Briefing Finance Leaders 2025
9 September 2025 | HFW, 8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQAn exclusive event for law firm finance leaders
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"I’ve been involved with Briefing across their events and publications for nearly ten years. Challenges and strategies for firms like ours have developed significantly during this time. Briefing has consistently provided solid insights and opportunities to collaborate with peers. The inaugural Briefing finance leaders conference earlier this week delivered on all fronts. Fantastic content and speakers, plenty of opportunity to network with other law firm leaders and the right balance of vendors in the room to glean useful insights and advice without feeling overly salesy."
Andrew Edginton, Chief operating officer, Chief financial officer, Gowling
FINANCE LEADERS 2025
The role of CFO and finance director in the legal sector has expanded rapidly in few short years. In addition to managing traditional priorities, they must now also juggle an ever-broader array of operational, transactional and commercial responsibilities, all while looking to the future of finance in an era of unprecedented technological change.
Briefing Finance Leaders 2025 takes a different approach to the usual conference model; it creates a uniquely discursive environment that emphasises sharing experiences and solutions with a diverse range of businesses.
Aimed at chief finance officers and finance directors, this is an unmissable opportunity to join your peers for a half-day of networking, learning, and solution-sharing to some of the biggest challenges facing finance leaders right now.
Key themes –
• Steering a course through economic uncertainty and geo-political chaos
• Seeking profitability: strategies to improve working capital, reduce lockup and harness efficiencies
• Navigating business transformation: getting started with overhauling legacy systems
• Building commercial awareness among fee-earners
• AI and the pricing conundrum: balancing cost, client expectations and productivity
• The mounting IT burden: how much tech do firms really need?
• Beyond bonuses: motivating meaningful change in law firms
• Smart Resourcing: Matching Skills, Roles, and Tools for Maximum Efficiency
OUR 2025 PROGRAMME
WHY ATTEND BRIEFING FINANCE LEADERS 2025?
Briefing Finance Leaders takes a different approach to the usual conference model; here’s why we think you can’t afford to miss out:
- An unmissable opportunity to step back from day-to-day business to consider the longer picture.
- Understand what’s in store for the economy with insights from our expert keynote speaker
- Immerse yourself in a deeply discursive format as we address key issues such as working capital/lockup, ESG reporting, data/metrics – and the technology that can improve efficiencies.
- Make deep connections with finance leaders from a diverse range of large law firms, swap insights and understand how other businesses are approaching the current challenges.
Discover what's ahead for 2025: insights from 2024 presentations
PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE: MACRO ECONOMIC VIEW
How will the change in government, looming US elections, and other factors impact the economy? This session will assess key considerations for finance leaders as they plan for the coming year.
Josie Anderson, senior economist, Experian
Briefing Finance Leaders – Josie Anderson macro economic view
ESG REPORTING IN THE SPOTLIGHT
As ESG regulation continues to ramp up, carbon expert and accountant Nicky Sinker will give an overview of mandatory reporting requirements, consider the impact on the finance function and the wider business and explore data requirements.
Nicky Sinker, cost, procurement and carbon specialist
Briefing Finance Leaders 2024 – Nicky Sinker ESG reporting
