WSG Blog

In this URBANIA article, WSG member Valérie Belle-Isle, Partner at Lavery offers key insights on water governance, emphasizing that while Quebec’s regulatory framework provides significant legal protections, these mechanisms remain largely underleveraged in practice. She emphasizes that the future of water commodification depends less on legal tools than on how actively governments enforce them, highlighting the need for more proactive authority amid growing pressure to balance resource management, public interest and commercial activity. Her perspective reflects a broader global reality in which, across jurisdictions, the persistent gap between regulatory design and implementation continues to shape outcomes in natural resource governance.

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In this CNA Today article, WSG member Terrence Yeo, Senior Associate at TSMP discusses the evolving role of artificial intelligence in reshaping early legal careers, noting that as AI assumes responsibility for routine and tasks, junior lawyers are increasingly able to engage in higher-value work such as strategy, advocacy and complex problem solving. This shift has the potential to make the profession more sustainable and rewarding, particularly for younger practitioners, by accelerating their exposure to substantive legal thinking and client-facing responsibilities. He emphasizes on the broader global transformation within the legal industry, where the integration of AI is redefining traditional training models and prompting a reassessment of the skills required for long-term professional relevance.

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In this GlobalAutoIndustry.com interview, WSG member Laura Baucus, Attorney at Dykema shares key insights from the Dykema 2026 Automotive Trends Report, emphasizing how the industry's increasing reliance on technology is driving heightened data privacy obligations across jurisdictions worldwide. She underscores the importance of proactively strengthening contracts, anticipating potential areas of conflict in long term agreements, and ensuring early alignment between business and legal teams. Her insights reinforce the need for a more strategic, forward-looking legal approach to risk mitigation as regulatory complexity and technology driven challenges continue to intensify across the automotive and mobility sectors.

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In this Asia Business Law Journal report, WSG members Takafumi Ochiai, Senior Partner at Atsumi & Sakai, Nicholas Tan Choi Chuan, M&A Partner at Shearn Delamore and Truong Nhat Quang, Managing Partner at YKVN discuss the rise of M&A activity across Asia-Pacific amid an increasingly complex global environment. They highlight that regulatory developments are playing a more central role in deal execution, underscoring the importance of regulatory clarity and careful compliance planning, and emphasize that effective structuring, early engagement with regulators and a proactive approach to multi-jurisdictional requirements are key to achieving deal certainty and successful outcomes.

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In this Legalweb article, WSG members Ivo Pruša (Partner), Ján Béreš, and Jana Guricová (Counsel) at Kocián Šolc Balaštík (KSB) discuss the firm’s continued growth and strong profitability, alongside its significant investments in new technologies to support future development. They emphasize KSB’s strategic objective to reinforce the firm’s position as a leading independent law firm with global reach by 2026. The interview also highlights the firm’s commitment to legal innovation, particularly through AI enabled platforms aimed at enhancing efficiency and cross-border service delivery.

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In this The Press and Journal article, WSG members Kevin Clancy, Partner and Killian Dockrell, Solicitor at Shepherd Wedderburn discuss the increasing health and safety risks associated with offshore wind development driven by larger projects, greater technical complexity and operations in increasingly remote and challenging environments. They highlight how hazardous access, constrained evacuation routes, and human factor risks are intensifying as the sector scales. As these issues align with incident trends reported across offshore wind markets internationally, they emphasize for legal practitioners, the importance of occupational safety frameworks, consistent cross-border standards and clearly defined contractual allocation of health and safety responsibilities across the offshore wind value chain.

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In this Channels Television interview, WSG member Sina Sipasi, Partner at AELEX discusses the growing importance of innovative legal structures in infrastructure finance, highlighting that Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) are becoming widely adopted as international best practice for managing risk and strengthening project bankability. He emphasizes that legal clarity and strong governance frameworks are essential to giving investors the confidence to support long term infrastructure projects, ultimately driving sustained economic growth across emerging markets.

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In this Portafolio article WSG member Andrés Fernández de Castro, TMT Director at Brigard Urrutia discusses key aspects in laws protecting fundamental rights to habeas data by granting individuals legal rights over their personal information. As data protection regimes continue to expand globally, he emphasizes that organizations operating in Latin America are placing greater focus on jurisdiction specific compliance frameworks.

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In this Quotidiano Nazionale Network interview, WSG member Alessandra Ferroni, Partner at Gianni & Origoni provides an overview of Open-es platform, a collaborative platform that supports enterprises in sustainability, digital transformation and innovation through a shared, data driven framework. She emphasizes that sustainability has assumed a central legal dimension due to evolving European Union legislation and highlights the platform’s capability to define key performance indicators for sustainability.

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In this Modo Energy podcast, WSG member Conrad Purcell, Partner at Haynes Boone discusses the increasing legal complexity surrounding the financing of battery energy storage systems (BESS). He highlights that while debt financing remains a core component, its application to BESS projects raises distinct legal considerations, including revenue certainty, asset longevity and technology risk, emphasizing uncertainty as the biggest barrier to bankability in battery storage financing today.

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