april 17-21 grand hyatt new york spring meeting - Arbitration Law

NEW 

SPRING 

MEETING 

2012 

YORK 

APRIL 17-21 

GRAND HYATT 

NEW YORK

MaRk YouR CalENdaR 

February 3-5 

ABA/Section Midyear Meeting 

New Orleans, Louisiana 

March 4-13 

ILEX Delegation: Tanzania & Rwanda 

April 16 

ABA Day at the UN 

New York, New York 

April 17-21 

2012 Section Spring Meeting 

Grand Hyatt New York 


May 24-26 

International Families – Money, Children, and Long Term Planning 

Washington, DC 

August 1-2 

Section Leadership Retreat 

Chicago, Illinois 

August 3-5 

ABA Annual Meeting 


October 16-20 

2012 Section Fall Meeting 

Fontainebleau 

Miami Beach, Florida

2012 SPRING MeetING 

Table of ConTenTs 

Upcoming Programs and Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Front Cover 

Letter from the Chairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 

2012 Spring Meeting Planning Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 

2012 Spring Meeting Sponsors and Exhibitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 

2012 Spring Meeting Cooperating Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 

Meeting Agenda 

Tuesday, April 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 

Wednesday, April 18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 

Thursday, April 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 

Friday, April 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 

Saturday, April 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 

General Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 

Registration Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 

Please visit ambar.org/ILspring2012 for the most up-to-date information. 1

letter from 

the chairs 

Dear Fellow Section Members: 

On behalf of the ABA Section of International Law (ABA International), I am pleased 

to invite you to a very special 2012 Spring Meeting in New York, NY, April 17-21, 

2012. New York is the most exciting city in the world—the waves of immigration 

to New York have created a unique, diverse, and vibrant culture and city. New York’s 

entrepreneurial spirit makes it not just a global financial center but a global legal 

center. The Spring Meeting—held biennially in New York—is one of the world’s most 

important gatherings of international practitioners. More than 1,400 attendees from 

49 countries participated in the 2010 Spring Meeting in New York, and we expect an 

even greater attendance this year. 

The Grand Hyatt New York will serve as both our programming headquarters and as 

our headquarters hotel. We will have wonderful receptions at the Grand Hyatt, the 

Union League Club, and the incomparable Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan 

Museum of Art. The Spring Meeting Co-Chairs, members of the Planning Committee, 

and Section staff have invested a tremendous amount of effort to develop an 

outstanding program. 

Spring Meeting attendees will include high-level practitioners with the largest and most 

respected global law firms; lawyers with the most prominent regional and national 

firms inside and outside the U.S.; U.S.-based small-firm and solo practitioners with 

significant international practice; corporate and in-house counsel; lawyers serving 

in government or with non-governmental organizations and inter-governmental 

organizations; and academics. ABA International is the “ABA home” for the world’s 

leading international practitioners, and the 2012 Spring Meeting is a “Must-Attend” 

meeting for lawyers with a practice or interest in international legal issues. 

Please note: 

Early Bird Registration Deadline is February 27, 2012. Take advantage of the low 

registration rates for individual and group attendees! For more information about group 

registration rates, please contact Jessica Smith at Jessica.Smith@americanbar.org. 

Pre-Registration Final Deadline is March 30, 2012. You can register after that date 

(you can register up to the last day of the Spring Meeting), but you will not be able to 

register online. 

Hotel room block at The Grand Hyatt New York: Deadline is March 27, 2012. We 

have reserved a special nightly rate of $279 plus applicable daily tax per room for single 

2 2012 Spring Meeting ABA Section of International Law

and double occupancy. Reservations may be made online at https://resweb.passkey. 

com/go/SIL. The number of rooms available at this special rate is limited and subject to 

selling out, so early booking is recommended. 

ATTENDANCE AT THE 2012 SPRING MEETING OFFERS: 

■ More than 70 substantive concurrent continuing legal education 

sessions on cutting-edge topics, with world-class speakers; 

■ Networking opportunities with contemporaries from around the world; 

■ An entire year’s worth of CLE credits; 

■ Special programming for corporate counsel, law firm 

management, young lawyers, and law students; and 

■ Focused content in our mini-track programming, including export 

controls, international trade, intellectual property, and privacy. 

OUTSTANDING NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES: 

■ Tuesday Reception at the Grand Hyatt New York; 

■ Wednesday Opening Reception at the Union League Club; 

■ Thursday Gala Reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and 

■ Friday Chair’s Closing Reception at the Grand Hyatt New York. 

LEARN, NETWORK, AND PARTICIPATE: 

■ Learn the latest from top experts and receive information 

that is relevant for your practice area; 

■ Network with the best and brightest international lawyers 

throughout the meeting and particularly at our ticketed luncheons, 

twice daily networking breaks, and evening events; 

■ Participate in specialized meetings with colleagues who share 

your areas of interest by attending committee working business 

meetings, division breakfasts, and committee dinners; and 

■ Visit exhibitors of dynamic products and services for the legal profession. 

As Walt Whitman said, there is no place like New York. Join us at the crossroads of the 

world for a spectacular Spring Meeting. 

MICHAEL 

BURKE 

Chair 

LISA 

RyAn 

FIOnA AnnE 

SCHAEFFER 

CHARLES “CHAd” d. 

SCHMERLER 

2012 New York Spring Meeting Co-Chairs 

Please visit ambar.org/ILspring2012 for the most up-to-date information. 3 

LETTER FROM 

THE CHAIRS

PlaNNiNG committee 


Planning CommiTTee 

sectioN chair 2011-12 

Michael E. Burke • Arnall Golden Gregory LLP • Washington, DC, USA 

meetiNG co-chairs 

Lisa Ryan • Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP • Matawan, New Jersey, USA 

Fiona A. Schaeffer • Jones Day • New York, New York, USA 

Charles D. “Chad” Schmerler • Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. • New York, New York, USA 

steeriNG committee 

Gretchen C. Bellamy • University of Miami School of Law HOPE Public Interest Resource Center • 

Coral Gables, Florida, USA 

Gabrielle M. Buckley • Vedder Price P.C. • Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Ingrid Busson-Hall • Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank • New York, New York, USA 

Michael H. Byowitz • Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz • New York, New York, USA 

Christine M. Castellano • Corn Products International, Inc. • Westchester, Illinois, USA 

J. Alexandra Darraby • The Art Law Firm • Los Angeles, California, USA 

Ausra O. Deluard • Jones Day • New York, New York, USA 

Pat English • Matheson Ormsby Prentice • New York, New York, USA 

Adam B. Farlow • Baker & McKenzie LLP • London, United Kingdom 

Laurie E. Foster • Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Albert Garrofé • Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira • Barcelona, Spain 

Madeleine Giansanti Cag • Gregory P. Joseph Law Office • New York, New York, USA 

Mark I. Greene • Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Peter Guirguis • Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. • New York, New York, USA 

Jennifer Hilsabeck • Lewis and Roca LLP • Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 

Audrey B. Lamb • American Bar Association Section of International Law • Washington, DC, USA 

Erin M. Lawler • Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. • New York, New York, USA 

Barton Legum • Salans & Associés SCP • Paris, France 

Ethan E. Litwin • Hughes Hubbard & Reed • New York, New York, USA 

Cortney R. Nathanson • Jones Day • New York, New York, USA 

Andrew Otis • Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP • New York, New York, USA 

R. Duane Propst • American Bar Association Section of International Law • Washington, DC, USA 

Neil Quartaro • Watson, Farley & Williams • New York, New York, USA 

Steven M. Richman • Duane Morris LLP • Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA 

Marcos Ríos • Carey y Compañía Ltda. • Santiago, Chile 

Sara P. Sandford • Garvey Schubert Barer • Seattle, Washington, USA 

Lisa J. Savitt • Crowell & Moring LLP • Washington, DC, USA 

David A. Schwartz • Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz • New York, New York, USA 

Jessica L. Smith • American Bar Association Section of International Law • Washington, DC, USA 


track coordiNators 

(and also members of the Planning committee & Program review Group) 

Caryl Ben Basat • BenBasat Law Group, P.A. • Weston, Florida, USA 

William R. Black • BAE Systems • Trabuco Canyon, California, USA 

Jen Green • Linklaters • London, United Kingdom 


Alan M. Koral • Vedder Price P.C. • New York, New York, USA 

Birgit Kurtz • Crowell & Moring LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Victor Mroczka • Office of the United States Trade Representative • Washington, DC, USA 

Mikhail Reider-Gordon • Navigant • Los Angeles, California, USA 

Richard T. Walsh • Global Risk Solutions, LLC • New York, New York, USA 

W. Hartmann Young • Perkins Coie LLP • Washington, DC, USA 

ProGram review GrouP 

(and also members of the Planning committee) 

Liza Almo • Civil Rights Center, U.S. Department of Labor • Washington, DC, USA 

Brian Anderson • Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law • Ada, Ohio, USA 

Rik Andrews • Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment • 

New York, New York, USA 

Raïssa Bambara • New York, New York, USA 

Jeffery A. Barnes • Borden Ladner Gervais • Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Judith Beckhard Cardoso • Fasken Martineau • Paris, France 

Gretchen Bellamy • University of Miami School of Law • Coral Gables, Florida, USA 

Caryl Ben Basat • BenBasat Law Group, P.A. • Weston, Florida, USA 


Philip Berkowitz • Littler Mendelson • New York, New York, USA 

Lorraine Brennan • JAMS International • London, United Kingdom 

Tim Brightbill • Wiley Rein LLP • Washington, DC, USA 

Francisca Brodrick • BONF International Enterprises • New York, New York, USA 

Susana Cabrera • Garrigues • Madrid, Spain 

Bayo Callender • Michigan Supreme Court • Lansing, Michigan, USA 

Gordon N. Cameron • Stikeman Elliott LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Juli Campagna • Hofstra Law School • Hempstead, New York, USA 

Kathleen Carrick • The Ben C. Green Law Library • Cleveland, Ohio, USA 

Enid Carranza • Arias & Muñoz • San José, Costa Rica 

Cristiano Carvalho • Carvalho, Machado, Timm & Deffenti Advogados • São Paulo, Brazil 

Christine M. Castellano • Corn Products International, Inc. • Westbrook, Illinois, USA 

Martha Chemas • New York, New York, USA 

Michael Marks Cohen • Nicoletti Hornig & Sweeney • New York, New York, USA 

Mattia Colonnelli de Gasperis • Colonnelli de Gasperis Studio Legale • Milan, Italy 

Coralie Colson • The World Bank • Washington, DC, USA 

Kieran Cowhey • Dillon Eustace • Dublin, Ireland 

Alexandra Darraby • The Art Law Firm • Los Angeles, California, USA 

David DeBenedetti • DeBenedetti Majewski Szcześniak • New York, New York, USA 

Robert E. DeFrancesco, III • Wiley Rein LLP • Washington, DC, USA 


PlaNNiNG committee


Patrick Del Duca • Zuber & Taillieu LLP • Los Angeles, California, USA 


Jennifer Diaz • Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. • Coral Gables, Florida, USA 

O. Kip Dillihay II • The KOD Group • Atlanta, Georgia, USA 

Pascale Dubois • The World Bank, Office of Evaluation and Suspension • Washington, DC, USA 

Lisl J. Dunlop • Shearman & Sterling LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Theodore Edelman • Sullivan & Cromwell LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Saul Ricardo Feilbogen • Vitale Manoff & Feilbogen • Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Carine Feipel • Arendt & Medernach LLC • New York, New York, USA 

Anders Forkman • Advokatfirman Vinge KB • Malmö, Sweden 

Elliot Feldman • Baker Hostetler • Washington, DC, USA 

Vlad Frants • Ernst and Young • New York, New York, USA 

Lawrence M. Friedman • Barnes, Richardson & Colburn • New York, New York, USA 

Albert Garrofe • Cuatrecasas, Goncalves Pereira • Barcelona, Spain 

Madeleine Giansanti Cag • Gregory P. Joseph Law Office • New York, New York, USA 

Marc J. Goldstein • Marc J. Goldstein Litigation & Arbitration Chambers • 


Fred Green • Microsoft • Redmond, Washington, USA 

Norman Greene • Schoeman, Updike & Kaufman, LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Peter M. Hosinski • Becker, Glynn, Melamed & Muffly LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Timothy Howe • Sanofi Pasteur • Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, USA 

Christina Hultsch • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur • Columbus, Ohio, USA 

Jeff Kerbel • Bennett Jones • Ontario, Canada 

Sabine C. Klett • Noerr LLP • Muenchen, Germany 

Marielle Koppenol-Laforce • Houthoff Buruma • Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

Alan M. Koral • Vedder Price P.C. • New York, New York, USA 

Hartmut Krause • Allen & Overy LLP • Frankfurt, Germany 

Suzanne Krebs • NautaDutilh • New York, New York, USA 

Ute Krudewagen • Baker & McKenzie LLP • Palo Alto, California, USA 

Birgit Kurtz • Crowell & Moring LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Ronald Lachner • BLP Abogados • San José, Costa Rica 

Vanessa Lantin • Administrative Office of US Courts • Washington, DC, USA 

Gordon Lederman • Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs • 

Washington, DC, USA 

Jonas Lerman • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit • New York, New York, USA 

Ethan E. Litwin • Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Dario Cadena Lleras • Wiesner & Asociados Ltda. • Bogotá, Colombia 

Aaron Maar Page • Forum Nobis PLLC • Washington, DC, USA 

Leopoldo Martinez • LMN Consulting LLC • Washington, DC, USA 

Martin G. Masse • McMillan LLP • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 

Nancy Matos • Baker & McKenzie Amsterdam N.V. • Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Peter Matson • Law Offices of Peter H. Matson • Madliena, Malta 

Cian McCourt • A&L Goodbody • New York, New York, USA 

Gregory McLaughlin • IBM • Armonk, New York, USA 

Christine Meyer • NERA Economic Consulting • White Plains, New York, USA 

Jonathan M. Meyer • Attorney at Law • Brooklyn, New York, USA 


Cortney Morgan • Barnes, Richardson & Colburn • Washington, DC, USA 

Victor Mroczka • Office of the United States Trade Representative • Washington, DC, USA 

Renata Neeser • White & Case • New York, New York, USA 

Natalia Nikiforova • Frankfurt, Germany 

Susan Notar • U.S. State Department, Near Eastern Affairs, Iraq Desk • Washington, DC, USA 

Joao Otávio Olivério • Campos Mello Advogados, in cooperation with DLA Piper • 

São Paulo, Brazil 

Olufunmi Oluyede • TRLPLAW • Lagos, Nigeria 

Meredith Parenti • Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP • Houston, Texas, USA 

Bruno Peixoto • Lanna Peixoto • Sao Paulo, Brazil 

Martin Perlberger • Perlberger Law Offices • Beverly Hills, California, USA 

Raong Phalavong • Cambridge LLP • Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Nikolaus Pitkowitz • Graf & Pitkowitz • Vienna, Austria 

Terry Polino • Thompson Coburn LLP • Washington, DC, USA 

Ken Rashbaum • Rashbaum Associates, LLC • New York, New York, USA 

Ryan Reetz • DLA Piper LLP • Miami, Florida, USA 

Mikhail Reider-Gordon • Navigant • Los Angeles, California, USA 

Pär Remnelid • Advokatfirman Vinge KB • Malmö, Sweden 

Colin Richard • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP • Los Angeles, California, USA 

Susan Jaffe Roberts • Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP • Baltimore, Maryland, USA 

Susan Ross • Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP • Los Angeles, California, USA 

Jan Rudolph • Noerr LLP • Muenchen, Germany 

Roselyn Sands • Ernst & Young • Paris, France 

Ricardo León Santacruz • Sanchez Devanny • Monterrey, Mexico 

Lisa Savitt • Crowell & Moring LLP • Washington, DC, USA 

Patricia Scharlau • Machado, Meyer, Sendacz & Opice • São Paulo, Brazil 

David Schwartz • Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz • New York, New York, USA 

Terry A. Selzer • Stampe, Haume & Hasselriis Law Firm • Copenhagen, Denmark 

Holly Silver • Holly A. Silver, P.C. • New York, New York, USA 

Emilie Simone • New York, New York, USA 

Hernan Slemenson • Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal • Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Ruud Smits • NautaDutilh • New York, New York, USA 

Nancy Stafford • Cliffside Inn • Newport, Rhode Island, USA 

Lauren Stiroh • NERA Economic Consulting • White Plains, New York, USA 

Margaret Stock • Lane Powell PC • Anchorage, Alaska, USA 

Marcy Stras • Cozen O’Connor • Washington, DC, USA 

T. Alora Thomas • Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Natalie Turner • Western State University College of Law • Fullerton, California, USA 

Edna Udobong • Liberty University School of Law • Lynchburg, Virginia, USA 

Annet van Hooft • Bird & Bird • Paris, France 

Elizabeth van Schilfgaarde • NautaDutilh • New York, New York, USA 

Mark S. Vecchio • Venable LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Sonia Velasco • Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira • Barcelona, Spain 

Carlos Velazquez De Leon • Basham, Ringe y Correa, SC • Monterrey, Mexico 

Monica Villegas • NYS Supreme Court • New York, New York, USA 


PlaNNiNG committee


W. Gregory Voss • University of Toulouse I • Toulouse, France 

JoAnne Wakeford • Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP • Montréal, Quebec, Canada 

Sandy Walker • Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP • Toronto, Ontario, Canada 


Ken Wasserman • Law Offices of Kenneth T. Wasserman • New York, New York, USA 

William Eric Wolff • Easton, Pennsylvania, USA 

W. Hartmann Young • Perkins Coie LLP • Washington, DC, USA 

sPoNsorshiP committee 


Carole Basri • Corporate Lawyering Group, LLC / Corporate Lawyering Association • 


Soraya Bosi • Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst • New York, New York, USA 

Michael H. Byowitz • Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz • New York, New York, USA 

Albert Garrofé • Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira • Barcelona, Spain 

Madeleine Giansanti Cag • Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices LLC • New York, New York, USA 


Glenn Hendrix • Arnall Golden Gregory LLP • Atlanta, Georgia, USA 


Sandy Tronier • Evolve Discovery • Portland, Oregon, USA 


marketiNG outreach (to iNclude media aNd social media) committee 


Enid Carranza • Arias & Muñoz • San José, Costa Rica 

Henry Chang • Blaney McMurtry LLP • Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Olufunmi Oluyede • TRLPLAW • Lagos, Nigeria 

Christopher B. Suell • Florida A&M College of Law • Orlando, Florida, USA 

corPorate couNsel outreach committee 


Salvo Arena • Chiomenti Studio Legale, L.L.C. • New York, New York, USA 

Jeffery A. Barnes • Borden Ladner Gervais • Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Carole Basri • Corporate Lawyering Group, LLC / Corporate Lawyering Association • 


Marla Bergman • Goldman Sachs • New York, New York, USA 


Darwin Bolden • Bolden Law, PC • Washington, DC, USA 

Ingrid Busson-Hall • Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank • New York, New York, USA 

Christine M. Castellano • Corn Products International, Inc. • Westchester, Illinois, USA 

David DeBenedetti • DeBenedetti Majewski Szcześniak • New York, New York, USA 

Sandeep Kapoor • Sequoia Capital • Bangalore, India 

Michele Lieberman • Technology Conservation Group, Inc. • Lecanto, Florida, USA 

Gregory M. McLaughlin • IBM • Armonk, New York, USA 

Mark Rebergen • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek • New York, New York, USA 

Ricardo León Santacruz • Sanchez Devanny • Monterrey, Mexico 



Mark S. Vecchio • Venable LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Richard T. Walsh • Global Risk Solutions, LLP • New York, New York, USA 

iNterNatioNal firms outreach committee 



Darwin Bolden • Bolden Law, PC • Washington, DC, USA 

Juli Campagna • Hofstra Law School • Hempstead, New York, USA 

Judith Beckhard Cardoso • Fasken Martineau • Paris, France 

Henry Chang • Blaney McMurtry LLP • Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Christina Hultsch • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP • Columbus, Ohio, USA 


Gary McSharry • Arthur Cox • New York, New York, USA 

Alejandra Rivelis • Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal • New York, New York, USA 

Ton Schutte • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek • New York, New York, USA 

Elizabeth van Schilfgaarde • NautaDutilh • New York, New York, USA 

Monica Villegas • NYS Supreme Court • New York, New York, USA 

YouNG lawYer outreach committee 



Kathleen M. Carrick • Case Western Reserve University • Cleveland, Ohio, USA 

Gwendolynne Chen • Jones Day • New York, New York, USA 


Kip O. Dillihay • The KOD Group • Altanta, Georgia, USA 


Nancy Matos • Baker & McKenzie Amsterdam N.V. • Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Natalia Nikiforova • Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA 

T. Alora Thomas • Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP • New York, New York, USA 

keYNote/luNcheoN coordiNatiNG committee 





William Eric Wolff • Easton, Pennsylvania, USA 

social eveNts aNd meetiNG loGistics committee 



Kathleen M. Carrick • Case Western Reserve University • Cleveland, Ohio, USA 

J. Alexandra Darraby • The Art Law Firm • Los Angeles, California, USA 

Lisl J. Dunlop • Shearman & Sterling LLP • New York, New York, USA 


Martin G. Masse • McMillan LLP • Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 


PlaNNiNG committee



Emilie Simone • New York, New York, USA 

Christopher B. Suell • Florida A&M College of Law • Connecticut, USA 


Fernando Aguirre • Bufete Aguirre • La Paz, Bolivia 

Saba Ahmed • Temple University Beasley School of Law • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 

Caroline Ajie • C.N. Ajie & Co. • Abuja, Nigeria 

Sessi Sonayon Akojenu • Lagos State Ministry of Justice • Alausa, Lagos, Nigeria 

Jennifer Dorm Ambrose • Federal Aviation Administration • Washington, DC, USA 

Miguel Angel de Dios • De Dios & Goyena • Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Elizabeth Barad • Law Office of E. Barad • New York, New York, USA 

Geoffrey S. Belsher • Blake, Cassels & Graydon, LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Marla Bergman • Goldman Sachs • New York, New York, USA 

Joel B. Blumberg • Creditor Collectors • West Palm Beach, Florida, USA 

Marcelo Bombau • M. & M. Bomchil Abogados • Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Jonathan R. Booker • Hernandez & Assoc. • Boulder, Colorado, USA 

Priscila Brolio Gonçalves • Vella, Pugliese, Buosi & Guidoni • São Paulo, Brazil 

Janiece Brown Spitzmueller • NYCDHPD, Litigation Division • New York, New York, USA 

Jennifer Lynn Cady • SMU Dedman School of Law • Dallas, Texas, USA 

Hernán Camarero • Richards Cardinal Tützer Zabala & Zaefferer Abogados • 

Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Gwendolynne Chen • Jones Day • New York, New York, USA 

Obi Chukwuka • Obi Chukwuka & Co • Rivers State, Nigeria 

Alejandro Ciero • Tanoira Cassagne • Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Adam I. Cohen • FTI Consulting • New York, New York, USA 

Cynthia Cole • Global Crossing • Paris, France 

Linda R. Crane • The John Marshall Law School • Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Justin D’Aloia • Fordham University School of Law • New York, New York, USA 

Duco de Boer • Stibbe • New York, New York, USA 

Karl Hepp de Sevelinges • Gide Loyrette Nouel • New York, New York, USA 

Catherine M. Doll • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Russell W. Dombrow • Legal Services of Central New York • Syracuse, New York, USA 

James P. Duffy III • Berg & Duffy, LLP • Manhasset, New York, USA 

Demetrios Eleftherio • EMC Corporation • Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA 

Kristen Elliott • DOAR Litigation Consulting • New York, New York, USA 

Daniel Forbes • Dillon Eustace • New York, New York, USA 

Stephen J. Friedman • Littler Mendelson P.C. • New York, New York, USA 

Michael Galligan • Phillips Nizer LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Brigitte Gambini • Sullivan & Worcester LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Jonathan S. Gaynin • Duane Morris LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Lawrence D.W. Graves • Coolidge & Graves PLLC • Keene, New Hampshire, USA 

Sterl Greenhalgh • Grant Thornton UK LLP • London, United Kingdom 

John Harrington • Law Offices of John Harrington • New York, New York, USA 

Laura L. Turtle Herzer • ITT-Technical School of Criminal Justice • Everett, Washington, USA 

Carolyn Ibeh • Progress Chambers • Lagos, Nigeria 


Kel Jack • Solid Rock Solutions Group, LLC • Stamford, Connecticut, USA 

William P. Johnson • University of North Dakota School of Law • Grand Forks, 

North Dakota, USA 

Marilyn J. Kaman • United Nations Dispute Tribunal, United Nations Secretariat • 


Sandeep Kapoor • Sequoia Capital • Bangalore, India 

Michelle Keith • Massachusetts Superior Court • North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA 

Elizabeth A. Kim • Deutsche Bank • New York, New York, USA 

Ruth Kleinfeld • Manchester, New Hampshire, USA 

Yasho Lahiri • Baker Botts, LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Jennifer J. Lee • Bean, Kinney & Korman, P.C. • Arlington, Virginia, USA 

Edward Luke II • Luke & Associates • Gaborone, Botswana 

Ibrahim Edmund Mark • City Law Firm • Abuja, Nigeria 

Luis F. Martinez • Basham, Ringe y Correa, S.C. • Monterray, Mexico 

William C. Martucci • Shook Hardy & Bacon • Washington, DC, USA 

Jonathan Mason • Colgate University • Hamilton, New York, USA 

Jason P. Matechak • International Relief and Development • Arlington, Virginia, USA 

Patricia Hollis McGruder • National Labor Relations Board • Shanghai, China 

Shannon McNulty • New York University School of Law • New York, New York, USA 

Patricia Menendez-Cambo • Greenberg Traurig, LLP • Miami, Florida, USA 

Jerry Alfonso Miles • Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, PA • Potomac, Maryland, USA 

Dixon F. Miller • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP • Columbus, Ohio, USA 

Howard B. Miller • Girardi Keese • Los Angeles, California, USA 

Daniel Calhman de Miranda • Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados LLP 

• New York, New York, USA 

Christopher B. Monahan • Crowell & Moring, LLP • Washington, DC, USA 

Lelia Mooney • Partners for Democratic Change • Washington, DC, USA 

Michael Nelson • Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst • New York, New York, USA 

Barclay Richard Nicholson • Fulbright Tower • Houston, Texas, USA 

Alfredo M. O’Farrell • Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal • Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Olasupo Olaibi • Supo, Olaibi and Company • Lagos, Nigeria 

Bill Olsen • Grant Thornton LLP • McLean, Virginia, USA 

Kenneth Ottenbreit • Stikeman Elliott LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Fabian A. Pal • Fowler White Burnett • Miami, Florida, USA 

Justin G. Persaud • Thomas M. Cooley Law School • Lansing, Michigan, USA 

Peter Pettibone • Hogan Lovells LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Lennaert Posch • Stibbe • Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Anders Etgen Reitz • IUNO • Copenhagen, Denmark 

Mark Richardson • Franklin-Paris LLP • Paris, France 

Alejandra Rivelis • Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal • New York, New York, USA 

Nigel Roberts • LexisNexis • Hudson, New Hampshire, USA 

W. Brian Rose • Stikeman Elliott LLP • Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Adam Rosen • Murthy Law Firm • Owings Mills, Maryland, USA 

Dave Rowan • Cleveland Clinic • Cleveland, Ohio, USA 

Yusuf Ali San • Ilorin, Nigeria 

Hedwin Salmen-Navarro • Salmen Navarro & Lavergne, P.C. • New York, New York, USA 


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Sebastien Savage • Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP • Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

Madeleine Schachter • Baker & McKenzie LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Polibio M. Valenzuela Scheker • Squire, Sanders & Dempsey Peña Prieto Gamundi • 

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 

Alena Shautsova • Anthony Collelueori & Associates, PLLC • Melville, New York, USA 

Sage Shaw • Corporate Lawyering Group LLC • New York, New York, USA 

Lawrence M. Shindell • ARIS Title Insurance Corporation • New York, New York, USA 

Masha Shvetsova • Diligence, Inc. • New York, New York, USA 

James R. Silkenat • Sullivan & Worcester LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Janiece Brown Spitzmueller • NYCDHPD, Litigation Division • New York, New York, USA 

Shanie Stein • St. Louis, Missouri, USA 

Neil AJ Sullivan • International Tax Compliance Strategy • Scarsdale, New York, USA 

Shikhil Suri • Crowell & Moring • Washington, DC, USA 

Salli A. Swartz • Artus Wise • Paris, France 

Stella Szantova Giordano • Quinnipiac University School of Law • Hamden, Connecticut, USA 

Dana B. Taschner • Los Angeles, California, USA 

Elizabeth A. Turchi • Temple University Beasley School of Law • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 

Gustavo Magalhaes Vieira • Vieira e Pessanha Advogados Associados • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

Justin D. Vineberg • Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP • Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

Angelica Walker • Viana & Walker Associates • New York, New York, USA 

Sidney N. Weiss • Law Office Of Sidney N. Weiss • New York, New York, USA 

Joyce Williams • Phoenix School of Law • Phoenix, Arizona, USA 

Stephan Wilske • Gleiss Lutz • Stuttgart, Germany 

Lloyd M. Winans • Baker & McKenzie LLP • New York, New York, USA 

Mark E. Wojcik • The John Marshall Law School • Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Alan Youngs • The Youngs Group • Denver, Colorado, USA 

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Austrian Federal Bar Association (Österreichischer Rechtsanwaltskammertag) 

Bar Council of England and Wales 

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Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) 

Inter-American Bar Association (IABA) 

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meeTing agenda 

Tuesday, aPril 17 

8:00 am – 9:00 am 

registration opens for international 

Practice boot camp Participants 

This registration is for the boot camp 

only. Registration will open to all other 

registrants at 1:00 pm. 

Register for the International Law 

Boot Camp as a stand-alone program 

or in combination with the entire 

ABA International Spring Meeting 

(excluding ticketed events). In addition 

to the Fundamentals of International 

Practice program, the International 

Law Boot Camp also includes Pathway 

to Employment in International Law, 

Speed Networking and the Tuesday 

Evening Reception (described below). 

9:00 am – 5:30 pm 

international Practice boot camp 

YoUnG LAWYERS 

Presented in Conjunction 

With the New York State 

Bar Association 

International Section 

sponsoring committees: 

Law Student, LL.M., & New Lawyer 

Outreach Committee, Young Lawyers’ 

Interest Network (YIN) 

The International Practice Boot Camp 

is a full-day series of programs designed 

for new and experienced lawyers that 

practice or have an interest in international 

law. The International Law Boot Camp 

is a continuing legal education program 

which seeks to provide attendees with 

an introductory look at international 

aspects of several substantive areas of law 

and expand their knowledge of the key 

legal issues that arise in the context of 

international practice. 

9:00 am – 9:10 am 

welcoming remarks 

Andre R. Jaglom, Chair, New York State 

Bar Association International Section, 

Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt 

LLP, Chair of New York State Bar 

Association International Section, New York, 

New York 

Michael E. Burke, Chair, American 

Bar Association Section of International 

Law, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, 


Matthew Kalinowski, Morgan, Lewis & 

Bockius LLP, New York, New York – 

Co-Chair, International Practice Boot Camp 

Enrique E. Liberman, Tannenbaum 

Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, New 

York, New York – Co-Chair, International 

Practice Boot Camp 

9:15 am – 10:30 am 

the framework of international 

legal Practice 

This panel explores the relationship 

between private international law and 

public international law, and between 

common law and civil law. Speakers will 

also explain, among other topics, the role 

of treaties in international practice and the 

international regulatory regimes that must 

be taken into account in an increasingly 

globalized world. 

speakers: 

Michael W. Galligan, Phillip Nizer LLP, 


Robert J. Leo, Meeks Shepard Leo & 

Pillsbury, New York, New York 

Mark F. Rosenberg, Sullivan & Cromwell 

LLP, New York, New York 

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10:30 am – 10:45 am 

Networking break 

10:45 am – 12:00 pm 

drafting an international contract 

Failing to properly address certain aspects 

of international contracts – such as 

jurisdiction, choice of law, and arbitration 

clauses – can have a devastating effect 

for your client, particularly if a dispute 

subsequently arises. Our panelists will 

discuss the most important aspects of 

drafting an international contract in 

the context of cross border mergers and 

acquisitions, as well as financing and 

commercial agreements. The panel will 

also discuss protecting intellectual property 

rights in contracts through the use of 

the Berne and Madrid Conventions, and 

cross-border tax issues for individuals and 

business entities. 

moderator: 

Ingrid Busson-Hall, Credit Agricole CIB, 


speakers: 

Franco Ferrari, New York University 

School of Law, New York, New York 

Susan F. Pollack, Curtis Mallet-Prevost 

Colt & Mosle LLP, New York, New York 

L. Donald Prutzman, Tannenbaum 

Helpern Syracuse Hirschtritt LLP, New 

York, New York 

Jeffrey M. Trinklein, Gibson Dunn & 

Crutcher LLP, New York, New York 

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm 

lunch: social Networking for 

international lawyers 

This lunchtime presentation will teach 

specific strategies for using LinkedIn 

to complement traditional networking 

opportunities to help grow global legal 

practices. Boxed lunch to be provided for 

bootcamp registrants. 

speaker: 

Edmund Bogen, First Degree Marketing 

and Advertising, New York, New York 

1:15 pm – 2:30 pm 

cross-border litigation and 

dispute resolution 

Your client is embroiled in a dispute with 

a party in another country and needs your 

help. What if there is an international 

arbitration clause in the disputed contract? 

Even if you can get it invalidated, how 

will you initiate the suit? After you win, 

how do you enforce the judgment? Our 

panelists will discuss these topics and 

others, covering the most important and 

frequently-invoked treaties in this field, 

such as the Hague Convention on Service 

of Process Abroad, the Hague Convention 

on Taking Evidence Abroad, the 

Convention on the Recognition and the 

Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. 

moderator: 

Peter Guirguis, Fulbright & Jaworski, New 


speakers: 

Birgit Kurtz, Crowell & Moring LLP, New 


Thomas N. Pieper, Chadbourne & Parke 


David Zaslowsky, Baker & McKenzie 


2:30 pm – 2:45 pm 


2:45 pm – 4:00 pm 

spotting legal issues when 

People move across borders 

With people moving residences or assets 

across borders more frequently and rapidly 

than ever, the individual client has become 

an increasingly important component 

of international practice. Our panelists 

will cover immigration, family law, estate 

planning, employment and property issues 

that individuals face when they move from 

one country to another. 

moderator: 

Hedwin Salmen-Navarro, Salmen- 

Navarro & Lavergne, P.C., New York, 

New York 


speakers: 

Gabrielle Buckley, Vedder Price, 


Allen E. Kaye, Law Offices of Allen E. Kaye 

P.C. , New York, New York 

Aaron J. Schindel, Proskauer Rose LLP, 


Rita W. Warner, Warner Partners, P.C., 


2:45 pm – 4:00 pm 

competition & antitrust issues 

in international transactions 

This panel explores competition/antitrust 

issues that arise in day-to-day transactions 

that are the bread and butter of many 

multinational companies. Find out how 

and where a company can get in trouble 

for offering preferred customer discounts, 

giving package deals, entering into an 

exclusive deal, licensing, and restricting 

distributors from selling below a minimum 

price—just to name a few. The panelists 

will also discuss key substantive differences 

in the application of antitrust principles 

between jurisdictions that may result in a 

transaction being lawful in one jurisdiction 

and unlawful in another. 

moderator: 

Ausra Deluard, Jones Day, New York, 

New York 

speakers: 

Randall Hughes, Bennett Jones LLP, 

Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Elisa Kearney, Davies Ward Phillips and 

Vineberg, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Laurent Garzaniti, Freshfields Bruckhaus, 

Brussels, Belgium 

Hugh Holman, Jones Day, 

Silicon Valley, California 

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm 


4:15 pm – 5:30 pm 

the ethics of international Practice 

This session will feature a discussion of 

how ethics applies to international practice. 

Although many rules that apply in the U.S. 

may still apply across borders, there are 

some key differences that are important 

to consider when working with a client in 

international practice. For example, how 

do you assist your client to avoid foreign 

corrupt practices? How do you protect the 

attorney-client privilege across borders? 

moderator: 

Steven Richman, Duane Morris, 


speakers: 

Carole L. Basri, Corporate Lawyering 

Group, LLC, New York, New York 

David Lewis, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, 


1:00 pm – 7:00 pm 

registration area, exhibition 

hall and business center open 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

reverse merger listings: is the 

backdoor shut for chinese companies? 

CoRPoRATE / TRAnSACTIonAL; 

CoMPLIAnCE / REGULAToRY 

With thanks to our track sponsor 

In recent years, a number of small private 

Chinese companies have listed on the 

NASDAQ and other stock exchanges 

through reverse mergers with public shell 

companies. This activity is now subject to 

significant regulatory scrutiny. The U.S. 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

(SEC ) has revoked the registrations 

of eight China-based companies since 

December 2010, and a number of 

Chinese companies have disclosed auditor 

resignations and other accounting issues 




during the past year. The SEC is reviewing 

the rules regarding reverse merger listings. 

Chinese authorities also are considering 

policy initiatives to curb abuses. The panel 

will review: (a) the state of reverse merger 

activity; (b) the SEC’s regulatory proposals 

and enforcement position; (c) Chinese 

policy initiatives; and (d) the experience 

of Chinese companies in complying 

with U.S. public company reporting 

requirements. 


China Committee, International Corporate 

Counsel Committee, and International 

M&A and Joint Venture Committee 

Program chair: 

Stephen Vogel, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, 


Program chair & moderator: 

Paul Edelberg, Fox Rothschild LLP, New 


speakers: 

Dawn M. Bernd-Schulz, Blank Rome 

LLP, Washington, DC 

Andy Gu, B & D Law Firm, Beijing, 

People’s Republic of China 

Jason Ramey, Grant Thornton LLP, 

Chicago, Illinois (Invited) 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

is an international convention on the 

rights of older Persons Needed? 

PUBLIC InTERnATIonAL LAW / RULE oF LAW 

A growing number of international nongovernmental 

organizations (NGOs) under 

a “Global Alliance for the Rights of Older 

Persons” have been pressing the need for a 

United Nations Convention on the Rights 

of Older Persons. The UN is now taking 

this issue seriously. The UN General 

Assembly, by resolution in December 2010, 

created The Open-Ended Working Group 

on Aging that is charged with considering 

the existing international framework of 

the human rights of older persons and 

identifying possible gaps and how best to 

address such gaps. This panel will provide 

a variety of perspectives and insights on 

the question of whether an international 

convention on the rights of older persons 

is needed. 

Presented in Conjunction with the ABA 

Commission on Law and Aging 

sponsoring committee: 

UN and International Institutions 

Coordinating Committee 


Charles P. Sabatino, ABA Commission on 

Law and Aging, Washington, DC 

moderator: 

Kristin Booth Glen, New York County 

Surrogate’s Court, New York, New York 

speakers: 

Luz Marie Melon, Permanent Mission of 

Argentina to the United Nations, New York, 

New York 

Craig Mokhiber, UN Office of the High 

Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, 

Switzerland 

Susanne S. Paul, Global Action on Aging, 


2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

Pathways to employment 

in international law 

YoUnG LAWYERS MInI-TRACk 

Join us for this “How to” program for 

both young lawyers seeking to bring their 

skills to the global arena or for experienced 

practitioners who wish to expand their 

practices into international law. Top 

practitioners speak frankly about their 

formative experiences and tips they have 

about developing an international practice.’ 


Young Lawyers’ Interest Network (YIN), 

and Law Student, LL.M. & New Lawyer 

Outreach Committee 


Angela Benson, American Bar Association 

Section of International Law, 


speakers: 

Reid Whitten, Sheppard Mullin Richter & 

Hampton, LLP, Washington, DC 


4:00 pm – 5:30 pm 

Joint swearing-in ceremony: u.s. court 

of international trade & u.s. court 

of appeals for the federal circuit 

YoUnG LAWYERS; LAW PRACTICE 



Young Lawyers’ Interest Network (YIN) 

and Law Student, LL.M. & New Lawyer 

Outreach Committee 


Jennifer Haworth McCandless, Sidley 

Austin LLP, Washington, DC 

Meeting attendees have the opportunity 

to be admitted to practice before the U.S. 

Court of International Trade (CIT) and 

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal 

Circuit. Only Spring Meeting registrants 

may be sworn in at this ceremony. Fees 

for admission are payable by interested 

registrants directly to the courts. 

Attendance is open to registrants’ guests. 

If you are interested in being admitted to 

practice before the CIT and the U.S. Court of 

Appeals for the Federal Circuit, please check 

the appropriate box on the Spring Meeting 

registration form. On-site registration for 

this ceremony is not available, and space 

is limited. 

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm 

opportunities in Global Pro bono 

PUBLIC InTERnATIonAL LAW / RULE oF LAW; 



This program will feature a discussion 

about opportunities to engage in global 

and cross-border pro bono service. 

Come hear from representatives from 

international organizations that connect 

prospective volunteers with international 

pro bono matters. Panelists will offer 

insights into models and opportunities 

for global pro bono work, present ways in 

which volunteer lawyers can participate, 

and present perspectives on approaches to 

in-country and remote legal participation. 


International Pro Bono Committee, 

Middle East Committee, Foreign Legal 

Consultant Committee, IMPOWR, Russia/ 

Eurasia Committee, International Refugee 

Law Committee, Law Student, LLM 

& New Lawyer Outreach Committee, 

Mexico Committee, Latin American & 

Caribbean Committee, International Legal 

Education and Specialist Certification 

Committee, International Corporate Counsel 

Committee, India Committee, Foreign 

Legal Consultants Committee, Immigration 

and Naturalization, and Islamic Finance 

Committee 


Michael H. Byowitz, Wachtell Lipton 

Rosen & Katz, New York, New York 


Madeleine Schachter, Baker & McKenzie 


speakers: 

Timothy L. Dickinson, Paul Hastings 

Janofsky & Walker LLP, Washington, DC 

Alison Gardy, 92 Street Y, New York, 

New York 

Elizabeth Millard, Cyrus R. Vance 

Center for International Justice, New York, 

New York 

Monique Villa, Thomson Reuters 

Foundation, London, United Kingdom 

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm 

international Joint ventures 

and contractual arrangements: 

the New wave 


CoRPoRATE CoUnSEL 

As a result of the absence of liquidity 

from banks and in public debt and equity 

markets, businesses increasingly are 

implementing creative combinations to 

expand and grow their global operations. 

Some of these combinations are structured 




through formal joint venture vehicles and 

others through contractual arrangements 

which allocate costs, responsibilities, and 

resources among the venture parties. Many 

arrangements require complex holding 

and planning through intermediary 

jurisdictions to accommodate parties 

with different business expectations and 

objectives and from different jurisdictions, 

as well as to maximise tax efficiencies. 

The panel will consider the legal, 

regulatory, and tax issues which these 

arrangements raise against a backdrop 

of recent, significant cross-border 

transactions. Business lawyers will find 

this session especially interesting as an 

important guide to international issues 

across a broad landscape of developments 

in key jurisdictions into which U.S. 

multinationals are currently expanding. 


International Tax Committee, International 

Corporate Counsel Committee, and 

International Intellectual Property 

Committee 

Program chairs & moderators: 

Elinore Richardson, Wolf Theiss, 

Vienna, Austria 

Sonia Velasco Menal, Cuatrecasas, 

Barcelona, Spain 

speakers: 

Luiz Felipe Centeno Ferraz, Mattos Filho, 

São Paulo, Brazil 

David “Ding Fa” Liu, Junhe Law Firm, 

Shanghai, People’s Republic of China 

Patrick Marley, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 

LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Gordon Warnke, Dewey LeBoeuf LLP, 


4:00 pm – 5:30 pm 

fighting online Piracy by Going 

after the middle-men – New 

Perspectives on isP liability under 

eu, u.s. & uk copyright law 

PRoPERTY / InTELLECTUAL PRoPERTY 

LAW / PRIvACY 

Since the advent of the Internet, rights 

holders face many challenges in protecting 

their copyrights. While software piracy is 

not a new phenomenon, the wide-spread 

availability of fast broadband access enables 

large-scale and everyday piracy of software 

and even movies in high definition. 

Additionally, search engines offer services 

such as summarizing the latest news 

headlines with corresponding third-party 

photographs. Copyright holders often 

face insurmountable problems in tracking 

down the individuals misusing their 

material. Therefore, the question arises 

whether (a) Internet Service Providers 

(ISPs) should be obliged to prevent access 

to sites hosting pirated material; or (b) 

search engines can be prevented from 

making available third-party images. This 

panel will discuss the open questions on 

where to draw the boundaries of the ISPs’ 

and search engines. 


Europe Committee, Canada Committee, 

Immigration & Naturalization Law 

Committee, International Litigation 

Committee, International Mediation 

Committee, and International Human 

Rights Committee 


Janis Nordstrom, Wolf Theiss, 



Georg Kresbach, Wolf Theiss, 


speakers: 

Martin Diesbach, Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz, 

Munich, Germany 

Ian de Freitas, Berwin Leighton Paisner, 

London, United Kingdom 

Michael Geist, University of Ottawa, 

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 


4:00 pm – 5:30 pm 

establishment of a special anti-Piracy 

tribunal: Prospects and reality 


YoUnG LAWYERS 

Two hundred years ago, piracy was 

recognized as the first “international” 

crime. Recently, piracy has re-emerged 

as a major problem for international 

commerce. In the last two years, Somali 

pirate attacks off the Kenyan and Somali 

coasts have caused over $25 billion in 

losses. Although the UN Security Council 

authorized the international community 

to capture Somali pirates and turn them 

over to Kenya for prosecution, Kenyan 

courts have struggled with the novel 

legal issues presented before them. A 

Kenyan High Court Judge recently ruled 

the Kenyan Piracy Court cannot obtain 

jurisdiction over captured pirates because 

Kenyan law lacks the requisite statute 

granting such jurisdiction. Prosecuting 

pirates involves knowledge of international 

treaties, criminal law, maritime law, and 

unusual evidentiary gathering rules, which 

is challenging and even dangerous. This 

panel will provide a basic understanding 

of these complex legal issues and how the 

many parties involved are trying to resolve 

this continuing international dilemma. 


Young Lawyers Interest Network (YIN) 


Alena Shautsova, Anthony Colleluori & 

Associates, PLLC, Melville, New York 

moderator: 

Anthony Colleluori, Anthony Colleluori & 

Associates, PLLC, Melville, New York 

speakers: 

Sandra Hodgkinson, National Defense 

University, Alexandria, Virginia 

Rosemelle Mutoka, Kenya Piracy Court 

Chief Judge, Kenya 

Michael Scharf, Case Western Reserve 

University, Cleveland, Ohio 

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm 

speed Networking – an opportunity 

to meet aba international leadership 

and other international lawyers 

YoUnG LAWYERS 

Back by popular demand! Start the Spring 

Meeting by meeting ABA International 

Leadership and other international lawyers. 

Bring your business cards! Participants 

will have the opportunity to engage in a 

number of speed networking rounds to 

learn about other members and create 

future business opportunities. With this 

program, there is no need to break the 

ice – it’s already done for you. Just take 

a seat and start talking! By the time the 

session is over you’ll be well on your way to 

collecting a fist-full of business cards from 

the Spring Meeting and building a new 

network in ABA International. 


Law Student, LL.M., and New Lawyer 

Outreach NGO& Not-For-Profit 

Organizations Committee, Seasoned Lawyers 

Interest Network (SIN), Women’s Interest 

Network (WIN), Young Lawyers Interest 

Network (YIN), and Sexual Orientation and 

Gender Identity Issues Network (GIN) 


Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, McMillan 




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6:30 pm – 8:00 pm 

wiN / siN / GiN / YiN / 

outreach welcome reception at 

the Grand hyatt New York 

109 East 42nd Street at Grand Central 

Terminal, New York, NY 

With thanks to our sponsor 

The 2012 Spring Meeting’s first social 

event will be an excellent opportunity 

to reconnect with friends from prior 

meetings and make new ones. Join 

the great people you just met at the 

Speed Networking session—which 

feeds directly into this reception, and 

bring along any first time attendees you 

noticed at registration! This reception 

will be the perfect place to begin 

developing new or to continue building 

existing professional relationships in an 

informal setting. 

One ticket per person is included as 

part of your Spring Meeting registration 

fee; this reception is free to meeting 

attendees who have registered for the 

entire conference. 

Wednesday, aPril 18 

7:00 am – 7:00 pm 

registration area, exhibit hall, 

and business center open 

7:45 am – 9:00 am 

continental breakfast 

8:00 am – 8:50 am 

breakfast at the bar with a leading 

New York and National developer 

PRoPERTY / InTELLECTUAL PRoPERTY LAW / 

PRIvACY; CoRPoRATE / TRAnSACTIonAL 

Join us for breakfast and a discussion with 

a leading New York and national developer 

on the current real estate investment 

climate in New York and in other major 

U.S. cities. Has the market rebounded 

from the financial crisis? Are foreign 

investors a significant player in New York 

real estate? What are the future trends 

and challenges for real estate investment 

and development in New York and in 

other parts of the U.S.? These and other 

questions will be addressed. 


Cross-Border Real Estate Practice Committee 

and International Investment and 

Development Committee 


Terry A. Selzer, Stampe Haume & 

Hasselriis, Copenhagen, Denmark 


Meryl P. Sherwood, Pavia & Harcourt 


speaker: 

Adam Flatto, The Georgetown Company, 



9:00 am – 10:30 am 

investing in africa: regulatory 

and compliance issues 

CoMPLIAnCE / REGULAToRY; 

CoRPoRATE / TRAnSACTIonAL 


As many African markets become 

more attractive destinations for foreign 

investment, potential investors and their 

legal advisors are faced with navigating 

unfamiliar and dynamic business and 

regulatory terrains. The panel will feature 

business executives, in-house counsel, 

and legal advisers providing unique views 

on investing in Africa. The panelists will 

offer a diverse spectrum of views and 

experiences regarding the regulatory and 

compliance issues they face in managing 

legal and business risks in Africa on a dayto-day 

basis. 


Task Force on Financial Engineering 

for Economic Development, (FEED) 

International Secured Transactions 

Committee and International Corporate 

Counsel Committee 


Adedayo Banwo, U.S. Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission, Washington, DC 

Jeffrey B. Golden, London School of 

Economics, London, United Kingdom 

speakers: 

Carolyn Campbell, Emerging Capital 

Partners, Washington DC (Invited) 

Bert Chanetsa, Financial Services Board 

of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa 

(Invited) 

Lawrence Fubara Anga, Aelex Legal 

Practitioners and Arbitrators, Lagos, Nigeria 

(Invited) 

Kem Ihenacho, Clifford Chance, London, 

United Kingdom (Invited) 

9:00 am – 10:30 am 

the market in contingent capital 




Contingent Capital Securities (CCS) are 

expected to make financial institutions 

more resilient and avoid future financial 

crisis by internalizing bank failure costs. 

The EU and certain European countries 

including Germany, England, and 

Switzerland as well as the Basel Committee 

have proposed, and in some cases enacted, 

rules on CCS. Some European banks 

and systemically important financial 

institutions, including Lloyds and Credit 

Suisse, have issued CCS. However, other 

banks in Europe and the United States are 

hesitant to issue CCS without additional 

regulatory guidance. The Dodd-Frank Act 

(Sections 165 and 115 (c)) mandates a study 

on the feasibility of contingent capital; this 

study is due by July 2012. This program 

will review the market and regulatory 

environment for CCS and related open 

issues and uncertainties. 


International Securities & Capital Markets 

Committee, Cross-Border Real Estate Practice 

Committee, and International Anti-Corruption 


Wulf Alexander Kaal, University of 

St. Thomas School of Law (Minneapolis), 

Minneapolis, Minnesota 

speakers: 

John C. Coffe, Jr., Columbia Law School, 


Adam B. Farlow, Baker & McKenzie LLP, 


Charles Himmelberg, Goldman Sachs, 


Marina Michelutti, Citi Wealth 

Management Latin America, New York, 

New York 

Louise Pitt, Goldman Sachs, New York, 

New York 


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9:00 am – 10:30 am 

who would want to be a director? 

CoRPoRATE CoUnSEL; 


This session will examine the objections 

and perils associated with being a Director 

in today’s highly regulated environment. 

What are the risks of a Director, to whom 

are they owed and where are such duties 

found – in law or codes of practice? What 

are the sanctions applicable to a Director 

who breaches his or her duties, and who 

enforces them? Is insurance available 

to Directors? 


International Corporate Counsel Committee 

Program-chair & moderator: 

Mattia Colonnelli de Gasperis, Colonnelli 

de Gasperis Studio Legale, Milan, Italy 

Program-chair & speaker: 

Christine M. Castellano, Corn Products 

International, Westchester, Illinois 

speakers: 

Hermann Knott, Luther 

Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, 

Cologne, Germany 

Vagn Thorup, Kromann Reumert, 

Copenhagen, Denmark 

9:00 am – 10:30 am 

and the last shall be first: commercial 

damages in international contracts 

DISPUTE RESoLUTIon / LITIGATIon; 

YoUnG LAWYERS 

With thanks to our track sponsors 

All too often, practitioners do not give 

sufficient attention to damages. Litigators 

focus on liability issues in dispute 

resolution while transactional attorneys 

focus on the prospective business terms, 

but not on the monetary remedies for 

contract breach. International contracts 

implicate contrasting civil law and 

commmon law approaches. Drafting 

and litigation issues include: differences 

between CISG and UCC damages; choice 

of law issues: what may or may not be 

enforceable as a matter of public policy 

(e.g., treatment of liquidated damages 

provisions in other systems); limitation of 

damages clauses—why you might want 

“willfulness” requirements and what the 

differences are in terminology and reality 

as to actual, consequential, incidental, 

and other damages; proof of lost profits 

versus speculative damages; how interest is 

computed under CISG versus non-CISG; 

economic loss doctrine considerations; 

attorneys fees (contrast loser pay 

jurisdictions); and differences in approach 

between arbitration versus litigation. This 

panel will discuss the implications of 

leaving the issue of damages to the end and 

what practitioners need to be mindful of in 

the drafting process. 


International Litigation Committee, 

International Arbitration Committee, 

International M&A and Joint Venture 

Committee, and Young Lawyers Interest 

Network (YIN) 




speakers: 

Kieran Cowhey, Dillon Eustace, 

Dublin, Ireland 

Saul Feilbogen, Vitale, Manoff, Feilbogen, 


Elena Norman, Young Conway, 

Wilmington, Deleware 

Meredith Parenti, Weil Gotshal, 

Houston, Texas 


9:00 am – 10:30 am 

selling consumer Products into 

the u.s. and canada – Navigating 

a New course to safety 

ExPoRT ConTRoLS / TRADE / CUSToMS; 



Growing public awareness of consumer 

product safety issues has led to the 

enactment of new American and Canadian 

legislation. In August 2008, the Consumer 

Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 

was passed into law in the U.S. In June 

2011, the Canada Consumer Product 

Safety Act came into force. Both bring 

about significant changes to previous 

regulatory regimes. Compliance managers 

and lawyers acting for manufacturers, 

importers, distributors, and retailers of 

consumer products should be aware of 

these changes, and ensure their compliance 

programs to address them. A panel of 

customs and trade law experts will: (a) 

familiarize participants with the American 

and Canadian regulatory agencies and 

their respective roles in consumer product 

safety; (b) provide an overview of the 

legislative schemes; (c) compare regulatory 

requirements; and (d) demonstration how 

in-house experts and counsel can develop 

and implement an effective compliance 

program. Panel members will discuss 

several case studies involving a foreign 

manufacturer and American and Canadian 

importers. They will also discuss tips and 

traps relating to recalls, disclosures, and 

incident reporting. 


Customs Law Committee, International 

M&A and Joint Venture Committee, 


Committee, and International Investment & 



Daniel L. Kiselbach, Miller Thomson LLP, 

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 

speakers: 

Jeremy Baskin, Department of Homeland 

Security, U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection, Washington, DC 

Charles E. Joern, Jr., Joern Law Firm, 

Oak Brook, Illinois 

Carol Osmond, I.E. Canada, Canadian 

Association of Importers and Exporters, 


Vanessa Patton Sciarra, Holland & Knight 


9:00 am – 10:30 am 

more art than science: 

Negotiating Global Privacy and 

data security language 


PRIvACY; CoMPLIAnCE / REGULAToRY 


Two seasoned privacy gurus who have seen 

more than their fair share of tense privacy 

and data security negotiations in their 

combined 20+ years of data protection 

practice will engage in a live negotiation 

on issues that make senior lawyers sweat: 

What are adequate data security measures? 

Who is the Data Controller/Data 

Processor and what does that mean? What 

is a reportable security breach? What are 

breach notification requirements? Please 

join us to learn the latest and greatest 

tricks of the trade, and arm yourself for 

your future privacy and data security 

negotiations. 


Information Services, Technology & Data 

Protection Committee, Law Student, LL.M. 

& New Lawyer Outreach Committee, 

Europe Committee, International Securities 

& Capital Markets Committee, Canada 

Committee, and International Intellectual 

Property 


Domenico Colella, Portolano Colella 

Cavallo, Milan, Italy 


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Anjli Garg, Citi Group, New York, 

New York 

speakers: 

Demetrios Eleftheriou, EMC 

Corporation, Hopkinton, Massachusetts 

Lisa Sotto, Hunton & Williams, New York, 

New York 

10:30 am – 11:00 am 


10:30 am – 11:00 am 

“how to” series: section Publishing 

– how to Get Your Name in Print 

Do you consider yourself an expert 

within your practice area of international 

law? If so, world-wide recognition is at 

your doorstep, by becoming a published 

author in one of the ABA Section of 

International Law’s several publications. 

Whether you aspire to write a book, a 

scholarly law review, a succinct news 

article or an informative committee 

newsletter, publishing with one of the 

Section’s publications is an effective way 

to demonstrate your expertise. At this 

informational session, the Publications 

Officer Bill Mock and the editors of The 

International Lawyer and The International 

Law News will tell you how to get started 

on your way as a published author for the 

ABA Section of International Law. 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

representing the international 

high Net worth client: Navigating 

the New regulatory order 

CoMPLIAnCE / REGULAToRY; PUBLIC 

InTERnATIonAL LAW / RULE oF LAW 


Increases in regulatory burdens (such as 

the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance 

Act) and highly-publicized lawsuits against 

banks have bred mistrust of lawyers and 

financial advisors among international 

high net worth clients. How can law firms 

and financial institutions obey the rules 

with a minimum of disruption to clients 

and to their own businesses? This program 

will address what the professional advisor 

and client need to know about the rules 

before entering into a client relationship, 

how these rules will affect new business 

development, how to overcome 

cultural differences in willingness to 

share information and expectations of 

confidentiality, and how to turn new 

regulatory regimes into a competitive 

advantage for your firm. 


International Private Client Committee, 



Development 


Stephanie E. Heilborn, Fulbright & 

Jaworski L.L.P., New York, New York 

speakers: 

Roderick Balfour, Virtus Trust, London, 


Rorrie Gregorio, Marcum LLP, New York, 

New York (Invited) 

Gavin Leckie, J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, 

New York, New York (Invited) 

Terri Sohrab, Deutsche Bank, New York, 



11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

merger review in the bric countries 

– antitrust and foreign investment/ 

National security restrictions: where are 

the bric countries compared to the u.s.? 




This panel will address the treatment of 

antitrust issues and foreign investment / 

national security restrictions in horizontal 

mergers subject to review by competition 

law authorities in Brazil, Russia, India, and 

China (the BRIC countries). The panel 

will focus on the following fact pattern: 

two competitors agree to merge to become 

the largest provider of a certain product. 

Competition from other companies is 

limited and the merging parties have 

substantial, overlapping presences in Brazil, 

Russia, India and China. 

The panel will analyze the transaction in 

each jurisdiction, identify similarities and 

differences among the antitrust authorities 

in these countries and the United States, 

provide economic evaluations of the 

approaches of each BRIC country, and 

consider the foreign investment/national 

security regulations. 


International Antitrust Law Committee, 

India Committee, Russia/Eurasia 

Committee, and Europe Committee 


Michael H. Byowitz, Wachtell, Lipton, 

Rose & Katz, New York, New York 

Alfredo M. O’Farrell, Marval, O’Farrell 

& Mairal, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

speakers: 

Leonor Cordovil, Grinberg, Cordovil e 

Barros, São Paulo, Brazil 

Margaret E. Guerin-Calvert, Compass 

Lexecon, Washington, DC 

Janet Hui, Jun He Law Offices, 

Beijing, China 

Vassily Rudomino, ALRUD Law Firm, 

Moscow, Russia 

Pallavi Shroff, Amarchand & Mangaldas 

& Suresh A Shroff & Co., New Delhi, India 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

calamity risk management – 

Navigating the minefields in an 

era of Persistent volatility 


It could never happen to your company. 

Or could it? Imagine that you are the 

general counsel of a global financial 

services firm, managing an ever increasing 

caseload, planning for regulatory reform, 

and allocating scarce resources. You receive 

a call informing you of simultaneous dawn 

raids being conducted in your London and 

New York offices. The following day you 

learn that employees in a third country 

have been shredding documents. Who do 

you call? 

You are the general counsel of a large 

manufacturing company with major 

production centers in a number of 

locations in Japan. You get a call at 

3:00 am informing you of a major 

earthquake and tsunami. You have 2,000 

people on the ground in various locations 

in Japan who need to be located and 

evacuated if possible. What do you do? 

You are chief outside counsel to a global 

services firm, with a growing presence in 

the Middle East. You watch the morning 

news in horror as reports come in showing 

a gun battle between the army and prodemocracy 

protesters outside your client’s 

regional headquarters in Cairo. How do 

you respond? 

The office of the general counsel sits in a 

vital position for any organization when 

crisis strikes. Business continuity and 

disaster recovery plans are important to 

any organization, but can they cover all 

contingencies and when the unthinkable 

becomes reality are they enough to allow 

companies to effectively manage and 

contain calamity risk? Attend this program 


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to learn from in-house and outside 

counsel who have been on the front lines 

and can help you build your emergency 

response toolkit. 



Program chairs: 

Ingrid Busson-Hall, Credit Agricole CIB, 


Fiona Schaeffer, Jones Day, New York, 

New York 

moderator: 

Henry Klehm, Jones Day, New York, 

New York 

speakers: 

Jeff Ingber, Citigroup, New York, 

New York 

Thomas Hommel, Lehman Holdings 

Estate, New York, New York (Invited) 

Allison Tomlinson, Gensler, New York, 

New York 

Tim Sander, Sumitomo Corporation of 

America, New York, New York (Invited) 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

ethics Guidelines for international 

arbitration: room for debate 

DISPUTE RESoLUTIon / LITIGATIon 


When ethics questions arise in the context 

of an international arbitration, it is 

often unclear which ethics rules (if any) 

apply. Some members of the arbitration 

community believe it would be helpful 

to have more guidance in this area, and 

support developing ethics guidelines for 

international arbitration. Other members 

of the arbitration community believe there 

is no need to develop such guidelines and 

that doing so could cause more harm than 

good. This program brings together experts 

from both camps to debate the issues. 


International Arbitration Committee and 



Jennifer Kirby, Kirby, Paris, France 

moderator: 

Bart Legum, Salans, Paris, France 

speakers: 

Julie Bédard, Skadden Arps, New York, 

New York 

Stephen Drymer, Norton Rose, Montréal, 

Québec, Canada 

Catherine Rogers, Dickinson School of 

Law, University Park, Pennsylvania 

Michael Schneider, Lalive, 

Geneva, Switzerland 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

how many ways can importers 

and exporters Get certificates of 

origin wrong? stories from the 

attorneys with battle scars 




If you are keeping score, you will find the 

Customs officials in Canada, Mexico, and 

the United States are increasing North 

American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 

verifications and finding significant 

non-compliance. Mexican officials are 

uncovering phantom entities in Canada 

and the United States that import from 

overseas, yet provide NAFTA certificates 

of origin. United States’ customs officials 

are discovering Canadian companies that 

send production off shore then forget to 

change paperwork to exclude NAFTA 

certificates of origin. U.S., Canadian, and 

Mexican customs officials are finding that 

suppliers have switched sources during the 

economic crisis and regional value content 

requirements are no longer satisfied or 

upstream suppliers have disappeared and 

are not available to provide certificates of 


origin. All three customs organizations 

are focusing on transshipment of 

goods, largely driven by concerns about 

the avoidance of antidumping and 

countervailing duties, particularly when 

China is involved. Although the rules 

are the same in the three countries, 

interpretations vary. Our panelists will 

share their personal experiences with 

NAFTA enforcement in Canada, Mexico, 

and the United States. They will discuss 

recent cases where customs authorities 

have discovered significant errors resulting 

in substantial fines that could have been 

easily avoided. In addition, the panelists 

will discuss NAFTA’s shortcomings, areas 

where a common policy may result in 

job creation and how the “common-law” 

interpretations have differed from civil 

law rules. 


International Trade Committee and Private 

International Law Coordinating Committee 


Juan Velazquez, Basham, Ringe y Correa, 

S.C., Monterrey, Mexico 


Luis F. Martinez, Basham, Ringe y Correa, 

S.C., Monterrey, Mexico 

moderator: 



speakers: 

Andres Castrillon, Hughes, Hubbard and 

Reed, Washington, DC 

Joel Simon, Simon, Gluck & Kane LLP, 


Paul Vandevert, Ford Motor Company, 

Detroit, Michigan 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

keeping the doors open for all: 

an international Perspective on 

the disability rights movement 


EMPLoYMEnT LAW / HUMAn RESoURCES 

Statistics show that persons with 

disabilities comprise an estimated ten 

percent (10%) of the world’s population; 

eighty percent (80%) of persons with 

disabilities live in developing nations. 

In addition, up to a quarter of the 

world’s population is directly affected by 

disability in the capacity of care giver or 

family member. As an international legal 

practitioner, you may find yourself advising 

the disabled and their family members/ 

care givers of their rights or perhaps 

advising employers and service providers 

of their obligations towards the disabled 

community. Perhaps you are a disabled 

person working as a legal practitioner 

within the modern global community. 

With the enactment of the Americans 

with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) in the 

United States (and its later Amendments 

in 2008), extensive protections were put in 

place to help prevent discrimination based 

upon disability in various circumstances. 

Our panel of specialists will compare the 

ADA with similar laws in other countries 

and the international legal standards 

applicable to protecting people with 

differing abilities around the globe. 


Diversity Committee 


Jennifer Hilsabeck, Las Vegas, Nevada 

Sara Sandford, Garvey Schubert Barer, 

Seattle, Washington 

speakers: 

Joan Durocher, National Council on 

Disability, Washington, DC 

Arlene S. Kanter, Syracuse University 

College of Law, Syracuse, New York 


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12:45 pm – 2:15 pm 

Ticketed Event 

luncheon with keynote speaker 


2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

minimizing legal risk in a Global 

economy – Practical advice on 

international compliance 

CoMPLIAnCE / REGULAToRY; CoRPoRATE CoUnSEL 


With increasing globalization of business, 

more and more companies interact with a 

variety of legal regimes and face potential 

enforcement actions from a multitude of 

agencies and governments. This, combined 

with the extra-territorial reach of some 

U.S. laws, such as the antitrust statutes, 

export control laws, Foreign Corrupt 

Practices Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the 

PATRIOT Act, should cause all companies 

to ensure they have effective compliance 

programs to minimize legal exposure. 

This program provides cutting-edge and 

practical advice on how to minimize legal 

risk in a global economy by discussing 

key components of a global compliance 

program and the challenges to instilling 

compliance in various jurisdictions. Our 

panelists will also discuss how to encourage 

internal reporting, create an effective 

hotline program, manage whistle blowers, 

and protect confidential communications 

between counsel and clients in a world of 

differing privilege protections. 


International Corporate Counsel Committee, 

International Anti-Corruption Committee, 

International Anti-Money Laundering 

Committee, and International Antitrust 

Law Committee 


Fiona A. Schaeffer, Jones Day, New York, 

New York 

speakers: 

Anita Kapoor, Cisco Systems, Inc., 

New Delhi, India (Invited) 

Susan (Sam) Manardo, Sanofi, 

Bridgewater, New Jersey (Invited) 

Charles Scudder, Akzo Nobel Inc., 

Tarrytown, New York 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

third Party funding of litigation 

and arbitration – a solution for 

rising costs or ethical Quagmire? 





International Arbitration Committee 


Charles D. Schmerler, Fulbright & 

Jaworski, L.L.P., New York, New York 

speakers: 

Selvyn Seidel, Fulbrook Management, 


Prof. Stephen Gillers, New York 

University Law School, New York, 


Jeffrey B. Golden, London School of 

Economics, London, United Kingdom 

Carolyn Lamm, White & Case, 

Washington, DC (Invited) 


2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

the Global Proliferation 

of trade remedies 

ExPoRT ConTRoLS / TRADE / CUSToMS 

Historically, the number of countries 

using trade remedies (anti-dumping, 

countervailing duty, and safeguards) has 

been limited. In recent years, however, 

the use of these remedies has grown 

dramatically, as additional countries have 

discovered that trade remedies are weapons 

that may be deployed to defend their 

domestic industrial base. Even countries, 

such as Japan and China, whose exports 

have historically been the target of trade 

remedies elsewhere are now adopting and 

using trade remedy proceedings to protect 

their domestic industries against import 

competition. And countries such as India 

have started using trade remedy vehicles 

with greater frequency as an alternative 

means of protecting local industry. This 

panel will consider the impact of the 

proliferation of trade remedies in place of 

other regulatory regimes that have agreed 

to dismantle. The speakers will review 

the business and legal implications of 

this expansion, including U.S. exports 

and business abroad, and the significance 

on the legal rules governing global trade 

(Free Trade Agreements and World Trade 

Organization dispute settlement). 


International Trade Committee, Latin 

American & Caribbean Committee, and 

Asia/Pacific Committee 


Amy Hariani, U.S.-India Business Council, 



Neil Ellis, Sidley Austin LLP, 


speakers: 

Adriana Dantas, Barbosa Mussnich & 

Aragao, São Paulo, Brazil 

Thomas Graham, King & Spalding, 


Gary Horlick, Law Office of Gary N. 

Horlick, Washington. DC 

Sanjay Notani, Economic Laws Practice, 

Mumbai, India 

Jeffrey Whelan, Nike Corporation, 

Beaverton, Oregon (Invited) 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

iP contracts and international 

bankruptcy: dealing with failure 

and intellectual rejection – and the 

answer isn’t to see Your Psychiatrist 

PRoPERTY / InTELLECTUAL PRoPERTY 

LAW / PRIvACY 

Recent years have witnessed an explosion 

of international insolvency proceedings. 

Almost all of these cases involve the 

intersection of intellectual property rights 

of debtors and their counterparties and 

bankruptcy law, with an additional layer 

of complexity relating to international 

recognition and comity. Recent decisions 

in the Nortel, Exide Technologies, 

and Qimonda, AG cases demonstrate 

willingness for courts to transfer and/or 

terminate intellectual property assets and 

license rights, including, in the Qimonda 

case, through the application of German 

law rather than U.S. law, with devastating 

consequences for the counterparties. 

Previous discussions have focused on the 

U.S. regime and protections afforded 

to licensees under Section 365(n) of the 

Bankruptcy Code. Now to understand 

rights and exposures, international comity 

issues must be explored. This panel will 

examine the issues created by the multinational 

cases, application of comity 

and other developments in the United 

States, Canada, Germany, and other 

jurisdictions, and consider issues that arise 

for practitioners, general counsel, and 

management. 


International Secured Transactions 

Committee, Latin American & Caribbean 

Committee, and Asia/Pacific Committee 


Richard T. Walsh, Global Risk Solutions 

LLC, New York, New York 

David L. Barrack, Fulbright & Jaworski 

L.L.P., New York, New York 


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speakers: 

Warren E. Agin, Swiggart & Agin LLC, 

Boston, Massachusetts 

Lynn P. Harrison 3 rd , Curtis, Mallet- 

Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, New York, 

New York 

Robin E. Phelan, Haynes Boone, 

Dallas, Texas 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

for better or worse: international 

issues in marriage and divorce 




The panel will discuss the most important 

issues in international marriage, divorce, 

and child custody, including family, 

immigration, support obligations, and 

cultural issues that may arise in crossborder 

family relationships. The panel will 

include a discussion of multi-jurisdictional 

issues, such as visas and immigration 

for spouses (married and commonlaw), 

conjugal relationships, same-sex 

partners, marriage requirements, and child 

citizenship. The panel will also discuss the 

considerable amount of recent litigation 

in various jurisdictions concerning 

divorce disputes by spouses seeking to 

move children to different countries, 

immigration consequences of divorces, 

international financial settlements, and 

other relevant issues. 


International Family Law Committee, 

Customs Law Committee, Mexico 

Committee, Canada Committee, 

International Trade Committee, 

International Commercial Transactions, and 

Franchising & Distribution 


David Starks, McKinley Irvin, 



Sergio Karas, Karas & Associates, Toronto, 

Ontario, Canada 

speakers: 

Graeme D. Kirk, Gross & Co., Suffolk, 

United Kingdom 

Jeremy D. Morley, The Law Office of 

Jeremy D. Morley, New York, New York 

Jessica Sandberg, Law Firm of Jessica 

Sandberg, Stockholm, Sweden 

Marcy Stras, Cozen O’Connor, 


2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

multiple bar admissions – Getting 

admitted in more than one Jurisdiction 

YoUnG LAWYERS; CoMPLIAnCE / REGULAToRY 


Have you been thinking about becoming 

qualified to practice in another 

jurisdiction, but weren’t sure how to do 

so? Do you even know where to find 

information? How do the EU directives 

on cross-border practice apply in the EU? 

Following up on a successful presentation 

at the 2009 Spring Meeting, and coming 

shortly after the release of the book 

Multiple Bar Admissions: A Guide to Bar 

Admissions Outside the United States (ABA 

Publishing), this program will present 

perspectives on bar admissions from 

around the world. Will you need to take 

another bar exam? Do you need to earn 

another law degree? What about learning 

the local language(s)? Learn the answers 

to these questions from those who have 

jumped through the hoops, hoeppel, aros 

or cerceaux. They’ll also answer your 

questions based on their experiences. 


Young Lawyers Interest Network (YIN), 

Africa Committee, Aerospace & Defense 

Industries Committee, and Law Student, 

LL.M., and New Lawyer Outreach 

Committee 



Russell Dombrow, Legal Services of 

Central New York, Inc., Binghamton, 

New York 

Program chair & speaker: 

Nancy Matos, Baker McKenzie, 

Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

speakers: 

Albert Yu Chang, Warner Norcross & Judd 

LLP, Grand Rapids, Michigan 

Nady Mayifuila, Emery Mukundi Wafana 

& Associates, P.C., New York, New York 

Hedwin Salmen-Navarro, Salmen- 

Navarro & Lavergne, P.C., New York, 

New York 

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm 



4:00 pm – 4:30 pm 

“how to” series: developing 

Programs with the section 

Do you have an idea for a program 

that is timely and topical? If so, then 

attending this nuts and bolts of how to 

develop programs for the Section will be 

instrumental in helping you to develop 

your proposal. Member and committee 

involvement through the development 

of programming continues to be the 

lifeline of the Section; whether it be for a 

seasonal meeting, a brown-bag, podcast, 

webcast, teleconference or stand-alone, or 

a combination, for CLE or not, there are 

ample opportunities for your program idea 

to take flight. Join us to learn more about 

how to chart the course of your proposal. 


Adam B. Farlow, Section Programs Officer 

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm 

NoN-cle PreseNtatioN 

sovereign debt crisis – causes 

and repercussions 


The sovereign debt crisis has been 

examined under a number of economic 

theories, as observers worry that sovereign 

default will spread like a contagion and 

threaten the global economy. Our speakers 

for this break-out presentation will provide 

an update on the sovereign debt crisis, 

examine its underlying causes and its 

repercussions, including a discussion of the 

types of disputes that are expected to arise 

following the crisis. 


Sharon Johnson, Cornerstone Research, 


speaker: 

Richard T. Walsh, Global Risk Solutions 


4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

cross-border acquisitions by Private 

enterprises in the current economic 

environment: the old obstacles 

and the New opportunities 



The increasing integration of markets 

worldwide and the dramatic global 

economic recession have combined to 

offer a unique set of opportunities for 

private enterprises wishing to expand 

internationally. More realistic price 

expectations from sellers offer private 

enterprises the possibility of breaking into 

new markets and/or consolidating their 

position in foreign markets. However, 

taking advantage of these opportunities 

through cross-border acquisitions presents 

unique challenges for private enterprises. 

Unlike transnational companies, private 

enterprises often lack management 

resources and international transactional 

experience. This session will provide 


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an overview of some of the emerging 

business, legal, and economic trends and 

opportunities for private enterprises in 

global corporate middle-markets. It will 

also focus on some of the traditional 

cultural and regulatory obstacles to a 

successful cross-border acquisition and 

ways to overcome them. Our panel will 

provide insights into the experience of 

the owner-manager in implementing the 

cross-border acquisition, the corporate 

finance intermediary seeking to broker the 

deal, and the target company management 

team in the sale process. What are the key 

challenges to a successful cross-border 

acquisition? What are the priority issues? 

And what can legal advisers do to help 

navigate a smooth path for all parties? 

sponsoring Committees: 


Committee, International Corporate 

Counsel Committee, Young Lawyers Interest 

Network (YIN), Europe Committee, India 

Committee, International Securities and & 

Capital Markets Committee, International 

Energy & Natural Resources Committee, 

International Financial Products & Services 



program Chair & Moderator: 

Christine M. Castellano, Corn Products 

International, Inc., Westchester, Illinois 

program Chair & speaker: 



speakers: 

Vishal Gandhi, Gandhi & Associates, 

Mumbai, India 

Frances Murphy, Slaughter and May, 


David M. Silk, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & 

Katz, New York, New York 

Amy L. Sommers, K&L Gates, Shanghai, 

People’s Republic of China 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

The Globalization of anti-Corruption 

laws: looking Beyond the FCpa 

CoMpLIAnCe / ReguLAtoRy; puBLIC 

InteRnAtIonAL LAw / RuLe of LAw 


The U.S. may lead the global anticorruption 

fight, but many other 

jurisdictions are joining the battle. The 

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) 

has by now become a familiar acronym 

in U.S. boardrooms. That said, even 

though U.S. officials continue to bring 

three out of every four foreign antibribery 

cases worldwide, companies 

and their counsel also need to be aware 

of the worldwide proliferation of anticorruption 

regulations. China, Columbia, 

Germany, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, 

Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, 

among others, have all recently thrown 

their hats in the anti-corruption ring, each 

pursuing somewhat different approaches, 

and some of them (notably China and the 

United Kingdom) with extra-territorial 

jurisdictional provisions. This all-star 

panel (a) will survey the evolving legal 

and political terrain of international anticorruption 

efforts; (b) offer real world, 

practical insights on the anticipated 

impact of the new laws on multi-national 

companies and their employees; and 

(c) will examine enforceability and 

extraterritorial jurisdictional reach issues, 

as well as the prospect of foreign “carbon 

copy” prosecutions and potential collateral 

estoppel effects of foreign judgments. 

sponsoring Committee: 

International Anti-Corruption Committee 


T. Markus Funk, Perkins Coie LLC, 

Denver, Colorado, and Chicago, Illinois 

speakers: 

Milos Barutciski, Bennett Jones LLP, 



Andrew S. Boutros, United States 

Attorney’s Office (in his personal capacity), 

Northern District of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 

Pascale Dubois, The World Bank, 


Preston L. Pugh, Pugh, Jones, & Johnson, 

P.C., Chicago, Illinois 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

the New York advantage: the 

creation of special New York 

court dockets to streamline and 

resolve international disputes 



This program will examine the 

establishment of a special New York State 

Commercial Division and/or Federal 

Court docket in New York City to hear 

international litigation cases and/or 

international arbitration matters. This issue 

was raised in the Report of the New York 

State Bar Association’s Task Force on New 

York Law in International Matters. Do 

these initiatives make New York the forum 

of choice for adjudication of international 

litigation and arbitration? Our panel 

will present different views, insightful 

analysis, spirited debate, and carefully 

consider whether and how specially created 

New York Courts and designated judges 

would handle international litigation 

and arbitration. 



International Human Rights Committee, 

and International Corporate Counsel 

Committee 


Jay G. Safer, Locke Lord LLP, New York, 

New York 


Neil A. Quartaro, Watson, Farley & 

Williams LLP, New York, New York 

speakers: 

Hon. Richard M. Berman, United States 

District Court, Southern District of New 

York, New York, New York 

Hon. Charles E. Ramos, New York State 

Supreme Court, Commercial Division, 

New York, New York (Invited) 

Gina M. Venizia, Freehill, Hogan & 

Mahar, LLP, New York, New York 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

international construction 

and construction finance 

since the financial crisis 


PRIvACY; CoRPoRATE / TRAnSACTIonAL 

This interactive session will be a three 

part mock bid for a major international 

construction project. Following an 

introduction of the case study, act one 

will be representatives of a joint venure 

discussing its tender bid, dealing with 

issues such as return on investment, 

creative financing solutions, concessions 

needed from the awarding government 

agency, scheduling and budgeting, use of 

local partners, structure of the bidding 

group, and major risks to be addressed. 

Act two will involve the presentation 

of one of the finalists to the awarding 

agency. The audience will play the role of 

key stakeholders and pose questions to the 

presenters. In the final act the speakers 

will discuss some of the key issues legal 

counsel must understand to properly 

advise their clients on an international 

construction project. 


Cross-Border Real Estate Practice 

Committee, International Human Rights 

Committee, and International Corporate 

Counsel 


Terry A. Selzer, Stampe Haume & 

Hasselriis, Copenhagen, Denamrk 


Gerard Hernandez Colet, Cuatrecases, 

Goncalves, Periera, Barcelona Spain 


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speakers: 

James F. Butler, Smith Currie & Hancock, 

Atlanta, Georgia 

Roberto Hernandez Garcia, Comad, 

Mexico City, Mexico 

Anthony Gonzales, Spire Consulting 

Group, Austin, Texas 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

making, importing or exporting 

wine: the international aspects 

of the wine business 




Many attorneys get involved with running 

a winery or importing/exporting wine, 

either as an attorney or as a second 

career. This program will explore the 

legal issues involved in running a winery, 

advising winery owners and exporting 

or importing wine. Speakers will include 

attorneys representing wineries in the 

U.S. and abroad, a former official at the 

International Vine and Wine Organization 

(OIV) in Paris, judges in international 

wine competitions, and long-time Chair of 

the ABA Committee on Beverage Alcohol 

Practice. It will be followed by the first 

ever attorney wine makers wine tasing 

featuring wines from attorney-owned and 

operated wineries. 


Seasoned Lawyers Interest Network (SIN), 

India Committee, Latin American and 

Caribbean Committee, Women’s Interest 

Network (WIN), International Criminal 

Law Committee, and International 

Pro Bono Committee 


Chuck Routh, Garvey Schubert Barer, 


speakers: 

Richard Blau, Gray Robinson, Tampa, FL 

Kate Hardy, Nixon Peabody, New York, 

New York 

Greg Lipsker, Barrister Winery, Spokane, 

Washington (Invited) 

Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate, 

Monkton, Maryland (Invited) 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

internal Justice at the united 

Nations—what does it look 

like and does it work? 




Have you ever wondered what internal 

justice at an international organization like 

the United Nations looks like? This is your 

chance to find out. In July 2009, the U.N. 

General Assembly implemented an entirely 

new system of resolving disputes within the 

U.N. For the first time within international 

administrative tribunals, a two-tier system 

of formal adjudication was established and 

judges from all over the world have been 

called to adjudicate disputes. You will 

hear from representatives from the United 

Nations Appeals Tribunal, the Executive 

Director of the Office of Administration 

of Justice, the Internal Justice Council, 

and a UN Member State that was actively 

engaged in the process of establishing the 

new system. 


UN & International Institutions 

Coordinating Committee, International 

Judicial Affairs Committee, International 

Courts Committee 


Bruce Rashkow, Former U.S. 

Representative to the UN, New York, 

New York 

moderator: 

Lelia Mooney, Partners for Democratic 

Change, Washington, DC 


speakers: 

Sophia Adinvira, President, United 

Nations Appeals Tribunal, Ghana (Invited) 

Frank Eppert, United Nations Internal 

Justic Council, New York, New York 

7:30 pm – 9:00 pm 

opening reception at the union league club 

38 East 37th Street New York, NY 

With thanks to our primary sponsor 

Guest of Honor: James R. Silkenat 

James R. Silkenat is the President- 

Elect Designate of the American Bar 

Association, and will become President- 

Elect of the Association in August 

2012 and President of the Association 

in August 2013. From 1989-1990, Mr. 

Silkenat served as Chair of the ABA 

Section of International Law. He is a 

Partner in the Corporate Department 

of Sullivan & Worcester’s New 

York office. His primary focus is on 

international joint ventures, mergers 

and acquisitions, privatizations, project 

finance transactions (in developed and 

developing countries) and private equity 

investment funds. Mr. Silkenat is a 

Director of the World Justice Project, 

a member of the Council on Foreign 

Relations and of the American Law 

With thanks to our secondary sponsors 

Andrei Terekhov, United Nations, 


Institute, has served as a Fellow in 

the U.S. State Department Scholar/ 

Diplomat Program, and was a Fellow 

of the National Endowment for the 

Humanities. He is also a Life Fellow 

of the American Bar Foundation and 

has served as National Chair of the 

Fellows. In 2000, he received the 

Outstanding Alumni Award for Career 

Achievement from Drury University 

and in 2007 he received the Lifetime 

Achievement Award from the Section 

of International Law and in 2009 he 

received the Diversity Champion Award 

of the Association of the Bar of the City 

of New York. 

One ticket per person is included as part of 

your Spring Meeting registration fee; this 

reception is free to meeting attendees who 

have registered for the entire conference. 


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9:00 pm – 11:00 pm 

committee dinners 

Take advantage of the free time this 

evening to enjoy one of the many fine 

restaurants New York has to offer by 

organizing a Committee dinner. This 

is a great opportunity to continue to 

network within your practice area 

with others at the meeting who share 

your same interests and have casual 

discussions over the dinner table; many 

of which will lead to new initiatives 

and committee programs developing 

for months to come after you return 

home. If you have any questions about 

planning for this event at the Spring 

Meeting, please contact Curry Wilson 

at curry.wilson@americanbar.org. 

The Section recommends the 

following Preferred Restaurant for 

you to hold your Committee Dinner: 

For reservations, please contact 

Sabina at sabina@duonewyork.com. 

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7:00 am – 7:00 pm 

registration area, exhibit hall and 

business center open 

7:45 am – 9:00 am 


8:00 am – 8:50 am 

breakfast at the bar: voluntary 

disclosure of export violations: 

when & how to do it 



Given the record-setting fines that have 

been imposed on U.S. and non-U.S. 

companies for violations of U.S. and 

Canadian export laws and regulations, 

companies are increasingly seeking 

strategies to mitigate potential penalty 

exposure. One way to achieve this goal is 

to submit voluntary disclosures to the U.S. 

and Canadian governments. During an 

interactive program, a panel of seasoned 

in-house and outside counsel from the U.S. 

and Canada will discuss the advantages 

and disadvantages of submitting voluntary 

disclosures based on hypothetical fact 

patterns. In addition, the panel will share 

insights and written guidance on best 

practices for export compliance. 


Export Controls & Economic Sanctions 

Committee, Customs Law Committee, 

International Trade Committee, Canada 

Committee, and International Corporate 

Counsel Committee 


Geoffrey Goodale, Shipman & Goodwin 


Program chair and speaker: 

James Bartlett, Northrop Grumman Corp., 

Falls Church, Virginia 

speakers: 



Peter Quinter, Becker & Poliakoff, Ft. 

Lauderdale, Florida 

Darren Riley, Huffman Riley Kao PLLC, 



9:00 am – 10:30 am 

defending clients in 

cross-border investigations 




This panel will focus on actual case 

scenarios where a client is caught in the 

cross-hairs of the competing and often 

conflicting interests of anti-bribery and 

other fraud investigations conducted 

simultaneously in different countries. For 

instance, can prosecutors from one country 

use the testimony of a witness against him 

when that witness received immunity in 

another jursidiction? What happens when 

one country declines to recognize a Foreign 

Corrupt Practices Act plea and monetary 

settlement in the U.S. and decides to 

prosecute that individual on the very same 

charges and seeks forfeiture of the same 

monies already forfeited by the United 

States? If relevant data resides outside of 

the US, how can a company review and 

produce that data to US regulators and law 

enforcement without violating applicable 

sovereign data privacy laws or blocking 

statutes? These are not mere hypotheticals. 

Such situations are occurring with 

increasing frequency as nations are 

devoting increased resources to their antibribery 

and fraud enforcment efforts. How 

does a lawyer effectively defend and protect 

a client from the competing interests of 

multi-national cross-border investigations? 

A panel of white collar, anti-bribery, and 

antitrust practitioners representing the 

defense, prosecution, and cross-border 

disclosure perspective will discuss these 

thorny issues and lend their insights 

and experiences. 



and International Law Practice 

Management Forum 


Bradley D. Simon, Simon & Partners LLP, 


speakers: 

Manfred J. Gabriel, FTI Technology, New 


Deborah Meshulam, DLA Piper, 


Aaron Schildhaus, Law Offices of Aaron 

Schildaus, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

William Stuckwisch, U.S. Department of 

Justice, Washington, DC (Invited) 

9:00 am – 10:30 am 

update of the implementation of 

key dodd-frank and eu financial 

market and bank reforms in the 

wake of the financial crisis 




The financial regulatory system has 

undergone extensive change. The U.S. 

passed the Dodd-Frank Act, and several 

new legislative measures were taken in 

the EU and its member states. The U.S. 

reforms have introduced new registration 

requirements for hedge fund advisers, 

an extension of the extraterritorial reach 

of U.S. securities laws, new restrictions 

on commercial and investment banks in 

trading and new regulations and rules 

regarding derivatives and the trading 

of derivatives. The vast majority of 

rulemaking mandated under the Dodd- 

Frank Act is far from completed. This 

expert panel will examine the content, 

status and challenges of implementation 

of key parts of the Dodd-Frank Act and of 

various financial reform measures taken 

by the EU and selected member states, as 

well as the restructuring and resolution 

of systemically important financial 

institutions, credit rating agency rules and 

other current topics. 


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International Securities and Capital Markets 

Committee and International Financial 

Products & Services Committee 


Meyer Eisenberg, Columbia Law School, 

New York, New York and Willamette 

University, College of Law, Salem, Oregon 

Dorothee Fischer-Appelt, Sidley Austin, 


speakers: 

Elisse Walter, Commissioner, Securities 

and Exchange Commission (SEC), 


Thomas C. Baxter, Jr., Executive Vice 

President and General Counsel, Federal 

Reserve Bank of New York, New York 

(Invited) 

Harvey Goldschmid, Columbia 

University, New York, New York 

Nora Jordan, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, 


Giovanni Prezioso, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen 

& Hamilton, Washington, DC 

9:00 am – 10:30 am 

cross-examination across legal cultures 




Cross-examination has been called “the 

‘greatest legal engine ever invented for the 

discovery of truth.’” California v. Green, 

399 U.S. 149, 158 (1970) (quoting 5 

Wigmore, Evidence § 1367). On the other 

hand, cross-examination in the forms 

practiced in common law legal cultures 

is not a traditional feature of the civil 

law adjudication system. International 

arbitration melds practices from both civil 

and common law traditions and, generally 

speaking, cross-examination is now 

recognized as a standard and accepted part 

of international arbitral proceedings. Given 

that it takes place in a hybrid system, 

cross-examination in an international 

arbitration requires specialized knowledge 

and sensitivity to differing legal traditions. 

In this program, international advocates, 

arbitrators and experts will discuss crossexamining 

witnesses across legal cultures 

in international arbitration. The discussion 

will center on the fundamentals of crossexamination, 

cross-examination before an 

international tribunal, perspectives from 

the civil law and common law traditions, 

cross-examination of experts, including 

the “hot tub” approach, cross-examination 

on a chess clock system, arbitrators’ views 

of the effectiveness of cross-examination, 

witness preparation for cross-examination 

and persuasive cross-examination 

techniques. The program will benefit 

both novices and seasoned international 

arbitration advocates who seek to become 

more effective cross-examiners. 


International Arbitration Committee 


Jose Astigarraga, Astigarraga Davis, 

Miami, Florida 

moderator: 

Laurie Foster, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, 


speakers: 

Dominque Brown-Berset, Brown & Page, 


Mark Beckett, Latham & Watkins, New 


Judith Gill, Allen & Overy, London, 


Merryck Lowe, BDO, London, 


Ben H. Sheppard, University of Houston, 



9:00 am – 10:30 am 

importing cultural objects 

into the united states 




Curators, collectors, dealers, and even 

souvenir buyers want to bring art works 

and cultural objects from other countries 

into the United States. However, they 

should know that Customs and Border 

Protection is on the lookout for culturally 

important artifacts that may be entering 

the United States illegally. A legal 

framework, composed of both general and 

specific customs laws, now regulates the 

importation of cultural artifacts. As this 

framework has become more complex, 

compliance has also become a source of 

concern for all those who wish to promote 

the legitimate trade in cultural objects. 

This panel will draw on a variety of 

experts to explain how the law in this area 

developed, how it is enforced, and how an 

importer of cultural objects can stay within 

the law. 


Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee 


Lawrence Friedman, Barnes, Richardson 

& Colburn, Chicago, Illinois 


Patty Gerstenblith, DePaul University 

College of Law, Chicago, Illinois 

speakers: 

Harold Grunfeld, Grunfeld, Desiderio, 

Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt, New York, 


Sharon Levin, U.S. Department of Justice, 


Colleen Piccone, U.S. Department of 

Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection, New York, New York 

(Invited) 

9:00 am – 10:30 am 

think before You tweet – what everyone 

should know about social media 


PRIvACY; YoUnG LAWYERS 

With the explosion of social media 

and mobile marketing, companies are 

increasingly focusing on social and 

peer-to-peer marketing. Similarly, the 

Internet and other evolving information 

technologies are powerful tools for the 

collection, processing, storage, and use of 

personal information. This ever-changing 

environment presents unique opportunities 

for brand promotion, but also raises novel 

issues of ethics, unfair trade practices, 

trademark and copyright infringement, 

privacy, data collection, defamation, 

harassment, employment law and false 

advertising. In 2010, online advertising 

was an $8.8 billion dollar industry, which 

has faced the scrutiny of the U.S. Federal 

Trade Commission and other regulators, 

class action lawyers, competitors, and 

the press. For example, businesses can 

be liable for “personal” internet activities 

of employees, regardless of knowledge. 

Consequently, businesses must proactively 

develop strategies and implement policies 

to manage the legal risks. 



and Privacy, E-Commerce & Data Security 

Committee 


Lauri Sawyer, Jones Day, New York, 

New York 

speakers: 

Lora Blum, Linked In, San Francisco, 

California (Invited) 

Joe Green, Causes, San Francisco, 


Justin Smith, Inside Network, Palo Alto, 


Levina Wong, Monster, Inc., 

Maynard, Massachusetts 


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10:30 am – 11:00 am 


10:30 am – 11:00 am 

“how to” series: developing 

Programs with the section 

Do you have an idea for a program 

that is timely and topical? If so, then 

attending this nuts and bolts of how to 

develop programs for the Section will be 

instrumental in helping you to develop 

your proposal. Member and committee 

involvement through the development 

of programming continues to be the 

lifeline of the Section; whether it be for a 

seasonal meeting, a brown-bag, podcast, 

webcast, teleconference or stand-alone, or 

a combination, for CLE or not, there are 

ample opportunities for your program idea 

to take flight. Join us to learn more about 

how to chart the course of your proposal. 


Adam B. Farlow, Section Programs Officer 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

waste-to-energy – a 21st century 

solution or a costly detour 

that will derail recycling? 




Let’s talk trash and the piles of garbage 

and commercial waste intended for megalandfills. 

Can waste provide a path to a 

sustainable energy future? Can modern 

waste-to-energy facilities kill two birds 

with one stone, yielding clean energy 

safely at affordable prices? Or is the 

process too expensive, financially and 

environmentally, and will these projects, 

that are often public-private partnerships, 

undercut recycling efforts? Business and 

environmental lawyers with experience in 

waste-to-energy projects around the globe 

will provide a bird’s eye view of the many 

issues that arise, from project inception to 

completed plant operation, as well as ways 

to address those issues. They will challenge 

and engage the audience in an active 

dialogue about the role of waste-to-energy 

in constructing a sustainable energy future. 


International Energy & Natural Resources 

Committee, International Litigation 

Committee and International 

Environmental Law 


Caryl Ben Basat, BenBasat Law Group, 

P.A., Weston, Florida 

Renee Dopplick, Inside Justice, 


moderator: 

Harvey Gershman, Gershman, Brickner & 

Bratton, Inc, Fairfax, Virginia (Invited) 

speakers: 

Vera Alexandropoulou, Enerpro, 

Piraeus, Greece 

Suchitra Chitale, Chitale & Chitale 

Partners, New Delhi, India (Invited) 

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Pace University 

School of Law, White Plains, New York 

(Invited) 

Alex McLean, Arthur Cox, Dublin, Ireland 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

in search of a brave New world 

of venture capital financing 

CoRPoRATE / TRAnSACTIonAL; YoUnG LAWYERS 

The recent economic crisis has shaken the 

venture capital market to its core. Funds 

have disappeared or have dramatically 

changed focus and size. This panel will 

examine the current direction of the 

venture capital industry in North America, 

including: (a) the importance of venture 

capital financing to encourage innovation; 

(b) the role of government in growing and 

strengthening the venture capital industry; 

(c) the current view of institutional 

investors to venture capital; (d) the rise 

of super angels and small venture capital 

funds in financing capital efficient 

businesses; (e) advising the entrepreneur 

who seeks to raise capital - pitching 

interviews and term sheet negotiation; and 


(f) the current exit environment and what 

lies ahead. 


Canada Committee and Young Lawyers 

Interest Network (YIN) 


Jeffrey A. Barnes, Bordon Ladner Gervais 

LLP, Toronto, Canada 

Vanessa A. Lantin, Administrative Office 

of the U.S. Courts, Washington, DC 

moderator: 

Leonard M. Gold, Burns & Levinson LLP, 

Boston, Massachusetts 

speakers: 

Nithya Das, AppNexus, Inc., New York, 


Timothy J. McCunn, Bordon Ladner 

Gervais LLP, Ottawa, Canada 

W. Ian Palm, McCarthy Tetrault LLP, 


John Ruffolo, Omers Ventures, Toronto, 

Ontario, Canada (Invited) 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

the opportunities and challenges 

of managing a law firm 

InTERnATIonAL LAW PRACTICE MAnAGEMEnT 

FoRUM; CoRPoRATE / TRAnSACTIonAL 


Our panelists will address critical issues 

currently facing law firms including: (a) the 

future of local and national law firms as 

large multi-national “mega” firms continue 

to expand; (b) developing and maintaining 

alliances or “best friends” relationships; 

(c) alternative billing structures and 

responding to RFPs; (d) strategic planning 

for law firms; (e) creative marketing ideas; 

and (f) what are the competitive threats to 

law firms over the coming five to ten years? 


International Law Practice 



Stephen Denyer, Allen & Overy, 

Frankfurt, Germany 

Justin Vineberg, Davies Ward Philips & 

Vineberg, Montréal, Québec, Canada 

speakers: 

Jaime Carey, Carey & Cía, Santiago, Chile 

Francois Chateau, Salans, New York, 

New York 

Richard Cherney, Davies Ward Philips & 

Vineberg, Montréal, Québec, Canada 

Nishith Desai, Nishith Desai Associates, 

Mumbai, India 

Austin T. Fragomen, Jr., Fragomen, Del 

Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, New York, 

New York 

Umit Herguner, Hergüner Bilgen Özeke, 

Istanbul, Turkey 

Julian Howard, Macfarlanes, London, 


Pete Kalis, K+L Gates, New York, 

New York 

Rafael Morales, SyCip Salazar Hernandez 

& Gatmaitan, Manila, Philippines 

Alfredo Miguel O’Farrell, Marval, 

O’Farrell & Mairal, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Richard Wolf, Wolf Theiss, Vienna, Austria 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

revolutionizing Justice: the emerging 

field of online dispute resolution 

DISPUTE RESoLUTIon / LITIGATIon; PRoPERTY / 

InTELLECTUAL PRoPERTY LAW / PRIvACY 


In today’s high-tech era, traditional 

methods of dispute resolution have been 

slow to adapt to technological innovation, 

and are increasingly coming under fire for 

lack of efficiency and cost-effectiveness. 

A quickly growing alternative is online 

dispute resolution (ODR). ODR has the 

ability to facilitate quick, less expensive, 

and more efficient resolutions by 


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harnessing readily available technologies. 

Presently, the United Nations Commission 

on International Trade Law is creating 

standards on cross-border ODR and 

both government and private entities 

are implementing ODR. As a result, 

various sectors are leading the way to 

greater potential for technology mediated 

dispute resolution. This ODR roundtable 

presents a discussion of the legal issues 

surrounding ODR from the viewpoints of 

the private, non-profit, and public sectors. 

The roundtable panelists will discuss the 

background of ODR, the benefits and 

challenges of the transition to ODR, an 

ODR case study of eBay, and ODR and 

public international law. 


International Litigation Committee, Privacy, 

E-Commerce and Data Security Committee, 


Young Lawyers Interest Network (YIN), and 

International Mediation Committee 


Jeff Aresty, Internet Bar Organization, 


Fatima Khan, Fatima Khan Consulting, 


speakers: 

Vikki Rogers, Institute of International 

Commercial Law – Pace Law School, 


Colin Rule, Modria, San Jose, California 

Gabriela Szlak, Latin American 

eCommerce Institute, Argentina 

Beth Trent, CPR, New York, New York 

(Invited) 

Mohamed Wahab, Cairo University, 

Cairo, Egypt (Invited) 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

minding Your budget: cost-efficient 

techniques for Protecting Your 

intellectual Property around the world 


PRIvACY; CoRPoRATE CoUnSEL 

A company’s long-term viability can largely 

depend on the proper management and 

protection of its intellectual property, and 

whether it is fully exploiting the value of 

its intellectual property. Efficiency is vital, 

as precious time and money are wasted 

when preliminary questions are not asked, 

and appropriately broad searches are 

not conducted in advance. For example, 

have the potential geographic markets 

been identified before the product’s 

release? Does it make financial sense to 

file for protection in a particular market 

where there is not any use? Utilizing the 

audience to address hypothetical scenarios 

covering such international issues as 

searching, protectability, filing regimes 

and ownership, this interactive workshop 

will demonstrate how efficient portfolio 

management can minimize the costs of 

obtaining and maintaining intellectual 

property. 


International Intellectual Property 

Committee, U.S. Lawyers Practicing Abroad, 

and International Secured Transactions 

Committee 


Matthew Asbell, Ladas & Parry LLP, 


speakers: 

Meir Blonder, Leviton Mfg. Co., Melville, 


Barbara Kolsun, Stuart Weitzman, LLC, 


John Richards, Fordham University, 


Kelly Slavitt, Reckitt Benckiser, Parsippany, 

New Jersey 


11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

Not for sale: Global responses 

to sex and labor trafficking 


…12-year-olds –under constant 

supervision by pimps in the alleys of the 

Sonagachi Red-light district…Young 

girls brutishly incarcerated in poorly-lit, 

overcrowded, Indian brothels for paid 

sex…Vulnerable trafficked boys and girls 

toiling daily on cocoa plantations in Cote 

d’Ivoire ...Adolescent sex slaves in the 

United States. Human trafficking has 

become a global human rights epidemic. 

From forced prostitution to forced labor, 

an estimated 27 million people currently 

are victims of this modern-day brand of 

slavery. How do we tackle this worldwide 

scourge of human exploitation? How does 

one combat human trafficking within and 

across country borders? What is the world’s 

response via domestic laws? International 

regulations? UN Conventions? This 

panel will bring together diverse world 

leading experts to discuss and analyze this 

distressing universal predicament. 


International Human Rights Committee, 

Africa Committee, Europe Committee, India 

Committee, Russia/Eurasia Committee, 

NGO & Not-for-Profit Organizations 

Committee, Women’s Interest Network 

(WIN), International Criminal Law 

Committee, International Pro Bono 

Committee, National Security Committee, 

Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, 

International Refugee Law Committee, 

International Employment Law Committee, 

Immigration & Naturalization Committee, 

and ABA Section of Individual Rights and 

Responsibilities Women’s Rights Committee 


Becky Farrar, Attorney-at-Law, 


Olufunmi Oluyede, TRLPLAW, 

Lagos, Nigeria 

moderator: 

Samantha Healy Vardaman, Esq, Shared 

Hope International, Arlington, Virginia 

speakers: 

Anne T. Gallagher, Asia Regional 

Trafficking in Persons (ARTIP) Project, 

Bangkok, Thailand 

Laura Lederer, Global Centurion / 

Georgetown University Law Center, Fairfax, 

Virginia 

Jonathan Todres, Georgia State University, 

College of Law, Atlanta, Georgia 

12:45 pm – 2:15 pm 


luncheon with keynote speaker 


Louis B. Sohn Award for the Public 

International Law Presentation: 

Anne-Marie Slaughter 

In honor of Section Chair Louis 

B. Sohn (1992-93), this award is 

presented to those persons who 

have made distinguished, longstanding 

contributions to the field 

of public international law. This 

year the award is being presented to 

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the 

Woodrow Wilson School of Public 

and International Affairs in Princeton 

and, until recently, Director of Policy 

Planning for the US Department 

of State. Anne-Marie taught at the 

University of Chicago and Harvard 

before Princeton, and serves on the 

board of the Council on Foreign 

Relations, National Security Network, 

and Brookings Doha Center. She 

has been a long-time supporter of 

the Section and has participated in 

numerous Section programs. 


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2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

economic espionage & social media: 

where is Your data tonight? 

CoMPLIAnCE / REGULAToRY; PRoPERTY / 



Your data has been breached—personal 

data of employees and customers, as well 

as proprietary company information. 

Criminals are after your corporate 

information and, increasingly, social media 

sites are where they look to get in. How 

do you respond? Data security breaches 

can cost billions in fines, notification of 

data subjects, governmental investigations, 

legal fees, loss of business reputation, 

credibility and, perhaps, trade secrets. 

Will your company be the next headline? 

This interactive program discusses: (a) an 

overview of the laws of data protection, 

ethical issues regarding security of client 

information, and remediation of breach; 

(b) the basics of incident response for 

multinational corporations under statutory 

and regulatory schemes within the E.U., 

Canada, Asia and South America; and 

(c) trends toward greater data protection 

and encryption requirements as electronic 

global commerce accelerates. 


International Litigation Committee 


Fernando Pinguelo, Norris, McLaughlin 

& Marcus, Bridgewater, New York 


Kenneth Rashbaum, Rashbaum Associates, 


speakers: 

Juliana Abrusio, Opice Blum, 

Sao Paolo, Brazil 

Theresa Beaumont, Google, Inc., 

Mountainview, California (Invited) 

Seth Kosto, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Newark, 

New Jersey (Invited) 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

cross-border secured lending: challenges 

of structuring the collateral Package 



Seasoned cross-border lending lawyers 

from varied jurisdictions and multilateral 

institutions will debate the efficacy of 

currently employed security interest 

devices in respect of “edgy” collateral, 

such as satellite systems, submarine fiber 

optic cables, trans-border pipelines, 

agribusiness and hydrocarbon and other 

natural resources extraction, with a view to 

probing the limits of constraining national 

sovereignty through current and proposed 

private law instruments. The discussion 

will include review of effectiveness of 

efforts to “off-shore” collateral packages, 

to work around potential assertions of 

national sovereignty over public utility, 

public service and national resource 

activities, and to address the tensions 

between “Calvo” and “ICSID” approaches 

to dispute resolution. The presentation 

will occur as a “strategy session” debate 

between counsel expert in the key 

representative jurisdictions of Argentina, 

Brazil, England, Mexico and the United 

States on the one hand, and on the other, 

counsel in the role of senior international 

and multilateral lenders. 


Mexico Committee, Canada Committee, 

Cross-Border Real Estate Practice Committee, 

Europe Committee, International 

Commercial Transactions, Franchising & 

Distribution Committee, and International 

Corporate Counsel Committee 


Lucila Escriña, Negri & Teijeiro Abogados, 



Patrick Del Duca, Zuber & Taillieu LLP, 

Los Angeles, California 

moderator: 

Meaghan McGrath Sutton, International 

Finance Corporation, Washington, DC 


speakers: 

Spiros V. Bazinas, Secretariat of the United 

Nations Commission on International Trade 

Law (UNCITRAL), Vienna, Austria 

Andrew Fraiser, Allen & Overy LLP, New 


Juliana Martines, Syngenta Proteção de 

Cultivos Ltda., São Paulo, Brazil 

Juan Javier Negri, Negri & Teijeiro 

Abogados, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

the aftermath of the Global financial 

crisis – a focus on insider trading and 

developments in securities law: Part i 




This two-part Showcase program will focus 

on four key areas of law arising from the 

global financial crisis: (a) Insider Trading 

and SEC enforcement actions against 

hedge fund managers and criminal actions 

against insider trading networks and 

intermediaries; (b) civil litigation against 

financial institutions and individuals 

arising from the crisis (c) the extraterritorial 

reach of US securities laws, following 

the decision of the US Supreme Court in 

Morrison v. National Australia Bank; and 

(d) the essential court-made law developing 

in decisions such as Matrixx Initiatives Inc. 

v. Siracusano, Janus Capital Group v. First 

Derivative Traders, Erica P. John Fund v. 

Halliburton Inc. and others. Part I will 

review the aggressive approach taken by 

the SEC to insider trading by means of a 

newly created Task Force and will examine 

essential prosecutions such as those of Raj 

Rajaratnam, Rajat Gupta and David Sokol, 

together with the developing law of insider 

trading. Part I also will feature an in depth 

discussion of prominent civil lawsuits 

such as the SEC lawsuit against Goldman 

Sachs, the “Fabulous Fab” litigation and 

key claims against several of the nation’s 

most prominent financial institutions. 

The program will feature prominent 

prosecutors, defense lawyers, academics 

and journalists, each of whom has been 

directly involved in the legal developments 

spurred by the global financial crisis and 

who bring differing perspectives on the 

impact of these important changes. 











speakers: 

Kenneth Bialkin, Skadden Arps, New 


John C. Coffee, Jr., Columbia Law School, 


Robert Khuzami, Director, Division 

of Enforcement, Securities and Exchange 

Commission (SEC), Washington, DC 

William R. McLucas, WilmerHale, 


2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

drafting international restrictive 

covenants and trade secrets 

EMPLoYMEnT LAW / HUMAn RESoURCES; 


Drafting and negotiating restrictive 

covenants or litigating covenants and 

trade secrets issues at the international 

level is no simple task. As the global 

economy continues to expand, it becomes 

increasingly challenging for attorneys 

in the U.S. and other jurisdictions 

representing employers to ensure that such 

provisions are enforceable worldwide, 


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and for those representing employees to 

ensure that their clients are able to retain 

their mobility in the event of a change 

in employment circumstances. This 

program will explore these challenges 

through an experienced panel composed 

of both U.S. and foreign employment 

counsel (representing both individuals and 

management). The panelists will discuss 

the most common problems and provide 

their perspective on how to deal effectively 

with the drafting, negotiation, and 

litigation of such cross border restrictive 

covenants. 


Privacy, E-Commerce & Data Security 

Committee, Section of Labor and 

Employment Law: International Labor & 

Employment Law Committee 


Wendi S. Lazar, Outten & Golden LLP, 


moderator: 

Gary R Siniscalco, Orrick, Herrington & 

Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, California 

speakers: 

Paul Callaghan, TaylorWessing, London, 


Danny Ong, Rajah & Tann LLP, 

Singapore (Invited) 

Gerlind Wisskirchen, CMS Hasche Sigle, 

Cologne, Germany 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

leading a law firm in turbulent times 


FoRUM; CoRPoRATE / TRAnSACTIonAL 


Over the last few years, law firm leaders 

in many different jurisdictions have had 

to cope with a very unpredictable market 

for legal services. This has caused many 

of them to re-examine their fundamental 

strategy and priorities and seek to 

reposition their firms as more “agile” 

organizations. Have these experiences 

led to fundamental shifts in the market 

for legal services, particularly in smaller 

jurisdictions and niche markets? What 

are the leadership skills that have been 

required and how have law firm leaders 

coped with the stresses and strains of 

difficult choices? These questions will 

be addressed by a panel of law firm 

leaders from a range of different types of 

jurisdictions and size of practice. 


International Law Practice 



Stephen Denyer, Allen & Overy, 

Frankfurt, Germany 

Susanna Fuchsbrunner, SIBETH 

Rechtsanwaelte, Frankfurt, Germany 

speakers: 

Timur Bondyarev, Arzinger, Kiev, Ukraine 

Piet Faber, Edward Nathan Sonnenberg, 

Cape Town, South Africa 

Myra Garrett, William Fry, 

Dublin, Ireland 

Julien Kavaruganda, K-Solutions & 

Partners, Kigali, Rwanda 

David Lancaster, Webber Wentzel, 

Johannesburg, South Africa 

David McDonough, Clayton Utz, 

Brisbane, Australia 

Ilya V. Nikiforov, Egorov Puginsky 

Afanasiev & Partners, St Petersburg, Russia 

Javier Petrantonio, M. & M. Bomchil, 


Pierre Raoul-Duval, Gide Loyrette Nouel, 

Paris, France 

Cyril Shroff, Amarchand & Mangaldas & 

Suresh a. Shroff & co., Mumbai, India 

Gerhard Wegen, Gleiss Lutz, 

Stuttgart, Germany 


2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

rape: impunity and 

command responsibility 


Rape is the rule and not the exception in 

many conflict situations. Between 250,000 

and 500,000 women were violated, many 

with broken bottles, rifles and sticks, 

during the 100 day-Rwandan genocide. 

Forty-eight women an hour are raped in 

the Democratic Republic of the Congo 

(DRC), deemed the rape capital of the 

world by the UN. Men and boys also suffer 

the pain and stigma of rape. 

This panel will explore avenues to 

prosecute perpetrators including mobile 

courts in the DRC and national courts 

that utilize universal jurisdiction. The 

speakers will focus on international law 

developed in supranational tribunals 

that have decided rape is a crime against 

humanity and can be genocide. Cases will 

be discussed that hold superiors liable for 

rapes committed by their subordinates. 

The panel will also propose measures to 

dispel cultural norms that prevent victims 

from disclosing the horrors inflicted upon 

them and motivate them to initiate an 

action against their perpetrator. 


Africa Committee, Europe Committee, 

and International Securities & Capital 

Markets Committee 


Elizabeth Barad, L/O E. Barad, 


speakers: 

Kelly Askin, Open Society Justice Initiative, 


Eve Ensler, V-Day, New York, 


Eugnie Mukeshimana, Genocide Surviors 

Support Network, South Orange, New Jersey 

Margot Wallstrom, United Nations, New 

York, New York (Invited) 

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm 



4:00 pm – 4:30 pm 

“how to” series: communications 

Communications Officer Steven Richman 

is in charge of Section communications 

and media outreach. He will be available 

during this “How to” Session to talk about 

opportunities to promote your program, 

publication or other Section activity. He 

will advise on how best to work with 

ABA Media Affairs, structure your media 

outreach, and publicize your achievements 

inside and outside the Section. 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

latin american utilities: what 

big Pe wants, big Pe Gets 



In-house and outside counsel will discuss 

the ongoing boom of private equity (PE) 

investment in Latin American utilities and 

other regulated sectors, including water 

utilities, power generation and distribution 

companies, port facilities, toll roads, and 

related areas. What’s driving these huge 

investments and why are these regulated 

markets so appealing to PE investors? 

What sectors are hotter and why? What 

kinds of legal framework and contractual 

protections are investors seeking? How 

do the various investment protection and 

regulatory systems fare? What are the 

main legal hurdles and practical issues? 

Our experts will discuss current PE 

investment strategies, goals and trends, 

convey practical DOs and DON’Ts of 

PE transactions in Brazil, Argentina, 

Chile, Peru, and Colombia (from 

diligence to post-closing compliance), 

review useful contractual and regulatory 

mechanisms to mitigate traditional 

risks (e.g., environmental contingencies, 

foreign exchange risk, price regulation/ 


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determination, and government action/ 

inaction), and debate some pros and cons 

of the various regulatory systems and their 

practical implementation. Throughout 

the discussion, they will provide reallife 

examples of issues encountered and 

solutions found when representing clients’ 

interests in Latin American private equity 

investments. 



Committee, Customs Law Committee, Latin 

American & Caribbean Committee and 


program Chair: 

Marcos Ríos, Carey y Cía. Ltda, 

Santiago, Chile 


Marcelo Bombau, M&M Bomchil 

Abogados, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

speakers: 

Andrés Crump, Brookfield Infrastructure 

Group, Bogota, Colombia 

Paola Lozano, Skadden, Arps, Slate, 

Meagher & Flom, New York, New York 

(Invited) 

Mauro Penteado, Machado, Meyer, 

Sendacz e Opice Advogados, São Paulo, 

Brazil 

Salvador Valdés, Carey y Cía. Ltda, 

Santiago, Chile 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

something’s Gotta Give – Balancing 

the rights of Majority and Minority 

interests in the private Enterprise 

CorporAte / trAnSACtIonAL; Young LAwYerS 

This highly interactive session will explore 

the process for building protections for 

majority and minority stakeholders in a 

private enterprise. In this first part of the 

programme, panelists will present several 

actual deal scenarios which address the 

themes and stakeholder perspectives to 

be explored in the interactive section of 

the program. Particular emphasis will be 

placed on the special challenges facing 

investors and existing shareholders when 

formulating their positions during difficult 

economic times. Session participants, 

working in small groups, will then address 

the issues raised in a case study made 

available to participants in advance of 

the session. Participants will take on the 

role of counsel to a potential investor 

in a private company, or counsel to one 

of the two existing shareholders. The 

‘clients’ will discuss with their ‘counsel’ 

the key provisions they ‘gotta’ have in 

the proposed transaction and why these 

provisions are critical to them. Participants 

will be encouraged to draw on their 

own experiences when looking at ways 

to balance the rights and obligations of 

majority and minority interest in the 

private enterprise. The session will close 

with presentation by the counsel of 

their clients’ positions with the goal of 

negotiation a term sheet for the deal. 


Young Lawyers Interest Network (YIN), 

Islamic Finance Committee, and Foreign 

Legal Consultant Committee 





Nancy A. Matos, Baker McKenzie, 

Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Moderator: 

Randall A. Hanson, Womble Carlyle 

Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, Greensboro, North 

Carolina 

speakers: 

Marcel Barth, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 

Hannover, Germany 

Salli Swartz, Artus Wise, Paris, France 

Carlos Velázquez de León, Basham, Ringe 

y Correa, S.C., Monterrey, Mexico 


4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

the aftermath of the Global financial 

crisis – a focus on insider trading and 

developments in securities law: Part ii 




This two-part Showcase program will 

focus on four key areas of law arising 

from the global financial crisis: (a) 

Insider Trading and SEC enforcement 

actions against hedge fund managers and 

criminal actions against insider trading 

networks and intermediaries; (b) civil 

litigation against financial institutions and 

individuals arising from the crisis (c) the 

extraterritorial reach of US securities laws, 

following the decision of the US Supreme 

Court in Morrison v. National Australia 

Bank; and (d) the essential court-made law 

developing in decisions such as Matrixx 

Initiatives Inc. v. Siracusano, Janus Capital 

Group v. First Derivative Traders, Erica P. 

John Fund v. Halliburton Inc. and others. 

Part I will review the aggressive approach 

taken by the SEC to insider trading by 

means of a newly created Task Force and 

will examine essential prosecutions such as 

those of Raj Rajaratnam, Rajat Gupta and 

David Sokol, together with the developing 

law of insider trading. Part II will examine 

the development of securities law in 

the wake of several recent high profile 

decisions from the United States Supreme 

Court, which may serve to redefine the 

reach and applicability of US securities 

laws, the elements of proof of securities 

law violations and the access of plaintiffs 

to our nation’s courts. The program will 

feature prominent prosecutors, defense 

lawyers, academics and journalists, each 

of whom has been directly involved in the 

legal developments spurred by the global 

financial crisis and who bring differing 

perspectives on the impact of these 

important changes. 





Program chairs and moderators: 






speakers: 

Michael Connoly, Solicitor, Securities and 

Exchange Commission (SEC), Washington, 

DC (Invited) 

Stephen J. Crimmins, K&L Gates, 


Dixie L. Johnson, Fried Frank, 


Edward Greene, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & 

Hamilton and Columbia Law School, New 

York, New York (Invited) 

Stanley Grossman, Pomerantz Haudek 

Grossman & Gross LLP, New York, 

New York 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

executive compensation in 

Global high definition 



Executive compensation has become a 

toxic issue for employers, and a focal point 

for shareholder activism and governmental 

regulation. That is only half the story, 

because compliance with applicable labor, 

securities, and tax laws presents regular 

cross-border risks for those handling plan 

design and administration. Our expert 

panel will discuss the most material risks 

facing employers and their counsel. 


International Employment Law Committee 

and International Intellectual Property 

Committee 


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J. Mark Poerio, Paul Hastings LLP, 


speakers: 

Lynn Dudley, American Benefits Council, 


Pasquale Ferrara, Rabobank International, 


Peter Haller, Credit Suisse, New York, 

New York 

Michael Wesclitz, Philip Morris 

International, Geneva, Switzerland 

(Invited) 

Britt Whitman, Intel Corp., 

Hillsboro, Oregon 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

marketing secrets: what lawyers 

can learn from mba marketers 

about marketing legal services 


FoRUM; DISPUTE RESoLUTIon / LITIGATIon 


Do you want to market your services 

more effectively and attract more 

clients at home and abroad? Are you 

interested in key marketing strategies 

that professionally trained marketers 

use? This highly interactive and engaging 

session will share key concepts taught by 

the speaker to marketing MBA students 

at Rice University’s Jones Graduate 

School of Business during the course 

“Marketing Professional Services in the 

Global Economy.” This session will teach 

the effective marketing communication 

strategies that MBA marketers learn—and 

that international lawyers can use, both 

internationally and domestically. Come 

prepared for hands on learning, highly 

interactive exercises, and fun. 


International Law Practice Management 

Forum and Young Lawyers Interest 

Network (YIN) 


Janet H. Moore, Global Rainmaking, 


4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

the evolution of international criminal 

law: Problems and Perspectives 


YoUnG LAWYERS 

A conversation with Ben Ferencz, the 

sole surviving American who served as 

a prosecutor at the Nuremburg trials 

of Nazi war criminals. Ferencz was 

Chief Prosecutor for the United States 

in The Einsatzgruppen Case, which the 

Associated Press called “the biggest murder 

trial in history.” Twenty-two defendants 

were charged with - and convicted of 

- murdering over a million people. In 

addition to his wartime and Nuremburg 

experiences, Ferencz will discuss 

Nuremburg’s implications for the rule of 

law and the international criminal court. 


National Security Committee, UN and 

International Institutions Coordinating 

Committee, Young Lawyers Interest Network 

(YIN), Seasoned Lawyers Interest Network 

(SIN), Law Student, LLM and New Lawyer 

Outreach Committee, and International 

Human Rights Committee 


Michael H. Byowitz, Wachtell, Lipton, 

Rose & Katz, New York, New York 

Don Ferencz, The Planethood Foundation, 


speaker: 

Ben Ferencz, New Rochelle, New York 


8:00 pm – 11:00 pm 

Ticketed Event, Black tie optional 

reception at the metropolitan 

museum of art, temple of dendur 

1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY 


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7:00 am – 7:00 pm 

registration area, exhibit hall 

and business center open 

7:45 am – 9:00 am 


8:00 am – 8:50 am 

breakfast at the bar: Practice readiness 

for the Global corporate environment: 

the role of law schools in teaching 

international corporate law and Practice 

YoUnG LAWYERS; CoRPoRATE CoUnSEL 

This program will address the role law 

schools play in preparing students to 

be international corporate counsel. The 

issues to be addressed include: (a) the 

international attorney client privilege; 

(b) international crisis / management; 

(c) international corporate compliance; 

(d) the role of global in-house counsel; 

(e) international internal investigations; 

(f) cross border e-discovery; (g) 

global corporate governance; and (h) 

international litigation management. These 

important cross-border, international and 

global issues that arise in corporate law and 

practice are critical to learn about during 

the course of a student’s legal education. 

The distinguished experts representing 

both legal education and international 

corporate practice, will engage in a 

dynamic discussion of these and related 

issues, to better understand the issues from 

various perspectives, and to further develop 

the quality and efficacy of international 

legal education. Questions to be addressed 

include: What do law schools currently 

provide in terms of teaching international 

corporate law? What should law schools 

provide? What is the law school view of 

the future of international corporate legal 

education? What technological innovations 

will facilitate international corporate legal 

education? This program will facilitate 

an important and interesting discussion 

among scholars, educators, bar leaders, and 

practitioners that is likely to have a positive 

impact on the continuing development of 

international legal education. 


International Legal Education and Specialist 

Certification Committee, Europe Committee, 

and Women’s Interest Network (WIN) 


Larry White, TOBB ETU School of Law, 

Ankara, Turkey 


Carole L. Basri, Corporate Lawyering 

Group, LLC, New York, New York 

speakers: 

Sean Griffith, Fordham Law School, 


David Boyd Booker, Credit Agricole 

Corporate Investment Bank, New York, 

New York 

Mark Shulman, Pace University School of 

Law, New York, New York 


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9:00 am – 10:30 am 

states, instrumentality and 

transparency: sovereign wealth 

funds, the anti-corruption regime 

and the risk of hidden interests 




Only a few years ago, Sovereign Wealth 

Funds (SWF) operated largely under 

the radar and only the largest deals that 

touched on national security issues, 

such as the purchase of ports or telecom 

companies raised their profiles above the 

parapet. But with the global economic 

downtown, SWFs flush with cash are 

acquiring at a brisk pace. Recent events, 

including allegations of bribery involving 

the Libyan SWF raise a number of critical 

questions around state-owned enterprises, 

instrumentality and transparency. With 

the growth of SWFs and their ownership 

or investment interests in private 

corporations and entities, where is the line 

between a state-owned or state-controlled 

enterprise and a private company? Do the 

Santiago Principles have any real impact on 

transparency? What are the risks for those 

receiving investment from SWFs and those 

conducting business with them? A panel 

of experts, including representatives from 

the wealthiest SWF on the planet, the 

International Monetary Fund, and those 

who work with state-owned enterprises 

on their investment choices debate where 

disclosure and transparency end and 

risk begins. 



International Financial Products & Services 

Committee, and International Investment 

& Development 


Mikhail Reider-Gordon, Navigant 

Consulting Inc, Los Angeles, California 

speakers: 

Ola Mestad, Council on Ethics, Norwegian 

Government Pension Fund, Oslo, Norway 

Wouter Bossu, International Monetary 

Fund (IMF), Washington, DC 

Jinshu “John” Zhang, Reed Smith LLP, 


9:00 am – 10:30 am 

the use of iPos in emerging 

markets to finance Projects 

CoRPoRATE / TRAnSACTIonAL; PRoPERTY / 


A diverse, panel of experts from Europe, 

South, and North America will discuss 

the use of initial public offerings (IPOs) 

in emerging markets. With the difficulty 

of obtaining financing from financial 

institutions in emerging markets, more 

investors and developers are looking to use 

IPOs to finance projects. This is a different 

use of IPOs than what is commonly done 

in the United States and Europe. What 

are the similarities and key differences 

in the use of IPOs in different markets? 

What are the key issues and risks that 

must be addressed in launching an IPO? 

Join this panel for a lively discussion and 

interactive session. 


International Investment & Development 

Committee and Corporate Social 

Responsibility Committee 


Terry A Selzer, Stampe Haume & 

Hasselriis, Copenhagen, Denmark 


Alexia Rosenthal, Tanoira Cassagne, 


speakers: 

Tomer Pinkusiewicz, White & Case, 


Francisco Velazquez, Goodrich Riquelme 

and Associates, Mexico City, Mexico 

Pitra Zijp, Nauta Dutilh, Amsterdam, 

The Netherlands 


9:00 am – 10:30 am 

the exported tort: Prosecuting 

and defending tort cases against 

multinational companies in today’s 

and tomorrow’s legal world 



Indians in the Amazon suing 

multinational oil companies for billions of 

dollars? In Ecuador? Pharmaceutical and 

medical device litigation suing in multiple 

countries? Requesting international class 

certification? This panel will review the 

state of tort litigation across international 

borders. The discussion will include a 

review of legislation enacted in foreign 

countries to help accomodate large scale 

tort litigation, including class action-like 

devices. It will also include a review of 

legislation designed to make enforcement 

of judgments obtained in foreign countries 

easier. The panel will weave throughout 

this discussion real-life examples of how 

changes in foreign legal systems have been 

used to further the prosecution and/or 

enhance the defense. 


International Litigation Committee 

Program chair and moderator: 

Rudy Perrino, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, 


speakers: 

Victor Garita, Facio y Canas, San Jose, 

Costa Rica 

Christian Levesque, Conrad & Scherer, 


William Thomson, Gibson Dunn & 

Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, California 

9:00 am – 10:30 am 

brand Yourself for Professional 

success: Personal branding strategies 

for international lawyers 

InTERnATIonAL LAW PRACTICE MAnAGEMEnT; 



Does your personal brand attract new 

clients? Do you even know what your 

personal brand is—and whether it 

compliments or conflicts with your firm’s 

brand? Understanding, and authentically 

adjusting your personal brand can help 

you to attract more clients, both at home 

and abroad. The panel will also share 

insights on branding entire law firms, and 

on cross-cultural branding challenges. 

This highly interactive and engaging 

session will be structured like a workshop 

with panel presentations, followed by 

breakout discussions in small groups 

with the speakers to teach you practical 

branding tips. 


International Law Practice Management 

Forum and Young Lawyers Interest 

Network (YIN) 


Janet H. Moore, Global Rainmaking, 


speakers: 

Silvia Hodges, Fordham University, 


Paramjit Mahli, SCG Legal PR Network, 


Kim Proxmire, Greenfield Belser Ltd., 

Dublin, Ohio 

Frank Sommerfield, Sommerfield 

Communications, NY, New York (Invited) 


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9:00 am – 10:30 am 

acta Now: how the New anticounterfeiting 

trade agreement 

affects Your Practice or business 


PRIvACY; CoRPoRATE CoUnSEL 

Counterfeit products, including those with 

protected trademarks and those comprising 

copyrighted works, as well as generic 

versions of patented pharmaceuticals, are 

a significant problem for certain rights 

holders. Anti-counterfeiting enforcement 

has largely been the subject of national 

law, and until recently, there have been 

limited mechanisms for collaboration 

between countries to curb counterfeiting 

after it crosses the border. The Anti- 

Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) 

is a multilateral agreement that encourages 

cooperation among signatories (including 

the significant economies of Canada, 

the EU, Mexico, Australia, and the U.S., 

all of which negotiated the agreement) 

in enforcement against counterfeiters. 

The treaty may represent a significant 

step toward harmonious counterfeit 

enforcement and give rights-holders the 

ability to effectively fight counterfeiting 

both at home and abroad. 


International Intellectual 

Property Committee 


Matthew Asbell, Ladas & Parry LLP, 


moderator: 

Barbara Kolsun, Stuart Weitzman, 


speakers: 

Paula Pinha, Office of the U.S. Trade 

Representative, Office of Intellectual Property 

and Innovation, Washington, DC (Invited) 

John McKeown, Cassels Brock & Blackwell 

LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Invited) 

Joseph Villapol, Ladas & Parry LLP, New 


Yansheng Yu, China Patent Agent (H.K.) 

Ltd., Hong Kong (Invited) 

10:30 am – 11:00 am 


10:30 am – 11:00 am 

“how to” series: Policy and the section 

Policy Officer Ronald J. Bettauer will be 

available at this session to discuss policymaking 

opportunities within the Section. 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

Price signaling and hub-and-spoke 

communication: how to avoid the 

cutting edge of antitrust liability 




Imagine you are a manufacturer and 

intend to increase your prices in the future. 

Several weeks in advance of the intended 

price increase, you communicate your 

intentions to some of your key customers. 

Is there any risk involved? Developments 

in the U.S., the E.U. and as far afield 

as Australia, as well as the attitude and 

actions of regulators in those places, have 

called into question how far signaling or 

any kind of disclosure of price movements 

is allowed and where it creates risk of 

antitrust liability. This panel will explore 

the state of the law on direct or indirect 

information exchange with competitors, 

suppliers and customers with a particular 

focus on price signaling as well as hubs 

and spokes in key places around the world, 

offering practical advice regarding how the 

rules apply in different common business 

contexts such as trade associations. 



Europe Committee, International 

Commercial Transactions, Franchising, 

& Distribution Committee, Information 

Privacy, E-Commerce and Data 

Security Committee, International 


Litigation Committee, and International 

Intellectual Property 


Paul Schoff, Minter Ellison Lawyers, 

Sydney, Australia 


Eckart Wagner, Corinius LLP, 

Hamburg, Germany 

speakers: 

Katrina Groshinski, Minter Ellison 

Lawyers, Sydney, Australia 

Wolfgang Heckenberger, Siemens AG, 


Henning Leupold, European Commission, 

Directorate General Competition, 


Michael Sosso, BP America, Inc., 


Charlotte Zapfe, German Federal Cartel 

Office, Bonn, Germany (Invited) 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

wading into the shark tank 

– Negotiating international 

energy contracts 



This program will guide the audience 

through a selection of legal, commercial 

and cultural issues which international 

energy companies (IOC’s) and host 

governments face when an IOC wishes 

to make a substantial investment in a 

host country. The format will be a mock 

negotiation between the government and 

the IOC of a Development Agreement. 

The Development Agreement is intended 

to address the rights and duties of the 

parties pertaining to an LNG (liquefied 

natural gas) project for the liquefaction of a 

large deposit of natural gas which has been 

discovered by an IOC, TexGas, in a remote 

area of the Republic of Petrostan, far from 

any market for the product. Liquefaction 

is necessary in order to export the gas by 

ship. If the negotiations are successful, 

both Petrostan and TexGas will reap 

substantial benefits. 


International Energy & Natural Resources 

Committee, International Investment & 

Development Committee, International 

Anti-Corruption Committee, Corporate 

Social Responsibility Committee, 

International Commercial Transactions, 

Franchising & Distribution Committee, and 

Transnational Legal Practice Committee 


Belle Toren, CE Petroleum, Calgary, 

Alberta, Canada 


John Cogan, Cogan & Partners LLP, 


speakers: 

Anthony Hylton, Hylton & Brown, 

Kingston, Jamaica 

Susan Farmer, Holman Fenwick, London, 


Carlos Solé, DLC Piper, Houston, Texas 

Marie Wagner, Anadarko Petroleum, 

Houston, Texas (Invited) 

Jean-Pierre Pham, Bennett Jones, Calgary, 

Alberta, Canada 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

how recent developments have 

shifted shopping Preferences- a look 

at cross-border conflict in Jurisdiction 


YoUnG LAWYERS 


Differences between European and 

American approaches to jurisdiction— 

both legislative and adjudicative—are 

a persistent issue for multinational 

corporations and practitioners engaged in 

cross-border work. Several recent decisions 

by the U.S. Supreme Court have brought 

significant change to this landscape. This 

panel features attorneys who argued two 

of these cases, and one of the foremost 

American scholars of international 


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jurisdictional issues, to discuss the 

implications for businesses and litigants. 


International Litigation Committee and 

Customs Law Committee 


Ausra Deluard, Jones Day, New York, 

New York 


Meir Feder, Jones Day, New York, 

New York 

moderator: 

Lord David Hacking, Littleton Chambers, 


speakers: 

Glenn P. Hendrix, Arnall Golden Gregory 

LLP, Atlanta, Georgia 

Linda Silberman, New York University, 


John Vail, Center for Constitutional 

Litigation, PC, Washington, DC 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

Nuclear weapons and international 

humanitarian law 


How does and how should international 

humanitarian law affect nuclear weapons 

policy? The Final Document of the 2010 

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review 

Conference, approved by the U.S. along 

with 172 other participating states parties, 

“reaffirms the need for all states at all times 

to comply with applicable international 

law, including international humanitarian 

law.” The 2010 U.S. Nuclear Posture 

Review states that it is “in the U.S. interest 

and that of all other nations that the 

nearly 65-year record of nuclear non-use 

be extended forever.” Yet nuclear weapons 

remain a central security instrument of the 

United States and 8 other nations, with 

over 30 associated states under the U.S. 

‘nuclear umbrella’. This expert panel will 

explore the tension between international 

humanitarian law and national policy 

governing nuclear weapons. 


National Security Committee, International 

M&A and Joint Venture Committee, and 

International Anti-Corruption Committee 


Jonathan Granoff, Global Security 

Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

John Harrington, Law Office of John 

Harrington, Stratford, Connecticut 

moderator: 

John Burroughs, Lawyers Committee on 

Nuclear Policy, New York, New York 

speakers: 

Libran Cabactulan, Mission of the 

Phillipines to the United Nations, New York, 

New York 

Bonnie Jenkins, U.S. Department of State, 


Charles J. Moxley, Jr., Fordham University 

School of Law, New York, New York 

Gary Solis, Georgetown Law School, 


11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

doing business in the cis: hot issues 


Managing partners of the leading national 

law firms from key jurisdictions across the 

Commonwealth of Independent States 

(CIS) economic region will present a 

unique local insight and legal advice on 

the hot issues of doing business in the 

region which is increasingly attracting 

international investments. The panel 

discussion will include the most interesting 

developments in business environment, 

M&A, and foreign investment issues. The 

audience will not only learn about some 

of the world’s most rapidly developing 

economies, but also get the best local 

advice on how to avoid traps and pitfalls 

and safeguard investments in Russia and 

the CIS region based on the local expertise 

of the panelists and participants. 


Russia/Eurasia Committee 


Irina Paliashvili, RULG – Ukranian Legal 

Group, Kiev, Ukraine 


Speakers: 

Dimitry Afanasiev, Egorov Puginsky 

Afanasiev & Partners, Moscow, Russia 

Gulnara Kalikova, Kalikova & Associates, 

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 

Tatyana Suleeva, AEQUITAS, 

Almaty, Kazakhstan 

Alexander Turcan, Turcan Cazac, 

Chisinau, Moldova 

11:00 am – 12:30 pm 

New york law in the international 

Competition for Governing law 

CoMPLIAnCe / ReguLAtoRy 


New York law is said to be one of the 

most frequently chosen laws to govern 

international business, trade, and financial 

transactions. This panel will explore what 

it means to choose New York law as a 

governing law, the characteristics of New 

York’s contract and commercial law that 

make it attractive for international legal 

advisors and their clients, how New York 

law compares with the laws of England, 

Germany, France, and China and the 

major international “restatements” of the 

law of international commercial contracts, 

the relationship between New York law 

and the CISG, and the impact decisions 

about preferred methods and venues 

for dispute resolution have on decisions 

choosing New York law as the governing 

law for international transactions. 

Sponsoring Committee: 

Commercial Transactions Committee 

program Chairs & Moderators: 

Michael W. Galligan, Phillips Nizer, LLP, 


Honorable Judith S. Kaye, Former 

Chief Judge of the New York State Court of 

Appeals, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & 

Flom LLP, New York, New York 

Speakers: 

Glen Banks, Fulbright & Jaworski, 


Theodore Eisenberg, Cornell University 

Law School 

Birgit Kurtz, Crowell & Moring LLP, 


Michael Polkinghorne, White & Case, 

Paris, France 

12:45 pm – 

2:15 pm 


luncheon 

with 

Mellissa fung 

Award-winning journalist 

Mellissa Fung has been with CBC 

Television since 2003. As a national 

correspondent, she has covered 

numerous topics on both Canadian 

and world affairs, including the 

Robert Pickton trial and the 2008 

Summer Olympics in Beijing, and 

the war in Afghanistan. She was 

abducted on the outskirts of Kabul 

on her second tour of that country in 

2008. Her first book Under an Afghan 

Sky, chronicles that experience. Fung 

divides her time between Toronto and 

Washington, DC. 

Mayre Rasmussen Award for 

the Advancement of Women in 

International Law Presentation: 

Professor Hope Lewis 

The Section presents this award 

periodically to individuals who have 

achieved professional excellence in 

international law, encouraged women 

to engage in international law careers, 

enabled women lawyers to attain 

international law job positions from 

which they were excluded historically, 

or advanced opportunies for women in 


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international law. This year the award 

is being presented to Professor Hope 

Lewis of Northereastern University 

School of Law. Working as a human 

rights scholar at the intersection of 

gender, race and disability, Professor 

Lewis has brought the impact and 

import of economic, social and cultural 

rights to the forefront of academic and 

practical debate and, at a personal level, 

has served as a model mentor to her 

students and other women seeking a 

career in international law. 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

Post lehman – will financial 

markets be regulated through the 

back door of competition Policy? 




After the second wave of crisis in global 

financial systems, there is a perceived 

need for significantly more and tougher 

regulation of financial services. At the 

same time, recent high-profile probes into 

financial sector conduct (e.g., credit default 

swaps in the E.U. and U.S., auditing in 

the UK and credit cards in Canada and 

the U.S.) highlight the ongoing scrutiny 

of this sector by antitrust agencies. 

This is occurring against a backdrop of 

consolidation of financial infrastructure 

(such as stock exchanges) which is reshaping 

the sector and raising regulatory, 

antitrust and sometimes foreign investment 

hurdles in a number of countries. 

Our panel of experts will consider whether 

and how efforts of competition regulators 

in key jurisdictions align or conflict 

with the regulatory solutions proposed 

or implemented by financial authorities 

at the national and international level. 

Do competition authorities pre-empt 

regulatory tasks? How do agencies avoid 

imposing conflicting remedies? 



U.S. Lawyers Practicing Abroad, 

International Commercial Transactions 

Committee, and Foreign Legal Consultant 

Committee 


Martin Bechtold, Allen & Overy LLP, 



Sandy Walker, Fraser Milner Casgrain 


speakers: 

Holly Kulka, NYSE Euronext, New York, 


Alexander Okuliar, U.S. Department of 

Justice, Washington, DC (Invited) 

David Schwartz, Wachtell Lipton Rosen 

and Katz, New York, New York 

Irmfried Schwimann, European 

Commission, Brussels, Belgium (Invited) 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

when wedlock becomes a 

deadlock – Preparing a Prenup 

for Your Joint venture 

CoRPoRATE / TRAnSACTIonAL; DISPUTE 

RESoLUTIon / LITIGATIon 


When parties enter into a joint venture, 

they often think only about future business 

goals anticipating a prosperous and fruitful 

relationship with their future partner. 

Many never contemplate a potential 

dissolution. When a deadlock arises it can 

paralyze the business and eventually result 

in a total loss of both partners’ investment. 

However, carefully drafted deadlock 

provisions can prevent the joint venture’s 

failure and preserve its underlying value. 

We will look at some of the key questions 


which should be asked when properly 

addressing a deadlock: Is it more favorable 

for the joint venture partners to rely on 

internal decision making rules or to turn to 

independent experts such as mediators or 

arbitrators to resolve the deadlock? What is 

the difference between “Russian Roulette” 

and “Texas Shoot Out” provisions? What 

can be done if all efforts to resolve the 

deadlock fail? The panel will discuss 

typical deadlock scenarios with a particular 

focus on the parties’ practical needs. On 

this basis the panelists will present a wide 

range of options available when drafting 

deadlock provisions, demonstrating case 

studies from their respective practices. 


International M&A and Joint 

Venture Committee 


Robert Loef, Noerr LLP, New York, 

New York 

moderator: 

Robert Wessely, Withers Bergman LLP, 


speakers: 

Sabine Klett, Noerr LLP, 


Fulvio Marvulli, Bonelli Erede Pappalardo 

Studio Legale, Genoa, Italy 

David Mercado, Cravath, Swaine & Moore 

LLP, London, United Kingdom 

Jane Wessel, Crowell & Moring LLP, 


2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

what’s wrong with u.s. class 

actions? rethinking the class action 

device from a Global Perspective. 




For the better part of the last decade, 

the European Commission has debated 

sanctioning “collective redress” procedures 

to encourage private enforcement of 

European law. Although Europeans are 

decidedly fractured over what form of 

“collective redress” should ultimately be 

adopted, there appears to be a unanimity 

of opinion against adopting the U.S. 

class action model. In light of this latest 

condemnation of the U.S. system, this 

panel will examine the successes and 

failings of U.S. class actions, as well 

as debate the benefits of alternative 

procedures. Recognizing that collective 

redress procedures, whether styled as optin 

or opt-out class actions or otherwise, 

necessitate a significant sacrifice of 

individualized due process, the panelists 

will each opine whether the various 

policy objectives of Rule 23 have been 

met after 50 years of litigation and what 

other jurisdictions can learn from the 

U.S. experience. 


International Antitrust Law Committee and 

International Mediation 


Ethan Litwin, Hughes Hubbard & Reed 



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speakers: 

Barbara Hart, Lowey Dannenberg Cohen 

& Hart P.C., New York, New York 

Michael D. Hausfeld, Hausfeld LLP, 

Washington, DC (Invited) 

Roxann Henry, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, 


Stephen Mavroghenis, Shearman & 

Sterling LLP, Brussels, Belgium 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

employees in dangerous Places: 

legal and Practical issues around 

earthquakes, revolutions, and crime 

on international assignments 



Recently, the world has seen a series of 

uprisings throughout the Middle East and 

Africa. At the same time, natural disasters 

in Japan and elsewhere created their own, 

no less urgent kinds of crisis. Employees 

stationed or traveling overseas to carry out 

assignments may often be in positions of 

personal risk. Their presence may also, to 

a degree, put their employers at risk, to the 

extent that they are vulnerable to injury, 

kidnapping, and other criminal activity. 

This reality highlights the critical and often 

overlooked need to prepare and implement 

a thoughtful and comprehensive plan for 

employees on assignment, or traveling to 

volatile locales, to promote the employees’ 

safety and try to insulate the company 

from legal liability. This program will 

discuss legal and practical issues presented 

by these problems as well as practical 

considerations to be taken care of when 

sending employees abroad. 


International Employment Law Committee 

and Young Lawyers Interest Network (YIN) 


Philip M. Berkowitz, Littler Mendelson, 


Jan Rudolph, Noerr LLP, 


speakers: 

John Imhoff, Ernst & Young, New York, 


Siân Keall, Travers Smith LLP, London, 


Eduardo Ramos-Gómez, Duane Morris 

& Selvam LLP, Singapore 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

what can the legal Profession do to 

increase access to competent counsel? 

immigration as a case study 




The increasing prevalence of incompetent 

and/or fraudulent representation has led 

to an increase in the victimization of both 

the “trusting” and the disadvantaged 

clients. Within the immigration realm, 

particularly, this issue has become glaringly 

obvious: immigrants are victimized by 

‘notarios’, incompetent attorneys, and 

other unscrupulous individuals. This 

panel will discuss the multitude of ethical 

and practical considerations that must 

be considered while addressing this 

increasingly confounding phenomenon 

and the legal profession’s obligation 

to contribute services to those in need 

and to reestablish the concept of fair 

representation within the legal system. 


Immigration & Naturalization Committee 

and International Pro Bono Committee 

co-sponsor: 

American Bar Association Commission 

on Immigration 


Lisa Ryan, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & 

Loewy, LLP, Matawan, New Jersey 

moderator: 

Michael D. Patrick, Fragomen, Del Rey, 

Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, New York, 

New York 


speakers: 

Jennifer Colyer, Fried Frank, New York, 

New York 

Judge Robert A. Katzmann, Second 

Circuit Court of Appeals, New York, 

New York 

Daysi Mejia, District Attorney’s Office, New 

York County, New York, New York (Invited) 

Janet Sabel, New York State Attorney 

General for Social Justice, New York, 

New York 

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm 

the arab spring and constitutional 

reforms: from aspiration to reality 

The Arab Spring succeeded in removing 

the most visible symbols of regimes that 

ruled in the Middle East for decades. 

Today, the citizens of Tunisia, Egypt, 

and Libya are taking steps to transform 

their political aspirations to reality. 

Only the just implementation of the 

rule of law will facilitate a successful 

and lasting transition. This program 

will examine the key substantive and 

procedural questions confronting these 

countries in laying down and agreeing to 

their new founding political document. 

Constitutions and laws are clearly 

necessary to organize government and 

articulate fundamental rights, but they 

are not enough. For decades, for example, 

Egypt’s constitution imposed limits on 

government powers, provided for judicial 

independence, and guaranteed individual 

freedoms, but the constitution was not 

uniformly enforced. If the rule of law is 

to prevail, the constitutions and laws of 

countries in transition must be not only 

well drafted, but also respected. This 

program will examine the key legal issues 

confronting these countries, from drafting 

constitutions to building and reinforcing 

institutions that are essential to ensure 

that the rule of law prevails. The panelists 

will identify the key issues in the ongoing 

political transition and the rule of law in 

the Middle East, with particular focus on 

Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, drawing lessons 

from experience in Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, 

Iran and Malaysia. 


Middle East Committee 


Yasmine Lahlou, Chaffetz Lindsey LLP, 


speakers: 

Mary Fitzgerald, Irish Times, Dublin, 

Ireland (Invited) 

Ozan Ergül, TOBB University of 

Economics and Technology School of Law, 

Ankara, Turkey 

Cherif Bassiouni, DePaul University 

College of Law, Chicago, Illinois (Invited) 

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm 


4:00 pm – 4:30 pm 

“how to” series: section Publishing 

– how to Get Your Name in Print 

Do you consider yourself an expert 

within your practice area of international 

law? If so, world-wide recognition is at 

your doorstep, by becoming a published 

author in one of the ABA Section of 

International Law’s several publications. 

Whether you aspire to write a book, a 

scholarly law review, a succinct news 

article or an informative committee 

newsletter, publishing with one of the 

Section’s publications is an effective way 

to demonstrate your expertise. At this 

informational session, the Publications 

Officer Bill Mock and the editors of The 

International Lawyer and The International 

Law News will tell you how to get started 

on your way as a published author for the 

ABA Section of International Law. 


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4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

wither wall street? – the impact 

of technology and Globalization on 

international financial markets 




Globalization and rapid technological 

changes are having considerable impact 

on traditional financial exchanges. The 

proliferation of alternative trading systems 

such as electronic communications 

networks and dark pools coupled with the 

explosive growth of Asian stock exchanges 

such as Hong Kong and Singapore 

pose serious competitive challenges to 

traditional stock exchanges such as NYSE 

Euronext and the London Stock Exchange. 

How the traditional exchanges react to 

these changes and maintain their market 

share in new listings and trading activities 

may help determine the continuing 

effectiveness of exchanges in establishing 

corporate governance standards and 

performing their role as “gatekeepers” for 

investor protection. 



Committee and International M&A and 

Joint Venture Committee 


Piyasena Perera, Anderson Mori & 

Tomotsune, Tokyo, Japan 

speakers: 

Abigail Arms, Shearman & Sterling, 


Peter Curley, U.S. Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Washington, DC 

Dorothee Fischer-Appelt, Sidley Austin, 


Walter Stuber, Walter Stuber Consultoria 

Juridica, São Paulo, Brazil 

Annemarie Tierney, SecondMarket, 


4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

choice of law that matters: making a 

smart choice regarding application or 

exclusion of the cisG for international 

sale of Goods transactions 


ExPoRT ConTRoLS / TRADE / CUSToMS 

An international treaty applicable by 

default on international trade contracts, 

signed by 76 nations and by now 30 

years old. The UN Convention on the 

International Sale of Goods (CISG). 

And yet it seems largely unknown by 

many practising lawyers. Or just avoided: 

those practitioners that are aware of its 

existence, not least in the U.S., advise 

their clients to actively opt out of it. Is this 

really justified and if so, what are the real 

or perceived critical shortcomings of the 

CISG? Are there no benefits which may 

counterbalance this or is the CISG, as 

one scholar put it, “in danger of losing its 

feeble grasp in the realm of international 

commerce”? Join us to find the answer! 


International Commercial Transactions, 

Franchising & Distribution Committee, 

Europe Committee, International Corporate 

Counsel Committee, International Legal 

Education and Specialist Certification 

Committee, International Trade Committee, 

UN and International Institutions 

Coordinating Committee, and Young 

Lawyers Interest Network (YIN) 


Anders Forkman, Advokatfirman Vinge, 

Malmoe, Sweden 

Bill Johnson, University of North Dakota 

School of Law, Grand Forks, North Dakota 

speakers: 

Sarah Howard Jenkins, Bowen School of 

Law, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, 

Arkansas 

Christopher King, Hunter Douglas 

Management AG, Luzern, Switzerland & 

Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

Andrew J. (Josh) Markus, Carlton Fields 

Attorneys at Law, Miami, Florida 


4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

injunctions/tweets/facebook – 

can they be Gagged worldwide? 


YoUnG LAWYERS 


From the drug habits of supermodels 

to the sex lives of footballers, the use by 

celebrities of injunctions to suppress the 

intimate details of their private lives from 

the media is currently under considerable 

scrutiny. This global cross-sectional panel 

will consider the use/abuse of digital 

communications and social media in such 

a legal context in battle against principles 

of privacy and freedom of speech. This 

program will deal with the ability to obtain 

freezing injunctions, gagging orders and 

super-injunctions, their effect on rights 

to private life and confidentiality and 

freedom of speech/public interest. How 

far can these legal tentacles stretch across 

borders? Do social networking sites flout 

these orders with impunity? The panel 

will discuss enforcement and the extent of 

reach of their respective jurisdictions and 

address the global use of Twitter/Facebook 

to uphold rights of freedom of speech. Be 

there to Tweet into the new age! 



International Investment & Development 

Committee, and Russia/Eurasia 


Kate Matthews, Stevens & Bolton LLP, 


moderator: 



speakers: 

Kurt Blickenstorfer, Bratschi Widerkehr & 

Buob, Zurich, Switzerland 

Richard Dearden, Gowlings, 

Ottawa, Canada 

Matthew Nicklin, 5RB Media Chambers, 


Frank Valentin, De Gaulle Fleurance, 

Paris, France 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

heightened competition in the 

arbitral venue sweepstakes: a 

u.s. response to the challenge? 



According to a survey of international 

arbitration practitioners and in-house 

counsel recently conducted by Queen 

Mary University of London, respondents 

are “increasingly looking beyond the 

‘traditional’ seats of arbitration.” To 

cite just a few examples, Singapore 

and Dubai have become major arbitral 

centers in a short period of time, the 

case load of arbitral institutions in 

China continues to explode, the London 

Court of International Arbitration has 

opened an office in India, Mauritius 

is making a bid to become a center for 

Africa-related arbitrations, and Brazil 

and Argentina are seeking to keep more 

Latin America-related arbitrations on 

that continent. Established centers in 

Europe are responding to the challenge 

as competition increases from other fora 

by actively promoting the time-proven 

virtues of their respective venues, in some 

cases with government support or by 

modernizing their national arbitration 

laws. What must the U.S. do in order 

to maintain its own edge in the arbitral 

venue sweepstakes? A distinguished panel 

of practitioners and arbitrators from the 

leading seats of arbitration in the United 

States will consider this issue from several 

vantage points, including legislation, 

foreign lawyer practice rules, choice of law, 

approach to practice (including discovery), 


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visa entry issues, the role of the courts, and 

other factors. 



International Legal Education and Specialist 

Certification Committee, International 

Corporate Counsel Committee, NGO & 

Not-for-Profit Organizations Committee, 

and Transnational Legal Practice 


Glenn P. Hendrix, Arnall Golden Gregory 

LLP, Atlanta, Georgia 


Edna Sussman, SussmanADR LLC, New 


speakers: 

Jack Coe, Pepperdine University School of 

Law, Malibu, California 

Mark Kantor, Arbitrator, Washington, DC 

Kevin O’Gorman, Fulbright & Jaworski 

LLP, Houston, Texas 

Edward M. Mullins, Astigarraga Davis 

LLP, Miami, Florida 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

market access for foreign lawyers: 

distilling Positions in search of the truth 

YoUnG LAWYERS; PUBLIC InTERnATIonAL LAW / 

RULE oF LAW 

This program will take a hard look at the 

issue of allowing lawyers from one country 

to work in another country without 

necessarily qualifying to practice in that 

“host” country. Formatted as a moderated 

panel of experts, this presentation will 

focus on two countries at the front line of 

the debate, India and Brazil. Should nonqualified 

lawyers from another jurisdiction 

be entitled to partner with local qualified 

lawyers? Would doing so drive up the 

cost of legal fees and/or narrow access 

to justice? Are market access restrictions 

merely protectionist or do they protect the 

integrity of local practitioners? Listen to 

a panel of experts from both sides of the 

fence engage in a healthy, principled debate 

on a topic that is significant to the ABA 

and to the U.S. Government trade agenda. 


U.S. Lawyers Practicing Abroad Committee, 

China Committee, International Legal 

Education & Specialist Certification 

Committee, International Corporate 

Counsel Committee, NGO & Not-for-Profit 

Organizations, and Transnational Legal 

Practice Committee 


Anand S. Dayal, Koura & Company, 

Advocates and Barrister, New Delhi, India 


Laurence P. Wiener, Wiener Soto 

Caparrós, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

speakers: 

Lalit Bhasin, Bhasin & Co., 

New Delhi, India 

Moira Virginia Huggard-Caine, Tozzini 

Freire Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil 

Sanjiv Kapur, Jones Day, São Paulo, Brazil 

Jayanth K. Krishnan, Indiana University 

Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, 

Indiana 

Priti Suri, PSA Legal Counsellors, 

New Delhi, India 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 

fraudulent insolvencies in 

the financial crisis 


This session will integrate presentations 

and discussion following the hypothetical 

plight of a corporation heading towards 

insolvency. Lawyers from around the 

world will analyze the particular legal 

risks and issues which are raised drawing 

on examples from other high profile 

international collapses. Company 

collapses due to “aggressive risk-taking” 

are increasingly linked to issues of fraud 

and other misdemeanour as well as other 

professional misconduct. This misconduct 

not only occurs within the company but 

often amongst its independent advisors, 

accountants, auditors, lawyers, and 

consultants. Issues involving shareholders, 

the regulators, the financial markets and 

other stakeholders will also be considered. 


Co-sponsor: 

Association Internationale des 

Jeunes Avocats (AIJA) 

program Chairs & Moderators: 

Mark Beardsworth, Kingsley Napley LLP, 


Alex Fox, Manches LLP, London, 


speakers: 

Richard Fox, Kingsley Napley, London, 


Nikiforos Iatrou, WeirFoulds LLP, 


Saverio Lembo, Bär & Karrer AG, 


Cameron Scott, Former Executive Counsel 

Accountancy and Actuarial Disciplinary 

Board, London, United Kingdom 

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm 

Chair’s Closing reception at 

the Grand Hyatt New york 

109 East 42nd Street at Grand Central 

Terminal, New York, NY 


One ticket per person is included 

as part of your Spring Meeting 

registration fee; this reception is free to 

meeting attendees who have registered 

for the entire conference. 

9:00 pm – 12:00 am 

after-Hours reception 

Location to be determined 

Saturday, april 21 

7:30 am – 9:30 am 

Council Continental Breakfast 

9:00 am – 1:00 pm 

Council Meeting 

ABA International’s Council, the Section’s 

policy making body, will debate major 

policy initiatives and will be addressed by 

many visiting dignitaries and bar leaders 

from outside the U.S. If you are interested 

in becoming more involved in Section 

leadership, attending the Council Meeting 

is an excellent way to get to know the 

current Section leadership and introduce 

yourself. The Council Meeting is open to 

all Spring Meeting registrants; everyone is 

encouraged to attend. 


saturday, april 21

GeNeral iNformatioN 


general informaTion 

REGISTR ATIOnS / E ARLy BIRd dISCOUnTS 

Registrations must be postmarked no later than February 27, 2012, to receive the early 

bird discount. Registrations must be received by the Section office by March 30, 2012, 

for registrants to be included in the List of Attendees on the meeting website. 

REFUnd POLICy 

■ Cancellations must be made in writing and received by the Section office by 

March 30, 2012, for a full refund of fees, less a $100.00 administrative fee. 

No refund of registration or fee for a ticketed event will be granted after that 

date except in the case of medical emergency or extenuating circumstances approved 

by the Section in its sole discretion. 

■ When a completed registration form and payment have been submitted to the 

Section office either by mail, fax or email, the registration is considered to be 

a firm commitment and you will be expected to pay the registration and any 

ticketed event fees, unless a written cancellation is received as set forth above. 

■ Individuals may re-sell their purchased event tickets to other meeting attendees 

unless the ticket is indicated to be “non-transferable.” 

■ Any refunds issued will be processed to the credit card on file for individuals 

who made fee payment via credit card. 

E VEnT TICK E TS 

Tickets for evening events and luncheons may be purchased in advance on the 

registration form or on-site up until the day before the event is scheduled to take 

place. We regret that because we must guarantee our final numbers with the hotel 

and venues the day before, we can not sell same-day tickets. However, there will be 

a board in the Registration Area and Exhibition Hall where meeting attendees may 

exchange and gift tickets. 

HOTEL ACCOMMOdATIOnS 

The host hotel for the 2012 Spring Meeting is the Grand Hyatt New York Park 

Avenue at Grand Central located at 109 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017. 

The Grand Hyatt New York has reserved a limited block of rooms at the special 

nightly rate of $279 plus applicable daily tax per room for single and double 

occupancy. This special rate is available until March 27, 2012; however, you 

are encouraged to make your reservations early as availability in the group 

room block is not guaranteed if the inventory is consumed prior to this date. 

Reservations may be made online at https://resweb.passkey.com/go/SIL. For 


additional details please visit the 2012 Spring Meeting web site at http://ambar.org/ 

ILspring2012. 

TR AVEL InFORMATIOn 

Discounted airfares are available from ABA Orbitz for Business including ABA 

negotiated discounts on major U.S. based and international carriers. To book online, 

go to http://www.americanbar.org/membership/benefits_of_membership/ 

travel_services.html and click under the Orbitz for Business logo in the Book 

Travel Now section. Click on the link in the Travel Paid By Self box. For assistance 

with online or offline reservations, call toll free 1-877-222-4185. 

dRESS COdE 

For the 2012 Spring Meeting, business attire is appropriate for programs and 

meetings as well as the planned social networking events. 

MAndATORy COnTInUInG LEG AL EdUCATIOn CREdIT ( MCLE ) 

Accreditation has been requested for the 2012 Spring Meeting programs by the 

ABA MCLE Division from most states with general mandatory continuing legal 

education requirements for all lawyers admitted in that state. All appropriate 

paperwork will be available at the CLE Counter next to the Registration counter. 

ABA programs ordinarily receive CLE credit in AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DE, 

FL, GA, GU, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MN, MS, MO, MT, NH, 

NM, NV, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, VI, 

WA, WI, WV, and WY. These states sometimes do not approve a program for credit 

before the program occurs. For more information about CLE accreditation in your 

state, visit http://www.americanbar.org/groups/cle.html. 

E XHIBITIOn ARE A 

The Exhibitors and Sponsors exhibition area will be open from Tuesday, April 17 

through Friday, April 20 at The Grand Hyatt New York. Representatives from a 

variety of service providers catering to the legal community will showcase their 

latest products and services to aid you in your practice. All meeting attendees are 

encouraged to visit the displays of the Section’s partners throughout the meeting and 

in particular during the twice daily networking breaks. 

If you are interested in partnering with the Section to be an exhibitor or sponsor, 

please contact Audrey Lamb at audrey.lamb@americanbar.org or at 

+ 1-202-662-1663 for additional details and information. 

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