stakeholders.
• Come away with best practices as to how you can not only survive, but thrive in your role, going into 2026.

In a volatile environment, your legal department must adapt to remain effective and relevant by considering innovative strategies to enhance your teams' agility, leveraging diverse talent, strategic restructuring, and technological integration. Focus on pragmatic initiatives within your control to drive change and position your legal team for a future full of surprises.

• Examine how embracing a more flexible and multidisciplinary approach to your team can drive efficiency, foster innovation, and position legal departments as key enablers of business success.
• Discover how to effectively integrate professionals from diverse non-legal disciplines, such a technology, to drive innovation and efficiency within your teams.
• How to best structure and train your team to take advantage of changing environments and look for business opportunities.

As supply chains become increasingly complex and regulations like CSDDD and CSRD demand greater third-party due diligence, in-house teams are facing a critical challenge: how to effectively manage third-party risk while maintaining efficiency and controlling costs. This session explores how to implement a risk-based tiering system for third-party relationships, focusing due diligence efforts on higher-risk partners and leveraging technology to streamline monitoring processes.

• Learn how to segment your third-party relationships into risk-based tiers on factors such as industry, geography, relationship type and potential impact on your organisation’s objectives and compliance obligations.
• Discover how to tailor your due diligence processes to the specific risks, focusing your resources on the highest-risk partners and streamlining due diligence for lower-risk partnerships.
• Explore how to implement continuous monitoring and auditing programmes using technology solutions to identify and mitigate risks across your supply chain.

Given the growing political and corporate pushback against ESG initiatives, GCs and CCOs must strategically position their legal and compliance teams to anticipate any future regulatory adjustments within Europe. Hear how you can navigate your organisation through the great ESG landscape in Europe, whilst operating across the globe. How should you best prepare for the future of ESG in Europe?

• Explore best practices for navigating your organisation into a future of strong ESG compliance to remain competitive. 
• Hear some of the common challenges faced and solutions discovered for effective ESG compliance.
• Uncover predictions and forecasts for the future of ESG regulations in Europe, in relation to geopolitical shifts and changing business perceptions towards ESG.

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