When you outpace change, you own your future. And the future is much brighter when you get there first.
To get ahead means being both visionary and paying attention to the detail.
It means finding new possibilities in every challenge. And it requires an ability to creatively blend skills and knowledge.
At Ashurst, we believe that change is best viewed in the rearview mirror – and that our clients need more from us than conventional legal services.
Through our Ashurst Advance and Risk Consulting teams, we provide deep expertise in NewLaw, risk, technology advisory and consulting. Combined with our legal practitioners, we offer a powerful platform for delivering integrated solutions, and our clients see the benefits.
Offerings like our Obligation Management Solution (OMS) can seamlessly plug into existing governance and risk platforms and streamline the compliance journey.
To help our clients outpace change, we blend capabilities in innovative ways, and help them see every challenge through a lens of new possibilities.
At Ashurst, we integrate to accelerate. That’s the way to outpace change.
Outpacing change Podcast Series
Listen to our collection of conversations with innovators and disruptors who have challenged the status-quo and are changing the world around them.
On 3rd December, the International Day of people with disability, we recognise and celebrate the stories of two individuals who have who have transformed their own experiences of disability into powerful journeys of innovation and advocacy.
Whether she’s burning around race circuits in a Lamborghini or giving business leaders a steer on diversity, Charlie Martin always gives it everything she’s got. In this podcast, Charlie shares hair-raising tales from the track and her inside story of being a transgender woman in a male-dominated industry.
Sydneysider Christy Laurence explains how a fall in Martin Place train station led her to create a social media startup that stormed the globe.
Our latest Outpacing Change episode takes us to Gotenburg, Sweden and an insightful discussion with Volvo Trucks Director of Environment and Innovation, Lars Martensson, and the innovative world of electric, autonomous and connected freight solutions aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of the logistics sector and improve road safety.
In this new episode of our Outpacing Change series, Australian futurist Dr Ben Hamer offers a glimpse of the future of work and explains how business leaders can rise to an array of strategic challenges and opportunities. This entertaining conversation between Ben and Andy tackles generative AI, climate change, hybrid working, career planning, and much more.
Inspired by nature, Pierre Paslier and his colleagues at Notpla are reinventing food packaging to protect the environment and end single-use plastic packaging.
Life is made up of key moments and for quadruple amputee Cor Hutton, these moments have been significant. In June 2013, Cor nearly lost her life after suffering acute pneumonia and sepsis. Surgeons were forced to amputate both her hands and her legs below the knee. But she didn't let this setback stop her, and the impact that Cor has had since this trauma is truly remarkable.
Transport innovator Jeral Poskey reflects on his extraordinary career journey – from rural Texas and Washington DC, to Stanford and Silicon Valley – and explains his passion for better connecting cities and communities.
Find out how social enterprise entrepreneur Kimberley Abbott blends business savvy, ethical intent and engineering know-how in her ground-breaking FinTech start-up Vested Impact.
“Outpacing change represents the next chapter for our global firm. It is about anticipating the needs of our clients, with integrated solutions that meet their commercial goals as well as their legal challenges.”
Paul Jenkins, Global Chief Executive Officer
Case Studies
Find out how we are working collaboratively with clients to help to provide solutions that keep them ahead of the market.
Cyber security case study
We acted as a client's trusted breach, cyber security and data protection adviser, and fully coordinated its response on a global cyber security incident.
Breach reporting managed service
A new breach reporting regime expanded the scope and introduced more stringent timeframes for the reporting of compliance events.
Brexit & regulatory reorganisation project
Our client - a leading international bank - needed to undertake a large-scale Brexit and regulatory reorganisation.
A client-centric obligation management solution
Our Obligation Management Solution supported the breach reporting team of a major Australian bank.
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The ones that get ahead? They’re not just in step with change. They’re outpacing it.
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Future Forces 2023 Report
In collaboration with Economist Impact, our analysis has identified six megatrends - powerful forces believed to have the potential to change the global economy, business and society in the next decade.
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