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Working sessions – Tuesday 92 perceptions of clients, may find themselves facing these questions for the first time. While the challenge may be greater in smaller firms without sophisticated human resources support, even larger firms, as well as large corporate law departments, often must overcome longstanding prejudices and undergo an education process. This unique program brings together substantive experts in disability law from varied jurisdictions, including the Middle East, along with disabled employment attorneys, who will discuss the specific challenges they have observed both as practitioners as well as individuals. Additionally, we will have the perspective of a major international employer, who will describe how large multinationals are working toward providing opportunities for disabled workers across jurisdictions. Moderator Philip Berkowitz Littler Mendelson, New York, USA; Newsletter Editor, Discrimination Law Committee Speakers Cherie Booth, QC Matrix Chambers London, England; Senior Vice- Chair, Discrimination Law Committee Timon Grau Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Sinead Kane The Kane Ability, Cork, Ireland Abdulla Luqman Luqman Legal, Sana’a, Republic of Yemen Frances Phillips Taft GE Oil & Gas, Florence, Italy Coffee and tea breaks will be held between 1100 – 1130 and 1600 – 1630. To accommodate the flow of delegates through the Conference Centre please note the closest coffee/tea station to this session is in the Wicklow Meeting Room corridor, Level 2. WICKLOW MEETING ROOM 5, LEVEL 2 2012 global update on anti-corruption legislation and enforcement Presented by the Anti-Corruption Committee. Session highlighted as part of the President’s focus for the IBA Task force on ‘Challenges for the Legal Profession post Global financial Crisis’. Session Co-Chairs Nicola Bonucci Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France; Co-Chair, Anti-Corruption Committee Tim Dickinson Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, Washington DC, USA; Co-Chair, Anti-Corruption Committee Representatives from each region will provide an overview on legislative developments and any new case law relating to bribery and corruption offences. Speakers Leah Ambler Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France; Secretary and International Organisations Liaison Officer, Anti-Corruption Committee Nick Benwell Simmons & Simmons, London, England; Senior Vice- Chair, Anti-Corruption Committee Edward H Davis Jr Astigarraga Davis, Miami, Florida, USA; Chair, Asset Recovery Subcommittee Hamidul Haq Rajah & Tann, Singapore; Asia Pacific Regional Officer, Anti-Corruption Committee Roberto Hernández COMAD, Mexico City, Mexico; Latin America Regional Officer, Anti-Corruption Committee Marianne Klausberger Ethical Risk Appetite, Darmstadt, Germany; Europe Regional Officer, Anti-Corruption Committee Babajide Ogundipe Sofunde Osakwe Ogundipe & Belgore, Lagos, Nigeria; Africa Regional Officer, Anti-Corruption Committee Leopoldo Pagotto Zingales & Pagotto Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil; Communications Officer, Anti-Corruption Committee James Tillen Miller & Chevalier Chartered, Washington DC, USA; North America Regional Officer, Anti-Corruption Committee Coffee and tea breaks will be held between 1100 – 1130 and 1600 – 1630. To accommodate the flow of delegates through the Conference Centre please note the closest coffee/tea stations to this session are in the foyer on Levels 2 and 3. ECOCEM ROOM, LEVEL 2 A doctor’s nightmare: protection from medical malpractice suits Joint session with the Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee and the Negligence and Damages Committee. Session Co-Chairs Neil Kirby Werksmans Inc, Sandton, South Africa; Chair, Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee Juan Eduardo Palma Cruzat Palma Abogados, Santiago, Chile; Vice-Chair, Negligence and Damages Committee How to protect the medics from legal proceedings This session will be a comparison from countries around the globe as to how legal systems protect the medical profession from lawsuits, whether such protection works and whether such protection is in the long-term interests of the population. Speakers Yusuf Ali SAN Yusuf O Ali & Co: Ghalib Chambers, Ilorin, Nigeria; Newsletter Editor, Negligence and Damages Committee Paul Emerson Lamb Chambers, London, England; Chair, Negligence and Damages Committee Scott W Pearl Esq Platzer Luca & Pearl, New York, USA Aneel Sager Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Pakistan Coffee and tea breaks will be held between 1100 – 1130 and 1600 – 1630. To accommodate the flow of delegates through the Conference Centre please note the closest coffee/tea station to this session is in the Wicklow Meeting Room corridor, Level 2. WICKLOW MEETING ROOM 3, LEVEL 2 Are lawyers’ fees fair and reasonable in all the circumstances? Joint session with the European Regional Forum, the Law Firm Management Committee and the Professional Ethics Committee. Session Co-Chairs John Corcoran Russell Kennedy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Co- Chair, Professional Ethics Committee Ori Wiener Møller PSF Group, Cambridge, England Research suggests that clients complain more about lawyers’ fees than about any other aspect of their relationship. In this session a panel of expert practitioners will consider various billing methods, the difficulties often created by poor communication and misunderstanding between lawyers and the clients, whether time billing puts pressure on individual lawyers to behave unethically, and if excessive adversarialism risks depriving litigants of access to justice. The session will also discuss: • how a balance can best be achieved between adequate remuneration for the lawyer and fairness for the client; • how to avoid complaints of overcharging; • if the ‘billable hour’ is dead and, if so, if this is a good thing; and • if excessive adversarialism risks depriving litigants of access to justice. Speakers Armen Khachaturyan Asters, Kiev, Ukraine John S Pierce Barger & Wolen, San Francisco, California, USA Victoria Rees Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Chair, Code of Ethics Working Group Stephen Revell Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Singapore; Chair, Regulation of Lawyers’ Compliance Committee
Steven M Richman Duane Morris, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA; Co- Chair, International Sales Committee; Vice-Chair, Professional Ethics Committee Carolina Zang Zang Bergel & Viñes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Young Lawyers Liaison Officer, Latin American Regional Forum Coffee and tea breaks will be held between 1100 – 1130 and 1600 – 1630. To accommodate the flow of delegates through the Conference Centre please note the closest coffee/tea station to this session is outside Conference Rooms 1-5, Level 1. CONFERENCE ROOM 4, LEVEL 1 Beneficial ownership v abuse and treaty overrides Presented by the Taxes Committee. Session Co-Chairs Friedrich Hey Debevoise & Plimpton, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Akil Hirani Majmudar & Partners, Mumbai, India; Vice-Chair, Asia- Pacific Regional Forum Beneficial ownership is always at the top of the tax lawyer’s mind when designing international structures. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is paying special attention to this concept, leading to the re-draft of the comments on Articles 10, 11 and 12 of the Model Treaty. This panel will discuss beneficial ownership issues in general, and will address anti-abuse provisions being enacted in more and more jurisdictions and their interaction with EU Directives. The panel will include a participant from the OECD. Speakers Soo Jeong Ahn Yulchon, Seoul, South Korea Maxim Alekseyev ALRUD, Moscow, Russian Federation Gareth Amdor SJ Berwin, London, England Hanisha Amesur Nishith Desai, Mumbai, India Antonio Barba Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira, Madrid, Spain Edward Barret Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France Valerio Cirimbilla Di Tanno, Rome, Italy Ayzo van Eysinga Stibbe, Luxembourg Alex Fischer Carey y Cía, Santiago, Chile; Young Lawyers Liaison Officer, Taxes Committee Margriet Lukkien Loyens & Loeff, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Randy Morphy Borden Ladner Gervais, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Daniel de la Parra Huerta Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa y Cía, Mexico City, Mexico Sebastian Paulitsch LeitnerLeitner, Linz, Austria Coffee and tea breaks will be held between 1100 – 1130 and 1600 – 1630. To accommodate the flow of delegates through the Conference Centre please note the closest coffee/tea station to this session is in The Forum on Ground Level. LIFFEY HALL 1, LEVEL 1 Catching the golden goose – overcoming corporate and jurisdictional barriers to recover assets Joint session with the Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights Section (SIRC) and the Litigation Committee. Session Co-Chairs Judith Elkin Haynes and Boone, New York, USA; Co-Chair, Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights Section (SIRC) Liam Kennedy A&L Goodbody, Dublin, Ireland; Senior Vice-Chair, Litigation Committee Collapsed international investments have been common in recent years. This session will explore the challenges facing banks, liquidators and other claimants seeking to recover such losses. This session will consider the challenges posed by the need to look behind the contracting parties in order to impose personal liability on directors or to pursue related companies, and the difficulties in pursuing assets in other jurisdictions. Speakers Christel Dumont OPF Partners, Luxembourg Mike Hales Minter Ellison, Perth, Western Australia, Australia; Senior Vice-Chair, Litigation Committee Bartosz Piechota Röhrenschef, Warsaw, Poland Mara Senn Arnold and Porter, Washington DC, USA Feodor Vyacheslavov ALRUD, Moscow, Russian Federation Coffee and tea breaks will be held between 1100 – 1130 and 1600 – 1630. To accommodate the flow of delegates through the Conference Centre please note the closest coffee/tea stations to this session are in the Foyer of Levels 2 and 3. WICKLOW HALL 2A, LEVEL 2 Company financing: access to capital markets for family-owned businesses Presented by the Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprises Committee. Session Co-Chairs Andrés Cerisola Ferrere, Montevideo, Uruguay; Vice-Chair, Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprises Committee Hermann Knott Luther, Cologne, Germany; Secretary, Law Firm Management Committee This panel covers the peculiarities affecting family-controlled businesses that prepare themselves for an equity or debt public offering – be it in the context of raising growth capital or seeking an exit for family members and/or financial investors. We will analyse when an IPO is a sensible option for a family-controlled company, what homework and structural adjustments a family-controlled company must do on the road to the public markets, what is a reasonable timeline, which legal and contractual framework should be employed and which agents must participate to make the desired outcome possible. This panel also tackles a parallel analysis for the option of bond offerings as a means to raise growth capital. Finally, the panel explores, also from the perspective of family-controlled companies, why the public markets are sometimes not a reasonable or viable alternative for either raising growth capital or exiting an investment. Speakers Leo Casey IBI Corporate Finance, Dublin, Ireland Myra Garrett William Fry, Dublin, Ireland Akil Hirani Majmudar, Mumbai, India; Vice-Chair, Asia Pacific Regional Forum José Antônio Miguel Neto Miguel Neto Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil Francesca Odell Cleary Gottlieb Steel & Hamilton, New York, USA Neil Vickers SNR Denton, London, England Pablo Viñals Blake Marval O’Farrell & Mairal, Buenos Aires, Argentina Coffee and tea breaks will be held between 1100 – 1130 and 1600 – 1630. To accommodate the flow of delegates through the Conference Centre please note the closest coffee/tea station to this session is outside Conference Rooms 1-5, Level 1. Counsel conduct Presented by the Arbitration Committee. CONFERENCE ROOM 2, LEVEL 1 Session Co-Chairs Julie Bédard Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, New York, USA; Secretary, Arbitration Committee Doug Jones Clayton Utz, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia International arbitration often involves counsel from very different legal backgrounds. Do their different expectations and practices about key issues in the case – such as obligations of candour to the tribunal or witness preparation – threaten the equality or integrity of Working sessions – Tuesday 93
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