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Deputy Director; Director of Marketing 

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Deputy Director, Special Projects 

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Head of the Legal Practice Division 

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Managing Editor 

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Head of Production and Design 

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Head of Divisions Administration 

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Human Rights Institute Director 

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Head of Conferences 

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Messages of welcome 5 

Committee information 9 

Daily schedule of sessions 13 

Information for newcomers 29 

Showcase sessions 1 

General interest 

Rule of Law Symposium 36 

Working sessions 

Legal Practice Division 9 

Public and Professional Interest Division 89 

General information 101 

Venue layout – Suntec International Convention Centre 103 

Social programme 

Conference events 105 

Committee events 107 

Hotels 109 

Embassies and Consulates 111 

Exhibition 115 

Exhibition plan 121 

Subject index 123 

Continuing Professional Development / Continuing Legal Education 

The conference has been accredited for 25 hours of CPD/CLE by the Law Society of England 

and Wales, the New York State Bar and the State Bar of California. 

For delegates from other countries where CPD/CLE is mandatory, the IBA will be pleased 

to provide a Certificate of Attendance for this conference. Subject to your bar association/ 

law society, the certificate may be used to obtain the equivalent accreditation in your 

jurisdiction. 

Certificates will be available from IBA staff at the Registration Desk. 

contents

messages of welcome 

from the IBA President 

It is my great privilege to welcome 

you to the International Bar 

Association’s 2007 Annual 

Conference. I also extend an 

especially warm welcome to the great 

many of you who are attending an 

IBA conference for the first time. 

Here you will meet friendly and 

knowledgeable colleagues from every 

practice area around the world. I hope 

you will participate in all of the wonderful social programmes 

and the superb learning opportunities that comprise this 

special event. I am certain that the tremendous benefits you 

will gain this week here with us will encourage you to come 

back to many more of our events throughout the years to 

come. 

We are especially honoured that Singapore Minister 

Mentor Lee Kuan Yew will be taking the time to address 

us at the Opening Ceremony. Singapore’s amazing global 

connections echo the diverse connections within the IBA, 

where lawyers from around the world share knowledge 

and experience in current developments in all areas of the 

legal profession. Here at this conference, the year’s work 

culminates in a dynamic exchange of concepts and opinions 

from a truly international perspective. 

I urge you to take some time to look through this 

programme, so that you can take full advantage of the 

wide variety of sessions pertinent to you and your practice. 

Additionally I hope to see you at the many social events 

where you can meet and talk with your colleagues in a 

casual and congenial setting. 

Lastly, I hope this conference will inspire you to get 

involved in our work during the rest of the year. Please feel 

free to talk to me, other IBA Officers or members of staff, to 

let us know of your interest so we can keep in touch with 

you after this week ends. Your experience and dedication 

form the core of the Association. The IBA is a tremendously 

satisfying experience for me on both personal and 

professional levels. I am certain that you will feel the same. 

I send you my warmest wishes for a very enjoyable week. 

fernando Pombo 

President, International Bar Association 

Conference Host Committee 

chair 

Philip Jeyaretnam SC 

President, Singapore Law Society 

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Vice-chair 

Lucien Wong 

Allen and Gledhill 

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Michael Hwang SC 

Michael Hwang 

Wong Meng Meng SC 

Wong Partnership 

Jimmy Yim SC 

Drew & Napier LLC 

Christopher Lau SC 

Alban Tay Mahtani & de Silva 

Leslie Chew SC 

Gurbani & Co 

Andre Yeap SC 

Rajah & Tann 

Professor Tan Cheng Han SC 

Dean, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore 

Lawrence Boo 

Singapore International Arbitration Centre 

Abdul Rashid Bin Abdul Gani 

KhatterWong 

Lee Suet Fern 

Stamford Law Corporation 

Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara 

Wong Partnership 

Lawrence Teh 

Rodyk & Davidson 

Shashi Nathan 

Harry Elias Partnership 

Swanur McGowan 

McGowan & Co 

Chandran Arul 

C Arul & Partners 

Teh Hwee Hwee 

Singapore Academy of Law 

Angeline Joyce Lee 

President, Singapore Corporate Counsel Association 

David Lum Chin Weng 

AON, Singapore 

Shawn Toh 

Singapore Law Society 

messAges of Welcome

from the chair of the legal 

Practice Division 

I 

am so pleased you have joined 

us in Singapore, an international 

centre for trade and commerce, 

and a fitting place for us to gather 

and to discuss a wide range of hot 

topics across the spectrum of the 

legal profession. 

This week’s stimulating collection 

of sessions, which bring together 

the foremost experts in all fields 

of legal practice, are the result of much hard work by our 

committees and fora. The results are stunning in their quality 

and diversity, and there is something for practitioners in every 

field and jurisdiction. I want to thank the LPD’s Committee 

and Forum officers for their hard work throughout the year 

in organising these sessions and in pursuing their other 

projects. In particular, I encourage you to join us at the Legal 

Practice Division Showcase Session on Wednesday morning, 

at which we will discuss the importance of the rule of law 

to international business, as well as the public session on 

Tuesday morning of the Task Force I established on the 

extraterritorial application of the law – a subject that impacts 

almost every practising business lawyer. I also hope to see 

you at some of the many enjoyable social events throughout 

the week. 

Beyond Singapore, I urge you to become involved in 

the LPD committees and fora that match your practice 

and interests. These committees are involved in intriguing 

projects and in publishing newsletters that keep all their 

members informed of current developments worldwide. 

There is so much that we can accomplish when we combine 

our knowledge and experience, and we encourage you to 

become active. Please talk to me or any of the committee 

officers if you are interested in joining our efforts. 

The work of the IBA is vital in advancing the global 

practice of law. This conference in Singapore will itself lead 

to improvements and to better understanding of the law 

in dozens of practice areas. Thank you for joining us, and 

please stay involved. 

Enjoy the conference and the wonderful city of Singapore. 

I look forward to meeting you soon. 

David W Rivkin 

Chair, Legal Practice Division 

from the chair of the 

Public and Professional 

Interest Division 

Welcome to Singapore! 

Together with its 

tremendous commercial 

and trade connections, Singapore is a 

lively and exciting cultural centre 

which provides a wonderful context 

for our week here together. 

The Public and Professional Interest 

Division has put together a wide 

variety of sessions with prestigious 

and interesting speakers, and I hope to see many of you 

during the various sessions through the week. 

In particular I want to recommend to you the PPID 

Showcase Session, where we have assembled an exceptional 

panel to speak on the cultural differences that can affect 

your cross-border client work, including negotiation styles, 

multiple sets of professional rules and rule of law issues. I 

encourage you to attend and participate in this session 

which promises to be fascinating and very relevant to your 

work. 

I also want to remind you that as part of your IBA 

membership, you receive membership in a PPID constituent 

of your choice, so please use this week’s sessions to find out 

more about your area of interest and join its work. IBA staff 

at the Membership Stand will be pleased to tell you how to 

formally register your choice of constituent. 

The PPID is giving you a chance to contribute meaningfully 

to the development of the legal profession as we face the 

challenges of increased globalisation. Activities in the areas 

of human rights, rule of law, access to justice, pro bono, CSR 

etc make PPID the true heart of the IBA. I look forward to 

meeting you this week and discussing these issues further, 

and I wish you a fulfilling conference experience. 

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martin solc 

Chair, Public and Professional Interest Division 

messAges of Welcome

committee Information 

legal Practice Division 

Antitrust and Trade Law Section 39 

The Antitrust and Trade Law Section is 

among the largest sections in the Legal 

Practice Division with over 1,400 members. 

Antitrust 40 

The Antitrust Committee provides an 

inter-national forum for the exchange of 

the most current thinking in the field of 

antitrust law. 

trade and customs law 41 

The Trade and Customs Law Committee 

brings together private sector and 

government lawyers who are active in the 

areas of international trade, customs and 

investment law. 

Corporate Law Section 42 

The Corporate Law Section has almost 

2,000 members from around the world. 

Business organisations 42 

The Business Organisations Committee is 

the principal committee covering issues 

relating to mergers and acquisitions. The 

committee reviews developments relating to 

corporate governance, privatisations, joint 

ventures, as well as multinationals to listed 

corporations to private family companies, to 

partnerships and business trusts. 

closely Held and growing Business 

enterprises 43 

The Closely Held and Growing Business 

Enterprises Committee addresses issues of 

ownership, management and financing of 

start ups, owner managed, closely held and 

family businesses and their legal advisers, 

and to organisations with ambitions for 

growth. 

Criminal Law Section 44 

The Criminal Law Section has over 500 

members from around the world and 

membership is steadily growing. 

Business crime 44 

The Business Crime Committee’s primary 

objective is to promote awareness within 

the business community and among 

transactional lawyers of the growing 

significance of legal compliance. 

criminal law 45 

The Criminal Law Committee provides a 

forum for members from many countries 

and criminal justice systems to meet 

regularly, communicate, exchange views, 

and monitor developments in substantive 

and procedural criminal law. 

Dispute Resolution Section 46 

The Dispute Resolution Section has over 

3,000 members from around the world. 

Arbitration 46 

The Arbitration Committee focuses on laws, 

practice and procedures relating to the 

arbitration of transnational disputes, as well 

as alternate dispute resolution methods. 

consumer litigation 47 

The aim of the Consumer Litigation 

Committee is to consider international 

aspects of liability and the consumer’s 

rights. 

litigation 48 

The Litigation Committee focuses on 

the legal, practical and procedural issues 

involved in conducting litigation. Differences 

and developments in individual jurisdictions 

are compared, including issues such as 

jurisdiction, choice of law, and the role of 

international judicial assistance in dispute 

resolution. 

mediation 49 

The Mediation Committee focuses on laws, 

practices and procedures relating to the 

mediation, conciliation, and negotiation 

of transnational disputes, as well as 

other alternative dispute resolution (ADR) 

processes. 

negligence and Damages 50 

The global travel supermarket presents 

new challenges and opportunities to 

personal injury and other litigation lawyers 

worldwide. The Negligence and Damages 

Committee has the objective of providing 

information from a range of jurisdictions 

worldwide. 

Energy, Environment, Natural 

Resources and Infrastructure Law 

Section (SEERIL) 50 

The Section on Energy, Environment, 

Natural Resources and Infrastructure 

Law (SEERIL) has a membership of 2,400 

lawyers in private practice, oil and mining 

companies, international organisations, 

government and academia. 

environment, Health 

and safety law 51 

The objective of the committee is to 

promote knowledge and awareness in all 

areas of environmental, health and safety 

law and related issues, as well as the 

interrelationships between them. 

International construction Projects 51 

This committee is for lawyers interested 

in construction law and in exchanging 

experiences from construction projects 

around the world, from traditional building 

and civil engineering contracts to stateof-the 

art project finance infrastructure 

projects. 

mining law 52 

The objective of the Mining Law Committee 

is to promote an interchange of information 

and views and to advance knowledge 

among individual members of the section 

and others as to laws, practices and 

procedures affecting all activities concerning 

minerals and mining throughout the world. 

oil and gas law 53 

The Oil and Gas Law Committee focuses on 

issues such as: exploration and production 

for all forms of hydrocarbons; onshore 

and offshore oil and gas; joint operating 

agreements and other usual contracts used 

by the industry; financing and insurance; 

comparative tax regimes; state participation 

and national oil companies; natural gas 

transportation and distribution; LNG chain; 

and hydrocarbons regulatory bodies and 

agencies. 

Power law 54 

The Power Law Committee examines 

electricity law and law applicable to nonmilitary 

uses of nuclear power, including 

the generation, distribution and sale of 

electricity; contractual and regulatory 

problems relating to the electricity sector, 

including competition law aspects; 

licensing and decommissioning of nuclear 

installations, nuclear waste management; 

nuclear liability; uranium exploration and 

mining. 

Water law 54 

The Water Law Committee looks at the 

following issues: quantity and quality 

rights in international rivers; national water 

allocation systems; national water quality 

protection systems; water resource related 

aspects of natural resource development; 

hydroelectric development; water transfers; 

alternative dispute resolution mechanisms; 

institutional issues in water resources 

development and distribution. 

Financial Services Section 55 

The Financial Services Section is one of 

the largest sections in the Legal Practice 

Division, comprising approximately 3,100 

members from 132 jurisdictions. 

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Banking law 55 

The Banking Law Committee provides a 

worldwide forum for banking lawyers and 

other legal professionals within the banking 

community to address all sorts of practical 

and legal issues arising in commercial and 

regulatory activities in this context. 

capital markets forum 56 

The Capital Markets Forum is a private 

sector initiative set up to monitor and 

assist in the orderly development of capital 

markets, while recognising the importance 

of the legal role in providing a framework 

for market forces, and in settling the 

parameters of fair behaviour. 

Insurance 57 

Insurance is present in every facet of 

commercial, industrial and private life. The 

committee aims to encourage the global 

exchange of knowledge and experience 

in connection with the law of insurance/ 

reinsurance as well as industry practice and 

to provide opportunities for professionals 

working in this area of the law/industry to 

meet and foster relationships. 

Investment funds 58 

The Investment Funds Committee provides 

a forum for its members to consider current 

developments in the global investment 

funds industry, including regulatory 

developments, product structuring and 

distribution, and other issues relating to 

investment management. 

securities law 59 

The Securities Law Committee, in addition 

to looking at traditional regulatory 

topics dealing with the organisation and 

functioning of capital markets, focuses 

on all financing techniques including the 

raising of finance generally or for specific 

projects whether in the form of equity, 

convertible debt or other forms of debt, 

equity or hybrid instruments, as well as 

securities issues in the context of mergers 

and acquisitions and security holders‘ rights. 

Human Resources Section 60 

The Human Resources Section has over 750 

members from around the world. 

Discrimination and 

gender equality 60 

The committee focuses on discrimination 

and gender equality issues which arise in 

the profession and under the general law. 

employment and Industrial 

Relations law 61 

The aims of the committee are to develop 

and exchange knowledge of employment 

and industrial relations law and practice. 

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Immigration and nationality law 62 

The Immigration and Nationality Law 

Committee is concerned with all aspects 

of immigration and nationality law on a 

worldwide basis, including business-related 

immigration, family reunion policies, 

refugees and compassionate cases. 

Insolvency, Restructuring 

and Creditors’ Rights Section 

(SIRC) 63 

The Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors’ 

Rights Section has over 900 members. The 

section is the most prominent international 

association of lawyers interested in 

insolvency and creditors’ rights law and 

serves as an Official Observer to the 

UNCITRAL Working Group on Insolvency 

Law, which it has assisted in developing 

the UNCITRAL Model Cross-Border 

Insolvency Law. It is currently working 

with the organisation to identify areas 

for harmonisation of domestic insolvency 

laws aimed at ensuring certainty and 

effectiveness in cross-border trade and 

other financial transactions. 

Intellectual Property, 

Communications and 

Entertainment Law Section 64 

With 2,400 members, the Intellectual 

Property, Communications and Technology 

Section is one of the largest sections in the 

Legal Practice Division. 

Art, cultural Institutions 

and Heritage law 65 

The Committee is concerned with all 

aspects of law as it relates to art, artists, 

and cultural heritage in the broadest 

context. This extends from archaeology 

and the protection of ancient monuments 

to national heritage and public and 

private collections to the art trade 

and contemporary art. ‘Art law‘ is an 

interdisciplinary field involving tax (individual 

estates and charities), commercial transactions, 

intellectual property in all aspects 

and private and public international law. 

communications law 65 

The committee focuses on communication 

technology, delivery mechanisms, services 

and equipment. 

Intellectual Property 

and entertainment law 66 

The purpose of the committee is to 

encourage contacts between intellectual 

property and entertainment lawyers 

around the globe, and also to disseminate 

information about new developments and 

topical problems in these fast-changing 

areas of law. 

media law 68 

The committee is dedicated to gather 

and disseminate, among its members 

and friends, knowledge in all areas 

of law related to the media industry. 

This encompasses both content and 

communication issues. 

outer space law 69 

The Outer Space Law Committee provides a 

forum for lawyers to address the increasing 

number of practical legal issues arising 

in commercial and regulatory activities 

in this specialised area of domestic and 

international law. 

technology law 70 

The committee’s primary area of interest 

includes any law which touches on the use 

of computer and internet technology in 

commerce, whether contentious or noncontentious, 

civil or criminal. 

International Sales, 

Franchising and Product Law 

Section 70 

The International Sales, Franchising and 

Product Law Section has over 2,300 

members from around the world. 

International franchising 71 

The International Franchising Committee 

focuses on the law and business of 

international franchising. Committee 

interests include competition law 

principles,cross-border sales and licensing 

issues, the business forms employed, 

and trademark and intellectual property 

protections required to assure franchising 

success. 

International sales 72 

The International Sales Committee examines 

legal issues fundamental to the growth and 

development of international commerce, 

including international sales contracts, 

agency and distribution, cross-border 

acquisitions, warranties and financing of 

international sales. 

Product law and Advertising 73 

The committee covers a broad range 

of topics and problems, which are of 

increasing importance to the international 

lawyer in both national and transnational 

work in the field of product law and 

advertising. 

Law and Individual Rights 

Section 73 

The Law and Individual Rights Section has 

a membership of over 750 and its main 

function is to coordinate the activities of the 

following committees:

family law 73 

The committee focuses on developments of 

international significance in all aspects 

of family law, including marriage, divorce, 

inheritance, human rights in the family, 

adoption, and international child abduction. 

Human Rights law 74 

The committee is concerned with all human 

rights matters relevant to legal practice 

The committee directs its attention to both 

national laws and to international human 

rights instruments and the position of 

lawyers themselves and the protection of 

the rights of others. 

Indigenous Peoples 74 

The Indigenous Peoples Committee looks at 

questions of development as it affects both 

land and people. It approaches the subject 

from the legal perspective of the people 

and the land affected rather than that 

of developers or proponents of projects, 

governments or business in general. 

medicine and the law 74 

The Medicine and the Law Committee is 

concerned with all aspects of medicine and 

law including health law on a worldwide 

basis. 

Leisure Industries Section 75 

The Travel and Leisure Section looks at 

the latest developments and changes in 

laws relating to various leisure pursuits. 

This includes sports and gaming, 

which demonstrates ever-increasing 

internationalisation of the legal issues in 

recent years. It also includes legal issues 

arising from travel, tourism and hospitality, 

providing a focused specialist perspective 

on the related fields of aviation, property, 

finance, maritime, intellectual property, 

employment, litigation, conflict of laws, 

consumer law, insurance and trade law. 

Maritime and Aviation Law 

Section 76 

The Maritime and Aviation Law Section has 

over 1,100 members. 

Aviation law 76 

The Aviation Law Committee is concerned 

with several major areas of law. Aircraft 

transactions and financing are always a 

major interest. The committee also follows 

developments of international law with 

respect to airlines in both economic and 

tort areas, and also focuses on competition 

issues related to aviation. 

maritime and transport law 77 

The committee works to increase 

knowledge on a worldwide basis of the 

most current legal issues in the field of 

maritime and transport law. 

Public Law Section 78 

With over 300 members in 76 countries, 

the Public Law Committee provides a 

worldwide forum where all topics of public 

law are discussed, focusing on furthering 

the debate relating to governmental policy 

and the implementation and regulation of 

administrative action, and exploring both 

traditional and non-traditional aspects of 

administrative law. 

Real Estate Section 79 

The Real Estate Law Committee represents a 

vast knowledge pool within its membership 

and works to communicate and disseminate 

that knowledge throughout the profession. 

Worldwide trends, individual jurisdictional 

matters and transnational developments 

are regularly the focus of newsletters and 

conference presentations. 

Taxation Section 79 

With over 1,300 members, the Taxation 

Section coordinates the activities of the 

following committees: 

Individual Tax and 

Private client 80 

The committee is concerned with not only 

what the law is but how it might develop 

internationally in: inheritance rights and 

succession rules; will making; lifetime 

giving; trusts; creditor claims against trusts 

and estates; and regulatory compliance 

affecting trusts. 

taxes 80 

The Taxes Committee offers its members 

access to the highest quality technical, 

practical and professional tax expertise 

to understand and find solutions to 

international tax issues and concerns, 

encourages interface between international 

tax specialists, and promotes the building 

of networks among tax lawyers worldwide. 

The committee is divided informally into 

four practice group areas – Income Taxes, 

Other Taxes, Tax Litigation and Employee 

Benefits. 

Legal Practice Division Fora 82 

African Regional forum 82 

The problems facing African lawyers are 

different to those affecting lawyers in other 

regions. To this end, the African Regional 

Forum was created to identify and address 

these problems. 

Arab Regional forum 82 

Working alongside national Bars, this 

forum provides a network for lawyers who 

work in or have an interest in the Arab 

region to establish contact and exchange 

information. A particular focus of interest 

is the continuing economic importance 

of the region, including reconstruction 

and investment projects following peace 

initiatives. 

Asia Pacific forum 83 

In addition to offering an unrivalled 

opportunity to establish contact among 

lawyers within and outside the region, and 

with acknowledged experts on different 

areas of law, specialist forum activities 

provide an unparalleled opportunity to keep 

abreast of legal business developments in 

the Asia Pacific region. 

corporate counsel forum 83 

The Corporate Counsel Forum is the preeminent 

forum for discussion, education 

and spokesmanship for corporate counsel 

within the IBA. Through its conference 

sessions and publications, it looks at the 

most topical issues for corporate counsel 

in all legal fields, as the responsibilities 

and complexities of the role continue to 

increase. 

european forum 84 

The Forum was established to provide a 

focus for the work carried out by the IBA 

in Europe, as lawyers in the region develop 

their practice under changing legal systems. 

It also acts as a channel for the IBA to 

communicate with the local bar associations 

in the region. 

latin American forum 86 

The Latin American Forum covers all 

countries in Latin America as well 

as Mexico, Puerto Rico and Spanishspeaking 

areas of the Caribbean, and 

provides a focus for all activities in the 

region. 

north American forum 87 

The North American Forum covers Canada, 

Mexico, Puerto Rico, the United States, and 

English-speaking areas of the Caribbean. 

Launched at the Chicago Annual 

Conference in 2006, the NAF is the focus 

for all activities in the region. 

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Public and Professional Interest Division 

Academic and Professional 

Development 89 

The Academic and Professional 

Development Committee aims to represent 

the interests of law teachers (academic 

and professional) as well as professional 

developers. 

Anti-corruption 90 

The Anti-Corruption Committee focuses 

on the effect of new anti-corruption 

laws around the world. The advent of 

several anti-corruption conventions has 

brought about the enactment of new 

anti-corruption laws in scores of countries. 

Aggressive enforcement, including 

extraterritorial enforcement of national 

laws and a wide range of anti-corruption 

initiatives, has brought this issue to the 

forefront worldwide. 

Bar Issues commission 90 

The Bar Issues Commission (BIC) supports 

the activities and interests of the IBA’s 

member organisations by providing a forum 

for discussion on issues of common interest 

and, through its Policy Committee, proposes 

resolutions and guidelines for approval that 

are of relevance to member organisations. 

The BIC holds an annual conference in 

May of each year, presents programmes at 

annual conferences on issues of particular 

interest to member organisations, has 

resource pages on the IBA website and 

provides e-bulletins for its members. 

corporate social Responsibility 92 

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 

Committee identifies issues and takes steps 

to strengthen the understanding and 

adoption of CSR principles in the operation 

of corporations’ overall businesses. The 

CSR Committee recognises that today’s 

corporation has duties extending beyond 

its shareholders to its workforce, the 

communities that it impacts and the 

environment. The CSR Committee deals 

extensively with issues relating to human 

rights, diversity and corporate governance. 

forum for Barristers and Advocates 93 

The Forum for Barristers and Advocates 

represents those who practise as 

independent referral practitioners in 

jurisdictions where the legal profession is 

divided. It was formed by the bar leaders 

in these jurisdictions to give a voice within 

the IBA to the principles of independent 

advocacy. The Forum has played a particular 

role in addressing the importance to 

the rule of law of the independence of 

advocates and the judiciary, the need for 

ethical conduct and training and education. 

Human Rights Institute 93 

Established in 1995 under the honorary 

presidency of Nelson Mandela, the IBA’s 

Human Rights Institute (HRI) is a leading 

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voice in the promotion of the rule of law 

worldwide and works to promote, protect 

and enforce human rights under a just 

rule of law in a variety of ways. The HRI 

also liaises closely with international and 

regional human rights organisations and 

produces newsletters and other publications 

highlighting issues of concern to worldwide 

media. 

Judges’ forum 94 

The Judges’ Forum offers an opportunity 

for judges from all jurisdictions to meet 

and discuss issues that are of common and 

current interest to members of the judiciary. 

Membership of the Forum is open to judges 

of all levels of court and seniority, whether 

exercising general or special jurisdiction, 

and including part-time retired judges. 

law firm management 95 

The Law Firm Management Committee has 

something of interest and relevance to every 

member of the IBA. Its principal objective is 

to be a leading global commentator on and 

provider of thought-provoking, informative, 

practical and relevant articles, programmes, 

seminars and discussion forums on all 

aspects of law firm management for 

firms in private practice of all sizes. The 

committee seeks to provide lawyers with 

the practical tools that they need in order 

to enhance their practice, their business 

development skills and their management 

capabilities. 

legal Profession and 

World organisations 96 

The aim of this committee is to oversee 

IBA contacts with the UN and other world 

organisations, ensuring that the relevant 

IBA committees and constituents are fully 

informed and their inputs coordinated. 

Multi-Disciplinary Practices 

This committee is involved in the study 

of developments in, and the impact of, 

non-lawyer ownership and participation 

in organisations delivering services to the 

public. It also focuses on the provision of 

non-legal products and services (as well as 

legal services) by lawyer-owned firms. 

Pro Bono and Access to Justice 96 

During the 2006 IBA Annual Conference in 

Chicago, the Access to Justice Committee 

was reconstituted as the Pro Bono and 

Access to Justice Committee to emphasise 

the committee’s accelerated efforts to 

promote pro bono work by lawyers, law 

firms and organisations of lawyers. 

The constituent’s objectives are: to foster 

worldwide recognition that access to justice 

is the right of all individuals; to promote 

access to justice for all, with particular 

attention to the indigent, disadvantaged 

and marginalised; to strengthen a culture 

of pro bono work among lawyers, law firms 

and other organisations of lawyers; and 

to identify/facilitate best practices in the 

delivery of legal aid. 

Professional ethics 97 

Professional ethics involves an area that all 

lawyers must be familiar with, regardless 

of their field of practice. The Professional 

Ethics Constituent seeks to promote the 

high standards of professional conduct and 

ethics on a global basis. The committee 

provides a forum for all international 

lawyers who are interested in discussing 

and debating issues affecting the practice 

of law. In today’s world a lawyer may face 

conflicting duties and the application of 

professional standards may be far from 

apparent. 

Anti-money laundering legislation 

Implementation group 97 

The group tackles the practical difficulties 

for the legal profession presented by 

compliance with anti-money laundering 

legislation in Europe and the rest of the 

world. The group is in constant dialogue 

with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), 

the European Commission, local regulatory 

bodies, bar associations and others to 

share information and encourage more 

coordination. 

senior lawyers 98 

The Senior Lawyers’ Committee is designed, 

as the name implies, to cater for the needs 

and interests of senior lawyers. It acts, not 

only within, but also outside the IBA to 

advance the interests of senior lawyers, 

particularly in issues of age discrimination. 

Women’s Interest group 98 

The Women’s Interest Group offers a 

forum for women members from Australia 

to Zambia to discuss topics of global 

significance to women practitioners. 

Young lawyers 98 

The Young Lawyers’ Committee’s primary 

goal is to further the interests and 

objectives of young lawyers around the 

world and within the IBA. It aims to help 

them establish themselves within the legal 

profession by promoting their professional 

skills. 

PRESIDENTIAL TASK FORCE 

ON THE RULE OF LAW 

The IBA President has created a Rule of 

Law Task Force to continue to address 

and guide the Association in its Rule of 

Law work. 

See pages 36-37 for information on the 

Rule of Law Symposium on Friday 

19 October, 0900 – 1700.

Daily schedule of sessions 

time event location Page 

sAtuRDAY 

1400 – 1730 Registration Convention Hall 

602, Level 6 

sunDAY 


602, Level 6 

1800 – 1900 Opening ceremony Convention Hall 

603, Level 6 

1930 – 2230 Welcome party Raffles Hotel 105 

monDAY – fRIDAY 


602, Level 6 

OPENING CEREMONY 

sunDAY 14 october 

1800 – 1900 

convention Hall 603, level 6 

suntec singapore International convention & exhibition centre 

Welcome 

Philip Jeyaretnam SC President, The Law Society of Singapore 

Speakers 

Fernando Pombo President, International Bar Association 

David W Rivkin Chair, IBA Legal Practice ˆ 

Division 

Martin Solc Chair, IBA Public and Professional Interest Division 

Keynote Speaker 

Lee Kuan Yew Minister Mentor, Republic of Singapore 

Lee Kuan Yew was born in Singapore in 1923. Educated at Raffles 

College, then at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, England, he 

graduated in 1949 with a double honours Law Degree. 

He retuned to Singapore and founded the law firm Lee & Lee. 

As a lawyer, he caught the public’s attention in 1952 when under 

his guidance, the Postal Workers Union succeeded in obtaining 

important concessions from the British colonial government. He 

helped found the People’s Action Party (PAP) two years later and 

went on to win the Tanjong Pagar Constituency, a working-class 

dock area, putting him in a position to become Prime Minister when 

the PAP secured a majority in 1959. 

During his tenure as Prime Minister, Singapore grew from an economic outpost to 

a modern developed economy, despite its many constraints. Mr Lee served as Prime 

Minister for over three decades until 1990. Since relinquishing the post, he has remained 

active in the political arena, currently serving as Minister Mentor. 

Minister Mentor Lee’s remarkable contributions go beyond Singapore. He has been 

honoured by many leading institutions throughout the world and has received state 

decorations including First Class Order of the Rising Sun, Japan; Freedom of the City of 

London; the Most Honourable Order of the Crown of Johore; First Class and the Most 

Esteemed Family Order, DK, Brunei. 

He is married to Kwa Geok Choo, a lawyer. They have two sons and one daughter. The 

eldest son, Lee Hsien Loong, is the current Prime Minister of Singapore. 

• 

The opening ceremony will be followed by the welcome party at Raffles Hotel. 

105 


Working sessions will take place from 

0930–1230 and 1430–1730 at the suntec 

singapore International convention & 

exhibition centre. 

Please refer to the meeting room layouts on 

page 103 

Coffee and tea break times: 

104 – 111 and 1 0 – 1600 

Committee business meetings discuss future 

activities; members and non-members are 

welcome to attend. 

Guests are not entitled to attend working 

sessions, with the exception of the Cultural 

Issues Programme ‘The unique culture of 

Singapore: a view from the stage’ 

1430 – 1730 Monday 15 October, which 

will take place in the Suntec Theatre. 

Dress code 

The dress code is: casual for working 

sessions and smart casual for social events. 

Social programme 

Full details of all conference and committee 

social events appear on pages 105 and 107. 

All functions are open to delegates and 

registered guests. Tickets for social events, 

subject to availability, may be purchased 

from the IBA Registration Desk. 

* Indicates functions open to delegates 

and registered guests and for which 

there is no charge. Admission is by 

conference badge unless otherwise 

indicated. 

IBA Council meeting 

1400 – 1800 thurday 18 october 

Ballroom 2 

The IBA Council is the governing body 

of the Association, having the general 

control of the affairs of the Association 

and passing, as required, resolutions and 

guidelines for members. Those entitled 

to attend are the nine IBA Officers, any 

Honorary Life President and Honorary 

Life Members of the Council, any 

co-opted members, appointed 

representatives from Member 

Organisations and Deputy Secretaries- 

General. 

1 

DAIlY scHeDule of sessIons

SECTION/COMMITTEE EVENT LOCATION PAGE 

monDAY All day 0930 – 1730 


Human Resources Section 

Employment and Industrial Relations Law Understanding Asian employment and labour law in a 

globalisation context: the role of Asian and non-Asian 

multinationals 

Room 202 61 

Maritime and Aviation Law Section 

Maritime and Transport Law International maritime centres – Singapore Room 305 77 

monDAY morning 0930 – 1230 


Antitrust and Trade Law Section Challenging and defending subsidies – the trade law 

and competition law weapons 

Room 208 39 

Corporate Law Section 

Business Organisations Running a sale of a company through an auction Room 301 42 

Criminal Law Section 

Business Crime Business intelligence and industrial espionage: 

challenges and recent trends – a working group 

meeting 

Room 304 44 

Dispute Resolution Section The enforcement of dispute resolution clauses Room 203 46 

Energy, Environment Natural Resources 

and Infrastructure Law Section (SEERIL) 

Oil and Gas Law 

Water Law 

Who is to blame? Allocating liability in upstream project 

contracts 

Procuring water projects in Southeast Asia 

with particular reference to China and India 

Financial Services Section And the winner is . . . the 2008 Beijing Olympics: 

project structure, financial implications and long-term 

impact 

Intellectual Property, Communications and 

Technology Section 

International Sales, Franchising and 

Product Law Section 

Room 306 

Room 313 

53 

54 

Room 325 55 

Second dates: up to speed tabletalk Room 326 64 

Total recall Room 209 70 

Law and Individual Rights Section 

Indigenous Peoples Redressing historic wrongs through the courts Room 311 74 

Leisure Industries Hotel and casino development Room 303 75 


Aviation Law Financing structures with particular emphasis on India 

and China 

Room 310 76 

Public Law Section Precautionary principle, the environment and the law Room 312 78 

Taxation Section Non-corporate income tax aspects of mergers and 

acquisitions 

Fora 

Corporate Counsel Forum 

Latin American Forum 

Extraterritorial application of laws for multinationals and 

corporate counsel 

Constraints in the financing of PPP construction projects 

in emerging countries 

Room 201 79 

Room 302 

Room 308 

83 

86 

1 


DAIlY scHeDule of sessIons 


16 


0800 – 0915 

Bar Issues Commission BIC welcome meeting Room 204 90 

0930 – 1230 

sHoWcAse Are lawyers aware of cultural differences and are they 

able to deal with them? 

Suntec Theatre 31 

Corporate Social Responsibility Law firms and CSR Room 309 92 

Forum for Barristers and Advocates What is a referral bar and how does it work? Room 205 93 

Women Lawyers’ Interest Group Glass ceilings and compensation discrimination facing 

women lawyers 

Room 307 98 

Young Lawyers Young lawyers’ introductory meeting Room 320 98 

monDAY lunch 1230 

monDAY lunch 1245 

monDAY Afternoon 1430 – 1730 

Capital Markets Forum lunch Long Bar 

Steakhouse, Raffles 

Hotel 

Cultural Issues Programme lunch for guests Pacific 1 Ballroom, 

Pan Pacific Hotel 

European Forum lunch Pearl River 

Restaurant 

North American Forum lunch Ballroom 2 105 

Senior Lawyers’ lunch Ballroom 1 105 

Women Lawyers’ lunch Ballroom 3 105 

Antitrust Committee lunch China Club 107 

general Interest Turn contacts into clients and referrers – five steps for 

successful rainmaking 


Cultural Issues Programme for guests – The unique 

culture of Singapore: a view from the stage 

107 

107 

105 

Room 326 33 


Antitrust and Trade Law Section 

Antitrust International cartels and strategic leniency Room 208 40 


Business Organisations Burdens, duties and obligations of shareholders in 

public and private companies 

Dispute Resolution Section 

Arbitration 

Negligence and Damages 

Energy, Environment Natural Resources 


Mining Law 

Water Law 

The art of advocacy in arbitration 

What the East can teach the West in the context of the 

laws of negligence and damages 

Development and financing of infrastructure for mining 

projects 

Private ownership of water 

Room 301 42 

Room 201 

Room 308 

Room 205 

Room 313 

46 

50 

52 

54


Financial Services Section 

Insurance 

Investment Funds 

Securities Law 



Copyright and Entertainment Law 

Subcommittee 

Technology Law 

Resolving international insurance and reinsurance 

disputes 

Investment funds in Asia: issues for fund managers, 

sponsors and investors 

Consolidation of securities exchanges: moving towards 

a truly global securities market? 

Google issues – is content liability sexy again? 

The globalisation of bio and pharma research and 

development 

Room 307 

Room 325 

Room 306 

Room 203 

Room 303 



International Sales Trends in public procurement 2007 Room 209 72 

Real Estate Section Global impact of real estate private equity Room 310 79 

Taxation Section 

Taxes Negotiating the trade-off – handling conflicting tax 

interests of parties to common business transactions 

57 

58 

59 

67 

70 

Room 309 80 

Fora 

Corporate Counsel Forum How to preserve privilege and confidentiality Room 302 83 

1730 


Negligence and Damages Open committee business meeting Room 308 50 

Fora 



1400 – 1730 

Open forum business meeting 

Bar Issues Commission Tour of the Law Society of Singapore, local law firms 

and court visit 

1430 – 1730 

Academic and Professional Development Transnational legal practice – global qualifications v 

mutual recognition 

Law Firm Management Where to draw the line? Ethical issues that law firms 

may ignore at their peril 

Pro Bono and Access to Justice Who is doing the best international pro bono work? 

What models are being developed? How can they be 

adapted? 

monDAY evening 1900 

Room 302 84 

90 

Room 204 89 

Room 304 95 

Room 311 96 

Hosted Singapore Law Society reception The Legends, Fort 

Canning Hill 

105 

1 




18 

tuesDAY All day 0930 – 1730 



Insurance 

Corporate governance and the evolving directors’ and 

officers’ liability insurance 


Discrimination and Gender Equality Pursuing and defending discrimination claims in the 

workplace 



Licensing Intellectual Property and 

International Treaties Subcommittee 

tuesDAY morning 

Room 203 57 

Room 307 60 

Wireless distribution IP issues Room 303 67 

0800 – 0930 ABA Breakfast Ballroom 1 35 


0900 – 1300 


Technology Law Section 

Outer Space Law 

0930 – 1230 

Bikinis and burkas, satellites and snoopers – what limits 

should the law impose on surveillance technology? 

Room 314 69 

IBA Task Force IBA Task Force on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Room 209 39 


Antitrust The interface between merger control and foreign 

investment promotion and other industrial policy 

imperatives 


Private Equity Subcommittee Club deals: legal, ethical and practical issues when 

representing a private equity consortium 


Arbitration 

Consumer Litigation 

Energy, Environment, Natural Resources 


International Construction 

Projects 

Mining Law 


Banking Law 

Capital Markets Forum 


Employment and Industrial Relations Law 

Immigration and Nationality Law 

Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors’ 

Rights Section (SIRC) 

Court support for arbitration in the Asia Pacific region 

Global class action judgments and settlements – dream 

or reality? A report of the Task Force on International 

Procedures and Protocols for Class Actions 

EPC contracting in the PPP environment 

Influence of China and India on the mineral industry 

Islamic finance 

Recent developments regarding the law of clearing and 

settlement: a global perspective 

Understanding human resources law for non-Asian 

multinationals operating in Asian countries 

Global business immigration update 

The new corporate raiders: the role of hedge funds in 

financial restructuring 

Room 208 40 

Room 301 43 

Room 325 

Room 326 

Room 312 

Room 313 

Room 202 

Room 201 

Room 205 

Room 308 

46 

47 

51 

53 

55 

56 

61 

62 

Room 305 63



Aviation Law Mediation in aircraft accidents Room 310 76 


Taxes Limitation on benefits and other treaty and EU law 

attacks on structures considered abusive 


0900 – 1030 

Bar Issues Commission Law firms and bar associations – friends, foes or merely 

acquaintances? 

0930 – 1230 

Academic and Professional Development Establishing professional development within the firm 

– when is it practicable and how should it be done? 

Law Firm Management Where have all the flowers gone? The latest strategies 

for attracting and retaining young lawyers 

1115 – 1300 

Room 309 80 

Room 306 91 

Room 311 89 

Room 304 95 

Bar Issues Commission The public interest work of bar associations Room 306 91 

1130 

tuesDAY lunch 1230 

tuesDAY Afternoon 

1430 – 1630 

Maritime and Transport Law Committee lunch excursion Mount Faber 107 

Asia Pacific Forum lunch Pearl River 

Restaurant 

Committees on Banking Law and Securities Law joint 

lunch 

Long Bar 


Hotel 

Consumer Litigation Committee lunch My Humble House 107 

Corporate Counsel Forum lunch Ballroom 1 105 

International Franchising Committee lunch Ba Xian 107 

Latin American Regional Forum lunch Ballroom 2 105 

Latin American Forum Open forum business meeting Room 314 86 

1430 – 1730 

general Interest Increase your value to current and future clients: the 

RAINBOW strategy 

105 

107 

Ballroom 3 33 

general Interest IBA Foundation open forum and reception Room 204 33 



Closely Held and Growing Business 

Enterprises 


Arbitration 

Litigation 

Cross-border strategic alliances for closely held and 

growing businesses: identifying the key challenges 

Investment treaty arbitration workshop 

Strategies for companies facing patent litigation – is it 

possible to win? 

Room 301 43 

Room 325 

Room 326 

46 

48 

19 







Projects 

20 

Water Law 





Employment and Industrial Relations Law 



Rights Law Section (SIRC) 



International Sales 

Getting paid – the contractors’ challenge 

Incentive based mechanisms in the water and 

wastewater sectors/risk sharing in water projects: 

contractual versus regulatory 

Anatomy of a fund blow-up: what happens when 

things go wrong? 

Communication strategies in securities and M&A 

transactions 

Understanding human resources law for Asian 

multinationals operating in non-Asian countries 

Collision course? Coordination of immigration law and 

tax law strategies for expatriates 

Room 312 

Room 313 

Room 201 

Room 208 

Room 205 

Room 308 

Insolvency reform in Asia Room 305 64 

How to protect your distribution network around the 

world: dos and don’ts 

51 

55 

58 

59 

62 

62 

Room 209 72 


Medicine and the Law Legal issues for cross-border patient mobility Theatre 74 


Aviation Law How terrorism changes the way we fly Room 310 76 


Taxes Tax-efficient investment in China Room 309 80 

Fora 

Corporate Counsel Forum Open forum – identification of issues common to 

corporate counsel, including session on delicate 

dealings – how in-house counsel can best manage 

interactions with regulators 

1630 – 1730 

Room 302 84 

Arab Regional Forum Open forum business meeting Room 323 82 


Bar Issues Commission Mandatory v voluntary membership of bar associations Room 306 91 

Human Rights Institute Trial observations: a practical approach Room 311 93 

Law Firm Management Strategic planning: is it an oxymoron for the smaller 

firm? 

Anti-Money Laundering Legislation 

Implementation Working Group 

Room 304 95 

How to money-launder – a guide for lawyers Room 202 97


tuesDAY evening 

1745 Newcomers’ reception Ballroom 1 105 

1930 African Regional Forum dinner Cilantro 107 

2000 

2030 

WeDnesDAY All day 0930 – 1730 


Business Organisations Committee dinner Long Bar 


Hotel 

Committees on Communications Law and Outer Space 

Law joint dinner 

Section on Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors’ 

Rights dinner 

Indochine 

Waterfront 

East India rooms, 

Raffles Hotel 

Investment Funds Committee dinner Senso 107 

Taxation Section dinner Tower Club 107 

Committees on Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage 

Law and Media Law Joint Dinner 

Committees on Employment and Industrial Relations 

Law and Discrimination and Gender Equality Law joint 

dinner 

Committees on International Sales and Product Law and 

Advertising joint dinner 

Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee 

dinner 

Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and 

Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) dinner 


Trade and Customs Law The changing regulatory environment in Asia: 

regional trade liberalisation and global implications 

WeDnesDAY morning 0930 – 1230 


sHoWcAse The importance of the rule of law to international 

business 

107 

107 

107 

Senso 107 

My Humble House 107 

China Club 107 

China Club 107 

Ba Xian 107 

Room 208 41 



Current Legal Developments Subcommittee Recent developments in M&A law Room 325 43 



Environment, Health and Safety Law 

Mining Law 


Banking Law 

Insurance 


The impact of environmental aspects on real estate 

projects around the globe 

Security of tenure 

Legal opinions 

Captives 

Capital markets financings for private equity deals in 

Asia: recent trends and key issues 

Room 304 

Room 314 

Room 201 

Room 202 

Room 203 

51 

53 

56 

58 

60 

21 




22 


Discrimination and Gender Equality 



Rights Section (SIRC) 



Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law 

Media Law 



Sex, age and race discrimination in law firms 

Fines, jail, deportation and bad publicity: immigration 

enforcement trends affecting employers and 

international employees 

Room 307 

Room 308 

Transnational insolvency and fraud Room 305 64 

Best practice in IP litigation in the courts for the 

resolution of local and cross-border disputes 

Return of human remains 

Gaming 

Consolidation in the aerospace industry: lean and mean, 

or weak and bleak? 

Technology, risk assessment and management 

Seminar Room 4-4 

(located in Block B, 

4th Floor, National 

University of 

Singapore 

Room 209 

Room 311 

Room 204 

Room 303 

Leisure Industries Section Show me the miles – loyalty programmes Room 302 75 


Aviation Law 

Land Transport Subcommittee 

Aviation roundtable 

Transportation and storage of hazardous cargo 

Room 310 

Room 301 

Fora 

European Forum Investment incentives in the European Union Room 326 84 

1230 – 1330 

Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law Open committee business meeting Room 209 65 

Leisure Industries Section 

Public and Professional Interest Division Open committee business meeting Room 302 75 

0930 – 1100 

Legal Profession and World Organisations Open committee business meeting Room 313 96 

0930 – 1230 

Academic and Professional Development The business case for professional development – is it 

an expense or an investment? How does it relate to 

marketing the firm? 

60 

62 

66 

68 

68 

69 

70 

77 

78 

Room 205 89 

Bar Issues Commission Running a bar association on limited funds Room 306 91 

Human Rights Institute International justice on trial – the first ICC case goes to 

court 

Room 312 94 

Young Lawyers Networking tools for the future Room 309 99 

WeDnesDAY lunch 1230 

WeDnesDAY Afternoon 1430 – 1730 


Legal Practice Division lunch Ballroom 2 105 


Business Organisations Vendor’s due diligence: how does it affect law firms? Room 301 42



Arbitration 

Litigation 




Power Law 


Banking Law 


Private Investment Funds Subcommittee 

Hot topics in international commercial arbitration 

Can we afford the dispute resolution process? 

The bottom of the barrel? The prospects for refineries in 

Southeast Asia 

Renewable electricity and clean development 

Bank confidentiality 

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs): a global 

phenomenon 

Hedge and private equity funds as clients – what a nonfunds 

lawyer should know 


Immigration and Nationality Law Section Immigration and work visa options in the Asia Pacific 

region 



Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law 

Communications Law 

Patent Law Subcommittee 

Media Law 


Buying art: can the risks be reduced? 

The mobile divide: can regulation foster progress 

internationally and inter-regionally? 

Maximising patent rights globally 

State intervention in the media 

Corporate information governance 

Room 325 

Room 314 

Room 312 

Room 313 

Room 203 

Room 202 

Room 201 

47 

48 

53 

54 

56 

57 

59 

Room 308 63 

Room 311 

Room 309 

Room 305 

Room 303 

Room 306 



International Franchising Competition issues in international franchising Room 209 71 


Indigenous Peoples A case study on traditional land rights in Malaysia Room 205 74 


Maritime and Transport Law Liability of maritime service providers Room 310 77 


Taxes EU tax harmonisation versus EU tax competition Room 326 81 

Fora 

European Forum Shareholders’ activism Room 307 85 

1500 – 1800 

Employment and Industrial Relations Law Open committee business meeting Room 320 62 


Human Rights Institute 

sHoWcAse 

The many faces of corruption – efforts, challenges and 

opportunities for the future 

Law Firm Management The Asian legal market – business development models 

for law firms in Asia 

65 

65 

67 

69 

70 


Room 304 95 

2 


DAlIY scHeDule of sessIons 


24 

WeDnesDAY evening 

1930 Aviation Law Committee dinner My Humble House 107 

Technology Law Committee dinner Ivory 107 

2000 Arbitration Committee dinner Grand Shanghai 107 

International Construction Projects Committee dinner Ivory – The Indian 

Kitchen 

Maritime and Transport Law Committee dinner Singapore Zoo 107 

2030 Leisure Industries Section dinner Xi Yan 107 

tHuRsDAY All Day 0930 – 1730 

0630 – 1600 IBA golf day Laguna National 

Golf & Country Club 


Leisure Industries Section The Olympic Games – a legal guide to all things Olympic Room 302 75 


Taxes Current developments Room 201 81 


0930 – 1630 

Professional Ethics A successful lawyer is an ethical lawyer – true or false? Room 320 97 

tHuRsDAY morning 0930 – 1230 



Criminal Law Current barriers to defence lawyers’ access to potential 

and confirmed witnesses for the prosecution 


Arbitration 

Litigation 

Mediation 


Arbitration in the energy and natural resources 

industries 

Young Litigators’ Forum: case management in the 

electronic age – are young lawyers prepared to lead the 

way? 

Deal mediation – the use of mediation in the course of 

M&A transactions 

Partners in crime? The risks facing lawyers in today’s 

world 



International Construction Projects Exclusion and limitation of liability in construction 

contracts 


Insurance Effective regulation in an increasingly globalised 

marketplace 




Trademark Law Subcommittee 

New multimedia platforms: who is riding the wave? 

HDTV, broadband, wireless, fixed line – issues arising 

from the convergence of media 

Measures for combating counterfeiting and piracy 

107 

105 

Ballroom 3 45 

Room 326 

Room 314 

Room 325 

Suntec Theatre 

Room 309 

47 

48 

49 

50 

52 

Room 203 58 

Room 303 

Room 305 

66 

68




International Franchising 

Product Law and Advertising 


Family Law 

Human Rights Law 

Immigration issues for franchisors that expand 

internationally and news from around the world 

Alternative methods of payment 

My partner or my spouse? 

Iraqi Higher Tribunal – the delivery of procedural 

fairness? 

Room 208 

Room 209 

Room 310 

Room 312 


Maritime and Transport Law Piracy and crimes at sea including pollution liability Ballroom 1 78 


Individual Tax and Private Client Do you speak ‘trust’? Holding, managing and 

transferring family assets around the world through 

the use of trusts, foundations, nominees and other 

techniques 

Fora 

European Forum Enforcement of European judgments in Asia and Asian 

judgments in Europe 

1030 – 1230 

71 

73 

73 

74 

Room 202 80 

Room 304 85 

African Regional Forum Open forum business meeting Room 323 82 


0800 – 0930 

Academic and Professional Development Academics’ breakfast Room 204 89 

Law Firm Management Managing partners’ breakfast Pearl River 

Restaurant 

0930 – 1230 

Academic and Professional Development Greening the tiger: balancing client profitability with 

environmental responsibility – the role of the legal 

profession 

96 

Room 306 90 

Anti-Corruption Global anti-corruption survey Room 308 90 

Bar Issues Commission BIC open forum and open policy committee meeting Room 323 92 

Corporate Social Responsibility The UN Norms on the responsibility of transnational 

corporations and other enterprises with regard to 

human rights 

Pro Bono and Access to Justice When disaster strikes – how lawyers can mobilise to 

restore order and preserve access to justice 

Young Lawyers Guidelines for setting up a national young lawyers’ 

association 

1230 

Room 307 92 

Room 311 96 

Room 313 99 

Anti-Corruption Open committee business meeting Room 308 90 

thursday lunch 

1230 Human Rights Law Committee lunch Ocean 6, Pan Pacific 

Hotel 

Public and Professional Interest Division Lunch Pearl River 

Restaurant 

1245 Mediation Committee lunch Le Papillon 107 

107 

105 

2 


DAlIY scHeDule of sessIons 


26 

1300 Litigation Committee lunch Cheng Ho III 107 

tHuRsDAY Afternoon 1430 – 1730 



Antitrust International comity in dominance cases: shall global 

convergence or global confusion reign? 


Closely Held and Growing Business 

Enterprises 

Room 203 40 

Venture capital and the growing company Room 305 44 


Criminal Law Organised crime, corruption and terrorism: all about 

money 


Mediation 



International Construction Projects 

Power Law 

Diversity of cultural perspectives on mediation: face 

saving, attitudes, relationships to courts and other 

considerations 

Latest developments in international construction 

Manipulation of electricity markets 

Room 304 45 

Room 325 49 

Room 307 

Room 309 


Discrimination and Gender Equality Religious symbols in the workplace and in public places Room 306 61 



Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Real IP in a virtual world: IP issues arising out of virtual 

characters and scenes in online video games 





Franchising in the Pacific Rim 

Sex, lies and the CISG 

Room 303 

Room 208 

Room 209 


Family Law The international family – mobility and diversity Room 310 73 

Public Law Section Theocracy, democracy and secularisation – is there any 

room for compromise? 

52 

54 

66 

71 

72 

Room 313 79 


Individual Tax and Private Client Estate planning for the Asian family Room 202 80 

Fora 

European Forum 



Open forum business meeting 

Free trade in the Pacific Rim and its impact in Latin 

America 

Room 205 

Room 308 

Human Rights Institute The internationalisation of legal education Room 314 94 

Judges’ Forum How adults suffer from sexual abuse as children and 

how drug treatment and mental health courts can help 

85 

87 

Room 312 94 

Senior Lawyers Making a new start after retiring from your firm Room 311 98 

Young Lawyers Strategy for a successful legal career plan – becoming a 

partner, going in-house, pro bono, going solo 

1630 – 1730 

Room 326 99 

Professional Ethics Open committee business meeting Room 320 97


SECTION/COMMITTEE 

tHuRsDAY evening 

1700 

1745 

1930 

2230 

fRIDAY All Day 0900 - 1700 

Rule of lAW 

fRIDAY morning 0930 – 1230 

EVENT 

IBA football match 

Young Lawyers’ reception 

Criminal Law Section dinner 

Immigration and Nationality Law Committee dinner 

Insurance Committee dinner 

Young lawyers’ night out 

International Construction Projects Committee 

excursion 

Rule of Law Symposium 

LOCATION 

3 St Wilfrid Road 

Ballroom 1 

Li Bai 

Long Bar 


Hotel 

Poppi 

The Pump Room 

Sungei Buloh/ 

Mandai Orchid 

Garden 

Ballroom 3 

PAGE 

105 

105 

107 

107 

107 

99 

107 

36 

general Interest Give a winning presentation Room 314 33 



Antitrust Criminalisation of cartels: global trends Room 325 41 


Business Organisations Issues in doing M&A transactions in China Room 301 43 

Leisure Industries Section Low cost and no frills – the emergence of low-cost 

carriers in Asia 

Room 302 76 


Maritime and Transport Law Recent developments in maritime law Room 306 78 


Taxes Tax aspects of construction projects Room 307 82 

Fora 




Do BITs have bite? 

How to rationalise your distribution structure in 

Greater China and Latin America in a regulatory and 

business efficient manner 

Room 305 

Room 303 

Law Firm Management Law firm visits 96 

1900 Closing party Asian Civilisations 

Museum and 

Indochine 

Waterfront 

86 

87 

105 

2

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• The conference programme comprises over 150 

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IBA stand where you can learn how to gain the 

most from IBA membership, find out about current 

IBA work, products and conferences and familiarise 

yourself with the website. 

Make sure you attend the Newcomers’ Reception taking place at 1745 on Tuesday 16 October, Ballroom 1, 

Suntec Convention Centre. Come and enjoy a drink and mingle with fellow delegates and committee officers 

in an informal setting. It is a great opportunity to step outside your committee background, meet others 

from different backgrounds and cultures and find out more about the committees, constituents and 

sections that make up the IBA. 

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InfoRmAtIon foR neWcomeRs

showcase sessions 

The importance of the rule of law 

to international business 

Presented by the Legal Practice Division 

Session Chair 

David W Rivkin Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, USA; Chair, 

Legal Practice Division 

This programme examines the relationship of the rule of law and 

economic development, specifically through foreign investment. The 

session will bring together general counsel of leading multinational 

companies, government officials, officials of multilateral institutions 

and leading legal and economic scholars who have studied these 

issues for a robust discussion. In particular, the panellists will focus 

on the problems faced by international businesses when countries 

abandon the rule of law and the economic impact of the rule of law 

or its absence. For example, do companies leave or decide not to 

invest in countries that do not provide an effective legal regime? 

The programme will also consider the effectiveness of various 

international protection mechanisms such as bilateral and 

multilateral investment treaties that provide for arbitration of 

disputes between investors and host nations. The effectiveness of 

efforts by multilateral institutions like the World Bank will also be 

considered. Panellists will also discuss whether foreign investors can 

act as institution builders and thereby contribute to the development 

of the rule of law through legal and judicial reform in their host 

countries. The programme will focus on the experience of countries 

in Asia, as well as the rest of the world. 

Speakers 

The Honourable Chao Hick Tin Attorney-General of Singapore 

The Honourable Guo Jian’an Director-General, Department of 

Judicial Assistance and Foreign Affairs, Beijing, China 

Lord Peter Goldsmith QC former Attorney General of the United 

Kingdom, London, England 

Bernard R Hanotiau Hanotiau & van den Berg, Brussels, Belgium 

Johnnie W Hoffman Assistant Chief Attorney, ExxonMobil, Houston, 

Texas, USA 

Simone Lahorgue Nunes General Counsel, TV Globo, Rio de Janeiro, 

Brazil 

Kate O’Leary Senior Counsel for Litigation and Legal Policy, General 

Electric Corporation, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA 

Rich Sauer Microsoft Corporation, Singapore 

Vidhi Tambiah Associate Director, World Economic Forum, Lausanne, 

Switzerland 

0930 – 1230 WeDnesDAY 

theatre, suntec convention centre 

Are lawyers aware of cultural 

differences and are they able to 

deal with them? 

Presented by the Public and Professional Interest 

Division 

Session Co-Chairs 

Wong Meng Meng ˆ SC ˆ WongPartnership, ˆ 

Singapore 

Martin Solc Kocián Solc Balastíc, Prague, Czech Republic; Chair, 


In the globalised economy, lawyers work on transactions involving 

many jurisdictions. They have to cope with a variety of legal 

systems and traditions, often operating in countries whose 

governments show little respect for the rule of law and for those 

who promote it, negotiate with counterparts used to different 

traditions of negotiating and practice temporarily under several 

sets of professional rules. Are those who are supposed to give 

guidance to their clients, even when operating abroad, always 

able to understand the pitfalls related to the cultural differences? 

Using mainly examples from Asia, the panellists will focus on key 

challenges facing international business lawyers when doing a crossborder 

deal. 

Speakers 

Justice Anthony M Kennedy Associate Justice, The Supreme Court 

of the United States, Washington DC, USA 

The Honourable Chan Sek Keong Chief Justice of Singapore, 

Singapore 

Eduardo Ramos-Goméz Former Mexican Ambassador to Singapore; 

Duane Morris LLP, Singapore 

Simon Tay Director, Singapore institute of International Affairs (SIIA), 

Singapore 

Professor Zhang Yuejiao Professor of Law, Shantou University, 

Shantou, China 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


The many faces of corruption 

– efforts, challenges and 

opportunities for the future 

Presented by the Human Rights Institute 


Ambassador Emilio J Cárdenas Former Permanent Representative to 

the United Nations for Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 

Co-Chair, Human Rights Institute 

Homer Moyer Miller & Chevalier, Washington DC, USA; Chair, Anti- 

Corruption Committee 

The face of corruption can take many forms. Despite significant 

international advances in the field, the recent Oil for Food Enquiry 

has illustrated that corruption occurs in both developed and 

developing countries alike. 

From extortion in the awarding of public contracts to the many 

and contrasting challenges faced by Eastern and Western European 

countries in the EU accession process, speakers will analyse 

the distinct problems that exist in different social and political 

frameworks across the globe. Questions for consideration include: 

the complexities of addressing judicial corruption; the effectiveness 

of international instruments such as the UN Convention Against 

Corruption and the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of 

Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions; and 

the implementation of national anti-corruption strategies on the 

ground. The session will highlight some of the key developments 

in the global struggle against corruption and will use various case 

studies to identify obstacles and opportunities for future progress. 

Speakers 

Timothy L Dickinson Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP, 

Washington DC, USA 

Daniel Fung Former Solicitor General, Hong Kong SAR 

Justice Richard J Goldstone Past Justice of the Constitutional Court 

of South Africa, Morningside, South Africa; Co-Chair, Human 

Rights Institute 

Assya Kavrakova European Policies and Civic Participation 

Programme, Open Society Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria 

Angela Keller-Herzog Transparency International, Germany 



1 

sHoWcAse sessIons

general Interest 

Developing your practice 

Pippa Blakemore BSc PGCE, of The PEP Partnership LLP, will be 

leading three separate sessions on ways in which your practice can 

be developed. 

turn contacts into clients and referrers – five 

steps for successful rainmaking 

This session will help you to: 

• follow-up contacts efficiently and effectively; 

• expand your practice; 

• develop referrers and intermediaries; 

• remember people’s names and help others to remember yours; 

• learn some opening lines for a conversation; 

• read other people’s body language and control your own; 

• find reasons to keep in touch in different ways; 

• overcome your own resistance to following-up initial contacts; 

• develop and strengthen relationships – even with no work; 

• talk about fees without embarrassment; 

• conduct sales meetings with confidence; and 

• win new work. 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 

Room 326, suntec convention centre 

Increase your value to current and future clients: 

the RAInBoW strategy 

Your clients can be your greatest ambassadors and sources of new 

work. We will develop strategies to: 

• increase the quality and quantity of work from your clients; 

• meet client expectations; 

• provide ‘added value’; 

• anticipate and prevent problems; 

• deal with difficult clients; 

• handle complaints productively; 

• handle difficult fee discussions; 

• cross-sell between your firm and the client; 

• prepare a client relationship management strategy and plan; and 

• implement your client relationship strategy. 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 

Ballroom 3, suntec convention centre 

give a winning presentation 

By the end of this session, you will have given a presentation, in 

which you know how to: 

• win and keep the audience’s attention for a wide range of 

audiences; 

• make a complex legal lecture interesting to all; 

• deliver a winning pitch presentation; 

• keep to time; 

• project your voice effectively; 

• use your body language powerfully; 

• be impressive in your personal appearance; 

• handle awkward people and answer difficult questions; 

• increase your confidence and overcome your nerves; and 

• use your notes and visual aids effectively. 

0930 – 1230 fRIDAY 


IBA foundation 

The IBA Foundation is committed to supporting the rule of law 

by grants and providing other assistance to a wide range of 

educational and other projects. 

open forum and reception 

Following its annual meeting, the Foundation’s trustees invite all 

conference attendees to a special open forum to: 

• learn about the work of the Foundation; 

• hear from some of our grant recipients; 

• share your thoughts about specific needs or projects of which 

you are aware, and any area of expertise you may be able to 

contribute to the Foundation’s activities; and 

• tell us about other organisations with which you are 

associated, and opportunities for collaboration. 

After the open forum, please join the trustees for coffee with 

the IBA leadership. 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


cultural Issues Programme 

the unique culture of singapore: a view from 

the stage 

The session is most generously sponsored by the Singapore Law 

Firm Rodyk & Davidson LLP. 

Live on stage: a dramatic survey of the fascinating and unique 

cultural changes that Singapore as a city-state has undergone 

since independence, presented through diverse material drawn 

from the multilingual, intercultural and eclectic world of the 

Singapore Theatre. 

The session will be created and run by T ‘Sasi’ Sasitharan, 

for more than 30 years a distinguished actor/performer and 

producer in the local theatre scene. Over the last ten years his 

active participation in Singapore culture includes the National 

Arts Council, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore International 

Foundation and National Book Development Council. Sasi is the 

co-founder and director of the Theatre Training and Research 

Programme, a division of Practice, one of the oldest and most 

reputable theatre and dance companies in Singapore. Sasi has 

taught philosophy and is also a journalist. 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


Those who will be attending the Cultural Issues Session are 

warmly invited to attend the Guest’s Lunch being held prior to 

the session. 

Tickets £28.00 in advance from the IBA Registration Desk. 

1230 monDAY 

geneRAl InteRest

Scholarship Programme – Singapore 2007 

The following conference scholarships have been awarded by the 

Sections of the Legal Practice Division to lawyers under the age of 

35, enabling them to attend this conference: 

Antirust and trade law 

Selby Segoptše Mampuru Pretoria, South Africa 

criminal law 

Salanieta Tudrau Tamanikaiwaimaro Suva, Fiji Islands 

corporate law 

Eugene Ochieng Nyamunga Nairobi, Kenya 

Dispute Resolution 

Soo Hyun Lim Seoul, South Korea 

Amie Joof-Conteh Banjul, The Gambia 

energy, environment, natural Resources 

and Infrastructure law 

Gonzalo Oliva Beltran Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Human Resources 

Esine Okudzeto Accra, Ghana 

Intellectual Property communications and technology 

Mary Mayiladumpara Chennai, India 

Alejandro Alterwain Montevideo, Uruguay 

International sales, franchising and Product law 

Javier Canosa Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Mariana Estrade Montevideo, Uruguay 

law and Individual Rights 

Alexander Giudice Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia 

leisure Industries 

Gabrielle Patrick Barataria, Trinidad 

maritime and Aviation law 

Shashank Agrawal Mumbai, India 

Public law 

Salman Haq Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 

Real estate law 

Samuel Whitley Houston, Texas, USA 

taxation 

Shreya Rao Mumbai, India 

Barbara Emma Pizzoni Milan, Italy 

AmeRIcAn BAR AssocIAtIon 

8th Annual American Bar Association complimentary Welcome Breakfast – 

global challenges to the rule of law 

Please join the top leaders of the American Bar Association 

(ABA) and its Section of International Law (‘ABA International’) 

who will discuss the ABA’s action plan to respond to rule 

of law challenges worldwide, including protection of the 

independence of the judiciary and the profession, protection of 

the attorney–client privilege, right to counsel and civil liberties, 

efforts to eradicate corruption, enhance economic development 

and establish dispute settlement mechanisms to encourage 

foreign investment, and efforts to establish norms for corporate 

IBA Fellows 2007 

Upon successful completion of five International Practice Diploma 

modules within seven years, participants earn the designation of 

IBA Fellow in International Legal Practice. This includes: 

• Two years’ free membership of the IBA 

• One free committee in each of the Legal Practice and the Public 

and Professional Interest Divisions as well as membership of a 

regional forum of their choice 

• Waiver of Annual Conference registration to attend Awards 

Ceremony at the IBA Council Meeting 

We are delighted to announce that 21 participants were awarded 

a Fellowship this year. They are: 

January 2007 may 2007 

Mr Fahad Al-Zumai (England) Mr Fahad M Al-Majid (England) 

Ms Cara Atha 

Mr Frank J Caramuru 

(Hong Kong SAR) 

(Brazil) 

Mr Dariusz Bierylo 

Ms Maria L Farrapeira 

(Poland) 

(Argentina) 

Mr Ahmed Dahiru Modibbo Mr Alan Foster 

(England) 

(England) 

Mr Sachin Datta 

Mr Maung Maung Win 

(India) 

(Myanmar) 

Mr Aminu Diko (Nigeria) Miss Rashda Rana (Australia) 

Ms June Edvenson (Norway) Dr Thomas Zwissler (Germany) 

Mr Peter Gloushkov 

Ms Cecile Vautier (Switzerland) 

(Russian Federation) 

Mr Anthony P La Ronde 

(Guyana) 

Ms Angelique Mercier 

(Austria) 

Mrs Akunna Nwagha 

(Nigeria) 

Mr Lance A Terry (England) 

Mr Adebowale Olufeko 

(England) 

The IBA and the College of Law congratulates the Fellows and 

welcomes them to the International Bar Association and to 

Singapore. 

We look forward to many more Fellowships being awarded in the 

future and the continuing success of the International Practice 

Diploma Programme. 

social responsibility. The breakfast will feature leading experts, 

in-house counsel and practitioners who will discuss the issues 

globally, but with a special focus on Asia. The discussion will 

also address how these issues affect our profession and your 

practice. 

0800 – 0930 tuesDAY 


geneRAl InteRest

Rule of lAW sYmPosIum 

Rule of law symposium 

0900 – 1700 

Friday 19 October 

6 

suntec Ballroom 3, suntec convention centre 

Rule of Law Symposium 

A sYmPosIum building on the experience of the 

successful symposium held in chicago in 2006. 

Building the rule of law across the world is an 

important and vital commitment for the worldwide 

legal profession. The IBA’s mission is to strengthen 

this commitment and lead the way forward in 

helping our members to formulate concrete plans 

for action in their respective countries as well as 

internationally. To reinforce this commitment, for 

the first time in the IBA’s history an entire day will be 

devoted to discussing the essential nature of the rule 

of law. 

This unique day represents a natural progression 

from the Rule of Law Resolution passed by the IBA 

Council on 26 September 2005 (see page 37 for full 

text) to the subsequent global campaign to increase 

momentum for the worldwide recognition and 

acceptance of the rule of law; and the continuous 

work of the IBA in fostering a more just world. 

The symposium will ensure that every participant 

leaves the conference: 

• more committed to building the rule of law than 

he/she was at the outset; 

• with a concrete plan as to how he/she can fulfil 

that commitment; and 

• with a clear understanding of the Asian perspective 

on the rule of law. 

Issues to be addressed include: 

• the meaning and importance of the rule of law; 

• social and economic development and the rule of 

law; 

• the post-colonial experience in Asia; and 

• what can/should be the contribution to building 

the rule of law of: 

• individual lawyers; 

• corporations; 

• law firms; 

• bar associations and law societies; and 

• the IBA. 

The symposium will be interactive and in the 

afternoon will include breakout sessions allowing 

every participant to contribute to the discussions. 

The intended themes for the breakout sessions 

which will draw on information shared at earlier 

relevant sessions in the week are: 

• access to justice in developing jurisdictions; 

• corruption; 

• corporate responsibility; 

• cross-border pro bono legal assistance; 

• freedom of expression; 

• extreme situations; and 

• independence of the judiciary and the legal 

profession. 

Session Chair 

Francis W Neate Kirkland & Ellis International LLP, 

London, England; Chair, IBA Presidential Taskforce 

on the Rule of Law and Immediate Past President, 

IBA 

Speakers 

Professor S Jayakumar Deputy Prime Minister, 

Coordinating Minister for National Security and 

Minister for Law, Singapore 

Professor Tommy Koh Ambassador-at-Large, 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore; Chairman, 

Institute of Policy Studies, National Heritage Board 

and Chinese Heritage Centre, Singapore 

Judge Hisashi Owada Judge, International Court 

of Justice, The Hague, the Netherlands; Senior 

Adviser to the President of the World Bank 

Justice Albie Sachs Judge, Constitutional Court of 

South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa 

Ambiga Sreenevasan President, Bar Council of 

Malaysia 

Sylvia Lim Swee Lian Chairman, The Workers’ Party 

of Singapore, Singapore

sPeAkeR PRofIles 

Professor s Jayakumar 

Professor Jayakumar’s distinguished career has included holding 

the following offices: Singapore’s Ambassador (Permanent 

Representative) to the United Nations, High Commissioner to 

Canada, Minister for Labour, Minister for Home Affairs and 

Minister for Foreign Affairs when he served twice as President of 

the United Nations Security Council. 

Professor tommy koh 

Professor Koh has been Dean of the Faculty of Law of the 

University of Singapore. He served twice as Singapore’s Permanent 

Representative to the United Nations and later was Singapore’s 

Ambassador to the United States of America. He was the founding 

Executive Director of the Asia–Europe Foundation and Singapore’s 

Chief Negotiator for the US–Singapore Free Trade Agreement. 

Judge Hisashi owada 

A former Japanese diplomat, Judge Owada also serves as President 

of the Japan Institute of International Affairs and adviser to the 

Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Formerly he was Japanese 

Ambassador to the OECD, Vice-Minister at the Ministry of Foreign 

Affairs and Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations. Currently 

Professor of International Law and Organization at Waseda 

University, Judge Owada has also served as law professor at 

numerous renowned universities. 

The International Bar Association (IBA), the global voice of the 

legal profession, deplores the increasing erosion around the 

world of the rule of law. The IBA welcomes recent decisions of 

courts in some countries that reiterate the principles underlying 

the rule of law. These decisions reflect the fundamental role of 

an independent judiciary and legal profession in upholding these 

principles. The IBA also welcomes and supports the efforts of its 

member bar associations to draw attention and seek adherence 

to these principles. 

An independent, impartial judiciary; the presumption of 

innocence; the right to a fair and public trial without undue 

delay; a rational and proportionate approach to punishment; 

a strong and independent legal profession; strict protection of 

Justice Albie sachs 

A renowned human rights and anti-apartheid activist, Justice 

Sachs was forced into exile in 1966 where he spent 22 years 

teaching law in England and Mozambique. In 1988 he lost an 

arm and sight of an eye due to a bomb placed in his car by 

South African security agents. Justice Sachs helped draft the 

ANC’s Code of Conduct and as a member of the Constitutional 

Committee and the National Executive of the ANC, he played an 

active role in the negotiations that led to South Africa becoming a 

constitutional democracy. 

sylvia lim swee lian 

Sylvia Lim is Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Singapore. Ms Lim 

was gazetted a Non-Constituency Member of Parliament after 

the General Elections in 2006. Currently she is also a law lecturer 

at Temasek Polytechnic where her main teaching areas are civil 

and criminal procedure, criminal justice and private security. After 

being called to the Singapore Bar in 1991, Ms Lim served for 

three years as a Police Inspector in the Singapore Police Force. She 

returned to practise law and for four years was active in civil and 

criminal litigation. 

Ambiga sreenevasan 

Ambiga Sreenevasan has been active in intellectual property 

litigation for over 15 years and has been involved in some very 

high-profile cases. In March 2007 Ms Sreenevasan was elected 

Chairman of the Malaysian Bar Council. 

the Rule of law Resolution 

confidential communications between lawyer and client; equality 

of all before the law; these are all fundamental principles of the 

rule of law. Accordingly, arbitrary arrests; secret trials; indefinite 

detention without trial; cruel or degrading treatment or 

punishment; intimidation or corruption in the electoral process, 

are all unacceptable. 

The rule of law is the foundation of a civilised society. It 

establishes a transparent process accessible and equal to all. It 

ensures adherence to principles that both liberate and protect. 

The IBA calls upon all countries to respect these fundamental 

principles. It also calls upon its members to speak out in support 

of the rule of law within their respective communities. 

Passed by the IBA Council on 26 September 2005, Prague 

Rule of lAW sYmPosIum



IBA Task Force on Extraterritorial 

Jurisdiction 

David W Rivkin Debevoise and Plimpton LLP, New York, USA; Chair, 


Task Force Co-Chairs 

Michael Greene A & L Goodbody, Dublin, Ireland; Assistant 

Treasurer, Legal Practice Division 

Claus von Wobeser Von Wobeser y Sierra SC, Mexico City, Mexico 

In October 2006, the Legal Practice Division established the IBA 

Task Force on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, which has embarked on a 

two-year project to produce a White Paper and recommendations 

on extraterritorial jurisdiction in a number of areas. The Task Force is 

focusing on extraterritorial jurisdiction in the context of: 

• competition – antitrust; 

• bribery and corruption; 

• tort law; 

• criminal law; 

• securities law; and 

• insolvency law. 

There has been a steady increase in states exercising extraterritorial 

jurisdiction but little abatement of the controversies surrounding 

such exercises. Exercises of extraterritorial jurisdiction involve a 

fundamental dilemma. On the one hand, every state has the right to 

regulate its own public order, so it is entitled to legislate for persons 

and conduct occurring within its territory. This principle is considered 

to be a corollary of state sovereignty. On the other hand, however, 

states are permitted to legislate over certain persons and conduct 

occurring outside their borders. When this happens, the same 

conduct may be regulated by two or more states. 

Extraterritoriality thus raises two important questions: 

(1) When should a state be able to regulate persons or conduct 

occurring outside its territory? 

(2) How should overlaps or conflicts of jurisdiction between two or 

more states be resolved? 

The task force is focusing on both issues. In addition to laying out the 

principles governing extraterritoriality, the White Paper will provide 

recommendations for governments, courts, international organisations 

and businesses on methods for minimising costs and conflicts associated 

with extraterritorial exercises of jurisdiction. These recommendations 

may include increasing governmental cooperation through the adoption 

of international standards or principles of mutual recognition, as well 

as promoting recourse to judicial doctrines such as comity, forum non 

conveniens and exhaustion of local remedies. The Task Force may 

consider legislative changes for various countries’ statutes. 

At this session, the subcommittees focusing on the relevant areas 

will report their progress to date and feedback will be sought from the 

audience. 

Task Force Rapporteur 

Anthea Roberts Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, London, England 

Panellists 

Milos Barutciski Bennett Jones, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Christopher Keith Hall Amnesty International, London, England 

Alistair Graham White & Case LLP, London, England 

Johnnie Hoffman Assistant Chief Attorney, ExxonMobil Corporation, 

Houston, Texas, USA 

Michael Kramer Pestalozzi Lachenal Patry, Zurich, Switzerland 

Lucinda Low Steptoe & Johnson, Washington DC, USA 

Lucy Martinez Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, New York, USA 

Selinda A Melnik Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, Wilmington, 

USA; Council Member; Legal Practice Division 

Hewitt Pate Hunton & Williams LLP, Washington DC, USA 

Michael Polonsky Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP , London, England 

Honourable Stephen Raslavich United States Bankruptcy Judge for 

the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA 

Michael J Reynolds (Immediate Past Chair, Legal Practice Division) / 

Antonio Bavasso Allen & Overy LLP, Brussels, Belgium 

Marc Reysen Howrey LLP, Brussels, Belgium 

Roy Schondorf Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, USA 

David P Stewart US Department of State, Washington DC, USA 

Meg Tahyar Davis Polk & Wardwell, Paris, France; Co-Chair, 


Jaap Willeumier Stibbe N.V., Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Council 

Member; Legal Practice Division 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 



Council Liaison Officer 

Michael J Reynolds Allen & Overy LLP, Brussels, Belgium 

challenging and defending subsidies – the trade law 

and competition law weapons 


Scott Andersen Sidley Austin LLP, Geneva, Switzerland; Senior Vice- 

Chair, Trade and Customs Law 

Neil Campbell McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP, Toronto, Ontario, 

Canada; Vice-Chair, Antitrust 

Government subsidies for agricultural and industrial products have 

the potential to distort markets and competition. Non-subsidised 

firms and their governments are increasingly turning to WTO as well 

as domestic trade law remedies to attack these forms of government 

support. In addition, domestic competition laws provide competition 

agencies and private parties with the ability to challenge state aid in 

some jurisdictions. 

This panel will compare the strengths and limitations of using WTO 

processes, domestic trade remedy regimes and domestic competition 

laws to address government subsidies. The panel will draw upon 

experienced trade and competition law practitioners 

as well as economists and government officials to explore: 

• how relevant geographic and economic markets are defined; 

• the legal and economic standards for determining whether 

subsidies are trade-distorting or anti-competitive; 

• comparative jurisdictional and legal complexity of the different 

types of challenges; and 

• the efficacy and limitations of available remedies as well as the 

time and process for obtaining them. 

Speakers 

Youngjin Jung Yulchon, Seoul, South Korea 

Mitsuo Matsushita Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, Tokyo, Japan 

Janusz A Ordover Competition Policy Associates Inc, New Canaan, 

Connecticut, USA 

Marcelo Procópio Calliari Tozzini Freire Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil 

Michael J Schüette Howrey LLP, Brussels, Belgium; Advisory Board 

Member, European Forum 

A Paul Victor Dewey Ballantine LLP, New York, USA 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


9 

WoRkIng sessIons legAl PRActIce DIVIsIon

WoRkIng sessIons 

Antitrust 

Chair 

Bruno Ciuffetelli Hogan & Hartson LLP, Caracas, Venezuela 

A luncH will be held for committee members and 

guests. 

See page 107 for details. 

International cartels and strategic leniency 

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1245 monDAY 


Cani Fernández Cuatrecasas, Madrid, Spain; Secretary, Antitrust 

José Augusto Regazzini Tozzini Freire Teixeira e Silva Advogados, 

São Paulo, Brazil; Publications Officer, Antitrust 

Competition authorities all over the world state more and 

more often that leniency constitutes the most effective weapon 

in the fight against cartels. At the same time, international 

cartels are becoming more common and are spreading their 

tentacles worldwide. The real challenges for practitioners today 

include: determining and coordinating leniency applications in a 

multijurisdictional environment; dealing with different authorities 

and procedures; and trying to avoid leaving behind tracks that could 

be used against their clients in damages actions. 

Keynote speaker 

Kazuhiko Takeshima Japan Fair Trade Commission, Tokyo, Japan 

Speakers 

Sir Christopher Bellamy QC Linklaters, London, England 

Steve Harris Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 

Thomas Mueller WilmerHale, Washington DC, USA 

Carolyn Oddie Allens Arthur Robinson, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia 

Michel Ponsard UGCC & Associés, Paris, France 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


the interface between merger control and foreign 

investment promotion and other industrial policy 

imperatives 


Ronan Harty Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, USA; Senior Vice- 

Chair, Antitrust 

Pieter Steyn Werksmans, Johannesburg, South Africa; Newsletter 

Editor, Antitrust 

This session will examine the interface between merger control and 

foreign investment review regimes and other industrial and public 

policy imperatives. Merger control policy forms a crucial part of a 

state’s overall industrial policy but may impact on or even conflict 

with other industrial, regulatory and public interest policies. A panel 

of experts will explore the tensions between merger control and 

other such policies and discuss whether a merger that raises antitrust 

concerns may be justified on other policy grounds. 

Speakers 

William Kovacic Federal Trade Commission, Washington DC, USA 

Gavin Robert Linklaters LLP, London, England 

Daren Shiau Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore 

Daniel Swanson Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, 

California, USA 

Jun Wei Hogan & Hartson LLP, Beijing, China 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 




Joint session with International Sales. See page 72 for details. 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


International comity in dominance cases: shall global 

convergence or global confusion reign? 


Andrea Appella VP & Associate General Counsel, London, England; 

Website Coordinator, Antitrust 

Greg McCurdy Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA; 

Vice-Chair, Antitrust 

Businesses are becoming ever more global and competition law 

regimes have recently been established in many new jurisdictions. 

Those two factors have focused attention on how international 

comity should operate in the application of competition laws, 

especially in cases involving the unilateral conduct of dominant firms. 

This panel of international experts will examine the challenges that 

arise when the same conduct is scrutinised in multiple jurisdictions. 

The panel will discuss ways to promote greater convergence, more 

effective coordination and sound multijurisdictional enforcement of 

laws governing unilateral conduct. 

Speakers 

Nicholas Banasevic European Commission, DG Competition, 

Brussels, Belgium 

Tim Cowen BT Global Services, London, England 

Karl Hennessee Airbus SA, Toulouse, France 

Niamh McCarthy British Airways Plc, Waterside, England 

R Hewitt Pate Hunton & Williams LLP, Washington DC, USA 

Foo Tuat Yien Competition Commission of Singapore, Singapore 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 

Room 203, suntec convention centre

criminalisation of cartels: global trends 

Joint session with Business Crime. 


Michael O’Kane Peters & Peters, London, England; Membership 

Officer, Business Crime 

Dave Poddar Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia; Publications and Working Group Coordinator, Antitrust 

In recent years, cartel activity has become criminalised across many 

jurisdictions in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific, raising 

many new and challenging issues for corporate clients and their 

competition law and business crime advisers. 

This session will examine many of these issues in detail such 

as leniency/immunity programmes from a criminal perspective, 

corporate/individual tension, cross-border cooperation, penalties 

and the interaction between civil/criminal processes. A unique and 

comparative insight into the government approach to these issues in 

the United States and Australia will be provided to contrast with the 

view of senior corporate counsel in Europe and Japan. 

The session will also analyse how certain antitrust enforcement 

regimes have operated in practice, what lessons have been learned 

and what challenges lie ahead from both an agency and a corporate 

perspective. 

Speakers 

Paul Binder US Department of Justice, Washington DC, USA 

Thomas Janssens Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Brussels, Belgium 

Mark Pearson Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, 

Dickson, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 

John Pheasant Hogan & Hartson LLP, London, England 

Christof Swaak Stibbe, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

Kimitoshi Yabuki Yabuki Law Offices, Tokyo, Japan; Vice-Chair, Asia 

Pacific Forum; Publications Officer, Antitrust 

Trade and Customs Law 

Chair 

Dan Horovitz HD & Co, Brussels, Belgium 

0930 – 1230 fRIDAY 


the changing regulatory environment in Asia: regional 

trade liberalisation and global implications 

Session Chair 

Dan Horovitz 

With a booming economy and an ever-growing number of regional 

integration schemes in the greater China region, the South East and 

beyond, the Asian continent is going through a major regulatory 

revolution. 

The day’s programme will include presentations and active 

participation from the floor to review the theory and practice of 

regional trade in the global trading context. 

The keynote speech will review the pros and cons of the growing 

proliferation of FTAs and other regional trade arrangements, 

especially as they affect the working of the MFN principle that is 

central to the WTO-based multilateral trading system. 

The day’s panels will then look more closely into: 

• The practice of regional integration and the impact on global 

trade, as assessed in relation to experiences gained in the 

Greater China Region, Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan and the 

African continent. New WTO initiatives to accommodate such 

recent realities with WTO disciplines will also be discussed in this 

framework. 

• The actual working of regional integration, with special attention 

to regional dispute settlement. 

• The implementation of trade remedies and customs related 

principles in a regional scheme. 

• The extension of regional rules to the new area of investments. 

Speakers 

James Bacchus Greenberg Traurig, Washington DC, USA 

Leora Blumberg Heller Ehrman LLP, Hong Kong SAR 

Eric Emerson Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington DC, USA 

Dan Horovitz 

Youngjin Jung Yulchon, Seoul, South Korea 

Kazumochi Kometan Nishimura & Asahi, Tokyo, Japan 

Brendan McGiverm White & Case International Trade, (Geneva), 

Switzerland 

Edmond W Sim Hunton & Williams LLP, Singapore 

Clifford Sosnow Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, Ottawa, Ontario, 

Canada 



measures for combating counterfeiting and piracy 

Joint session with Trademark Law. See page 68 for details. 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


free trade in the Pacific Rim and its impact in latin 

America 

Joint session with the Latin American Forum. See page 87 for 

details. 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


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Council Liaison Officers 



Jaime Carey Carey y Cía, Santiago, Chile 

Business Organisations 

Co-Chairs 

Felix R Ehrat Bär & Karrer, Zurich, Switzerland 

Andrew Wigfall Nabarro, London, England 

Running a sale of a company through an auction 


Per Berglöf Delphi & Co, Stockholm, Sweden; Vice-Chair, Business 

Organisations 

Oliver Triebold Schellenberg Wittmer, Zurich, Switzerland; Treasurer, 


In most jurisdictions, the sale of a company in an auction procedure 

has in the last few years been an increasingly well-appreciated 

form of sale in order to achieve the best sales price. This session 

will examine the auction procedure: the practicalities in properly 

arranging and documenting an auction, as well as certain legal 

aspects in relation to an auction. The session will in particular focus 

on: 

• preparation of the auction process, in particular vendor’s due 

diligence; 

• non-disclosure agreements; 

• bid instructions; 

• data room set-up (physical and virtual); 

• bidders’ due diligence; 

• share purchase agreement – vendor’s draft – especially vendor’s 

representations and warranties; 

• closing the auction procedure; 

• issues relating to the liability of the vendor’s advisers; and 

• equal treatment of bidders. 

Speakers 

Paul Cronheim De Brauw Westbroek Blackstone, Amsterdam, the 

Netherlands 

Christian Felderer Converium Ltd, Zurich, Switzerland 

Caroline Goodall Herbert Smith LLP, London, England 

Andrew Lim Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore; Secretary, Current Legal 

Developments Subcommittee 

Robin Panovka Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, New York, USA 

Alex Yang Morgan Stanley Private Equity, Hong Kong SAR 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


Burdens, duties and obligations of shareholders in 

public and private companies 


Felix R Ehrat 

Sergio Sánchez Solé Garrigues, Barcelona, Spain; Vice-Secretary, 


In many jurisdictions, it is commonly believed that the rights and 

obligations of shareholders are limited to voting rights derived 

from their shareholding and the directly related financial rights and 

obligations directly related thereto. There is, however, a whole set of 

ancillary burdens, duties, obligations and rights that might have an 

impact on shareholders, such as those arising out of: 

• the relationship with the board of directors and management; 

• duties of care and loyalty; 

• information rights and obligations; and 

• regulatory obligations (antitrust, financial services authorities, etc). 

This interactive session will examine the matters that put 

shareholders into a potentially complex net of relationships with the 

company, its board of directors, management, regulatory authorities 

and third parties. A panel of representatives of a variety of legal 

systems will examine important issues and highlight the major 

differences between various jurisdictions. 

Speakers 

Jacques Buhart Herbert Smith LLP, Paris, France; Counsillor Emeriti, 


Carl B Cheng Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Shanghai, China 

Nicolás Piaggio Guyer & Regules, Montevideo, Uruguay 

Chief Justice Myron T Steele Delaware Supreme Court, Dover, 

Delaware, USA 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


A DInneR will be held for committee members and 

guests. 

See page 107 for details 

1930 tuesDAY 

Vendor’s due diligence: how does it affect law firms? 


Gisèle Rosselle White & Case, Brussels, Belgium; Vice-Chair, Business 

Organisations 

Andrew Wigfall 

The session will consider the impact for law firms of the increasing 

trend in some jurisdictions for the use of vendor due diligence reports. 

These reports raise serious issues for law firms, which are asked to 

produce such reports in relation to their clients, and challenges for the 

recipients of the reports. In addition to discussing the prevalence of 

such reports and the merits and limitations of them, the session will 

look at issues of conflict of interest, obligations of confidence and the 

level of liability to the addressees of the report. This will be viewed 

from the point of view of counsel to the seller, counsel to a trade 

or financial buyer and counsel to a provider of finance. We will also 

receive comments from a member of the accountancy profession and 

a provider of insurance to M&A transactions. 

Speakers 

Philip Boeckman Cravath, London, England; Senior Vice-Chair, 


Rachel Eng WongPartnership, Singapore 

Teresa Jones Aon Limited, London, England 

Alberto Lasheras-Shine Estudio Beccar Varela, Buenos Aires, 

Argentina; Vice-Chair, Business Organisations 

Giles Murphy Smith & Williamson, London, England 

Charles Penney Addleshaw Goddard, London, England 

shareholders’ activism 



Joint session with the European Forum. See page 85 for details. 




m&A transactions 

Joint session with Mediation. See page 49 for details. 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


Issues in doing m&A transactions in china 


John Williamson-Noble Gilbert + Tobin, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia; Senior Vice-Chair, Business Organisations 

Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara WongPartnership, Singapore 

This session will consider legal, practical and other issues arising in 

M&A transactions in China, both from the perspective of the buyers 

and the sellers. 

Speakers 

Ong Chao Choon PricewaterhouseCoopers, Singapore 

Filip Moerman Cleary Gottlieb, Beijing, China 

Stephen Nelson King & Wood LLP, Beijing, China 

Joseph Stevens Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore 

Melissa Thomas Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Shanghai, China 

Walker Wallace O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Shanghai, China 

0930 – 1230 fRIDAY 


Current Legal Developments 

Chair 

Ezra Davids Bowman Gilfillan Inc, Johannesburg, South Africa 

Recent developments in m&A law 

Session Chair 

Ezra Davids 

The session will consider recent changes in M&A law and practice 

throughout a number of jurisdictions. 

Speakers 

Dimitry Afanasiev Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, Moscow, 

Russian Federation 

Willem Calkoen NautaDutilh, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 

Kevin Cron Deneys Reitz, Johannesburg, South Africa 

Ewen Crouch Allens Arthur Robinson, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia 

Michael DeSombre Sullivan & Cromwell, Hong Kong SAR 

George Goulding Slaughter and May, Hong Kong SAR 

Pablo Iacabelli Carey y Cía, Santiago, Chile 

Christopher Koh Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore 

Jan Meyers Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Brussels, Belgium 

Bai Tao Jun He Law Offices, Beijing, China 

Paul White A & L Goodbody, Dublin, Ireland; Secretary, Business 

Organisations 



Private Equity 

Chair 

Stuart Mills Leighton Properties, Pinehurst, North Carolina, USA 

club deals: legal, ethical and practical issues when 

representing a private equity consortium 

Session Chair 

Stuart Mills 

A distinguished group of private equity lawyers representing 

multiple jurisdictions will discuss the peculiar issues arising from 

client participation in leveraged buyouts backed by multiple private 

equity sponsors, particularly in the international context. Specific 

data regarding the increased use of private equity consortia will be 

presented. Panel members will present their views on several critical 

issues relating to club deals, including: 

• the ethical obligations of counsel serving in various capacities: 

counsel to the consortia with respect to the acquisition and 

financing; counsel to individual consortium members; counsel to 

the vendor; counsel to the banks; counsel to the target; 

• practical issues associated with organising a consortium; 

• market terms for consortium equity documents (board 

representation, liquidity events, etc); and 

• antitrust/competition issues. 

With the assistance of the audience, the panel will attempt to 

identify commonality and conflicts in practice from one jurisdiction 

to the next. 

Speakers 

David Eich Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Hong Kong SAR 

Ellisa Habbart The Delaware Counsel Group, Wilmington, Delaware, 

USA; Vice-Chair, Private Equity Subcommittee 

Christian Hoedl Uría Menéndez, Madrid, Spain; Secretary, Private 

Equity Subcommittee 

Jeremy Hunt Allen & Overy LLP, London, England; Vice-Chair, Private 

Equity Subcommittee 

Braddon Jolley Freehills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


Closely Held and Growing 

Business Enterprises 

Chair 

David O’Donnell Mason Hayes + Curran, Dublin, Ireland 

cross-border strategic alliances for closely held and 

growing businesses: identifying the key challenges 


Christopher Owen Manches LLP, London, England; Secretary, Closely 

Held and Growing Business Enterprises 

Amir Singh Pasrich International Law Affiliates, New Delhi, India; 

Vice-Chair, Asia Pacific Forum 

Closely held and growing businesses have greater opportunities than 

ever before to build cross-border strategic alliances, whether by way 

of joint venture or other forms of collaboration. Access to overseas 

markets, outsourcing or research and development needs are some 

of the drivers for these alliances. 

Taking a highly interactive approach, the session will explore 

the key issues involved in establishing and maintaining a strategic 

alliance and maximising its effectiveness. Our panel of speakers 

includes experienced legal practitioners from India, Southeast Asia, 

Eastern Europe and Mexico as well as representatives from the Asian 

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business community. The session will look in particular at: 

• identifying potential partners and due diligence; 

• structuring the deal; 

• cultural barriers in the negotiation process; 

• maintaining and developing the relationship; 

• breakdowns and deadlock; and 

• exiting. 

Through the use of a case study and breakout groups, the session 

will look at those common factors that help and those that hinder 

the development of a successful strategic alliance. 

Speakers 

Luis Fernando González Nieves Torre Mural, Mexico City, Mexico 

Thomas Kaiser-Stockmann Mannheimer Swartling, Berlin, Germany 

Satpal Khattar Khatter Holdings, Singapore 

Valerie Ong Rodyk & Davidson LLP, Singapore 

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1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


Venture capital and the growing company 


Robert Falvey Minter Ellison Rudd Watt, Auckland, New Zealand; 

Publications Officer, Closely Held and Growing Business 

Enterprises 

Alberto Navarro G Breuer, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Vice-Chair, 

Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprises 

This session will examine the private capital markets with a particular 

emphasis on venture capital and growing companies. The following 

issues will be addressed: 

• the life cycle of equity investment, from the seed and start-up 

capital to early and later expansion stages and beyond; 

• the role of business angels, venture capital funds and other 

investors in growing companies; 

• government and other public regulatory intervention in venture 

capital, including publicly-backed investment schemes; 

• development of exit strategies for entrepreneurs and venture 

capitalists; 

• key terms and processes for seed and venture capital investment; 

and 

• the role of legal advisers. 

The session aims to provide an up-to-date review of developments 

within the industry for the advisers of growing companies and those 

who fund them. 

Speakers 

Chris Ashworth O’Melveny & Myers LLP, London, England 

Stephan H Coonrad K & L Gates, Seattle, Washington, USA; Vice- 

Chair, North American Regional Forum 

Horacio Bernardes Neto Xavier Bernardes Bragança, São Paulo; 

Council Member, Public and Professional Interest Division 

Douglas J Powrie Thorsteinssons LLP, Vancouver, British Columbia, 

Canada 

Philip Chan Consultant, Singapore 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 




Charles Henri de Pardieu De Pardieu Brocas Maffei, Paris, France 

A DInneR will be held for section members and guests. 


Business Crime 

Co-Chairs 

Roberto Pisano Studio Legale Pisano, Milan, Italy 

Peter Binning Corker Binning, London, England 

1930 tHuRsDAY 

Business intelligence and industrial espionage: 

challenges and recent trends – a working group 

meeting 


Charles-Henri de Pardieu 

Stéphane Bonifassi Lebray & Associés, Paris, France 

Industrial espionage has become a significant part of contemporary 

business practice affecting a large number of people and companies 

on a cross-border scale. The Business Crime Committee has formed 

a working group to analyse the role of the legal community facing 

this issue. The session will cover: 

• recent challenges and trends posed by industrial espionage and 

business intelligence in today’s world; 

• what role lawyers should play to protect their clients both before 

and after they are targets of espionage; 

• what is allowed and what is not when it comes to business 

intelligence; 

• what type of practices are used by corporations and firms to 

safeguard their IP assets and/or confidential information and deal 

with the threat of espionage; 

• what the limits of private investigations are; 

• who the most frequent violators of trade secrets and confidential 

information are, their most-used strategies and how to prevent 

them; and 

• whether the sanctions currently in place are effective in countering 

industrial espionage. 

This roundtable discussion is open to all those who are interested 

in the subject, as well as those who are willing to contribute to the 

working group and possibly participate in a survey concerning the 

present legislation in their respective jurisdictions and its impact in an 

international environment. 

Speakers 

Martin Kenney Martin Kenny & Co Solicitors, Tortola, Virgin Islands 

Louise Delahunty Simmons & Simmons, London, England 

Ho Wah Lee KPMG, Singapore 

Jasmine Teo SembCorp Industries Ltd, Singapore 

Valentina Zoghbi International Bar Association, London, England 

gaming 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


Joint session with Media Law. See page 68 for details. 



transnational insolvency and fraud 

Joint session with Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights. 




Partners in crime? the risks facing lawyers in today’s 

world 

Joint session with Negligence and Damages. See page 50 for 

details. 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


criminalisation of cartels: global trends 

Joint session with Antitrust. See page 41 for details. 

Criminal Law 

Chair 

Marie Dyhrberg Auckland, New Zealand 

0930 – 1230 fRIDAY 


the olympic games – a legal guide to all things 

olympic 

Joint session with Leisure Industries. See page 75 for details. 

0930 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


current barriers to defence lawyers’ access to potential 

and confirmed witnesses for the prosecution 

Session Chair 

Dan Conaway Conaway & Strickler PC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 

Treasurer, Criminal Law 

In countries across the world, ‘anti-terrorism’ legislation has been 

enacted by national governments as a reaction to 9/11. These ‘antiterrorism’ 

laws generally work by restricting or denying access to 

information or people critical to an accused person’s proper defence, 

or by eliminating rights to due process. How are defence lawyers 

supposed to properly represent their clients and successfully defend 

them when they cannot gain access to critical evidence in the 

possession and control of the government? Our panel will discuss 

the problems these restrictions create for defence lawyers seeking 

access to prosecution discovery and witnesses. 

Nowhere does the clash between our most cherished 

constitutional freedoms and our desire to be kept safe from 

terrorism come into greater conflict than with rules governing 

discovery in criminal cases. In the United States, the USA Patriot Act 

was passed easily and with little legislative discussion after 9/11, and 

in many other nations similar laws were passed as well. Now, almost 

six years later, join speakers from different parts of the globe as we 

discuss the practical effects anti-terrorism statutes have had on the 

rules governing criminal discovery. Have nations established a new 

means of balancing the individual’s need for access to discovery 

with the ever urgent need for public safety? Or have we abandoned 

our civil liberties – the guarantee of effective counsel – by letting 

prosecutors use anti-terrorism legislation as a tool for gutting 

criminal discovery rules across the globe? 

Speakers 

Peter Binning 

Marie Dyhrberg 

Ken MacDonald QC Crown Prosecution Service, London, England 

William R Mitchelson Jr Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


Iraqi Higher tribunal – the delivery of procedural 

fairness? 

Joint session with Human Rights Law. See page 74 for details. 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


organised crime, corruption and terrorism: all about 

money 

Joint session with Anti-Corruption. 

Session Chair 

Luz Nagle Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida, USA; 

Vice-Chair, Criminal Law 

Where there is corruption, organised crime moves in with drugs, 

weapons and human trafficking. This session will examine the 

transnational links with organised crime and terrorism, how 

institutionalised corruption in both the public and private sectors 

affects the rule of law and the delivery of justice in civil society, and 

how lawless states are fertile ground for terrorism and organised 

crime. 

The session will also address the impact corrupt officials within 

transnational corporations have had on weak and failing nation 

states and how foreign corrupt practices contribute to environmental 

degradation, internal armed conflicts and endemic political 

instability. 

Speakers 

Peter Binning 

Roberto Durrieu Jr Estudio Durrieu Abogados, Buenos Aires, 

Argentina 

Josie Fernandez Transparency International Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 

Malaysia 

Linda A Malone William and Mary Law School, Williamsburg, 

Virginia, USA 

Bolaji Owasanoye Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 

Lagos, Nigeria 

Monty Raphael Peters and Peters, London, England 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


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Henri Alvarez Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver, British 

Columbia, Canada 

Nicola Mumford Wragge & Co LLP, London, England 

the enforcement of dispute resolution clauses 

Session Chair 

Michael Hales Nabarro, London, England; Chair, International 

Litigation Conventions and Laws Subcommittee 

At the time they are drafted, dispute resolution clauses usually 

receive little attention. Someone simply decides that it would be 

a good idea to refer to arbitration or mediation or to a particular 

forum, without having much sense of the implications. This joint 

programme by the constituent committees of the Dispute Resolution 

Section will focus on the interpretation of these clauses, exploring 

their pitfalls and strengths. International experts will examine 

techniques to attack and defend dispute resolution clauses. Topics 

will include: 

• the recognition and enforcement of dispute resolution clauses in 

favour of ‘unfair’ jurisdictions; 

• the enforcement of med-arb clauses; and 

• the availability and use of anti-suit injunctions in arbitrations. 

Speakers 

Teresa Cheng SC Des Voeux Chambers, Hong Kong SAR 

Siegfried Elsing Hölters & Elsing, Düsseldorf, Germany; Chair, 

Mediation 

Philipp Habegger Walder Wyss & Partners, Zurich, Switzerland; Vice- 

Chair, Arbitration 

David Joseph QC Essex Court Chambers, London, England 

Stefan Rützel Gleiss Lutz, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 

John M Townsend Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, Washington DC, 

USA 

Janet Walker Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, 

Ontario, Canada 

Arbitration 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


Co-Chairs 

Audley Sheppard Clifford Chance LLP, London, England 

Sally Harpole Sally Harpole & Co, Hong Kong SAR 

the art of advocacy in arbitration 


Pierre Bienvenu Ogilvy Renault LLP, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 

Senior Vice-Chair, Arbitration 

Christian Camboulive Gide Loyrette Nouel, Paris, France; Vice-Chair, 

Arbitration 

The session will consider the extent to which advocacy styles differ 

around the world and what constitutes effective advocacy in 

international arbitration. This will include looking at both written 

and oral advocacy techniques, and how best to manage and present 

large quantities of documents or a technically complex case, and 

how to deal with a difficult witness. We will provide an update on 

the use of the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International 

Commercial Arbitration, and will also consider the ethical rules that 

are applicable to advocates in an international context. 

Speakers 

R Doak Bishop King & Spalding LLP, Houston, Texas, USA 

Mark Friedman Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, London, England; 

Publications and Newsletter Editor, Arbitration 

Teresa Giovannini Lalive, Geneva, Switzerland 

Hilary Heilbron QC Brick Court Chambers, London, England 

Stephen Richard Jagusch Allen & Overy LLP, London, England 

Philip Jeyaretnam SC Rodyk & Davidson LLP, Singapore 

Charles Kaplan Herbert Smith LLP, Paris, France 

Richard H Kreindler Shearman & Sterling LLP, Frankfurt am Main, 

Germany 

Christopher Lau SC Alban Tay Mahtani & de Silva, Singapore 

Finn Madsen Vinge Lawyers, Malmö, Sweden 

Charles Manzoni Des Voeux Chambers, Hong Kong SAR 

Ilya Nikiforov Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, St Petersburg, 

Russia; Secretary, Arbitration 

Colin Y C Ong Gadong Properties Centre, Jalan Gadong, Brunei 

Indranee Rajah Drew & Napier LLC, Singapore 

Kim M Rooney White & Case LLP, Hong Kong SAR 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


court support for arbitration in the Asia Pacific region 

Joint session with the Asia Pacific Forum. 


Michael J Moser O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Hong Kong SAR; Vice- 


Hiroyuki Tezuka Nishimura & Asahi, Tokyo, Japan; Vice-Chair, 

Arbitration 

Michael Hwang SC Singapore 

The session will review the support for arbitration by courts in 

the Asia Pacific region, positive and negative. We will consider 

the support and interference by courts at different stages of an 

arbitration, including upholding agreements to arbitrate and staying 

litigation, interim measures, challenges to arbitrators, obtaining 

evidence, applications to set aside awards and enforcing awards. 

Speakers 

Dominique Brown-Berset Lalive, Geneva, Switzerland 

Alastair Henderson Herbert Smith (Thailand) Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand 

Kap-You Kim Bae Kim & Lee LLC, Seoul, South Korea 

Karen Mills KarimSyah Law Firm, Jakarta, Indonesia 

Custodio Parlade Parlade Hildawa Parlade & Eco, Manila, Philippines 

Vinayak P Pradhan Skrine, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Ariel Ye King & Wood, Beijing, China 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


Investment treaty arbitration workshop 


Kaj Hobér Mannheimer Swartling, Stockholm, Sweden; Chair, 

Investment Treaty Arbitration Subcommittee 

Abby Cohen Smutny White & Case LLP, Washington DC, USA 

The session will look at the current issues in investment treaty 

arbitration including a review of recent awards, economic necessity 

as a defence, the scope of MFN clauses, transparency of proceedings 

and confidentiality of awards and changes in the ICSID Rules. 

Speakers 

Yulia Andreeva Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, USA 

John Gaffney Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP, 

London, England 

Andrés Jana Alvarez Hinzpeter Jana and Valle, Santiago, Chile 

Jean Kalicki Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington DC, USA 

Devashish Krishan Baker Botts LLP, London, England

James Loftis Vinson & Elkins LLP, London, England 

Mahnaz Malik IISD, Karachi, Pakistan/London, England 

Uche Onwuamaegbu ICSID, Washington DC, USA 

Domenico Di Pietro Chiomenti, Rome, Italy 

Christopher Thomas QC Thomas & Partners, Vancouver, British 


Stephan Schill New York University School of Law, New York, USA 

Professor Sornarajah National University of Singapore, Singapore 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 



Joint session with the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) and the 

Corporate Counsel Forum. 


Judith Gill Allen & Overy LLP, London, England; Chair, Recognition 

and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Subcommittee 

Jose Rosell Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, Paris, France; Programme 

Coordinator, IPBA 

This session will consider notable developments in international 

arbitration over the past year and current issues of interest and 

concern to arbitration practitioners and corporate counsel. 

Speakers 

Cecil Abraham Cecil Abraham Arbitration Chambers, Kuala Lumpur, 

Malaysia 

Hew Dundas Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, England 

Andrew Foyle One Essex Court, London, England 

Doug Jones Clayton Utz, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 

David Kreider Vodafone New Zealand Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 

Josefa Sicard-Mirabel International Chamber of Commerce, New 

York, USA 

Loukas Mistelis Queen Mary University of London, London, England 

Essam Al Tamimi Al Tamimi & Company, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 

Jingzhou Tao DLA Piper UK LLP, Beijing, China 

Christopher To Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Hong 

Kong SAR 

Alvin Yeo SC WongPartnership, Singapore 




guests. 


2000 WeDnesDAY 


industries 

Joint session with the Section on Energy, Environment, Natural 

Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) and the Latin American 

Forum. 


Mark Baker Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, Houston, Texas, USA; Vice- 


Hunt Talmage Chandler and Thong-Ek, Bangkok, Thailand; Vice- 

Chair, Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and 

Infrastructure Law (SEERIL) 

Guido Tawil M & M Bomchil, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Vice-Chair, 

Arbitration; Senior Vice-Chair, Latin American Forum 

The session will consider the use of arbitration to resolve disputes 

in the energy industry. Speakers will address current procedural and 

substantive issues of importance, including a review of the Energy 

Charter Treaty, protection to energy and mining projects afforded 

by BITs, resolution of inter-state disputes over boundaries or water 

rights and current contentious issues in the oil and gas industry. 

Speakers 

Graham Coop Energy Charter Secretariat, Brussels, Belgium 

Mark McNeill Shearman & Sterling LLP, Paris, France 

Wendy Miles Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, London, 

England 

Michael Polkinghorne White & Case LLP, Paris, France 



Dominic Roughton Herbert Smith LLP, Tokyo, Japan 

Nancy Turck International Energy Agency, Paris, France 

Dorothy Ufot Dorothy Ufot & Co, Lagos, Nigeria; Vice-Chair, 

Arbitration; Council Member, Legal Practice Division 

Robert Volterra Latham & Watkins LLP, London, England 

Eduardo Zuleta Zuleta Acosta Suarez Ibarra, Bogotá, Colombia 

Consumer Litigation 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


Chair 

Frank Johnstone McClure Naismith, Glasgow, Scotland 

global class action judgments and settlements – dream 

or reality? A report of the task force on International 

Procedures and Protocols for class Actions 

Session Chair 

John P Brown McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 

Vice-Chair, Consumer Litigation 

Are global class action judgments and settlements possible, and if 

so, how are they to be enforced? 

Class action legislation, once the exclusive creation of the United 

States, and more recently of Canada and Australia, has found 

its way onto the legislative agendas in Europe, Asia and South 

America. Multijurisdictional class actions involving class members 

and defendants from many different countries and legal regimes 

are inevitable as parties press for a global resolution of class action 

claims. Model laws for enforcing conventional foreign judgments 

are ill-suited to deal with the unique due process, jurisdictional and 

other issues created by this multi-party litigation. The Class Action 

Task Force will report on its findings and make recommendations 

for international procedures and protocols for enforcing global class 

action judgments and settlements. 

Speakers 

Laura K Christa Christa & Jackson, Los Angeles, California, USA; 

Vice-Chair, North American Regional Forum 

Colin B Loveday Clayton Utz, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 

Vice-Chair, Product Law and Advertising 

Tim Maloney Eversheds, London, England 

Michael Reardon Neuchatel, Switzerland 

Daan F Lunsingh Scheurleer NautaDutilh, Amsterdam, the 

Netherlands 

Demetris Vryonides Head of Unit, European Commission, Health & 

Consumer Protection Directorate-General, Legal Affairs, Brussels, 

Belgium; Chair, Medicine and the Law 

Janet Walker Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

The Honourable Justice Warren Winkler Chief Justice of Ontario, 


0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


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guests. 


Litigation 

Co-Chairs 

Jorge Angell L C Rodrigo Abogados, Madrid, Spain 

Des Williams Werksmans, Sandton, South Africa 

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1230 tuesDAY 


disputes 

Joint session with Insurance. See page 57 for details. 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


How to preserve privilege and confidentiality 

Joint session with the Corporate Counsel Forum. See page 83 for 

details. 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


strategies for companies facing patent litigation – is it 


Joint session with the North American Forum. 


David J Levy Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, Houston, Texas, USA 

Stephan H Coonrod K & L Gates LLP, Seattle, Washington, USA; 

Vice-Chair, North American Regional Forum 

High stakes patent litigation in North America and other jurisdictions 

has become a common topic of discussion for corporations and law 

firms around the globe. With constantly evolving laws and rules, 

and the increased sophistication of patent licensing companies, it 

is imperative that lawyers be prepared and informed when advising 

companies that potentially could be sued for patent infringement. 

The speakers, some of the world’s leading experts in this field, will 

address the key issues that typically present themselves in patent 

litigation matters and will discuss strategies that maximise the 

likelihood of prevailing. Topics to be covered include: 

• the jurisdictional reach of patent laws; 

• forum selection strategies as to jurisdictions, courts and tribunals, 

including the US International Trade Commission; 

• obtaining or avoiding injunctions; 

• minimising damages; 

• the effective use and retention of experts and opinion counsel; and 

• dealing with electronic discovery and other court rules in patent 

cases. 

Speakers 

Eric Acker Morrison & Foerster, San Diego, California, USA 

T Andrew Culbert Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA 

Hsiao-Ling Fan Formosa Transnational Attorneys at Law, Taipei, 

Taiwan 

Gordon Harris Wragge & Co LLP, London, England 

Yutaka Miyoshi Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Tokyo, Japan 

Gonzalo Ulloa Gomez-Acebo & Pombo, Madrid, Spain; Vice-Chair, 


1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


can we afford the dispute resolution process? 


Denis Chemla Herbert Smith LLP, Paris, France; Website Coordinator, 

Litigation 

John Reynolds White & Case LLP, London, England 

Is the process of dispute resolution of international commercial disputes 

currently serving its users well? How is the balance to be struck between 

a sufficient examination of the facts and arguments and, on the other 

hand, the speed and cost-efficiency that clients require? 

This session will examine those elements of the dispute resolution 

process (common law and civil litigation, and arbitration) which lead 

to the greatest expense and ask whether that expense is justified. It 

will look at the way in which different legal systems have managed to 

control the cost of these elements and the way in which practitioners 

can work more efficiently within existing procedures. 

Including practitioners, members of the judiciary and clients, the 

session will involve plenty of opportunity for panellists and delegates to 

share ideas and experiences. 

Speakers 

Derek Adler Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, USA 

Peter Fisher-Jones Citigroup Inc, London, England 

Laurent Lévy Schellenberg Wittmer, Geneva, Switzerland 

Justice Judith Prakash Supreme Court of Singapore, Singapore 

Pallavi Shroff Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co, 

New Delhi, India 

Christopher Tahbaz Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, USA; 

Newsletter Editor, Litigation 

Jeroen van den Brande Loyens & Loeff, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

Sacha Woodward-Hill Formula One Management, London, England 



Young litigators’ forum: case management in the 

electronic age – are young lawyers prepared to lead 

the way? 


Niamh Loughran Dillon Eustace Solicitors, Dublin, Ireland; Young 

Litigators’ Club Officer, Litigation 

Amanda Wong Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Los Angeles, California, USA; 

Young Litigators’ Club Officer, Litigation 

In this changing era, being a successful lawyer requires more than 

merely building a case around the documents your client has in 

their file cabinet. You must now understand your clients’ electronic 

document (‘e-document’) creation and storage systems, and be 

ready to advise your clients how best to manage the overwhelming 

amount of electronic information their company creates and how to 

prevent potential discovery problems. This session will feature expert 

speakers from civil and common law jurisdictions who will share 

their experiences, including: 

• ‘best practices’ for client management of e-documents; 

• developing a litigation plan to address e-documents; 

• making informed decisions about e-document service providers; 

• determining reasonable limits for e-discovery; and 

• how the shift to e-documents is changing the practice of litigation. 

Speakers 

Geoff Healy Freehills LLP, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 

Website Coordinator, Litigation 

Cary Kochberg Lovells LLP, London, England 

Bettina Knoetzl Wolf Theiss, Vienna, Austria 

Lawrence Teh Rodyk & Davidson LLP, Singapore; Vice-Chair, 

Maritime and Transport Law 

Jim Vaughn LECG Electronic Discovery Experts, Los Angeles, 


0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


enforcement of european judgments in Asia and Asian 

judgments in europe 


0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 



guests. 


1300 tHuRsDAY 

Mediation 

Chair 

Siegfried Elsing Hölters & Elsing, Düsseldorf, Germany 

Pursuing and defending discrimination claims in the 

workplace 

Joint session with Discrimination and Gender Equality. See page 

60 for details. 

0930 – 1730 tuesDAY 


mediation in aircraft accidents 

Joint session with Aviation Law. See page 76 for details. 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 




Joint session with Business Organisations and the Corporate 

Counsel Forum. 

Session Chair 

Thierry Garby Lerins Avocats, Paris, France; Senior Vice-Chair, 

Mediation 

Almost everyone operating in the area of M&A will have experienced 

the situation: the parties are in deep disagreement over one or 

several issues so that the negotiations are stuck. This situation 

might be handled by retaining a mediator who assists the parties 

in finding their way out of the deadlock, and it should be noted 

that there are additional scenarios in which a mediator might be 

helpful. This session is intended to identify situations in the course of 

M&A transactions in which the parties should consider the services 

of a mediator. It will also discuss how the respective mediation 

proceedings should be structured in order to lead to favourable 

results. 

Speakers 

William H Baker Alston & Bird LLP, New York, USA 

Sara Carmeli Studio Legale Perone-Fiori Apolloni, Perugia, Italy 

Miguel de Avilez Pereira Abreu Cardigos & Associados, Lisbon, 

Portugal 

Nikolaus Pitkowitz Graf Maxl & Pitkowitz, Vienna, Austria 

Birgit Sambeth Glasner Altenburger, Geneva, Switzerland; Co-Chair, 

Model Law Subcommittee 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 



guests. 


1245 tHuRsDAY 

Diversity of cultural perspectives on mediation: facesaving, 

attitudes, relationship to courts and other 



Session Chair 

Karen Mills KarimSyah Law Firm, Jakarta, Indonesia 

Mediation is generally seen as a mechanism to resolve disputes with 

the least detrimental effect upon the parties and their commercial 

or other relationship. Usually a win-win solution is possible because 

the parties themselves structure the solution. Thus normally they will 

honour the settlement and can continue their relationship without 

rancour or loss of face to either party. But attitudes and methods 

differ from one culture to another. Some cultures see the very 

suggestion of mediating as a loss of face. In a growing number of 

other cultures, mediation is an obligation prior to doing battle in a 

court action or an arbitral reference. 

Not only do attitudes towards mediation differ from one culture 

to the next, but so also do mediation methods and techniques. In 

this session leading senior practitioners from many diverse cultures 

will discuss how mediation is viewed and handled in their respective 

jurisdictions. 

Speakers 

Louise Barrington City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 

Thomas Benes Felsberg Felsberg e Associados, São Paulo, Brazil 

Juliet Blanch McDermott Will & Emery LLP, London, England 

Bronwyn Lincoln Freehills, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

Adedoyin Rhodes-Vivour Doyin Rhodes-Vivour & Co, Lagos, Nigeria 

Mauro Rubino-Sammartano Lawfed Rubino-Sammartano e 

Associati, Milan, Italy; Co-Chair, Dispute Resolution Subcommittee 

Kathleen Scanlon Heller Ehrman, New York, USA 

Chang Seung Wha Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea 

(invited) 

Dato Mahadev Shankar Zaid Ibrahim & Co, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Vilija Vaitkute Pavan Lideika Petrauskas Valiunas & Partners, Vilnius, 

Lithuania 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


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Chair 

Matthew Reiter Bär & Karrer, Zurich, Switzerland 

What the east can teach the West in the context of the 

laws of negligence and damages 

Session Chair 

Paul Emerson Lamb Chambers, London, England; Secretary and 

Website Coordinator, Negligence and Damages 

Speakers from various countries in the Far East and other parts of 

the world will discuss key negligence and damages issues facing 

lawyers worldwide. They will also deal with topics and questions that 

have been submitted in advance via the website, as well as questions 

from the floor, to let lawyers from across the world see how similar 

problems and issues are dealt with in different jurisdictions, with an 

emphasis on the legal systems of the Far East. 

Speakers 

Dato Cyrus Das Shook Lin & Bok, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Honourable Chief Justice Christopher Gardner QC Turks & Caicos 

Islands, British West Indies 

Edmund Hinkson Equity House, Bridgetown, Barbados; Vice-Chair, 


Abdul Rashid Gani Khattar Wong & Partners, Singapore 

Thomas So Johnston Stokes & Master, Hong Kong SAR 

committee business meeting 

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1430 – 1730 monDAY 


An open meeting of the Negligence and Damages Committee will 

be held to discuss future activities. 

1730 monDAY 


Partners in crime? the risks facing lawyers in today’s 

world 

Joint session with Business Crime. 


Roberto Pisano Studio Legale Pisano, Milan, Italy; Co-Chair, Business 

Crime 

Tim Strong Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP, London, England; Secretary 

and Newsletter Editor, Negligence and Damages 

To what extent can lawyers get into trouble, go to jail even, as 

a result of the activities of their partners, staff or clients? Using 

hypothetical instructions, the panel and audience will explore the 

range of liability, reputational, regulatory and criminal risks arising 

from the conduct of others, which lawyers face these days in 

international practice. Topics to be covered include: 

• civil liability for professional negligence; 

• dishonest assistance/aiding and abetting, and breach of fiduciary 

duty; 

• the role and impact of professional regulation; 

• the lawyer’s role in the prevention of money laundering and other 

financial crime; and 

• the prospect of lawyers being extradited across borders. 

Speakers 

Ramón Bado Sanz Estudio Dr Mezzera, Montevideo, Uruguay; 

Senior Vice-Chair, Negligence and Damages 

Joseph Covington Jenner & Block LLP, Washington DC, USA 

Paul Gully-Hart Schellenberg Wittmer, Geneva, Switzerland 

Matthias Hartz Techtronic Industries, Hong Kong SAR 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


Energy, Environment, Natural 

Resources and Infrastructure Law 

Section (SEERIL) 

Section Officers 

Alan Dunlop Hess Corporation, Houston, Texas, USA; Chair, Energy, 

Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law Section 

E T Hunt Talmage III Chandler & Thong-ek, Bangkok, Thailand; 

Senior Vice-Chair, Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and 

Infrastructure Law Section 

Pablo Alliani Estudio Bruzzon & Asociados, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 

Vice-Chair and Treasurer, Energy, Environment, Natural Resources 

and Infrastructure Law Section 

A DInneR will be held for seeRIl’s committee members 

and guests. 



industries 

Joint session with Arbitration. See page 47 for details. 

2030 tuesDAY 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


Environment, Health and Safety 

Law 

Chair 

Ian Rose McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP, London, England 

the impact of environmental aspects on real estate 


Joint session with the Real Estate Section. 


Bernat Mullerat Cuatrecasas, Barcelona, Spain; Vice-Chair, 


Carolina Zang Zang Bergel & Viñes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Vice- 

Chair, Real Estate Law 

All over the world, environmental regulation increasingly affects the 

way that real estate projects need to be developed, whether of an 

industrial, commercial, touristic or residential character. 

Internationally, environmental laws are becoming more and more 

stringent, by implementing rules that tend to increase environmental 

liability to all players involved in any type of real estate development 

or investment. These include water and waste management, as well 

as land remediation obligations to any new owners of the property, 

and lender’s liability and stakeholders’ participation. These are just 

a few examples of the issues becoming more important for any 

real estate practitioner to consider during the development and 

implementation of any real estate transaction. 

This session will examine the most recent and typical 

environmental requirements, from the different perspectives of 

speakers from Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas and will 

describe the best way to approach the different problems that 

environmental compliance may present. 

Speakers 

Tzvi Levinson The Levinson Environmental Law Firm, Haifa, Israel 

Ravi Nath Rajinder Narain & Co, New Delhi, India; Chair, Aviation 

Law 

Nicolás Piaggio Guyer & Regules, Montevideo, Uruguay 

Ho Kin San Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore 

Birgit Spiesshofer Hengeler Mueller, Berlin, Germany 




Joint session with Power Law. See page 54 for details. 



Piracy and crimes at sea including pollution liability 

Joint session with Maritime and Transport Law. See page 78 for 

details. 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 



Projects 

Co-Chairs 

Edward Corbett Corbett & Co, Teddington, England 

Peter Wengler-Jörgensen Plesner, Copenhagen, Denmark 

constraints in the financing of PPP construction 

projects in emerging countries 


details. 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


ePc contracting in the PPP environment 

Session Chair 

Tim Reynolds Constant & Constant, London, England; Chair, 

Standard Forms Subcommittee 

This session will depart from the usual discussion of financing PPP 

to consider the realities of life as a contractor with full engineerprocure-construct 

responsibility on a PPP project. Among the issues 

to be considered by an expert panel of speakers are: 

• The EPC contractor may be well motivated, but in practice does 

this lead to completion on time and on budget? 

• What has become of the many risks inherent in construction? 

• What sorts of disputes arise and how are they resolved? 

• What is the impact in practice of the long-term financial interest 

of the contractor? 

• Or do contractors make their money and sell out as soon as 

possible? 

Speakers 

George Rosenberg Corbett & Co, Teddington, England; Chair, 

Contract Law and Regulations Subcommittee 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


getting paid – the contractors’ challenge 


Thomas P Wilson Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 

Chair, Construction Management Subcommittee 

John Wright Lane & Partners LLP, London, England; Vice-Chair, 

Construction Management Subcommittee 

This session will revisit an enduring problem area that encompasses 

a range of hardcore topics of concern to construction lawyers 

everywhere. The panel of speakers will use their vast experience to 

consider a range of interesting issues, including: 

• security for payment: retention of title, liens and other securities; 

• disruption: what is it, how to prove it, and how to get paid for it; 

• contractor rights and remedies in suspension and termination; 

• collecting on dispute board decisions; and 

• interest and financing charges. 

Speakers 

Peter Atkinson Navigant Consulting, London, England 

Christopher Chuah WongPartnership, Singapore 

David Kyte Hill International, London, England 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


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guests. 


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exclusion and limitation of liability in construction 

contracts 

Session Chair 

Martin Bridgewater Herbert Smith LLP, London, England; Vice-Chair, 

Contract Law and Regulations Subcommittee 

This session will consider the different approaches in various 

jurisdictions to problems including attempts to cap liability and 

attempts to exclude or restrict liability for loss of profits, business 

interruption, tortious liability (where appropriate) and other indirect/ 

consequential losses, and indeed the definition of direct/indirect 

losses. 

The session will consider a case study scenario and a bespoke 

limitation of liability clause to draw out the key issues in relation 

to the different types of losses, with speakers from a number of 


Speakers 

Stanley Chaney LMT Avocats, Paris, France 

Marco Dalla Vedova Dalla Vedova Studio Legale, Rome, Italy; Vice- 

Chair, Technology Law 

Johan Granehult Mannheimer Swartling, Malmö, Sweden 

Nicholas Henchie Mayer Brown, London, England 

Roberto Hernandez Garcia Comad SC, Mexico City, Mexico; Chair, 

Government Procurement Subcommittee 

Robert Knutson Corbett & Co, Teddington, England 

Claus Lenz Lungerich & Lenz, Cologne, Germany; Co-Chair, Dispute 

Resolution Subcommittee 

Bridget McKinney Denton Wilde Sapte, Cairo, Egypt 

Keith Phillips Watt Tieder Hoffar & Fitzgerald LLP, McLean, Virginia, 

USA 

Manoj K Singh Singh & Associates, New Delhi, India 

Paul Wong Rodyk & Davidson LLP, Singapore 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


latest developments in international construction 


Edward Corbett 

Peter Wengler-Jörgensen 

This annual session will consider recent developments relevant to 

practitioners in all areas of international construction law. The areas 

covered will include: 

• new standard forms of contract; 

• developments in dispute boards and dispute resolution; 

• reports on adopted projects; 

• procurement; 

• financing structures; 

• contract law and regulation; and 

• construction management. 

The last half hour of the session will be devoted to committee 

planning and activities such as topics discussed on ICP-Net (the 

committee’s listserve) and articles in Construction Law International 

(the committee magazine). 

Speakers 

Edward Corbett 

Peter Wengler-Jörgensen 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


An excuRsIon will be held for committee members 

and guests. 


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Mining Law 

Chair 

Patricia Núñez Núñez Muñoz & Cía Ltda Abogados, Santiago, Chile 

Development and financing of infrastructure for 

mining projects 

Joint session with the Financial Services Section. 


Richard Drummond Export Credits Guarantee Department, London, 

England 

Ignacio Randle Estudio Randle, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Treasurer, 

Mining Law 

Luis Carlos Rodrigo Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Abogados, Lima, Peru; 

Senior Vice-Chair, Mining Law 

This session will analyse in depth two of the most important 

issues related to big-scale mining projects: financing and putting 

infrastructure in place. The panel will be based on a hypothetical 

situation related to a gold mining project located in the Far East. 

Speakers 

Patrick Garver Barrick Gold Corporation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Florencia Heredia Estudio Beccar Varela, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 

Newsletter Editor, Mining Law 

Jeff Smith Norton Rose LLP, Singapore 

Ting Ting Tan Clifford Chance LLP, Hong Kong SAR 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


Influence of china and India on the mineral industry 


Session Chair 

Vivien Chan Vivien Chan & Co, Hong Kong SAR; Co-Chair, Asia 

Pacific Forum 

Patricia Núñez 

During the last few years, China’s and India’s economic growth 

has had an important impact on the prices of minerals. The panel 

will explore the way in which such economic growth has actually 

impacted the prices of minerals; which minerals felt the most impact; 

whether such impact has been material to the increase in the prices 

of minerals; and whether China’s and India’s influence will continue 

in the future. A general overview of the current economic conditions 

in the Chinese and Indian markets will be discussed. 

Speakers 

Peter Arthur Anglo American South Africa Ltd, Johannesburg, South 

Africa; Website Coordinator, Mining Law 

Roberto Fortunati Fortunati & Asociados, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Li Lan Beijing General Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 

Beijing, China 

Shivpriya Nanda J Sagar Associates, New Delhi, India 

security of tenure 

Joint session with Oil and Gas Law. 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 



Emad Khalil Jones Day, Singapore 

Peter Leon Webber Wentzel Bowens, Gauting, South Africa; Vice- 

Chair, Mining Law 

Security of tenure is generally regarded as second only to geology 

in determining the viability of new mining or oil and gas projects. 

Does resurgent resource nationalism in Latin America and Africa 

mark a throwback to the new international economic order of the 

1970s, or is it merely indicative of a more assertive state? What can 

natural resources companies do about protecting their assets from 

expropriation or fiscal measures having similar or equivalent effect? 

A distinguished panel from the developing and the developed world 

will examine this topic and suggest possible solutions from a mining 

and an oil and gas perspective. 

Speakers 

Fernando Aguirre Bufete Aguirre, La Paz, Bolivia 

Alex Cull Norton Rose LLP, Singapore 

Alan Gourley Crowell and Moring, Washington DC, USA 

Peter Leon 

Peter Roberts 




Chair 

Peter Roberts Centrica Energy, Berkshire, England 

Who is to blame? Allocating liability in upstream 

project contracts 

Session Chair 

Peter Roberts 

This session will address the following issues: 

• the models for the equitable allocation of risk in upstream project 

contracts – mutual hold harmless, guilty party pays and other 

liability allocation regimes; 

• how to draft an effective cross-indemnity structure to ensure risk 

allocations are effectively structured; 

• liability allocation models in standard contracts; 

• the application of effective clauses limiting or excluding liabilities; 

and 

• the role that insurance can play in structuring effective risk 

allocations – and the inevitable limitations of insurance. 

Speakers 

Toby Hewitt Herbert Smith LLP, Jakarta, Indonesia 

Quentin Loh SC Rajah & Tann, Singapore 

Ashley Wright Ashurst, Singapore 

security of tenure 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


Joint session with Mining Law. See page 53 for details. 



the bottom of the barrel? the prospects for refineries 

in southeast Asia 

Session Chair 

Alex Cull 

This session will address the following: 

• strategic outlook – the growth of, and the prospects for further 

growth of, oil and gas refining and processing capacity in 

Southeast Asia; 

• a summary of the legal, regulatory and environmental issues 

associated with operating existing refinery and processing projects 

and developing new projects; 

• the financing of new refinery and processing projects – what are 

the sources of funds, the financing structures, the risks and how 

are the risks mitigated? 

• the prospects for the greater integration of refinery and 

processing capacity in Asia – at the corporate level and through 

greater inter-regional governmental cooperation (eg the 

intervention of ASEAN). 

Speakers 

Emad Khalil 

Kelvin Wong Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore 





Power Law 

Co-Chairs 

C Baird Brown Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP, Philadelphia, 

Pennsylvania, USA 

Carlos Umaña Brigard & Urrutia, Bogotá, Colombia 


Joint session with Environment, Health and Safety Law and the 

African Regional Forum 


C Baird Brown 

Ian Rose McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP, London, England; Chair, 


Renewable electricity generation can promote economic growth 

while helping to reverse global-warming trends. This programme 

will explore the role of renewable electricity in both developed and 

developing economies. Topics include: 

• available and emerging technologies and their suitability in varying 

geological and institutional circumstances; 

• the role of distributed renewable resources in electricity markets, 

in a centrally dispatched grid and beyond the reach of the grid; 

• renewable electricity under the Kyoto Protocol and the EU 

Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS): Joint Implementation (JI) and 

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects; 

• other regulatory and policy regimes that hinder and assist 

renewable electricity, including emissions reduction schemes and 

electricity regulation; and 

• issues affecting the financing of renewable electricity facilities 

including state support. 

Speakers 

Nicholas Brunton Henry Davis York, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia 

Ed Feo Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, Los Angeles, California, 

USA 

John Kettle Mason Hayes + Curran, Dublin, Ireland; Vice-Chair, 

Public Law 

Owen Lomas Allen & Overy LLP, London, England 

Christopher Tung Malleson Stephen Jacques, Hong Kong SAR 

manipulation of electricity markets 

Session Chair 

Carlos Umaña 

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Modern wholesale electricity markets have been superimposed on 

transmission grids designed primarily for monopoly service territories. 

Because of transmission congestion, the need to generate electricity 

at the time of use, and highly inflexible consumer demand, local or 

regional monopoly power can easily arise at times of peak demand. 

Poorly designed markets, such as the initial California markets, 

exacerbate these problems. This programme explores: 

• structural and market design issues that provide the ability and 

incentive to manipulate markets; 

• the market design and regulatory response; and 

• the unintended consequences. 

Speakers 

C Baird Brown 

Mark Carkeet Minter Ellison, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 

Lothar Ende Heuking Kühn Luër Wojtek, Hamburg, Germany 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


Water Law 

Chair 

John Crothers Gide Loyrette Nouel, Paris, France 

Procuring water projects in southeast Asia with 

particular reference to china and India 


Session Chair 

Mark Lane Pinsent Masons, London, England; Council Member, 

Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law 

Section 

The need for more water, wastewater and desalination plants is 

becoming more acute year by year driven by population growth and 

climate change, amongst other things. Nowhere is the need greater 

than in Southeast Asia, including India and China. This session will 

focus on the drivers behind this massive and growing market, some 

of the key opportunities, risks and challenges involved, and how 

they can be addressed in the project documentation drafted for 

these projects. 

Speakers 

Nadine Ganesan Gide Loyrette Nouel, Beijing, China 

Sujjain Talwar Economic Laws Practice, Mumbai, India 

Jiangang Wang Jun He Law Offices, Beijing, China 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


Private ownership of water 

Session Chair 

John Crothers 

‘Russia to allow acquisition of water bodies for private 

ownership’ (Headline in Pravda, 19 February 2004) 

Farmers who share the water in underground aquifers throughout 

the western United States know that the aquifers are being 

exhausted faster than they can be replenished. By contrast, if each 

farmer had a share of the water that was his / her own, his / her 

conservation efforts would be rewarded since he / she could sell 

the rights to any unused water to other water users. The reckless 

waste and abuse of commonly owned (or unowned) resources has 

been dubbed the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ by economists and is a 

problem that is evident in some form in almost every area of public 

policy (National Center for Policy Analysis). ‘Water flows uphill to 

money and power.’ (Californian proverb quoted in Mason’s Water 

Yearbook). This session will examine the pros and cons of private 

ownership of water rights, looking at world practice and at the 

results on prices, availability to consumers and conservation. 

Speakers 

Olobunmi Fayokun Aluko & Oyebode, Lagos, Nigeria 

Mary Ellen Hogan Holme Roberts & Owen LLP, Los Angeles, 


Martin Schellenberg Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Hamburg, 

Germany 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


Incentive based mechanisms in the water and 

wastewater sectors/risk sharing in water projects: 

contractual versus regulatory 

Session Chair 

Linda Evans Clayton Utz, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 

The water sector typically ‘trails the field’ in the reform of utilities 

with high levels of public sector involvement and little relationship 

between prices and costs and prices and consumption. As water 

becomes more scarce and governments become increasingly 

reluctant to fund infrastructure, something has to give. The old 

models don’t have a high enough level of business orientation to 

make the sector attractive to investors. This session will focus on 

ways in which this can be addressed, looking at contractual and 

regulatory models for efficient pricing and achieving the right risk/ 

reward balance. 

Speakers 

Gesner de Oliveira Filho R Estados Unidos, São Paulo, Brazil 

Brian Fisher CRA International, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 

Australia 

Mark Lane 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 




Jaap Willeumier Stibbe, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

Charles Henri de Pardieu De Pardieu Brocas Maffei, Paris, France 

And the winner is… the 2008 Beijing olympics: project 

structure, financial implications and long-term impact 


Margaret E Campbell Reed Smith Richards Butler LLP, London, 

England; Membership Officer, Insurance 

Timothy E Powers Haynes and Boone LLP, Dallas, Texas, USA; Chair, 

Project Finance Subcommittee 

The Olympics are no longer simply a quadrennial gathering of the 

world’s greatest athletes to showcase their talent and to compete 

on the world stage. Competition to host the Olympic Games starts 

at least eight years prior to the opening ceremony, when cities fight 

fiercely for the privilege of hosting the games. This programme 

will focus on the political, social, financial, insurance and legal 

entanglements surrounding the awarding of the Olympic Games, 

the building of the Olympic venue, the political and security risks 

that must be addressed by the host city, the financial impact of the 

games, and the post-Olympic impact on the host city’s infrastructure 

and reputation. 

Speakers 

Stuart Bassett Marsh Inc, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 

Kelly C Crabb Morrison & Foerster LLP, Los Angeles, California, USA 

Stéphane Vernay Gide Loyrette Nouel, Beijing, China 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


Development and financing of infrastructure for 

mining projects 


1430 – 1730 monDAY 


Banking Law 

Co-Chairs 

Lisa Curran Allen & Overy LLP, Rome, Italy 

Markus Pfenninger Walder Wyss & Partners, Zurich, Switzerland 


Joint session with the Arab Regional Forum and the Asia Pacific 

Forum. 

Session Chair 

Lisa Curran 

A subject rarely out of the financial news these days, Islamic finance 

is fast becoming a mainstream product of the global financial 

markets. This is notwithstanding the fact that strict adherence to 

Sharia (or Islamic) law bans many of the pillars of the traditional 

financial markets, including the charging of interest as well as the 

element of speculation inherent in many of the derivatives products 

used to hedge exposures and investments. However, as assetbacked 

financing techniques have developed in the West, a form 

of common ground has emerged for both borrowers and investors, 

whether Islamic or not, to make recourse to ‘sukuk’ (loosely 

translated as Islamic bonds) with payouts derived from Shariacompliant 

categories of assets, including leases, and sales of tangible 

assets or profits of a joint-venture business. 

The panel of experts will explore the challenges posed by the 

religious principles which govern permitted sources of investment 

and funding for the Islamic markets, providing information and 

insight into the structuring of sukuk, as well as the potential for 

the development of Sharia-compliant derivatives. Focus will also 

be directed to the proper means for contractual arrangements to 

make reference to the application of principles of Sharia, in light of 

the approach taken by the English courts in the Shamil Bank case. 

This will highlight the problematic nature of making reference in 

a governing law provision to a set of principles which are subject 

to interpretation by different schools of thought and which do not 

represent the laws of any specific country. 

This session will be recorded for CLE purposes. 

Speakers 

Badlisyah Abdul Ghani CIMB Islamic Bank, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Vince Cook Islamic Bank of Asia Ltd, Singapore 

Mahmood Faruqui Islamic Finance Adviser, London, England 

Paul Fitzgerald Stamford Law Corporation, Singapore 

Neil D Miller Norton Rose LLP, London, England 

Peter M Werner ISDA International Swaps & Derivatives Association, 

London, England 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


A luncH will be held with the securities law 

committee for members and guests. 


1230 tuesDAY 

How to money-launder – a guide for lawyers 

Joint session with Anti-money Laundering Legislation 

Implementation working Group. See page 97 for details. 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 




legal opinions 


André Andersson Mannheimer Swartling, Stockholm, Sweden; Vice- 

Chair, Banking Law 

Marcus Pfenninger 

Over the past 30 years, the giving and receiving of third party 

legal opinions has developed as a specialised area of practice. 

That practice is largely governed by custom. This session will focus 

on practical aspects of drafting opinions as well as exploring the 

practices of firms, their policies and procedures for giving and 

receiving opinions. Panellists will discuss whether legal issues can be 

resolved by factual inquiries, to what extent third party recipients 

and their successors or assignees may rely on opinions, the dos 

and don’ts of incorporation by reference including the request of 

recipients to issue bring-down letters, all with a view that opinions 

should provide assurance but not insurance. 

Speakers 

James Curtis Denton Wilde Sapte, London, England 

Hannes Vallikivi Tark & Co, Tallinn, Estonia 

Gergot Wagner Allen & Overy LLP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 

Bank confidentiality 

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Gwendoline A Godfrey DMH Stallard, Crawley, England; Vice-Chair 

and Secretary, Banking Law 

William Johnston Arthur Cox, Dublin, Ireland; Co-Chair, Legal 

Opinions Subcommittee 

Banks and their advisers can face difficult situations where duties 

of confidentiality or secrecy owed to customers may conflict with 

anti-money laundering initiatives and other matters requiring the 

disclosure of information to third parties. The position can be even 

more problematic in cross-border dealings. This session will consider 

bank confidentiality on the basis of a case study involving an 

international cash pooling transaction. This will include incoming and 

outgoing payments, cash pooling agreements and the outsourcing 

of data where banks in different jurisdictions are to provide a cash 

pooling service to a multinational group of companies. Lawyers from 

a number of jurisdictions will consider the implications, and audience 

participation in the resulting discussion will be welcomed. 

Speakers 

Jean-Francois Adelle Jeantet Associés, Paris, France 

Stefan Breitenstein Lenz & Staehelin, Zurich, Switzerland 

Rosamund Clare Grady Mallesons Stephen Jacques, Melbourne, 

Victoria, Australia 

Angela Jane Itzikowitz Edward Nathan Sonnenberg, Sandton, South 

Africa 

Peter Koves Koves Clifford Chance, Budapest, Hungary 

Pit Reckinger Elvinger Hoss & Prussen, Luxembourg 

Joy Whei Mien Tan WongPartnership, Singapore 



Project Finance 

Chair 

Timothy E Powers Haynes and Boone LLP, Dallas, Texas, USA 

Do BIts have bite? 



0930 – 1230 fRIDAY 


Co-Chairs 

Claudio Visco Macchi di Cellere Gangemi, Rome, Italy 

Blair Cowper-Smith McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

A luncH will be held for forum members and guests. 


1230 monDAY 

Recent developments regarding the law of clearing and 

settlement: a global perspective 

Session Chair 

Antoine Maffei De Pardieu Brocas Maffei, Paris, France 

Clear and effective legal rules are a prerequisite for building market 

confidence in the overall integration of global markets. A modern 

and efficient legal framework will promote further integration 

and competitiveness of financial markets while enhancing safety, 

soundness and efficiency of securities clearing and settlement. 

A number of initiatives aiming at harmonising the relevant legal 

framework, both at the regional and at the more global level, are 

underway. The proposed UNIDROIT Convention on Intermediated 

Securities and the EU Clearing and Settlement Legal Certainty 

Group initiatives, together with the ECB Target 2 Securities initiative 

currently under consideration, are among those initiatives. These 

are aiming at setting uniform rules regarding transfer of title in 

securities, duties of intermediaries and collateral arrangements, 

including set-off. The proposed programme will review those 

initiatives, which imply major changes in securities infrastructure on 

a worldwide scale. 

Speakers 

Philippe Dupont Arendt & Medernach, Luxembourg 

Klaus Löber European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 

Guy Morton Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, England 

Sandra M Rocks Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, 

USA 

Tomoyuki Shimoda Bank of Japan, Tokyo, Japan 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


Real estate Investment trusts (ReIts): a global 

phenomenon 


Blair Cowper-Smith 

Jerry K C Koh Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore 

This session will address REITs’ structural considerations and flowthrough 

benefits in various countries around the globe. The focus 

will be on issues such as: 

• what qualifies as real estate for REIT purposes in the various 

jurisdictions; 

• whether the business must be ‘passive’ and what ‘passive’ means; 

• treatment of resident unitholders and non-residents from a tax 

point of view, including unitholders in the US; 

• foreign ownership restrictions; 

• whether alternative real estate such as retirement homes, power 

stations and resort/hotel assets is eligible for rates; 

• M&A transactions involving REITs – mergers, takeover bids and 

going private; and 

• investment and economic considerations, eg the use of REIT rules 

to provide a competitive investment climate. 

Speakers 

Terence P Badour Fairmont Hotels and Resorts Inc, Toronto, Ontario, 

Canada 

Mark Berman Compiglobe, London, England 

Michael T Blair Mayer Brown, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Pieter de Ridder Loyens & Loeff, Singapore 

Stephen Culhane Linklaters LLP, New York, USA 

Blair Cowper-Smith 

Mark Ebbinghaus UBS Investment Bank, Hong Kong SAR 

Jerry K C Koh 

Scott Newmann K&L Gates, New York, USA 

Jan Peeters Stibbe, Brussels, Belgium 

John Sullivan Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia 

Thomas Werlen Novartis International AG, Basle, Switzerland; Vice- 

Chair, Capital Markets Forum 



Insurance 

Chair 

Jan Heuvels Ince & Co, London, England 


disputes 

Joint session with Litigation. 


John Toriello Holland & Knight LLP, New York, USA 

Jorge Angell L C Rodrigo Abogados, Madrid, Spain; Co-Chair, 

Litigation 

Given the global reach of the reinsurance industry, a panel of 

international experts will review a number of cross-border issues in 

the context of large multinational disputes. The panel will consider 

issues arising from jurisdictional battles, which not infrequently 

precede the substantive dispute, as well as looking at specific issues 

in the context of certain classes of reinsurance. 

Speakers 

Govindarajalu Asokan Rodyk & Davidson LLP, Singapore 

David Greenwald Jenner & Block, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Yvonne Jefferies Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, London, England 

Jorge Velarde Rodrigo Elias & Medrano Abogados, Lima, Peru 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


corporate governance and the evolving directors’ and 

officers’ liability insurance 

Session Chair 

Aruno Rajaratnam Willis, Singapore; Secretary, Insurance 

Expert analysts concluded that the single most important reason 

for the East Asian financial crisis was the corporate governance 

weaknesses in Asia. However, corporate scandals in the United 

States and Europe such as Enron, WorldCom, AOL, Daimler Chrysler, 

Parmalat and others highlight the fact that corporate governance 

compliance is an international cross-border problem. 

Against this background, a panel of market and legal experts will 

examine how D&O insurers transform and transmit the corporate 

governance risk and securities law in underwriting D&O coverage; 

pricing D&O risks and exposures according to the risk profile of each 

individual entity; and increasing focus on corporate governance in 

assessing the risk. This is not just a ‘tick-box’ approach but a serious 

assessment of conformance. 

Speakers 

Sharon Daly Matheson Ormsby Prentice, Dublin, Ireland 

Francesco De Gennero Traverso & Associati, Rome, Italy 

Shasi Gangadharan Asia Pacific Head for Chubb Specialist 

Insurances, Singapore 

Robert Haldane Stephenson Harwood, London, England 

Tricia Hobson Ebsworth & Ebsworth, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia 

Hans Londonck Sluijk Houthoff Buruma NV, Amsterdam, the 

Netherlands 

John Mathias Jr Jenner & Block, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Ricardo Ramirez Calvo Marval O’Farrell & Mairal, Buenos Aires, 

Argentina 

Rajat Taimni Tuli & Co, Mumbai, India 

Mak Yuen Teen National University of Singapore Business School, 

Singapore 

0930 – 1730 tuesDAY 




captives 

Session Chair 

Jan Heuvels 

The captive insurance industry is a major contributor to Singapore’s 

position as an insurance hub. A panel of experts will look at issues 

such as today’s drivers behind captive formation and portfolio 

diversification, as well as regulatory and legal issues including the 

dynamics which occur in a captive’s relations with its insured, its 

reinsurers and excess layers. 

Speakers 

Diana Chafey DLA Piper, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Jonathan Cook Anglo American Plc, London, England 

Liam Flynn Matheson Ormsby Prentice, Dublin, Ireland 

Daniel Koepfer Aon Insurance Managers, Singapore 

Jan Woloniecki Attride-Stirling & Woloniecki, Hamilton, Bermuda 

Michael Zipper Allianz Risk Transfer, New York, USA 

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effective regulation in an increasingly globalised 

marketplace 

Session Chair 

Martin Mankabady Lawrence Graham LLP, London, England 

This session will look at a number of issues including the difference 

between a rules-based and a principles-based regulatory regime, the 

extent to which there is regulatory arbitrage by global reinsurance 

players, and key areas which should be covered by regulation. 

Speakers 

Robert Laurie Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, Hartford, 

Connecticut, USA 

Peter Mann Clayton Utz, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 

Newsletter Editor, Insurance 

Ann Newbrun Ebsworth & Ebsworth, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia 

Sheahan Verghese Majmudar & Co, Bangalore, India 

Chris Warren-Smith Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP, London, England 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 



guests. 


1930 tHuRsDAY 


Chair 

Edgar Wallach Hengeler Mueller, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 

Investment funds in Asia: issues for fund managers, 

sponsors and investors 

Session Chair 

Rory Gallaher Deacons, Hong Kong SAR; Secretary, Investment 

Funds 

This session will explore whether the increasing economic growth in 

certain countries in Asia has led to corresponding growth in business 

and investment opportunities for fund managers, sponsors and 

investors in these jurisdictions. In this context it will introduce the 

legal framework of the relevant investment fund laws and will shed 

light on the commercial conditions found by foreign asset managers 

accessing the market. 

Speakers 

Shefali Goradia Nishith Desai Associates, Mumbai, India 

Frederick J Horsey Barclays Global Investors, Hong Kong SAR 

Lawrence Low JP Morgan, Singapore 

Thomas H McGowan Russin & Vecchi, Taipei, Taiwan 

Timothy J O’Brien Kim & Chang, Seoul, South Korea 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


Anatomy of a fund blow-up: what happens when 

things go wrong? 

Session Chair 

David Dillon Dillon Eustace Solicitors, Dublin, Ireland; Senior Vice- 

Chair, Investment Funds 

The session will consider the incidence of fund blow-ups and their 

implications in the context of liability, exposure, ownership interests 

and priorities of the various parties to a fund. The session will 

compare the different legal concepts of each jurisdiction represented 

at the roundtable. 

Speakers 

Choo Wai Hong Legal Consultant, Singapore 

Umesh Kumar Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, England 

Yves Prussen Elvinger Hoss Prussen, Luxembourg 

Nigel Stead Management Plus, Singapore 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 



guests. 


1930 tuesDAY

Private Investment Funds 

Co-Chairs 

Michael Wolitzer Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, USA 

Jason Glover Clifford Chance LLP, London, England (also Session 

Co-Chair) 

Hedge and private equity funds as clients – what a 

non-funds lawyer should know 

Session Chair 

Michael Wolitzer 

The private investment funds area has grown dramatically over the 

past 15 years and the legal needs of the funds and their managers 

have grown along with it. These fund clients have gone from 

having simple fund formation and investment transaction needs to 

utilising a broad array of services provided by full-service law firms. 

As their investment activities broaden, such clients need regulatory 

advice, help with antitrust filings and litigation support. As the fund 

managers themselves grow through scale and diversification, they 

have become increasingly sophisticated users of employment, tax 

and bank finance advice. Most recently, we have seen firms and 

funds going public, requiring capital markets expertise and corporate 

governance advice. This panel will explore the special considerations 

associated with providing advice to private investment firms and the 

funds that they manage. 

Speakers 

Randy Bodner Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 

Nigel Farr Herbert Smith LLP, London, England 

Hilton Mervis SJ Berwin LLP, London, England 

Zia Mody AZB & Partners, Mumbai, India 

Wai King Ng WongPartnership, Singapore 

Ashar Qureshi Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, London, 

England 

James Wadham Clifford Chance LLP, Hong Kong SAR 

Katsuyuki Yamaguchi Nishimura & Asahi, Tokyo, Japan 




Co-Chairs 

Margaret Tahyar Davis Polk & Wardwell, Paris, France 

René Bösch Homburger, Zürich, Switzerland 

consolidation of securities exchanges: moving towards 

a truly global securities market? 

Session Chair 

René Bösch 

Since the demutualisation of securities exchanges in many parts of 

the world, the trend towards consolidation has been unstoppable. 

The market has seen successful and less successful attempts by 

exchange operators, having first gone public themselves, to acquire 

minority stakes, to enter into cross-border mergers or to launch 

takeover bids, both friendly and unsolicited. This session will analyse 

various recent examples of consolidation in the industry, including 

the creation of Euronext, the attempts made to take over or merge 

with the London Stock Exchange (by Deutsche Börse and Nasdaq 

among others), the merger between the Chicago Mercantile 

Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, the merger between the 

New York Stock Exchange and Euronext and the acquisition of the 

Bolsa Italiana by the London Stock Exchange etc. 

The panel will include experts from various sides of the market, 

who will discuss the benefits, risks and implications from the point of 

view of all stakeholders and who will share their thoughts on what 

the future has yet to bring. 

Speakers 

Thomas Bischof Group Regulatory Management UBS AG, Zurich, 

Switzerland 

Liam Flynn Matheson Ormsby Prentice, Dublin, Ireland 

Chris Gordon Bell Gully, Wellington, New Zealand 

Catherine Langlais Euronext Group, Paris, France 

Niels Walther-Rasmussen Kromann Reumert, Copenhagen, 

Denmark; Chair, Underwriting and Distribution Subcommittee 

Jaap Willeumier Stibbe, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Council 

Member, Legal Practice Division 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


A luncH will be held with Banking law for committee 

members and guests. 


communication strategies in securities and m&A 

transactions 

Joint session with Media Law. 

1230 tuesDAY 

Session Chair 

Christian Cascante Gleiss Lutz, Stuttgart, Germany; Conference 

Coordinator, Securities Law 

In many jurisdictions, IPOs and M&A transactions draw a great deal 

of publicity, hostile takeovers in particular. For the parties involved, it 

is often key to choose the right communication strategy – and not to 

make any legal mistakes when doing so. 

This session includes investment banking, legal, PR and IR experts 

and will focus first on the dos and don’ts when seeking publicity 

in securities or M&A transactions. Topics covered will be the use 

of broader advertising campaigns, the use of general media, the 

methods of dealing with unwanted media reports, and the relevant 

legal restrictions. The roles of the issuer, the banks and other experts 

will be addressed. The second part of the session will highlight the 

approach of PR specialists to public M&A transactions, the different 

perspectives of the relevant constituencies and the legal issues in 

connection therewith by way of a case study. 

Speakers 

Chris Ashworth O’Melveny & Myers LLP, London, England 

Rebecca Blumenstein Wall Street Journal, Beijing, China 

Michael DeSombre Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Hong Kong SAR 

Jane Liu Christensen IR, Hong Kong SAR 

Tim Payne Brunswick Group, Hong Kong SAR 

Rohit Sipahimalani Morgan Stanley, Singapore 

Prawiro Widjaja Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


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capital markets financings for private equity deals in 

Asia: recent trends and key issues 


Timothy Massad Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, USA 

Filip Moerman Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Beijing, China 

This session will review recent trends and developments as well 

as key issues in the use of capital markets for financing private 

equity deals in Asia. The number of private equity buy-outs in Asia 

continues to increase, and the private equity community has turned 

its focus to Asia as a source for new investments. 

Discussions will encompass the different requirements for private 

equity transactions in Asia compared to the US and Europe, and 

what impact those differences have on capital market financings. 

The role of high-yield debt in Asian private equity will be explored, 

and the importance of equity capital markets and IPOs as exit 

strategies will be explained. The session will also review the use of 

novel financing techniques such as PIK notes. 

Speakers 

Jonathan Ross Bell Gully, Auckland, New Zealand; Conference 

Coordinator, Securities Law 

Ashish Shastry Texas Pacific Group, Singapore 

Peter Siambab Citigroup, Hong Kong SAR 

Anthony Wang Clifford Chance LLP, Hong Kong SAR 



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Julia Onslow-Cole London, England 

Discrimination and Gender 

Equality 

Chair 

Barry Mordsley Salans, London, England 

Pursuing and defending discrimination claims in the 

workplace 

Joint session with Mediation. 


Ignacio Funes de Rioja Funes de Rioja e Associades, Buenos Aires, 

Argentine; Secretary and Website Coordinator, Discrimination and 

Gender Equality 

Rod Harper Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs, Johannesburg, South 

Africa 

David Lowe Rudy Exelrod & Zieff LLP, San Francisco, Califonia, USA; 

Vice-Chair, Discrimination and Gender Equality 

Barry Mordsley 

Despite efforts by organisations in many jurisdictions to embrace 

diversity and multiculturalism, discrimination claims by employees 

remain prevalent. This programme will consider how companies 

can take effective measures to prevent and resolve such claims 

before they result in costly litigation and adverse publicity. A panel 

of judges, in-house counsel and private practitioners will consider 

the steps to prevent the rise of disputes and will discuss how to 

respond to media and press enquiries with the use of public relations 

consultants. The panel will also consider pre-action protocols in 

different jurisdictions prior to commencement of proceedings 

disclosure and evidential issues such as the EU Burden of Proof 

Directive in facilitating claims. Consideration will also be given to 

mediation of workplace discrimination claims by HR departments 

during the employment relationship and how mediation is 

increasingly the subject of advice from private practitioners. 

Speakers 

Kala Anandarajah Rajah & Tann, Singapore 

Louise Barrington Hong Kong SAR 

Mike Delikat Orrick, New York, USA 

Corbette Doyle AON, Franklin, Tennessee, USA 

Hagi Elul Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, USA 

AndersEtgen Reitz Bech-Bruun, Copenhagen, Denmark 

Noemi Gal-Or Kwantlen University College, Surrey, British Columbia, 

Canada 

Burkard Göpfert Gleiss Lutz, Munich, Germany 

Tony Hyams-Parish Rawlinson Butler LLP, West Sussex, England 

Sean Jones London, England 

Camille Olson Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Sebastián C Rodrigo Alfaro Abogados, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Alan Rycroft Faculty of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 

South Africa 

0930 – 1730 tuesDAY 


A DInneR will be held with the employment and 

Industrial Relations law committee for members and 

guests. 


2000 tuesDAY 

sex, age and race discrimination in law firms 


Dirk Jan Rutgers Kennedy Van der Laan, Amsterdam, the 

Netherlands; Vice-Chair, Discrimination and Gender Equality 

Scott Wenner Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, New York, USA 

Despite the increased focus on age discrimination in employment 

laws around the world, many law firms still impose mandatory 

retirement on partners who may escape the reach of employment 

discrimination laws, or who may fall under an exception 

for mandatory retirement. Additionally, some argue that a 

disproportionately low number of partners in major US, European, 

and other law firms are women and from ethnic minorities. Some 

believe law firms limit partnership opportunities in this regard, 

through a ‘glass ceiling’ or otherwise. 

This session will consider why many law firms seem to limit 

partnership opportunities for women and protected minorities, 

refusing to embrace diversity and multiculturalism and limiting 

the talent available as a result. The session will address diversity 

strategies and the limits of discrimination laws for promoting 

opportunities for victims of discrimination in law firms. 

Speakers 

Mark Alcott Paul Reiss Rifkin Wharton & Garrison LLP, Immediate 

Past President of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), 

New York, USA 

Anne Birgitte Gammeljord Gorrissen Federspiel Kierkegaard/Danish 

Law Society, Copenhagen, Denmark 

Phil Clements Washington Mutual, Seattle, Washington, USA 

Veronica Joseph Drew & Napier LLC, Singapore 

Alistair McGregor QC 11 King’s Bench Walk, London, England 

Taswell Papier Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs, Cape Town, South 

Africa; Past President, Cape Law Society 



Religious symbols in the workplace and in public places 


Regina Glaser Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Düsseldorf, Germany 

Susan Stelzner Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs, Cape Town, South 

Africa; Vice-Chair, Discrimination and Gender Equality 

The recent debate over religious customs in the workplace has 

highlighted the potential conflict between organisations deciding 

their policies on dress codes and use of religious symbols on the 

one hand, and employees observing their cultural traditions without 

religious impediment on the other. Should these cases be resolved 

by managerial compromise, and can the law preventing religious 

discrimination help? 

These issues will be considered by a panel of experts, including 

human resources professionals and in-house counsel, who will 

consider the impact on the successful conduct of business, and in 

the light of the importance of tolerance and diversity. 

Speakers 

Danny Armstrong First Rand Bank, Johannesburg, South Africa 

Katell Deniel-Allioux Salans, Paris, France 

Edmundo Escobar Escobar y Gorostieta SC, Mexico City, Mexico 

Charles H Kaplan Lowenstein Sandler PC, New York, USA 

Christine Moore British Telecommunications, London, England 

Vijayan Venugopal Shearn Delamore & Co, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


Employment and Industrial 

Relations Law 

Co-Chairs 

Salvador del Rey Cuatrecasas, Madrid/Barcelona, Spain 

Mariann Norrbom Norrbom & Vinding, Copenhagen, Denmark 

understanding Asian employment and labour law in a 

globalisation context: the role of Asian and non-Asian 

multinationals 


Salvador del Rey 

Els de Wind Van Doorne, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Publications 

Officer, Employment and Industrial Relations Law 

Robert Mignin Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Senior 

Vice-Chair, Employment and Industrial Relations Law 

Gerlind Wisskirchen CMS Hasche Sigle, Cologne, Germany; 

Publications Officer, Employment and Industrial Relations Law 

Understanding employment and labour law in Asia 

Lawyers from major law firms in China, India, Korea, Singapore 

and other Asian countries will explain their practice in HHRR legal 

systems in relation to their essential institutions: 

• the role of law, collective agreements and individual contracts in 

the regulation of working conditions; 

• the drafting of an employment contract; 

• main working conditions in action: wages, working time etc; 

• modifications to an employment contract; 

• termination of the employment contract for business and 

disciplinary reasons; 

• outsourcing and employees’ internal and international mobility; 

• the role of trade unions; and 

• solutions to labour conflicts: jurisdiction, mediation and 

arbitration. 

Speakers 

Lalit Bhasin The Bar Association of India, New Delhi, India 

Brendon Carr Hwang Mok Park PC, Seoul, South Korea 

Biswajit Chatterjee Tata Consultancy Services Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, 

Singapore 

Dominic Hui Vivien Chan & Co, Shanghai, China 

Lucy Lu King & Wood, Shanghai, China 

Amir Singh Pasrich International Law Affiliates, New Delhi, India; 

Vice-Chair, Asia Pacific Forum 

Manishi Pathak Kochhar & Co, New Delhi, India 

Anand Prasad Trilegal, New Delhi, India 

Thavalingam Thavarajah Zaid Ibrahim & Co, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Vijayan Venugopal Shearn Delamore & Co, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Isabelle I H Wan TransAsia Lawyers, Shanghai, China 

Caroline Wicks PricewaterhouseCoopers International Assignment 

Services (Singapore) Pte Ltd, Singapore 

Kent Woo Kingson Law Firm, Guangzhou, China 

Andy Yeo Johnson Stokes & Master, Shanghai, China 

0930 – 1730 monDAY 


understanding human resources law for non-Asian 

multinationals operating in Asian countries 


Pascale Lagesse Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris, France; Vice- 

Chair, Employment and Industrial Relations Law 

Mariann Norrbom 

HR managers and in-house counsel from major American, European 

and Australian multinationals will explain the main issues they face 

when operating in Asian countries: how they adapt to very different 

cultural, social and legal systems; the role of code of conducts 

and internal instructions; how they make a balance between 

international and local managers; the role of local and international 

law firms in their adaptations to local employment and labour rules; 

and how they view the role of their countries and their companies in 

the process of globalisation in Asia. 

Speakers 

Bikramjit Maitra Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India 

Cynthia Remmers Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California, USA 

Archana Sasan GE Money Financial Services Limited, Haryana, India 

Peter Susser Littler Mendelson PC, Washington DC, USA 

Peter Wood Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of Hong Kong 

Limited, Hong Kong SAR 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


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understanding human resources law for Asian 

multinationals operating in non-Asian countries 


Oscar de la Vega Basham Ringe y Correa SC, Mexico City, Mexico; 

Secretary and Website Coordinator, Employment and Industrial 

Relations Law 

Rob Towner Bell Gully, Auckland, New Zealand 

HR managers and in-house counsel from Asian multinationals will 

explain how they operate in non-Asian countries: how they adapt to 

very different cultural, social and legal systems; the role of code of 

conducts (if any) and internal instructions; how they make a balance 

between international and local managers; the role of local and 

international law firms in their adaptations to local employment and 

labour rules; and how they view the role of their countries and their 

companies in the process of globalisation outside Asia. 

Speakers 

Russell Allen Freehills, Perth, Western Australia, Australia 

Darren G Gardner Seyfarth Shaw LLP, San Francisco, California, USA 

K Lesli Ligorner Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP, Hong Kong 

SAR 

Eddie Ng Vivien Chan & Co, Hong Kong SAR 

Ruengrit Pooprasert Zaid Ibrahim & Co (Thailand) Ltd, Bangkok, 

Thailand 

Pattie Walsh Minter Ellison, Hong Kong SAR 

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1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


A DInneR will be held with Discrimination and gender 

equality law for committee members and guests. 


2000 tuesDAY 


An open meeting of the Employement and Industrial Relations Law 

Committee will be held to discuss future activities. 




Co-Chairs 

Sergio R Karas Karas & Associates, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Gabrielle Buckley Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, Chicago, 

Illinois, USA 

global business immigration update 

Session Chair 

Sergio R Karas 

This session will provide a worldwide update on developments in 

the field of business immigration law. The session will focus on new 

trends and policies in various jurisdictions, offer a critique of these 

systems, and compare how countries encourage or discourage 

business and skilled worker migration. 

Speakers 

Heriberto Batres Arellano Rincon Abogados SC, Monterrey, Mexico 

Eric Bland Siskind Susser Bland, New York, USA 

Gary S Eisenberg Eisenberg & Associates, Cape Town, South Africa; 

Vice-Chair, Immigration and Nationality Law 

Carolina Garutti EMDOC MRS Specialized Services, São Paulo, Brazil 

Kenneth K C Ing Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver, British Columbia, 

Canada 

Gunther Mävers Mütze Korsch, Cologne, Germany 

Nadine Owen PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal LLP, London, England; 

Secretary, Immigration and Nationality Law 

Fernando Scornik Gerstein Fernando Scornik Gerstein Abogados, 

Madrid, Spain; Co-Chair, Senior Lawyers’ Committee 

Michael Thornton Thornton Immigration Lawyers, Dandenong, 

Victoria, Australia 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


collision course? coordination of immigration law and 


Joint session with Taxes. 

Session Chair 

Gabrielle Buckley 

This session will be of interest to immigration, tax and employment 

practitioners. The session will highlight the relationship between 

immigration and tax policies around the world and their effect on 

expatriate employees and their employers. The speakers will examine 

the tax ramifications created by the movement of highly skilled 

labour, and discuss possible solutions and tax planning strategies. 

Speakers 

Daksha Baxi Nishith Desai Associates, India 

Clayton Cartwright The Cartwright Law Firm LLC, Columbus, 

Georgia, USA 

Stacy Choong Drew & Napier LLC, Singapore 

Nadine Gelli 

Howard Greenberg Greenberg Turner, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Brian Harris Brian Harris & Co, London, England 

Paula Singer 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


fines, jail, deportation and bad publicity: immigration 

enforcement trends affecting employers and 

international employees 

Session Chair 

Greg Siskind Siskind Susser Bland PC, Memphis, Tennessee, USA 

This session will examine immigration enforcement issues affecting 

corporate employers and their global workforces. Speakers will 

focus on potential problems and liabilities, and suggest preventive 

measures and solutions. The speakers will also discuss high-profile 

employer sanctions and prosecutions in various jurisdictions, and 

how employers can avoid similar situations. 

Speakers 

David Bitel Parish Patience Immigration Lawyers, Sydney, New South 

Wales, Australia 

Laura Danielson Fredrikson & Byron, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 

Laura Devine Laura Devine Solicitors, London, England 

Henry Hachez Verhaegen Walravens, Brussels, Belgium 

Jose Jimenez JG Law, Makati City, Philippines 

Pablo Käufer Barbe Estudio Käufer Barbe & Vinent, Buenos Aires, 

Argentina; Vice-Chair, Senior Lawyers’ Committee 

Edward Lehman Lehman Lee & Xu, Beijing, China 

Ranjit Malhotra Malhotra & Malhotra Associates, India 

Yoshio Shimoda Administrative Lawyers Corporation, Tokyo, Japan 



Immigration and work visa options in the Asia Pacific 

region 

Session Chair 

Eugene Chow Chow King & Associates, Hong Kong SAR 

The session will focus on the specific immigration policies of 

countries in the Asia Pacific region, with emphasis on the emerging 

economies. The session will identify trends in bilateral and 

multilateral migration between countries, and discuss immigration 

issues and challenges for companies setting up operations in these 

countries. 

Speakers 

Shalini Agarwal ALMT Legal, London, England 

Helen Chan Assistant Director, Visa and Policies Matters, Hong Kong 

Immigration Department, Hong Kong SAR 

Mai Thi Minh Hang Russin & Vecchi LLC, Hanoi, Vietnam 

Maria Jockel Maddocks Lawyers, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

Aubeck Kam Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore 

Marcus Kosins Jr Kosins Attorney at Foreign Law Office, Tokyo, 

Japan 

K C Li Law Offices of KC Li, Guangzhou/Shanghai, China 

Clarence Yeo Deputy Commissioner, Immigration & Checkpoints 

Authority, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore 




guests. 


1930 tHuRsDAY 

Insolvency, Restructuring and 

Creditors’ Rights Section 


Selinda A Melnik Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, Wilmington, 

Delaware/New York, USA 

Co-Chairs 

Christopher Besant Cassels Brock & Blackwell, Toronto, Ontario, 

Canada 

Alexander Klauser Brauneis Klauser Prändl, Vienna, Austria 

the new corporate raiders: the role of hedge funds in 

financial restructuring 

Session Chair 

Arlene Elgart Mirsky Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross PC, Newark, New 

Jersey, New York, USA; Co-Chair, Reorganisation and Workouts 

Subcommittee 

Hedge funds – lightly regulated investment pools – have entered into 

nearly every aspect of the investing world. Recently, the estimated 

US$1 trillion hedge fund industry has increasingly encroached on 

the traditional role of banks, lending money to ailing, cash-strapped 

companies. 

But the arrival of hedge funds has shaken up the business 

of giving loans to struggling companies, with many traditional 

lenders complaining about the rough tactics they say hedge funds 

sometimes employ. These lenders say hedge funds often resist 

amending loan agreements, thereby making it more likely that 

borrowers will file for bankruptcy protection. 

The notion of the hedge fund corporate raider is also alive and 

well as hedge funds to extract the maximum financial benefit from 

their investments, including trying to force a sell-off of assets. 

Distinguished speakers will focus on these recent developments 

in the restructuring process, in particular the impact of changes 

in players and processes on distressed and bankrupt firms. Topics 

include: an overview of the international distressed debt market; 

how regulators view this changing dynamic (including recent 

investigations into insider trading); whether companies benefit from 

hedge fund investments; whether hedge funds (and private equity 

investors) should serve on creditors’ committees; and whether firms 

in bankruptcy today are more likely to be sold off than reorganised 

due to hedge fund activities. 


Speakers 

Harry G Broadman The World Bank, Washington DC, USA 

Thomas M Cambern Wachovia Securities, Charlotte, North Carolina, 

USA 

Michael R Clark Loan Management One S.r.o, Bratislava, Slovak 

Republic 

Andrew Grimmett Deloitte & Touche Financial Advisory Services Pte 

Ltd, Singapore 

John R Knight JP Morgan Chase & Co, Singapore 

Simon M Lorne Millennium Partners LP, New York, USA 

Alfredo R Perez Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Houston, Texas, USA 

Giovanni P Prezioso Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, 


David Putnam Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, Hong Kong SAR 

John J Rapisardi Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP, New York, USA 

James H M Sprayregen Goldman Sachs & Co, New York, USA 

Myra Tabor Cognis Capital, London, England 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


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Insolvency reform in Asia 

This session will consist of three panels examining key areas of 

insolvency and restructuring law and practice in the Asia Pacific 

region. 

China’s new insolvency reform 

Moderator 

Charles D Booth University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 

The panel will address questions such as the following: Does China’s 

new insolvency law represent a major advance in addressing the 

situation of insolvent enterprises in China? How will the new 

Chinese law affect lenders and investors? Will the new law make it 

easier to resolve the insolvencies of China’s state-owned enterprises? 

What will the role of the Chinese Government be in future Chinese 

insolvencies, and will it play a different role than it has in the past? 

Speakers 

John R Lees John Lees & Associates Ltd, Hong Kong SAR 

John M Marsden Johnson Stokes & Master, Shanghai, China 

Wang Weiguo China University of Politics and Law, Beijing, China 

Asian law reform 

Moderator 

Clare Wee Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines 

The panel will focus on the following issues: What have been the 

major insolvency reforms in recent years in different Asian-Pacific 

jurisdictions? Have these reforms been effective, and have they 

kept pace with economic developments in the region? Is there an 

‘implementation gap’ in enforcing the new laws? What are the 

major challenges that lie ahead for modernising the insolvency law 

regimes in the Asia Pacific region? 

Speakers 

Sumant Batra Kesar Dass & Associates, New Delhi, India 

David Cowling Clayton Utz, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 

Vice-Chair, Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights 

Hideyuki Sakai Bingham McCutchen Murase Sakai & Mimura 

(Foreign Law Joint Enterprise), Tokyo, Japan 

Soogeun Oh Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, South Korea 

Cross-border insolvencies 

Moderators 

Leonard H Gilbert Holland & Knight LLP, Tampa, Florida, USA 

Steven T Kargman Kargman Associates, New York, USA 

The panel will review major cases involving complex cross-border 

insolvencies and restructurings. It will also consider whether it has 

been possible to achieve effective cross-border coordination and 

cooperation in multi-jurisdictional insolvencies and restructurings. 

In addition, the panel will discuss the potential role of mergers and 

acquisitions as a part of the work-out process. 

Speakers 

Stephen B Flynn Simpson Grierson, Wellington, New Zealand 

Guy Isherwood Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited, 

Hong Kong SAR 

Sushil Nair Drew Napier LLC, Singapore 

Kannan Ramesh Tan Kok Quan Partnership, Singapore 

Jin Tao Jun He Law Offices, Beijing, China 

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1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 




1930 tuesDAY 

transnational insolvency and fraud 

Joint session with Business Crime and the International Chamber 

of Commerce’s Fraudnet Division. 


David Cowling 

Martin Kenney Martin Kenney & Co, Tortola, British Virgin Islands 

This session will examine the role of fraud, asset tracing and asset 

recovery in transnational insolvency administration. The focus will be 

on how insolvency practitioners can work with lawyers specialising in 

white collar crime to overcome these problems, where assets or the 

proceeds of asset liquidation have been dispersed out of the country 

in which the insolvent corporation was domiciled. 

As well as gaining practical advice on how to approach these 

problems, participants will obtain an insight into what types of 

jurisdictions can be especially problematic to deal with and common 

transnational structural techniques employed to defraud the 

legitimate claims of creditors. 

This session will be followed by a members’ meeting for the 

Section on Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights (SIRC). 

SIRC officers will provide an update on the activities, projects and 

future initiatives of SIRC. 

Speakers 

Frederick D Holden Orrick, San Francisco, California, USA 

Michael Hughes Minter Ellison, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 

Bernd Klose Fachanwalt für Insolvenzrecht, Friedrichsdorf, Germany 

Steven Philippsohn PCB Litigation, London, England 

Marc Russenberger Vischer, Zurich, Switzerland 

Manoj Sandrasegara Drew Napier LLC, Singapore 

Joseph J Wielebinski Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC, Dallas, Texas, 

USA 



Intellectual Property, 

Communications and Technology 

Section 


Clive Elliott Shortland Chambers, Auckland, New Zealand 

Almudena Arpón de Mendívil Gómez-Acebo & Pombo, Madrid, 

Spain 

second dates: up to speed tabletalk 

This is an interactive networking session that builds on the successful 

‘speed dating’ session held at last year’s Annual Conference in 

Chicago. Participants will move around moderated tables discussing 

areas of current interest providing you with a convenient opportunity 

to meet many other lawyers with similar interests and to discuss a 

number of topics with them. Officers of the section’s committees 

will also be soliciting your views about your areas of interest and 

encouraging other suggestions, to enable the section to deliver 

activities accordingly. 

A variety of topics covering aspects of business and law of interest 

to the section’s committees will be discussed, including ‘hot topics’ 

that will be selected for relevance just prior to the conference. Topics 

to be covered include: 

• Google Earth and intrusive technologies: how far should they 

reach? 

• mobile entertainment; 

• real law in virtual worlds: massive multiplayer interactive games; 

• user generated content (blogs and wikis); 

• mining the data mountains: personal and corporate data;

• new multimedia platforms (HDTV, broadband, wireless); 

• the mobile divide: new mobile technologies and their regional 

development; 

• secured financing of satellites; 

• when buying art is theft: cultural heritage and Asia; 

• art and freedom of expression: should there be boundaries? and 

• online gaming. 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


Art, Cultural Institutions and 

Heritage Law 

Co-Chairs 

Cristina Manasse Milan, Italy 

Adrian Parkhouse Farrer & Co LLP, London, England 

A DInneR will be held with media law for committee 

members and guests. 





2000 tuesDAY 



An open meeting of the Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law 


Buying art: can the risks be reduced? 



Session Chair 

José María Beneyto Gómez-Acebo & Pombo, Madrid, Spain; Senior 

Vice-Chair, Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law 

This session identifies the risks that arise upon the purchase of 

art works – risks that are accentuated by the inherent value and 

portability of the items. The session will go on to consider the 

extent to which it may be possible to reduce those risks by way of 

internationally accepted protocols, standard form contracts and 

databases of relevant laws. The session will build on work done at 

the Committee’s conference held 31 May – 1 June 2007 in Milan, 

Italy. 

Speakers 

Pieter Ariens Kappers Boekel De Nerée NV, Amsterdam, the 

Netherlands 

Jean-François Canat UGGC & Associés, Paris, France; WIPO Liaison, 

Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law 

Bonnie Czegledi Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Secretary, Art, Cultural 

Institutions and Heritage Law 

Klaus Jürgen Kraatz Kraatz & Kraatz, Kronberg, Germany 

Cristina Manasse 

Jean-Marie Vulliemin Froriep Renggli, Geneva, Switzerland; Vice- 

Chair, Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law 

Phil Whittaker LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 




Chair 

Michael Bernasconi Bär & Karrer, Zurich, Switzerland 

Wireless distribution IP issues 

Joint session with the Licensing Intellectual Property and 

International Treaties Subcommittee. See page 67 for details. 

0930 – 1730 tuesDAY 


Bikinis and burkas, satellites and snoopers – what 

limits should the law impose on surveillance 

technology? 

Joint session with Outer Space Law. See page 69 for details. 

0900 – 1300 tuesDAY 


A DInneR will be held with outer space law for 

committee members and guests. 


1930 tuesDAY 

the mobile divide: can regulation foster progress 

internationally and inter-regionally? 


Alexandre Verheyden Jones Day, Brussels, Belgium; Membership 

Officer, Communications Law 

Chris Watson Dechert LLP, London, England; Website Coordinator, 


Mobile communications are ubiquitous. But some countries are 

advancing faster than others to implement improved networks 

and mobile technologies and to roll out new services. Even within 

countries, operators can bring advances to some regions while 

others are left to fall behind. As a result, some consumers enjoy 

innovative and rapidly improving services, such as high-speed data 

services, while others see modest change. And although policymakers 

may want operators to move faster, the operators may feel 

constrained due to investment realities. This session will focus on the 

challenges involving the rolling out of wireless broadband networks 

and services, and will explore the extent to which regulatory policies, 

including deregulation initiatives, can help to bridge the mobile 

divide between countries and between regions within countries. 

Speakers 

Camila Borba Lefévre Houthoff Buruma NV, Amsterdam, the 

Netherlands 

Lorne Salzman McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Mike McCabe EA – electronic arts, Hong Kong SAR 

David Satola The World Bank, Washington DC, USA 

Susan Schorr International Telecommunication Union (ITU),Geneva, 

Switzerland 



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new multimedia platforms: who is riding the wave? 

HDtV, broadband, wireless, fixed line – issues arising 



Session Chair 

Malcolm Webb MGF Webb, Auckland, New Zealand; Vice-Chair, 


There is increasing direct competition between what were previously 

adjacent platforms: DSL or fibre versus cable or satellite, fixed versus 

mobile, IPTV versus broadcasting etc. Also, previously distinct operators 

are beginning to compete head-on, for example broadcasters like 

BSkyB which are offering bundled broadband, and telcos like BT, 

France Télécom and Telecom Italia which are offering video services, 

including IPTV. Incumbent telcos, faced with declining voice revenues, 

must find new businesses in markets where they are the challenger to 

established companies. Successful new entrants to the communications 

market, sites like Google, Yahoo and eBay, have seen huge expansion, 

and consumers are spending more and more on communications and 

media services. This session explores the new business models that 

are beginning to emerge, the new alliances that are taking shape, the 

developing legal issues and concerns, and the policy and regulatory 

challenges that arise in a rapidly converging market. 

Speakers 

Stuart Chiron PCCW Limited, Hong Kong SAR 

Katrina Johnson eBay Australia & New Zealand Ltd, Sydney, New 

South Wales, Australia 

John King Ivor Fitzpatrick & Company, Dublin, Ireland 

Simon Muys Blake Dawson Waldron, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

Marcus Vass Bird & Bird, Hong Kong SAR 

Richard L Wirthlin Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles, California, USA 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


Intellectual Property and 

Entertainment Law 

Co-Chairs 

Richard Jarvis Davies Collison Cave Solicitors, Melbourne, Victoria, 

Australia 

Robert Krupka Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Los Angeles, California, USA 


guests. 


2030 tuesDAY 

Best practice in IP litigation in the courts for the 

resolution of local and cross-border disputes 

Joint session with the National University of Singapore’s 

Faculty of Law. 

Session Chair 

The Honourable Justice Annabelle Bennett AO Federal Court of 

Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 

The challenges to intellectual property (IP) rights at so many levels have 

prompted a need for establishing and institutionalising a framework 

of specialised IP judges, courts and tribunals to protect and enforce IP 

rights in an efficient matter. This session will provide a unique forum 

for discussion and exchange of ideas on current issues related to the IP 

enforcement landscape, with a particular focus on the Asia Pacific region. 

This session will also look at strategies for more effective enforcement of 

IP rights and measures to strengthen cross-border enforcement. The panel 

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will then formulate an action plan to help reduce hearing times and cost 

for litigants and provide practical guidance for the conduct of litigation, 

particularly in complex technical cases. 

Whether you are in compliance, regulation or enforcement of IP 

rights, a lawyer in private practice, a judge or an intellectual property 

right holder, this distinguished panel will provide you with an 

invaluable insight into this important emerging issue. 

Buses will depart the Suntec Convention Centre at 0845 hours and 

will return at 1300 hours. 

Speakers 

Judge Reynaldo Bautista Daway IP and Commercial Court, Quezon 

City, Philippines 

Clive Elliott Shortland Chambers, Auckland, New Zealand; Council 


Tan Cheng Han Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 

Singapore 

Robert Krupka 

The Honourable Justice Lee Seiu Kin Supreme Court of Singapore, 

Singapore 

Valentina Zoghbi International Bar Association, London, England 


national university of singapore 

4696 Bukit timah Road, singapore, 259779 


olympic 


0930 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


Real IP in a virtual world: IP issues arising out of virtual 

characters and scenes in online video games 

Session Chair 

William B Bunker Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP, Irvine, 

California, USA; Vice-Chair, Licensing Intellectual Property and 

International Treaties Subcommittee 

Who owns player-modified online gaming characters (aka ‘avatars’)? 

Can virtual economies become real economies? Can rights exist in 

virtual brands and virtual store fronts? Is gaming tourism virtual or 

real? Explore these and other issues with this panel of intellectual 

property lawyers and industry professionals from the world’s hottest 

gaming markets. The panel will address in detail how IP rights, 

including patent, copyright, trademark and rights of publicity, are 

implicated in this burgeoning industry. 

This session will include live demonstrations of a few of the largest 

Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) and a presentation of 

data showing the explosive growth of this market. Presently, there 

are well over ten million registered MMOG players worldwide. 

Speakers 

Fabian Niemann Bird & Bird, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 

William Tomlinson University of California, Irvine, California, USA 

Carlos R Villamar RMH Law, McLean, Virginia, USA 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


Copyright and Entertainment Law 

Chair 

Rachel Atkins Schillings, London, England 

google issues – is content liability sexy again? 



Peter Brownlow Bird & Bird, London, England; Vice-Chair, 


Mark Stephens Finers Stephens Innocent, London, England; Chair, 

Media Law 

Entire libraries are being digitised and user-generated content on 

sites such as YouTube is attracting huge amounts of investment and 

publicity. This session will examine the problems faced by companies 

such as Google in using this material either with or without the 

permission of the copyright owners. 

The interests of online service providers and content rights owners 

are increasingly coming into conflict as the internet evolves. How 

these disputes are resolved will affect the future of the internet. 

Legislation in different jurisdictions such as the Digital Millennium 

Copyright Act (US) and the Electronic Commerce Directive (EU) has 

sought to balance these interests. This session will look at both 

perspectives while taking a multijurisdictional look at these problems 

and the development of law in this area. 

Speakers 

Gilbert Leong Rodyk & Davidson LLP, Singapore 

Alexandra Neri Herbert Smith LLP, Paris, France 

Richard Raysman Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP, New 

York, USA 

Mark Stephens 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


Licensing Intellectual Property and International 

Treaties 

Chair 

Gustavo Alcocer Olivares & Cía, Mexico City, Mexico 

Wireless distribution IP issues 

Joint session with Communications Law. 


Gustavo Alcocer 

Matthias Nordmann Schwarz Kelwing Wicke Westpfahl, Munich, 

Germany 

Dirk Stolz Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Cologne, Germany 

With ever-increasing numbers of mobile devices available (mobile 

phones, blackberries, PDAs etc), media distribution is changing. New 

market players and platforms have emerged distributing content 

such as music, ring tones, cartoons, short clips, videos, photos, 

games and more. In many cases, existing audiovisual content 

is distributed onto mobile devices after having been technically 

modified. At the same time, new formats have arisen that are 

specifically tailored to small screen devices. The legal implications of 

these new distribution channels and forms of content are complex 

and still only partly solved. In this session, representatives from 

mobile providers and the media and entertainment industries, as 

well as their legal counsel, will provide examples of wireless service 

offerings and present their licensing strategies and business models. 

They will offer a general technical insight and discuss the emerging 

legal issues involved. These include: 

• What rights are needed in order to offer content on mobile 

devices? 

• Are moral rights infringed when content is reduced to fit mini 

screens? 

• Do older licence agreements already cover the relevant rights to 

distribute wireless? 

• How are the extensive information and transparency requirements 

complied with on mini screens? 

• Do consumer protection laws restrict the growth of wireless 

distribution? 

• Is mobile content regulated more strictly like broadcasting formats 

or rather loosely like internet content? 

Speakers 

Nigel Beck 

Jay J Kim Kim & Chang, Seoul, South Korea 

Peter Leonard Gilbert + Tobin, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 

Tony Lupo Arent Fox LLP, Washington DC, USA 

James C Roberts Praxis LLP, Los Angeles, California, USA 

Jeff Sanders Roberts & Ritholz LLP, New York, USA 

Jörg Tente 8 Elements Ltd, Hong Kong SAR 

Rogelio V Quevedo Smart Communications Inc, Makati City, 

Philippines 

Ronald Zink Microsoft EMEA, Paris, France; Chair, Internet Business 

0930 – 1730 tuesDAY 


Patent Law 

Chair 

Albert Jacobs Dreier LLP, New York, USA 

maximising patent rights globally 


Albert Jacobs 

Andreas von Falck Lovells LLP, Düsseldorf, Germany 

This panel will discuss how to build, leverage and enforce a global 

patent portfolio. The discussion will be cross-industry and will 

include how to maximise the life cycle of technology by adding 

patents on improvements, different forms and other add-ons to the 

basic technology. It will also include a ‘view from the bench’ which 

will feature how the judiciary views these add-on life cycle patents. 

Speakers 

Richard Kelly Oblon Spivac, Alexandria, Virginia, USA 

Christopher Shao Wei McClelland Maier & Neustadt NTD, Beijing, 

China 

Maximilian von Rospatt Rospatt Osten Pross, Düsseldorf, Germany 

Yoshio Kumakura Nakamura & Partners, Tokyo, Japan (invited) 

Koenraad Wuyts KPN NV, The Hague, the Netherlands 



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Trademark Law 

Chair 

Patricia Hoet-Limbourg Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque, Caracas, 

Venezuela 

measures for combating counterfeiting and piracy 

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Joint session with Trade and Customs Law. 


Patricia Hoet-Limbourg 

Rosemary Wallis Baldwins, Auckland, New Zealand; Vice-Chair, 


Counterfeiting and piracy is the crime of the 21st century. Advances 

in technology have enabled rapid reproduction of high quality 

counterfeit goods, from such diverse areas as pharmaceuticals 

to DVDs and designer clothing. The best of these are virtually 

indistinguishable from the genuine products and come from 

the same countries. The standard legal measures from the past 

are failing spectacularly to stem the tide, resulting in a global 

underworld economy in counterfeit products. This session examines 

those measures, looks at what brand owners are doing now, and 

how they are cooperating with the public sector in order to join 

forces. The session also addresses the question as to what options 

they have in the future. 

Speakers 

Ira Nishisato Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Jim Lim Shook Lin & Bok, Singapore 

Gerard van der Val Houthoff Buruma NV, Brussels, Belgium 

Rayan Tai Adidas Group, Hong Kong SAR 

Media Law 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


Chair 

Mark Stephens Finers Stephens Innocent, London, England 

google issues – is content liability sexy again? 

Joint session with the Copyright and Entertainment Law 

Subcommittee. See page 67 for details. 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


communication strategies in securities and m&A 

transactions 

Joint session with Securities Law. See page 59 for details. 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


trial observations: a practical approach 

Joint session with the Human Rights Institute. See page 93 for 

details. 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


A DInneR will be held with Art, cultural Institutions 

and Heritage law for committee members and guests. 


2000 tuesDAY 


Joint session with Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law and 

Indigenous Peoples. 


Adrian Parkhouse Farrer & Co, London, England; Co-Chair, Art, 

Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law 

Mark Stephens 

The remains of indigenous peoples are increasingly sought from 

museum collections for repatriation to their own lands and 

traditional disposal by their descendants. This session will look at the 

conflicts between rights of custodians, science and indigenous rights 

and will look at the comparative ways in which different jurisdictions 

are confronting these increasingly complex issues. 

Keynote Speaker 

Justice Michael Kirby High Court of Australia, Sydney, New South 


Speakers 

Catherine Bigley McGovern University of Notre Dame Australia, 

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 

Patrick Boylan City University London & Editor in Chief, International 

Journal of Intangible Heritage, Leicester, England 

Joe Brennan Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

R A Foley University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England 

Cressida Ford Heritage Research and Consultancy 

Russell Raikes Cohen Highley LLP, London, Ontario, Canada; Chair, 

Indigenous Peoples 



gaming 

Joint session with Anti-Corruption, Business Crime and Leisure 

Industries. 


Peter Bartlett Minter Ellison, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

Jamie Nettleton Addisons, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 

Singapore has introduced two integrated resorts with casinos, which 

are due to open in 2009 and 2010. Macau is overtaking Las Vegas 

as the world’s largest casino venue. In Europe, America and Asia 

online gaming and online games have become the primary source 

of leisure for millions of people: multiplayer games, online poker, 

‘second life’ games and some of the internet-generation games that 

flourish across the globe. 

The authorities and regulators are active. There are different 

regulatory approaches. These approaches are under scrutiny by both 

the EU and WTO. Hear about the new global battlefield – how to 

regulate online gambling. 

The session will seek to capture the spirit that captivates millions. 

Speakers 

Peter Brown Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP, New York, 

USA 

Lee Suet Fern Stamford Law, Singapore 

Quirino Mancini Sinisi Ceschini Mancini & Partners, Rome, Italy 

Yap Wai Ming Genting International, Singapore 

Ramon Moyano Estudio Beccar Varela, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Jamie Nettleton 

Gabrielle Patrick British American Insurance Co, Port-of-Spain, 

Trinidad

Monty Raphael Peters & Peters, London, England 

Stefan Schuppert Lovells LLP, Munich, Germany; Co-Chair, 


Thibault Verbiest ULYS, Paris, France 

state intervention in the media 



Session Chair 

Jim Borelli Media/Professional Insurance, Kansas City, Missouri, USA 

How relevant are national laws to regulating a global media? This 

session will look at recent pronouncements of the Commonwealth 

Parliamentary Association and The World Bank Institute on the 

prerequisites for a free and independent media. How well does any 

democracy measure up? Is this merely a legal nirvana? 

Speakers 

Harshad Raj Dipendra Zaid Ibrahim, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Charles Glasser Bloomberg News LP, New York, USA 

Peter Jacobsen Bersenas Jacobsen Chouest Thomson Blackburn LLP, 

Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Peter Noorlander Open Society Foundation, London, England 

Lesley Power Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Sydney, New South 


Kevin Tan Equilibrium Consulting Pte Ltd, Singapore 



new multimedia platforms: who is riding the wave? 

HDtV, broadband, wireless, fixed line – issues arising 


Joint session with Communications Law. See page 66 for details. 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 



Chair 

Norbert Knittlmayer Aderhold v Dalwigk Knüppel, Cologne, 

Germany 



technology? 

Joint session with Communications Law, Technology Law, Human 

Rights Law and the Human Rights Institute 


Eckart Brödermann Brödermann & Jahn, Hamburg, Germany; Vice- 

Chair, Outer Space Law 

Ambassador Emilio J Cárdenas Buenos Aires, Argentina; Co-Chair, 


James Oury Oury Clark Solicitors, London, England; Chair, Human 

Rights Law 

Christopher Rees Herbert Smith LLP, London, England; Chair, 

Intrusive Technologies Subcommittee 

During the past half century, mankind has developed sophisticated 

satellite technologies which, together with developments in the 

field of IT and telecoms, allow the collection and dissemination of 

detailed information on the physical whereabouts and condition of 

people and things wherever they are located on Earth. Examples of 

these technologies include the Global Monitoring for Environment 

and Security project of the European Space Agency, Google Earth, 

and the work of the US Department of Homeland Security. These 

technologies allow us to see into our neighbours’ backyards, forecast 

tsunamis and observe the planting of illicit opium crops. Whilst there 

are undeniable benefits in the use of these technologies, the threat 

to personal and communal privacy entailed in their use is a subject 

for which answers should be developed by the legal profession. 

This session will provide a dialogue between technologists and 

practitioners active in the field. They will examine the satellite and 

communications law, intellectual property, human rights and public 

international law aspects of the subject so as to provide a platform 

for the future development of this emerging new area of the law. 

Speakers 

Robert R Amsterdam Amsterdam & Peroff, London, England 

Thomas Beer European Space Agency, Paris, France 

0900 – 1300 tuesDAY 


A DInneR will be held with communications law for 



2000 tuesDAY 

consolidation in the aerospace industry: lean and 

mean, or weak and bleak? 

Session Chair 

Rachel Yates Holland & Hart LLP, Greenwood Village, Colorado, 

USA; Website and Conference Coordinator, Outer Space Law 

This panel discussion will address the continuing trend of 

consolidation among space industry companies. Mergers and 

acquisitions affect all segments of the industry, notably including 

launch services, satellite operations, and remote sensing, as 

companies face the financial risks associated with high-cost and 

limited markets. Is consolidation the answer? The panellists will 

address whether these changes bring strength to the industry or 

whether they threaten to limit access to space by over-dependence 

on particular providers. The legal hurdles involving competition and 

antitrust laws, and the influence of export controls will likewise be 

considered. Panellists are drawn from practitioners in the aerospace 

industry worldwide. 

Speakers 

Karl Eisermann European Space Agency, Paris, France; Secretary, 


Rolf Olofsson White & Case LLP, Brussels, Belgium 

Farah Suhanah Ahmad Sarji Binairang Satellite Systems, Kuala 

Lumpur, Malaysia 



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Co-Chairs 

Stephen Johnson Kirkland & Ellis LLP, San Francisco, California, USA 

Stefan Schuppert Lovells LLP, Munich, Germany 

the globalisation of bio and pharma research and 

development 

Session Chair 

Stephen Johnson 

China and India have emerged as global players in pharma 

and biotech and the Government of Singapore has stated that 

biomedical sciences will become ‘a key pillar of the Singapore 

economy’. This panel will examine what is happening in 

biotechnology in Asia, both in terms of research including 

government and not for profit involvement and in terms of of the 

types of contracts that are being structured and deals done both 

within Asia and between Asia and Europe and the Americas. 

Speakers 

Ralf Altmeyer CombinatoRx Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore 

Grace Chen Bird & Bird, Beijing, China 

David Dally Merlion Pharmaceuticals Pte Ltd, Singapore 

Stanley Lai Allen and Gledhill LLP, Singapore 

Timothy Nielander The GAVI Fund, Washington DC, USA 

Aparna Viswanathan Viswanathan & Co Advocates, New Delhi, 

India; Chair, Corporate Information Governance Subcommittee 

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1430 – 1730 monDAY 




technology? 


0900 – 1300 tuesDAY 


technology, risk assessment and management 

Session Chair 

Ken Moon A J Park, Auckland, New Zealand 

As global warming prompts a new look at nuclear power by 

countries such as the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, 

and genetic engineering is increasingly commercialised in some 

countries, this panel looks at how risks are managed and allocated 

as new products come to market, and how these issues may be 

litigated and decided after the event if a problem occurs. This panel 

will explore contractual, regulatory and political issues surrounding 

risky technologies and how these differ on a global basis. 

What makes a technology sufficiently risky to require 

comprehensive legal regulation is partly a subjective and emotive 

perception, but it is sufficiently real for many governments to 

establish and maintain stringent regulatory processes and for others 

to prohibit completely any exploitation of technologies deemed 

excessively risky. But for many countries, the anticipated rewards or 

unacceptable alternatives may result in very light-handed regulation. 

This session will touch on political and economic issues as well 

as legal issues and will be of interest to non-specialists. Primers in 

nuclear power generation and genetic engineering will be given to 

assist in appreciating the risks inherent in these technologies. 

Speakers 

Daniel Altman Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, Irvine, California, USA 

Tamar J Cerafici Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP, Philadelphia, 

USA 

Fabio Ferreira Kujawski Barretto Ferreira Kujawski Brancher & 

Gonçalves, São Paulo, Brazil 

Ken Moon 

Stephen Parker Lowndes Associates, Auckland, New Zealand 

John Polcyn Global Strategy and Business Initiative, Nuclear Business 

Group, CH2M Hill, Chantilly, Virginia, USA 

Joyce Tan Joyce A Tan & Associates, Singapore 

Aparna Viswanathan 



corporate information governance 

Session Chair 

Stefan Schuppert 

Dealing with information remains one of the most challenging 

aspects of corporate and legal compliance, as required protections 

for the security and privacy of personal data multiply throughout the 

world and regulatory standards for secure and controlled corporate 

record-keeping increase. Alongside these issues are requirements for 

storage of e-mail and other data for regulatory purposes, anti-money 

laundering regulations and electronic discovery issues, as well as 

governmental needs for defence and security purposes. This panel of 

experts from around the world will continue the focus on this new 

area of law. 

This session will be recorded for CLE purposes 

Speakers 

Graham Jefferson Deutsche Bank AG, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia 

Sylvia Khatcherian Morgan Stanley, New York, USA; Treasurer, Legal 

Practice Division and International Bar Association 

Max Ng Gateway Law Corporation, Singapore 

Rodney D Ryder FoxMandal Little, New Delhi, India 




guests. 






Osvaldo Marzorati Allende & Brea Abogados, Buenos Aires, 

Argentina 

Jean-Claude Najar GE International, Paris, France; Senior Co-Chair, 


total recall 

Session Chair 

John R F Baer Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Chicago, Illinois, 

USA; Secretary, International Franchising 

This session will examine the issues which arise if there is the need 

for a product recall of an article that has been sold and distributed 

under a worldwide franchise agreement. Utilising a hypothetical 

scenario it will address the legal issues from the perspective of 

international sales, franchising and product law. The session will 

examine such issues as contract terms, warranties, choice of law 

provisions, the rights and liabilities of the various parties involved in

the distribution chain, responsibility for the returned product and 

managing product disposal. The session will also focus on dealing 

with governmental agencies and statutory notification obligations, 

managing and addressing consumer rights to compensation and 

managing customer expectations. 

Speakers 

Andrew Loewinger Nixon Peabody LLP, Washington DC, USA 

Sönke Lund Monereo Meyer & Marinel-lo Abogados, Barcelona, 

Spain 

Daniel Urbas Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

Veronica Chen Yaobing Vivien Chan & Co, Beijing, China 

Woon C Yew Rodyk & Davidson LLP, Singapore 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 



Chair 

W Andrew Scott Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP, Atlanta, 

Georgia, USA 


guests. 


competition issues in international franchising 

Session Chair 

Penny Ward Baker & McKenzie, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia; Vice-Chair, International Franchising 

1230 tuesDAY 

This session will consider the particular challenges which national 

antitrust or competition laws bring to the development of franchise 

systems. Topics to be discussed include: how a foreign franchisor 

can influence local pricing to retain brand positioning; techniques 

to control the sources from which franchisees procure supplies; and 

the role of market share in competition analysis. Provisions to avoid 

when drafting international franchise agreements and those which 

may attract the attention of competition regulators will be identified. 

Speakers 

Rocio Belda Garrigues Abogados y Asesores Tributarios, Madrid, 

Spain; Vice-Chair, Sale of Goods Subcommittee 

Susan de Silva Alban Tay Mahtani & de Silva, Singapore 

Michael K Lindsey Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP, Los Angeles, 





internationally and news from around the world 

09 0 – 104 


internationally 

Session Chair 

Marco Hero TIGGES, Düsseldorf, Germany; Newsletter Editor, 


Franchisors that expand internationally must select the most 

suitable structure for expansion. They may franchise directly, either 

from the home country, or from the host country by establishing 

a subsidiary in the host country. Alternatively, they might license 

master franchisees or area developers in the host country. Each of 

these structures will require that the franchisor’s personnel travel to 

the host country, either temporarily or permanently. In any case, the 

franchisor will be confronted with immigration issues, of which the 

franchisor’s counsel should be aware. This session will address those 

issues and suggest the optimal approach for franchisors to take. 

Speakers 

Jakob Bleckmann Gassauer Fleissner, Vienna, Austria 

Fabio Bortolotti Buffa Bortolotti & Mathis, Turin, Italy; Chair, Sale of 

Goods Subcommittee 

Daniela Brito Dunkin Brands, Canton, Massachusetts, USA 

John Pratt Hamilton Pratt, Birmingham, England 

Andrew Wiseman Allens Arthur Robinson, Sydney, New South 


Frank Zaid Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

111 – 12 0 

News from around the world 

Session Chair 

W Andrew Scott 

This session will provide a roundup of developments in franchising 

from jurisdictions around the world. 

Speakers 

Osvaldo Marzorati 

Matthew R Shay International Franchise Association, Washington 

DC, USA 

Frank Zaid Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto, Ontario, USA 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


franchising in the Pacific Rim 

Session Chair 

Richard M Asbill Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP, Atlanta, 

Georgia, USA 

This session will provide an update of international franchise sales 

and relationship laws for the countries of Australia, China, Indonesia, 

Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam, as well as 

other legal requirements impacting on international franchising, 

such as competition laws, fair trade laws and similar statutes and 

regulations. 

Speakers 

Rick Beckmann Brigitta I Bahayoe & Syamsuddin, Jakarta, Indonesia 

Brendon Carr Hwang Mok Park PC, Seoul, South Korea 

Gilbert Gan Boon Seah Jeff Leong Poon & Wong, Kuala Lumpur, 

Malaysia 

Souichirou Kozuka Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan 

Wellington Liu Tsar & Tsai Law Firm, Taipei, Taiwan 

Nguyen Anh Tuan Bizconsult, Hanoi, Vietnam 

Andrew Wiseman 

Philip F Zeidman DLA Piper, Washington DC, USA; Co-Chair, Pro 

Bono and Access to Justice 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


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Co-Chairs 

Joel Simon Serko Simon Gluck & Kane LLP, New York, USA 

Eytan Epstein Epstein Chomsky Osnat & Co, Tel Aviv, Israel 

trends in public procurement 2007 


Roberto Hernandez Garcia Comad SC, Mexico City, Mexico; Chair, 

Government Procurement Subcommittee 

Martin Schellenberg Hamburg, Germany 

Public procurement is evolving with new figures, new ideas and 

new challenges around the world. This session will provide exciting 

and interesting information about what is happening globally in this 

topic such as: 

• procurement in China from an insider and an outsider perspective; 

• procurement of legal services; 

• fighting corruption; 

• how to draft a procurement code – the case of Portugal; 

• advances of the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law and public– 

private partnership as a procurement model; and 

• the EU Directives on Public Procurement. 

This session promises to show the audience how global the 

procurement arena is becoming, and how much procurement 

lawyers need to be prepared for the new figures that are seeing the 

light on a national and international basis. It will focus on practical 

suggestions for counsellors and companies. 

Speakers 

Bernardo Ayala Sérvulo Correia & Associados, Lisbon, Portugal 

Phua Wee Chuan The Attorney-General’s Chambers of Singapore, 

Singapore 

Marco Dalla Vedova Dalla Vedova Studio Legale, Rome, Italy; Vice- 

Chair, Technology Law 

Donald Gavin Akerman Senterfitt Wickwire Gavin, Vienna, Austria 

Jaime Gray Navarro Sologuren Paredes Gray, Lima, Peru 

Lothar Hofmann Rechtsanwalt Dr Lothar Hofmann, Vienne, Virginia, 

USA 

Caroline Nicholas UNCITRAL, Vienna, Austria 

David Ofosu-Dorte Accra, Ghana 

Richard Pearse Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz PC, Chicago, 

Illinois, USA 

Jaya Sharma 4N Consultants Inc, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; Vice- 

Chair, International Construction Projects 

Gerry Stobo Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 

2 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 




Joint session with Antitrust. 


Eytan Epstein 

Iñigo Igartua Gómez-Acebo & Pombo, Barcelona, Spain; Senior 


Antitrust law around the world continues to shape distribution 

practices and contractual schemes in a decisive manner. 

Multinational companies selling products in different jurisdictions, 

be they manufacturers, wholesalers or retailers, legitimately wish 

to protect their respective networks and keep control of the quality 

of the distribution for the best interest of the consumer. When 

introducing such restrictions or limitations, they may face changing 

antitrust requirements or limitations in different jurisdictions. As a 

result, well-established contractual forms in certain countries may 

not be viable in others without heavy adaptations or even prior 

regulatory approval. 

This panel will give a panoramic view of the current status of 

certain specific forms of protection of distribution networks from 

the perspective of antitrust laws in different major jurisdictions, 

including: 

• territorial restrictions / parallel imports; 

• customer group restrictions; 

• selective distribution; 

• online sales; and 

• single branding and non-compete. 

Speakers 

Joe Angland Heller Ehrmann, New York, USA 

Ewa Butkiewicz Wardyński & Partners, Warsaw, Poland 

Emanuela Lecchi Charles Russell LLP, London, England 

Rachel Trindade Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Victoria, 

Australia 

Stephen Weissman Howrey LLP, Washington DC, USA 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


A DInneR will be held with Product law and 

Advertising for committee members and guests. 


2000 tuesDAY 

sex, lies and the cIsg 

Session Chair 

Barton Selden Gartenberg Gelfand Wasson & Selden LLP, San 

Francisco, California, USA 

The Convention on International Sale of Goods (CISG) is the most 

significant international convention governing formation and 

performance of transnational sales of goods, and is in force in 70 

countries, including Singapore. With certain exceptions, the terms 

of the convention apply automatically to all sales of goods between 

signatory nations, unless excluded by the parties to the sales 

contract. 

Panellists will describe how the CISG is applied and interpreted 

in each speaker’s home jurisdiction, and discuss the principal 

differences between the provisions of the CISG and the domestic 

commercial law which would otherwise apply (including the UCC in 

the US, the HGB in Germany, and others). In addition to an update 

on current developments in all major geographic regions, the 

panel will address the problem of responding to false certifications 

of materials or production methods, and other acts of deception 

engaged in by a party to an international sales transaction. 


Speakers 

Luis Henrique Amaral Dannemann Siemsen Advogados, Rio de 

Janeiro, Brazil 

Subrata Bhattacharjee Heenan Blaikie, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Fabio Bortolotti Buffa Bortolotti & Mathis, Turin, Italy; Chair, Sale of 

Goods Subcommittee 

Christoph Radtke Lamy & Associés, Lyon, France; Vice-Chair, 


Martin Reufels Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Cologne, Germany 

Paul Wong Rodyk & Davidson LLP, Singapore 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 



greater china and latin America in a regulatory and 



details. 

0930 – 1230 fRIDAY 


Product Law and Advertising 

Chair 

Finn J Lernø Plesner, Copenhagen, Denmark 

A DInneR will be held with International sales for 



2000 tuesDAY 

show me the miles – loyalty programmes 




Alternative methods of payment 

Session Chair 

Jürgen Brandstätter BMA Brandstätter Rechtsanwälte GmbH, 

Vienna, Austria; Senior Vice-Chair, Product Law and Advertising 

Traditional methods of payment are, in particular, cash payments, 

payments by cheque and payments by transfer. This session will 

discuss the following: 

• payments via internet portals (like Paypal); and 

• payments via mobile devices like mobile phones. 

The session will deal with the following issues relating to such 

methods of payment: 

• the technical execution of such a payment; 

• the regulatory framework involved (in particular whether the 

service provider needs a banking concession); 

• the contractual relationship between the involved parties, payer, 

payee and service provider, as well as their rights and liabilities; 

and 

• potential risks and liabilities caused by fraud and crime. 

Speakers 

Emma H C Lee Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, New York, USA 

Gabrielle Mancero-Bucheli Cavelier Abogados, Bogotá, Colombia 

George Ribeiro Vivien Chan & Co, Hong Kong SAR; Publications 

Officer, Business Organisations; Chair, Complex Acquisitions 

Subcommittee 

Harold R Shupak Shupak & Co, London, England 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 






Family Law 

Chair 

Anne-Marie Hutchinson OBE Dawson Cornwell, London, England 

my partner or my spouse? 

Session Chair 

Anne-Marie Hutchinson OBE 

This session will examine the following: 

• what constitutes a marriage: legal formality and customary 

practice; and 

• same sex partnerships: the right to recognition and human rights 

with particular reference to: 

– children of the non-married family; and 

– children of a same sex partnership. 

Speakers 

Chawkat M Houalla Adib & Houalla Law Office, Tripoli, Lebanon 

Mikiko Otani Otani Law Offices, Tokyo, Japan 

Justice Albie Sachs Constitutional Court of South Africa, 

Johannesburg, South Africa 

Zenobia du Toit Miller du Toit Inc, Cape Town, South Africa 

Caroline Willbourne Barrister at Law, London, England 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


the international family – mobility and diversity 

Session Chair 

Gillian Rivers Collyer Bristow, London, England; Secretary, Family 

Law 

This session will address the following issues: 

• financial consequences of international marriage: forum shopping 

and comparative law; 

• international asset tracing; 

• international enforcement; and 

• trust busting. 

Speakers 

Wendy Galvin Wendy Galvin Law Partnership, Auckland, New 

Zealand; Vice-Chair, Family Law 

Jackie Julyan SC The Marine Group of Advocates, Durban, South 

Africa 

John Stephens Barrister at Law, London, England 

Julia Wallace-Walker Forensic Accounting LLP, London, England 

Nedim Peter Vogt Bär & Karrer, Zurich, Switzerland 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 




Human Rights Law 

Chair 

James Oury Oury Clark Solicitors, London, England 



technology? 

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0900 – 1300 tuesDAY 


A case study on traditional land rights in malaysia 

Joint session with Indigenous Peoples. See page 74 for details. 




fairness? 

Joint session with Criminal Law and the Human Rights Institute. 

Session Chair 

James Oury 

In light of the continued work of the Higher Tribunal and the recent 

implementation of sentence against Saddam Hussein, this session 

will examine the extent to which the Tribunal has delivered a fair trial 

both procedurally and in practice. The session will also focus upon 

the procedure for sentencing and its implementation. 

Speakers 

Worgu Boms Worgu Boms Chambers, Port Harcourt, Nigeria 

Hans Corell Mannheimer Swartling, Former Under-Secretary- 

General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel of the UN, Stockholm, 

Sweden; Officer, Presidential Task Force on the Rule of Law 

Marc Henzelin Lalive & Partners, Geneva, Switzerland; Secretary, 

Business Crime 

Brenda J Hollis Former Senior Trail Attorney for the Prosecutor 

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia 

Judge Raid Juihial-Saadi Former Chief Investigative Judge of the Iraqi 

High Tribunal, Baghdad, Iraq 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 



guests. 


1230 tHuRsDAY 

Indigenous Peoples 

Chair 

Russell Raikes Cohen Highley LLP, London, Ontario, Canada 

Redressing historic wrongs through the courts 

Session Chair 

Russell Raikes 

The Holocaust, apartheid, Canadian Indian residential schools and 

American slavery are examples of a recent trend to seek redress for 

historic wrongs against governments and private industry. What are 

the obstacles to such litigation? Why are the courts an appropriate 

mechanism for addressing these wrongs? What are the causes of 

action being utilised and what defences are available? 

Speakers 

Michael Hausfeld Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll PLLC, Washington 

DC, USA 

John McKiggan Arnold Pizzo McKiggan, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 

Canada 

Mitchell R Taylor Department of Justice, Vancouver, British 



0930 – 1230 monDAY 





A case study on traditional land rights in malaysia 

Joint session with Human Rights Law. 

Session Chair 

David Paterson Paterson Law Office, Surrey, British Columbia, 

Canada 

This session will examine the 2005 decision of the Malaysian Court 

of Appeal dealing with a claim for compensation by the Temuan 

Tribe under the Land Acquisition Act 1960. The decision provides 

an interesting insight into the application of this unique legislation 

and the rights of indigenous peoples to compensation for their 

traditional lands. 

Speakers 

Kenneth Chambers University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji 

Medicine and the Law 



Chair 

Demetris Vryonides European Commission, Health and Consumer 

Protection Directorate-General, Brussels, Belgium 

legal issues for cross-border patient mobility 

Session Chair 

Demetris Vryonides 

In an interview, columnist and author Thomas L Friedman said: 

‘Wake up and face the flat world!’ The increasing movement 

of citizens for work, holiday and study, and of patients seeking 

healthcare in a flat world, calls for better coordination of health 

systems and international standards for patient safety. Knowledge

of the scale of cross-border movement of persons receiving 

healthcare services is still limited. But the legal issues are quickly 

surfacing. When things go wrong, which liability rules apply and in 

what jurisdictional forum? Do patients have rights according to the 

regions from which they originate or can we speak of international 

standards of care? If so, how protective are these rights for patient 

safety? As regards rights of access to medical care, is there a general 

right not to be discriminated against and how can it be enforced? 

How do patient rights of autonomy operate in circumstances of 

cross-border care? 

These and other legal issues of cross-border patient mobility 

will be comprehensively examined during this session through 

comparative analysis. 

Speakers 

Piet Calcoen DKV Belgium, Brussels, Belgium 

Yves Jorens Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium 

Neil Kirby Werksmans Inc, Johannesburg, South Africa 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


Leisure Industries Section 


Bruno Cova Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP, Milan, Italy 

Chair 

Hans-Josef Vogel Busse & Miessen, Bonn, Germany 

Hotel and casino development 

Session Chair 

John Vernon Vernon Goodrich LLP, Dallas, Texas, USA; Vice-Chair, 

Leisure Industries 

Southeast Asia is one of the leading regions for the development 

of casinos and hotels. Tourism has swept the area and contributed 

heavily to its economic upswing. Casino operators are looking 

more and more towards the region for establishing a new foothold. 

This session will examine the legal and regulatory environment 

for developing hotels and casinos throughout the region, taking 

the special issues raised by regional politics into account. In this 

regard, we will not only examine the legal requirements for casino 

developments, but also matters of hotel financing, condo ownership 

and other related issues. 

Speakers 

Sungha Baik Ernst & Young, Singapore 

Robin Bynoe Charles Russell LLP, London, England 

Bernat Mullerat Cuatrecasas, Barcelona, Spain; Vice-Chair, 


0930 – 1230 monDAY 


show me the miles – loyalty programmes 

Joint session with Product Law and Advertising. 

Session Chair 

Hans-Josef Vogel 

Nearly all of the delegates attending the annual conference will 

belong to one of the many loyalty programmes that exist, ranging 

from air miles to hotel loyalty, from credit card to supermarket 

shopping programmes. The black, gold or silver elite cards will 

feature prominently in many lawyers’ briefcases. This session will 

examine the legal issues surrounding these programmes. How can 

programmes be changed unilaterally? What rights are available to 

the programme participant? What are the data protection issues? 

Speakers 

Ian De Witt Tanner De Witt Solicitors, Hong Kong SAR 

David Grant Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England 

Brenda Pritchard Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Toronto, Ontario, 

Canada 

Jim Weiss K & L Gates, Washington DC, USA 



gaming 




section business meeting 

An open meeting of the Leisure Industries Section will be held to 

discuss future activities. 







olympic 

Joint session with Criminal Law, Intellectual Property and 

Entertainment Law and Anti-Corruption. 


Herman Croux Marx van Ranst Vermeersch, Brussels, Belgium; Vice- 

Chair, Copyright and Entertainment Law 

Hans-Josef Vogel 

By October 2007, the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 will be only 

months away, sweeping the region with anticipation. Apart from 

being a gigantic sports fest and a media extravaganza, the Olympics 

are legal heavyweights; protecting the IOC’s trademark, dealing with 

doping and other sports-related matters, corruption scandals and a 

myriad of travel law issues all come to the legal practitioner’s mind. 

This session will examine the Olympics and the legal issues that 

accompany it in a broad fashion: a legal omnibus for the practitioner, 

outlining future issues and helping with the task at hand in 2008. 

Speakers 

Roslina Baba Ramdas & Wong, Singapore 

Michael Bernasconi Bär & Karrer, Zurich, Switzerland; Chair, 


Alexander Birnstiel Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz, Munich, Germany; 

Secretary, Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law 

Vivien Chan Vivien Chan & Co, Hong Kong SAR; Co-Chair, Asia 

Pacific Forum 

Gary Fechter McCarter & English LLP, New York, USA 

Monty Raphael Peters & Peters, London, England 

Jeremy Summers Russell Jones Walker, London, England 

0930 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 




low cost and no frills – the emergence of low-cost 


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Joint session with Aviation Law. 


Patrick Farrell Norton Rose LLP, England; Vice-Chair, Aviation Law 

Simon Liddy Ebsworth & Ebsworth Lawyers, Sydney, New South 

Wales, Australia; Newsletter Editor, Leisure Industries 

This session will look at the legal issues arising from the recent 

phenomenon of low cost carriers (LCC), particularly their 

development in the Asian region. The speakers will present from the 

different perspectives of: 

• an LCC airline operating in Asia and planning to enter the 

Australian aviation market; 

• a regulator, particularly focusing on competition law issues, access 

to market and slot allocations; 

• the airport and its dealings with LCCs, including the particular 

legal and practical issues that arise; 

• a travel agent and the new way of doing business in the 

distribution chain necessitated by LCCs, particularly the increasing 

use of the internet, and the impact on commissions; and 

• an aviation lawyer particularly dealing with safety, liability and 

insurance issues. 

These presentations will enable delegates to gain valuable insights 

into the practical workings of LCC airlines and those organisations 

who regularly deal/transact with them, and the variety of legal issues 

that arise from those transactions. 

Speakers 

Tony Davis Tiger Airways Pte Ltd, Singapore 

Peng Lim Clyde & Co LLP, Singapore 

Fanny Wong Department of Justice, Hong Kong SAR 

0930 – 1130 fRIDAY 




Dorothy Ufot Dorothy Ufot & Co, Lagos, Nigeria 

Aviation Law 

Chair 

Ravi Nath Rajinder Narain & Co, New Delhi, India 

financing structures with particular emphasis on India 

and china 

Session Co-Chair 

Maria Regina Lynch Xavier Bernardes Bragança, São Paulo, Brazil; 

Senior Vice-Chair, Aviation Law 

Ravi Nath 

This session will focus on the financing structures currently being 

used in India and China, the world’s fastest growing economies. 

Various financing tools will be discussed such as finance leases, 

hire purchase and secured loans, as well as issues relating to title, 

security, insurance, rights of security interest holders and the role 

of the security trustee. In addition to these, the speakers will also 

highlight tax issues, in particular double taxation avoidance treaties, 

treaty shopping, benefit of special purpose vehicles and the role of 

export credit agencies, with reference to some recent examples. 

Speakers 

William Ho Allen & Overy LLP, Shanghai, China 

Ravi Nath 

Paul Ng Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hong Kong SAR 

John F Pritchard Holland & Knight LLP, New York, USA 

James D Tussing Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, New York, USA 

Ling Wang King & Wood, Beijing, China 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


mediation in aircraft accidents 

Joint session with Mediation. 

Session Chair 

Lok Vi Ming Rodyk & Davidson LLP, Singapore 

This session will address the role of mediation in aircraft accidents 

for quick disposal of cases bereft of the intricacies of a civil trial. In 

the next 20 years, air travel is estimated to be double what it is now. 

As a result, the need for cost-effective and time-efficient resolution 

of disputes has gained momentum, particularly as various parties are 

involved in a dispute arising out of an aircraft accident. The speakers 

represent these parties, which include the victims, the carrier, the 

manufacturer and the insurer, and will deliberate on a variety of 

liability issues such as strict liability, damages, tortuous liability, 

indemnities, warranties and limitation of liability clauses. 

Speakers 

Paul Freeman Gates and Partners, London, England 

David Johnston Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, Singapore 

Peng Lim Clyde & Co LLP, Singapore 

Ho See Hai Air Accident Investigation Bureau of Singapore Ministry 

of Transport, Singapore 

Rod D Margo Condon & Forsyth LLP, Los Angeles, California, USA 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


How terrorism changes the way we fly 

Session Chair 

Mia Wouters Advokaat Lafili Van Crombrugghe & Partners, Brussels, 

Belgium; Treasurer, Aviation Law 

The threat of terrorism is omnipresent and therefore a major concern 

for the aviation industry. Various aspects relating to terrorism and 

safety will be examined, especially the post-9/11 scenario. The 

speakers will focus on: 

• policies and practices relating to aviation security in North America 

and other major jurisdictions against the backdrop of the recent 

threat of terrorist attacks; and the legal implications; 

• legal mandate to maintain security vis-à-vis possible excesses by 

security agencies and breach of basic norms of privacy in the 

context of the modus operandi of the new-age terrorist; 

• current status of aviation law including a review of the Rome 

Convention, data protection issues, international conventions 

and treaties, the necessity of air marshals, search and seizure; and 

information-sharing between nations and security agencies. 

Speakers 

Paul Mifsud KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Washington DC, USA 

Alejandro Piera Guanes Heisecke & Piera Abogados, Asunción, 

Paraguay 

Vijay Poonoosamy Etihad Airways, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 

Tan Siew Huay Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Singapore 

George Tompkins Wilson Elser, New York, USA 

Luc Vandamme Council of the European Union, Brussels, Belgium 

Avner Yarkoni Tel Aviv, Israel 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


Aviation roundtable 

The Aviation Law Committee will hold its annual ad hoc roundtable 

discussion among delegates on topical aviation issues. As always, 

this session will be informal and aimed at generating significant 

audience participation. The matters for discussion will be identified 

closer to the conference to ensure they are timely and, as always, 

topics are encouraged from the floor. 




guests. 



low cost and no frills – the emergence of low-cost 



0930 – 1130 fRIDAY 



Chair 

Joseph Hurley Ebsworth & Ebsworth Lawyers, Sydney, New South 


International maritime centres – singapore 

Joint session with the Maritime Law Association of Singapore. 

Session Chair 

Lawrence Teh Rodyk & Davidson LLP, Singapore; Vice-Chair, 


This session will study international maritime centres and how they 

relate to shipping business. Singapore and sectors of its maritime 

business will be used as as a reference or case study. 

In the morning, the session will investigate the nature of an 

international maritime centre. It will cover an overview of Singapore, 

its historical origins and its regulatory development and study how 

it became a major international port and transshipment centre. 

The session will examine, in broad terms, how Singapore has been 

promoting and maintaining itself as an international maritime centre. 

One of the maritime businesses that has been a feature of 

Singapore’s past, present and future is that of the shipyard. The 

efforts made by Singapore’s shipyards to meet changing demands 

in global industries and the legal issues concerning ship repair, ship 

conversion and offshore engineering will be studied, possibly in 

comparison with the issues that arise in other maritime centres. 

In the afternoon, the session will study Singapore’s current 

efforts to maintain and promote itself as an international maritime 

centre. Singapore’s present and future focus, including maritime 

investment and financial products like tax incentives, shipping IPOs 

and shipping investment trusts, will be examined along with a 

legal analysis of such products and their structure from local and 

international perspectives. 

Finally, Singapore’s increasing role as a centre for dispute 

resolution will be discussed and there will be an interactive 

session between the panel of speakers and the audience on the 

maintenance and promotion of maritime centres in the light of 

Singapore’s experience. 

Speakers 

Paul Aston Holman Fenwick & Willan, Singapore 

Francisco Carreira-Pitti Carreira Pitti PC Attorneys, Panama City, 

Panama 

Paul Chang HSH Nordbank, Hong Kong SAR 

Michael Chia Keppel FELS Limited, Singapore 

Fuzet Farid Zul Rafique & Partners, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Frederick James Francis Singapore Maritime Academy, Singapore 

Sheila Lim Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, Singapore 

Derek Luxford Hicksons, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 

Thomas Martinussen Clipper Group, Copenhagen, Denmark 

Wendy Ng Charles Taylor Mutual Management, Singapore 

Ho Mui Peng PricewaterhouseCoopers, Singapore 

Lennard Rambusch Holland & Knight LLP, New York, USA 

Kate Roberts Watson Farley & Williams LLP, Singapore 

Andrew I Sriro Dyah Ersita & Partners, Jakarta, Indonesia 

Mary Thomson Kennedys, Hong Kong SAR 

Godofredo Mendes Vianna Mendes Vianna Advogados Associados, 

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

0930 – 1730 monDAY 



guests. 


1130 tuesDAY 

liability of maritime service providers 

Session Chair 

Gregory W Poulos Cox Wootton Griffin Hansen & Poulos LLP, San 

Francisco, California, USA; Vice-Chair, Maritime and Transport Law 

On 19 November 2002, The Prestige sank off the coast of Spain 

causing a massive oil spill and spawning litigation between the 

Government of Spain and the vessel’s classification society, the 

American Bureau of Shipping. The litigation raises the question of 

what duties are owed and to whom by the providers of maritimerelated 

services. 

This session will focus on the liabilities faced by companies 

providing services to the maritime industry and strategies for dealing 

with particular cases. Examples of service providers that may find 

themselves with liability include bunker suppliers, classification 

societies, towers, pilots and various product manufacturers. Speakers 

will address the ways in which these liabilities are handled in their 

respective jurisdictions. 

Speakers 

Vivien Ang Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore 

Dieter Armbrust Lebuhn & Puchta, Hamburg, Germany 

Luis de San Simón San Simón Duch & Co, Madrid, Spain 

Graham Harris Thomas Cooper, London, England 

Jeremy J O Harwood Blank Rome LLP, New York, USA 

Mfon Ekong Usoro Paul Usoro & Co, Lagos, Nigeria 

Ricardo Rozas Baeza Larrain & Rozas Abogados, Santiago, Chile 

Marieke Van den Dool Rotterdam, the Netherlands 




guests. 





Piracy and crimes at sea including pollution liability 

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Joint session with Environment, Health and Safety Law. 


Peter Appel Gorrissen Federspiel Kierkegaard, Copenhagen, 

Denmark; Senior Vice-Chair, Maritime and Transport Law 

Claus-Peter Martens Murawo, Berlin, Germany; Senior Vice-Chair, 


Even today, piracy is a risk in shipping. Pirates may try to board cargo 

vessels in order to steal cash, cargo or even the entire vessel or hijack 

the crew. In the cruise industry, hijackers, and even terrorists, have 

been known to attack passengers. A well-known risk area where 

pirates operate is the Malacca Strait, and, with the conference being 

held in Singapore, the precautions taken in this region to avoid 

piracy will be examined. Insurance and charterparty implications 

arising out of the acts of pirates will also be considered. The 

environmental threats and the liability for oil pollution spills caused 

by piracy will be closely examined. Finally, a review of threats to 

cruise ships from hijackers or terrorists will be undertaken. 

Speakers 

Colin Au, Singapore 

Derek Hodgson Clyde & Co LLP, London, England 

Jim Hohenstein Holland & Knight LLP, New York, USA 

L Chidl Ilogu Foundation Chambers, Lagos, Nigeria 

Chan Leng Sun Ang & Partners, Singapore 

Anders Ulrik Skuld, Copenhagen, Denmark 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


Recent developments in maritime law 

Session Chair 

Joseph Hurley 

This session, a regular and popular feature, will consider recent 

and interesting changes in both the legislation and common law in 

various jurisdictions that impact on the practices of shipping lawyers 

around the globe. Speakers will deliver papers for comment and 

debate by the audience. 

Speakers 

Shashank Agrawal ALMT Legal, Mumbai, India 

Jan Dreyer Dabelstein & Passehl, Hamburg, Germany 

David Enriquez Goodrich Riquelme y Asociados, Mexico City, Mexico 

Christopher Mills Clyde & Co LLP, Dubai, UAE 

The Honourable Justice Steven Rares Federal Court of Australia, 


Haco Van Oordt AKD Prinsen Van Wijmen, Rotterdam, the 

Netherlands 

Land Transport 

Chair 

Bart Neervort Rotterdam, the Netherlands 

0930 – 1230 fRIDAY 


transportation and storage of hazardous cargo 

Session Chair 

Michael Hajdasinski Van Traa Advocaten, Rotterdam, the 

Netherlands 

Transportation and storage of dangerous and toxic materials and 

fluids is a highly specialised business. What if something goes really 

wrong? National and international rules and regulations are in force 

to minimise the risk of damage to individuals and the environment. 

However, a moment of carelessness, a simple traffic accident or even 

a terrorist attack may cause a catastrophe. Tank trailers and railroad 

wagons pass through densely populated areas and storage facilities 

are not always located in the most appropriate places. What are the 

responsibilities of the various parties involved? 

This session will open with a speaker from the industry, who will 

outline the day-to-day business of dealing with hazardous cargo. 

Speakers from various jurisdictions will then discuss the liability issues 

of all parties involved towards each other, their employees, victims 

and the authorities. 

Speakers 

Lars Gerspacher GBF Attorneys at Law, Zurich, Switzerland 

Chan Leng Sun Ang & Partners, Singapore 

Marc Padberg Padberg Spanjaart Lawyers, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 

Sasikumaranb Pillai SMA Management Pte Ltd, Singapore 

Claudia Robayo Clyde & Co LLP, London, England 



Public Law Section 


Dirk Kolvenbach Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Düsseldorf, Germany 

Chair 

Liam O’Daly Office of the Attorney General, Dublin, Ireland 

Precautionary principle, the environment and the law 

Session Chair 

Liam O’Daly 

If an action or policy might cause severe or irreversible loss to 

the public, then in the absence of a scientific consensus that 

harm would not ensue, the burden of proof must fall on those 

who would advocate taking the action. Recent history does not 

always reflect this, and the question this session asks is: should it? 

Where government is increasingly trying to make industry and the 

public pay for their actions, is this justified where governments 

themselves often do not adhere to this same principle in respect of 

their own actions? If the ‘polluter pays’, should that also extend to 

government? If so, how? 

Speakers 

Shaun Gath Blake Dawson Waldron, Canberra, Australian Capital 

Territory, Australia 

Denis Kelleher Office of the Attorney General, Dublin, Ireland 

Ian Rose McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP, London, England; Chair, 


Maurice Sheridan Matrix Chambers, London, England 

Peter Thorp Allen & Overy LLP, Beijing, China/Hong Kong SAR 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


theocracy, democracy and secularisation – is there any 

room for compromise? 

Session Chair 

John Kettle Mason Hayes + Curran, Dublin, Ireland; Vice-Chair, 

Public Law 

Can a theocracy tolerate democracy? Is secularisation really just an 

atheistic theocratic movement? Can democracy survive them both? 

In this thought-provoking session, we will examine these and other 

issues, and will discuss what relevance they have for the formulation 

of the rule of law, its application and impact on a regional and 

global basis.

Speakers 

Richard Barrett Office of the Attorney General, Dublin, Ireland 

Bernard Bekink University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; Senior 

Vice-Chair, Public Law 

Katrin Cutbush-Sabine Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 

Bas de Gaay Fortman Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands 

Salman Haq Canadian Bar Association, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 

Cao Pei Shantou University, Shantou, China 

Real Estate Section 


John Heaps Eversheds LLP, London, England 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


Chair 

Luis Moreno Haynes & Boone SC, Mexico City, Mexico 

global impact of real estate private equity 

Session Chair 

Luis Moreno 

Australian funds are buying apartment buildings in Germany. 

North American funds are buying mixed-use developments in the 

People’s Republic of China, looking for investment opportunities 

in undeveloped land in Mexico and Costa Rica for touristic 

development, and raising Sharia-compliant funds in the Middle East 

for investment around the world. 

This session will examine the legal structures being used to drive 

these fund flows around the world with speakers from Asia Pacific, 

Europe and the Americas describing: 

• the fund structures commonly used in their jurisdictions; 

• comparisons with REIT structures and issues; the types of assets 

being acquired; and 

• issues relevant for a real estate lawyer acting on ‘downstream 

investments’. 

Speakers 

Martin Holler Giese & Partner, Prague, Czech Republic 

Low Kah Keong WongPartnership, Singapore 

Tim Manefield Allens Arthur Robinson, Hong Kong SAR 

Luis Moreno 

Leena Pinsler Rajah & Tann, Singapore 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


the impact of environmental aspects on real estate 


Joint session with Environment, Health and Safety Law. See page 

51 for details. 







non-corporate income tax aspects of mergers and 

acquisitions 


Alberto Collado Garrigues, Barcelona, Spain 

Teoh Lian Ee Drew & Napier, Singapore; Senior Vice-Chair, Individual 

Tax and Private Client 

Cross-border merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions usually 

involve many more tax aspects than just corporate income tax 

(CIT). This session will focus on tax issues other than CIT that affect 

the transaction and the different stakeholders involved, mainly 

shareholders and employees. A panel of experts from various 

jurisdictions will identify and explore issues relating to: 

• indirect taxes (VAT, stamp duty, registration tax, etc); 

• personal income, wealth and inheritance tax affecting individuals 

owning interests in the entities involved; and 

• tax aspects connected to pension and compensation plans 

affected by the transaction. 

The session will be developed in the context of a case study of an 

M&A transaction involving entities, assets and parties in various 

countries. 

Speakers 

Aseem Chawla Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co, 

New Delhi, India 

Alain Chedal Landwell & Associés (PricewaterhouseCoopers), Paris, 

France 

Keoy Soo Earn Deloitte, Singapore 

Luis Ortiz Hidalgo Basham Ringe & Correa, Mexico City, Mexico 

Tom Jorgensen CALFEE, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 

Gerd Kostrzewa Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Düsseldorf, Germany 

Stefan Maunz Kueffner Maunz Langer Zugmaier, Munich, Germany 

Diego Pivoz HSBC, Geneva, Switzerland 

John Solursh Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 




1930 tuesDAY 

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Individual Tax and Private Client 

Chair 

Christopher Potter Jones Day, Paris, France 

Do you speak ‘trust’? Holding, managing and 

transferring family assets around the world through 

the use of trusts, foundations, nominees and other 

techniques 

Session Chair 

Edgar H Paltzer Niederer Kraft & Frey, Zurich, Switzerland 

An increasing number of international families do business and hold 

assets in multiple jurisdictions and have family members moving 

from one place to another. More often than not, holding assets in 

their own name leads to complications and disadvantages that could 

be avoided or reduced with proper planning. 

A panel of international private client specialists will present, 

compare and discuss various asset-holding structures for private 

wealth around the world. This will include an analysis of what is 

suitable and what may not be suitable for: 

• different members of families; 

• different classes of assets; and 

• different jurisdictions around the world. 

The session will be followed by a luncheon organised together with 

local Singapore law firms and trust companies active in the field of 

private clients. 

Speakers 

Helen Darling Macfarlanes, London, England; Secretary, Individual 

Tax and Private Client 

Felicity Keller Stanford Group, Zurich, Switzerland 

Candice Liu Lehman Lee & Xu, Beijing, China 

Jean Schaffner Allen & Overy LLP, Luxembourg 

William Thompson Minter Ellison, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


estate planning for the Asian family 

Session Chair 

Leigh-Alexandra Basha Holland & Knight LLP, Virginia, District of 

Columbia, USA; Vice-Chair, Individual Tax and Private Client 

This session will bring in experts from the United States, Canada, 

Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore, to examine the unique planning 

opportunities for the Asian family, including the use of offshore 

trusts and choice of residency. The panel will also examine 

alternatives to trusts and the use of multiple wills and will present 

interactive case studies for inbound and outbound planning for the 

Asian client. 

Speakers 

Nishith Desai Nishith Desai Associates, Mumbai, India 

Lillian Goh Bank Pictet & Cie (Asia) Ltd, Singapore 

Michelle Graham Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP, San Diego, 


Candice Liu 

Jacqueline Loh LGT Management Services (HK) Ltd, Hong Kong SAR 

Francis Rojas Withers LLP, Geneva, Switzerland 

Michael Shikuma White & Case LLP, Tokyo, Japan 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


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Taxes 

Co-Chairs 

David Hardy Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, New York, USA 

Jörg W Lüttge Flick Gocke Schaumburg, Bonn, Germany 

negotiating the trade off – handling conflicting tax 

interests of parties to common business transactions 


Peter Blessing Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, USA 

Wilhelm Haarmann Haarmann, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 

Instead of implementing ideal structures, tax practitioners often have 

to find and negotiate solutions or compromises involving conflicting 

interests in classic third-party transactions (eg seller/buyer, lender/ 

borrower, employer/employee, corporation/shareholders). Looking at 

real life cross-border scenarios, practitioners will identify the adverse 

tax interests and discuss possible solutions to satisfy the competing 

goals of the parties. 

Speakers 

Máximo Luis Bomchil M & M Bomchil Abogados, Buenos Aires, 

Argentina; Communications Officer, Law Firm Management 

Patrick Mears Allen & Overy LLP, London, England 

Thomas Meister Walder Wyss & Partners, Zürich, Switzerland 

Andrew Stals Clayton Utz, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 

Jean Paul van den Berg Stibbe, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


limitation on benefits and other treaty and eu law 

attacks on structures considered abusive 

Session Co-Chair 

Rick Reinhold Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, USA 

Elinore Richardson Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Toronto, Ontario, 

Canada 

Recent developments in treaty shopping including related judicial 

concepts of ‘economic substance’ and ‘beneficial ownership’ in 

North America, Europe and Asia will be highlighted. The panel will 

consider, in the context of actual transactions that have occurred 

over the past year, the impact of these recent developments on tax 

planning by multinational investors and industry. 

Speakers 

Mark Brender Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Montreal, Quebec, 

Canada 

Anthony M Fay White & Case LLP, Beijing, China 

Heather Gething Herbert Smith LLP, London, England 

Jutta Schneider Clifford Chance LLP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 

Nand Singh Gandhi Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore 

Mark van Casteren Loyens & Loeff, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


tax-efficient investment in china 


Andrea Fiorelli Di Tanno e Associati, Rome, Italy 

Sam Kaywood Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 

This panel will focus on tax planning for investments made in 

China. The panel will cover Chinese corporate tax issues relative to 

foreign investment, including tax holidays and preferences, as well 

as the impact of potential unification of the tax codes in China. The 

programme will also discuss how to structure investments in China 

in light of recent changes to the Mauritius and Hong Kong treaties 

as well as the related repatriation and exit issues.

The panel will also look at a variety of supply chain and contract 

manufacturing arrangements along with the related VAT 

implications, provide an executive summary of key corporate law 

provisions and requirements that every tax lawyer should know. 

Speakers 

Daniel Chan DLA Piper, Hong Kong SAR 

David Liu Jun He Law Offices, Shanghai, China 

Lawrence Sussman O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Beijing, China 

Sai Ree Yun Yulchon, Seoul, South Korea 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


collision course? coordination of immigration law and 


Joint session with Immigration and Nationality Law. See page 62 

for details. 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


Investment incentives in the european union 




eu tax harmonisation versus eu tax competition 

Joint session with the European Forum. 


Philip van Hilten Loyens & Loeff, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

Wolf-Georg von Rechenberg CMS Hasche Sigle, Berlin, Germany 

This session will be a continuation of the morning session organised 

by the European Forum regarding direct investment incentives in 

Europe/state aid. 

The panel will focus on case law of the European Court of 

Justice forcing EU Member States to adjust their legislation to build 

a more harmonised tax system and initiatives by the European 

Commission to achieve a more harmonised corporate income tax 

in Europe (eg the common consolidated tax base and EU Code of 

Conduct on transfer pricing). At the same time, there is increased tax 

competition between EU Member States, especially after expansion 

of the EU. The panel will discuss trends and opportunities of what is 

called ‘the race to the bottom’. 

Speakers will discuss these conflicting trends and future 

developments at the end of the afternoon session. 

Speakers 

Xenia Legendre Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Paris, 

France 

Peter Maher A & L Goodbody, Dublin, Ireland 

Riccardo Michelutti Maisto e Associati, Milan, Italy 

Peter Nias McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP, London, England 

Peter Utterström Delphi & Co, Stockholm, Sweden 

Melchior Wathelet Liège, Belgium 



current developments panel 


Nikolaj Bjornholm Bech Bruun, Copenhagen, Denmark 

Juan Carlos Garanton-Blanco Torres Plaz & Araujo, Caracas, 

Venezuela 

Paulo Núncio Garrigues, Lisbon, Portugal 

Rebecca Rosenberg Caplin & Drysdale, Washington DC, USA 

A full-day session of the most current developments in taxation will 

be presented. 

Speakers 

Joachim M Bjerke Bugge Arentz-Hansen & Rasmussen, Oslo, 

Norway 

Olga A Boltenko LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae, London, England 

Michael Butler Finlaysons, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 

Marcel Buur Loyens & Loeff, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 

Francesco Capitta Studio Di Tanno, Rome, Italy 

Ortwin Carron Monard D Hulst, Brussels, Belgium 

Cecilia Delgado Ratto Payet Rey Cauvi Abogados, Lima, Peru 

Paul Doralt Dorda Brugger Jordis, Vienna, Austria 

Alex Fischer Carey y Cía, Santiago, Chile 

Christina Roman Gaitan Reyes Abogados Asociados, Bogotá, 

Colombia 

Jon Elvar Gudmundsson LOGOS Legal Services, Reykjavik, Iceland 

Ossi Haapaniemi Hannes Snellman, Helsinki, Finland 

Akil Hirani Majmudar & Co, Mumbai, India 

Vince F Imerti Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Toronto, Ontario, 

Canada 

Marie Junius Allen & Overy LLP, Luxembourg 

Walter Keiniger Marval O’Farrell & Mairal, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Rutger Kriek Consulco, Nicosia, Cyprus 

Lennart Larsson Vinge, Gothenburg, Sweden 

Doelie Lessing Werksmans Inc, Sandton, South Africa 

Paul Maloney Dillon Eustace, Dublin, Ireland 

Nicolas Merlino Oberson & Partners, Geneva, Switzerland 

Leor Nouman S Horowitz & Co, Tel Aviv, Israel 

Kim Pedersen Sirius Advokater, Copenhagen, Denmark 

Tonia Pediaditaki Stavropoulos and Partners Law Office, Athens, 

Greece 

Lim Pek Bur Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore 

Tomaas Pikamäe Ots & Co, Tallinn, Estonia 

Andrew Roycroft Norton Rose LLP, London, England 

Andrew Ryan Minter Ellison Rudd Watts, Auckland, New Zealand 

John G Ryan McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Palo Alto, California, USA 

Malgorzata Sabońska MDDP Michalik Dluska Dziedzic i Partnerzy, 

Warsaw, Poland 

Nathalie Senechault Jones Day, Paris, France 

Christine Simoes Campos Mello Pontes Vinci Schill Advogados, Rio 

de Janiero, Brazil 

Raúl Stolk Nevett Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque, Caracas, Venezuela 

Laurance Sussman O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Beijing, China 

Francis Tan Azman Davidson & Co, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Miguel Teixeira de Abreu Abreu Cardigos & Associados, Lisbon, 

Portugal 

Muhammad Uteem Erriah + Uteem Chambers, Port Louis, Mauritius 

Dinko Yordanov Yordanova Rizova & Partners, Sofia, Bulgaria 

0930 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


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tax aspects of construction projects 


Woo Taik Kim Kim & Chang, Seoul, South Korea 

Guido Vinci Campos Mello Pontes Vinci Schill Advogados, Rio de 

Janeiro, Brazil 

This panel will explore the different tax regimes applicable to major 

construction projects in different jurisdictions, from the perspective 

of the construction company and/or of the project owner. The 

panel will also develop case studies indicating tax and financial 

aspects relevant to each phase of the ‘life cycle’ of particular 

relevant construction projects. Items that will be covered include the 

following: 

• taxation during the construction phase; 

• special regimes available for income taxes or VAT? 

• is it advisable to use a special purpose company or a transparent 

vehicle? 

• how will construction costs be treated, deferred asset items and is 

that likely to cause trapped cash for the owner in the future? 

• will tax credits be available to the project owner at the end of the 

project? 

• what about tax liabilities incurred during construction, and how is 

responsibility shared? 

Speakers 

Bijal Ajinkya Nishith Desai, Mumbai, India 

Alejandro Escoda Cuatrecasas, Barcelona, Spain 

Oscar Ferrari Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos & Cía, Santiago, Chile 

Leon Kwong Wing KhattarWong, Singapore 

Shiqi Ma International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) 

Higuchi Takao Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, Tokyo, Japan 

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0930 – 1230 fRIDAY 


legal Practice Division fora 

African Regional Forum 

Chair 

Moses J Adriko Masembe Makubuya Adriko Karugaba & 

Ssekatatwa (MMAKS) Advocates, Kampala, Uganda 


Dorothy Ufot Dorothy Ufot & Co, Lagos, Nigeria 

A DInneR will be held for forum members and guests 


Renewable energy and clean development 

Joint session with Power Law. See page 54 for details. 

1930 tuesDAY 



An open meeting of the African Regional forum will 

be held to determine future plans of the forum and 

to discuss ways to become even more responsive to 

members. 

1030 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


Arab Regional Forum 





Joint session with Banking Law. See page 55 for details. 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


An open meeting of the Arab Regional forum will be held 

to determine future plans of the forum and to discuss 

ways to become even more responsive to members. 

1630 – 1730 tuesDAY 


Asia Pacific Forum 

Co-Chairs 

Jon North Gresham Advisory Partners Ltd, Sydney, New South 


Vivien Chan Vivien Chan & Co, Beijing, China 


Masahiro Shimojo Nishimura & Asahi, Tokyo, Japan 

Zhang Hongjiu Jiangtian & Gongcheng, Beijing, China 

Procuring water projects in southeast Asia with 

particular reference to china and India 

Joint session with Water Law. See page 54 for details. 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


Influence of china and India on the mineral industry 


0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 



Joint session with Banking Law. See page 55 for details. 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


court support for arbitration in the Asia Pacific region 


0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


A luncH will be held for conference delegates. 


1230 – 1430 tuesDAY 

Diversity of cultural perspectives on mediation: facesaving, 

attitudes, relationship to courts and other 



1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 






details. 

0930 – 1230 fRIDAY 



Co-Chairs 

Jean-Claude Najar GE Commercial Finance, Paris, France; Council 


James Brumm Mitsubishi International Corporation, New York, USA 




Jan Eijsbouts Akzo Nobel NV, Arnhem, the Netherlands 

extraterritorial application of laws for multinationals 

and corporate counsel 

Session Chair 

James Brumm 

The complex role of the corporate counsel is further compounded 

when the company is multinational and has activities in many 

jurisdictions. The in-house lawyer must mitigate risks and explore the 

applicability of laws not only on a national basis, but internationally 

as well. But what happens when the national and foreign laws 

conflict? What law must be applied? 

The panel will explore how corporate counsel must assess the 

extraterritorial application of anti-corruption and bribery laws and 

antitrust and trade regulation laws from Asian, European and North 

American perspectives. 

Speakers 

Alan R Crain Jr Baker Hughes Inc, Houston, Texas, USA 

Jan Eijsbouts 

Eva Kovacic GlaxoSmithKline Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia 

Greg McCurdy Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA; 


Akhil Prasad The Walt Disney Company India, Mumbai, India 

M R Prasanna Aditya Birla Group, Mumbai, India 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


How to preserve privilege and confidentiality 


Session Chair 

Nicola Mumford Wragge & Co LLP, London, England; Council 


This highly interactive session will cover a variety of the hottest 

topics in this area of increasing concern, including the erosion of 

privilege, particularly for in-house lawyers – even in the US – and 

the tension between ‘whistleblowing’ and privilege. The panel of 

in-house lawyers from multinational corporations will give their 

own ‘hints and tips’ on how to preserve privilege and will solicit 

recommendations from the audience as well. The discussion will also 

have a quick canter round those countries where in-house lawyers 

enjoy privilege completely, partially, or not at all, and the impact that 

has on in-house counsel. 

Speakers 

John Ellison KPMG LLP, London, England 

Sheila Lim Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, Singapore 

Marina Palomba Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, London, 

England 

Deborah Prince Which?, London, England 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


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A general meeting for corporate counsel forum 

members and other IBA corporate counsel will be held 

immediately after the open forum, to determine future 

plans of the ccf and to discuss ways to become even 

more responsive to members. 

1730 – 1830 monDAY 




1230 – 1430 tuesDAY 

open forum – identification of issues common to 

corporate counsel 

This open forum will provide members of the Asia Pacific Forum, 

African Forum, Arab Regional Forum, Latin American Forum, 

European Forum and the North American Forum with the 

opportunity to participate in a facilitated session with members of 

the Corporate Counsel Forum to identify issues common to in-house 

counsel across jurisdictions and to discuss them. 

By identifying and addressing these issues at such a high level, 

with equally distinguished panellists and audience, the open forum 

will seek to push the top three identified issues forward in 2008, to 

obtain real solutions. The open forum will incorporate the following 

session: 

Delicate dealings – how in-house counsel can best 

manage interactions with regulators 

Session Chair 

James Brumm 

Greg McCurdy 

One of the essential roles of in-house counsel is to manage and 

oversee relations with government regulators. As internal counsel, 

there is a duty to advise executives in their interactions with 

regulators, interact with regulators should disputes or investigations 

arise and establish relations with local regulators when entering 

new markets or new activities. This session will discuss strategies 

for dealing with government regulators, including lobbying, case 

management and suggestions for better communication methods 

between corporate counsel and local regulators. 

Speakers 

Henry Horbaczewski Reed Elsevier Inc, New York USA; Senior Vice- 

Chair, Corporate Counsel Forum 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 










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0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 



Co-Chairs 

Pii Ketvel Clyde & Co LLP, London, England 

Dariusz Wasylkowski Wardyński & Partners, Warsaw, Poland 


Hendrik Haag Hengeler Mueller, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Vice- 

Chair, Legal Practice Division 

Tomasz Wardyński Wardyński & Partners, Warsaw, Poland; Advisory 

Board Member, European Forum; Council Member, Legal Practice 

Division 



1230 – 1430 monDAY 

Investment incentives in the european union 

Joint session with Taxes. 


Morvan Le Berre Wardyński & Partners, Brussels, Belgium 

Michael Schuette Howrey LLP, Brussels, Belgium; Advisory Board 


The aim of the session is to discuss investment incentives and state 

aid in the EU. The session is coordinated with, and will be followed 

by, the session of the Taxes Committee on EU harmonisation versus 

EU tax competition taking place in the afternoon. 

The session will address several aspects of investment incentives in 

the EU: 

• the types of incentives available and how to access such 

incentives; 

• EU state aid requirements; 

• the differences between incentives in the original 15 Member 

States and the 12 recent EU Member States; and 

• the importance of incentives in investment decisions. 

Panellists will be: 

• lawyers with experience in state aid and taxation; 

• officials dealing with incentives and state aid at the European 

Commission and in a Member State; and 

• business people who have invested in Europe. 

This session continues in the afternoon: eu tax harmonisation 

versus eu tax competition. See page 81 for details. 

Speakers 

Stefan Damian Tuca Zbarcea & Asociati, Bucharest, Romania 

Peter Flipsen Simmons & Simmons, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 

Vice-Chair, Taxes 

Joanna Szychowska European Commission, Brussels, Belgium 

Conor Quigley QC Brick Court Chambers, London, England 

Anne Van Ysendyck Arcelor Mittal, London, England 




Joint session with Business Organisations and the Corporate 

Counsel Forum. 


James Brumm Mitsubishi International Corporation, New York, USA; 

Co-Chair, Corporate Counsel Forum 

Freek Jonkhart Loyens & Loeff, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Council 


Heinz Schärer Homburger, Zurich, Switzerland 

There is a global trend towards increasing the powers of the 

shareholders of stock listed companies that has raised concerns 

in many board rooms. Certain shareholders like hedge funds in 

particular, but also private equity firms use this trend to try and 

impose their views on policy on management, sometimes in an 

activist manner, and sometimes with the result that short-term 

financial drivers of the shareholders conflict with the long-term 

continuity of the company; shareholder model or stakeholder model. 

This session brings together views from Europe, the United States, 

Southeast Asia and New Zealand, both legal views and views from 

the investment world. 

Speakers 

Andrew Abernethy Bell Gully, Wellington, New Zealand 

M P Bharucha Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co, 

Mumbai, India 

James Brumm 

Willem de Boer Sequoia, London, England 

Uwe Eyles Latham & Watkins LLP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 

Vice-Chair, Securities Law 

Frank Jonkhart 

Bernard Lui Stamford Law, Singapore 

Nami Matsuko Nomura Securities Co Ltd, Tokyo, Japan 

Susanne Rückert ARQIS Rechtsanwalte, Düsseldorf, Germany 

Heinz Schärer 



eu tax harmonisation versus eu tax competition 

Joint session with Taxes. See page 81 for details. 



enforcement of european judgments in Asia and Asian 

judgments in europe 


Session Chair 

Jonathan Wood Clyde & Co LLP, London, England 

Business continues to grow between Europe and Asia and, whilst 

new deals make the headlines, what happens when relations 

between the parties go wrong? When considering how to advise 

clients in this wide range of jurisdictions deciding how and where to 

bring proceedings, it is important to have a practical knowledge of 

how a judgment obtained in a European country might be enforced 

in Asia and vice versa. 

This session looks at the practical aspects of enforcing foreign 

judgments based on a case study and panel discussion amongst 

eminent and experienced practitioners from jurisdictions in these 

regions. 

Speakers 


Malaysia 

Teresa Cheng SC Des Voeux Chambers, Hong Kong SAR 

Philip Jeyaretnam SC Rodyk & Davidson LLP, Singapore 

Derek Luxford Hicksons, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 

Maria Cristina Pagni Norton Rose LLP, Milan, Italy 

Tom Price Wragge & Co LLP, Birmingham, England 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


An open meeting of the european forum will be held 

to determine future plans of the forum and to discuss 

ways to become even more responsive to members. 

1430 – 1630 tHuRsDAY 


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Joint session with the Project Finance Subcommittee. 


Jaap Koster Clifford Chance LLP, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Vice- 

Chair, Project Finance Subcommittee 

Florian Haugeneder Wolf Theiss, Vienna, Austria 

Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) are now a widespread instrument 

in cross-border projects. Lawyers structuring such deals have 

developed a sophisticated toolbox to optimise the use of BITs for the 

benefit of their clients. A large part of their experience is based on 

lessons learned from extensive disputes that have been resolved over 

many issues that have arisen in the past about the interpretation, 

scope and applicability of BITs. 

During this session, transactional lawyers and litigators will 

discuss, through interaction with the audience, best practices for 

structuring deals in which BITs are applicable, focusing specifically on 

Asian projects. 

Issues for discussion include: 

• ‘BIT shopping’ (ways to make use of the most favourable BIT); 

• tax and BITs; 

• BIT protection for sponsors, lenders and/or insurers; 

• transferability of claims under a BIT; and 

• lessons to be learned from projects under litigation. 

Speakers 

Alastair Henderson Herbert Smith LLP, Bangkok, Thailand 

Andrew Jeffries Allen & Overy LLP, Hong Kong SAR 

Doug Jones Clayton Utz, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Vice- 

Chair, International Construction Projects 

Irmgard Marboe University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 

Pierre Mayer Dechert LLP, Paris, France 

Elizabeth Snodgrass Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, 

England 

0930 – 1230 fRIDAY 



Co-Chairs 

Daniel Del Rio Basham Ringe y Correa SC, Mexico City, Mexico 

Francisco Javier Illanes Cariola Diez Perez-Cotapos, Santiago, Chile 


Moira Huggard-Caine Tozzini Freire Teixeira e Silva, São Paulo, Brazil 

constraints in the financing of PPP construction 

projects in emerging countries 

Joint session with International Construction Projects. 


Jaime Herrera Posse Herrera & Ruiz, Bogotá, Colombia; Vice-Chair, 


Dick Shadbolt Shadbolt & Co LLP, Surrey, England 

The panel will discuss issues that affect constituents in PPP projects 

that seek financing. Such topics include: 

• harmonisation of interests: fixed project costs versus protection 

for price fluctuations (the point of view of the contractor, state 

entities, financers and owners); 

• credit enhancement mechanisms needed in developing countries 

(country risk, exchange risk, regulatory risk), alternatives (local 

currency loans, insurances, cash reserves, pros and cons for 

contractors, state entities, financers and owners); 

• adequate vehicles to meet objectives of all constituents 

(bankruptcy risk, contracting flexibility, safe-harbour for 

developers, shield of political pressures); and 

• the role of public entities vis-à-vis the financing of PPP projects. 

Speakers 

Eugenio Besa Morales Noguera Valdivieso & Besa, Santiago, Chile 

Darrell Corner Jardine Lloyd Thompson Asia, Hong Kong SAR 

James Harris Lovells Lee & Lee, Singapore 

Adriano Jucá Construtora Odebrecht SA, São Paulo, Brazil 

Sindur Mangkoesoebroto PT Nusantara Tunnel Indonesia, Bandung, 

Indonesia 

Anthony Marshall Lovells LLP, London, England 

Keith Martin IPAc Group, Singapore 

Ivan Mattei Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, USA 

Lynn Tho HSBC, Singapore 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 



industries 


0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 




1230 – 1430 tuesDAY 

An open meeting of the latin American Regional 

forum will be held to determine future plans of the 

forum and to discuss ways to become even more 

responsive to members. 

1430 – 1630 tuesDAY 


free trade in the Pacific Rim and its impact in latin 

America 

Joint session with Trade and Customs Law. 


Dan Horovitz HD & Co, Brussels, Belgium; Chair, Trade and Customs 

Law 

Eduardo Sanguinetti Sanguinetti Fodere Bragard, Montevideo, 

Uruguay; Website Coordinator, Latin American Forum 

This panel will review some of the main features of recent free trade 

area (FTA) agreements that have been in operation in the region and 

will assess their impact, as well as their possible developments. After 

recognising the limitations of negotiations of trade liberalisation at 

the multilateral level of the WTO (eg agriculture), and that trade 

agreements at a multiparty,regional level have not proven to be 

the most appropriate conduit for regional integration, bilateral FTA 

agreements now appear to be the preferred option to expand trade 

among countries in the region. 

Some Latin American countries in the Pacific Rim (eg Chile) 

have successfully led that trend. Others still appear to prefer their 

protectionist tendencies, be it at a national level or even in a regional 

context. The impact that the FTAs with Asia Pacific countries have 

is particularly important, and comes at a time in which the United 

States, a leading regional economy, is following a similar trend 

and keeps on initiating bilateral FTA schemes with Latin America 

countries. The panel will also analyse who are the winners and 

losers, comparing FTA followers with their more protectionist 

counterparts, while also considering the special characteristics and 

roles that these countries play in the regional economy. 

Speakers 

James Bacchus Greenberg Traurig, Washington DC, USA 

Brian Elwood Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP, Mexico City, 

Mexico 

Claudio Undurraga Prieto & Cía, Santiago, Chile 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 





Joint session with International Sales and the Asia Pacific Forum. 


Daniel Del Rio 

George Ribeiro Vivien Chan & Co, Shanghai, China; Publications 

Officer, Business Organisations 

Bennet Hugh Silverman Katz Wittenberg Levine & Silverman Esqs, 

New York, USA; Senior Vice-Chair, International Sales; Vice-Chair, 

Legal Profession and World Organisations 

This session will examine the latest comparative models on 

conducting distribution and sales of consumer products in 

Latin America and Greater China, with emphasis on regulatory 

compliance, tax-saving mechanisms, common pitfalls and protective 

safeguards against distributors and local business partners. 

Practical examples will be raised by the speakers with creative 

ideas to overcome seemingly incurable obstacles in doing business 

legitimately and profitably. 

Speakers 

Miguel Jauregui Jauregui Navarrete y Nadar SC, Mexico City, Mexico 

Alberto Lasheras-Shine Estudio Beccar Varela, Buenos Aires, 

Argentina; Vice-Chair, Business Organisations 

Noor Meurling Minang Warman Sofyan & Associates, Jakarta, 

Indonesia 

Luiz Fernando Henry Sant’Anne Demarest e Almeida Advogados, 

São Paulo, Brazil 

John Young Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, Southfield, Missouri, USA 

Kelvin Wong Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore 

0930 – 1230 fRIDAY 


North American Forum 

Co-Chairs 

Jon Grouf Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP, New York, 

USA 

Henri Alvarez Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver, British 







1230 – 1430 monDAY 

strategies for companies facing patent litigation – is it 


Joint session with Litigation. See page 48 for details. 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


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Development 


Neil Gold University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada 

Co-Chairs 

Richard Eitel Carter ALI-ABA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 

Geoff Monahan Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney, 

New South Wales, Australia 

transnational legal practice – global qualifications v 

mutual recognition 

Session Chair 

Geoff Monahan 

Transcending national borders is now a daily reality for legal 

practitioners. While the 20th century witnessed the introduction and 

implementation of national standards for legal practice, the 21st 

century has begun with a similar move internationally. 

Is effective transnational legal practice best implemented by the 

mutual recognition of legal qualifications? Should the national 

accreditation bodies be moving towards the development of a truly 

global law degree and common admission to practice? 

This session will consider these issues and in particular will 

question what is achievable in the shorter term and what is desirable 

in the longer term for effective transnational legal practice. 

Speakers 

Neville Carter College of Law of New South Wales, St Leonards, 

New South Wales, Australia 

Sarah Hutchinson College of Law of England and Wales, Guildford, 

England 

Panellists 

Frank Astill University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia 

Honourable Justice Robert Benjamin Family Court of Australia, 

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 

Michael W Milani Federation of Law Societies of Canada, Ottawa, 


Katherine Mulcahy College of Law of New South Wales, St 

Leonards, New South Wales, Australia 

Arfat Selvam Arfat Selvam Alliance LLC, Singapore 

Colin Tyre QC Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), 

Dunbar, Scotland 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


establishing professional development within the firm 

– when is it practicable and how should it be done? 

Session Chair 

Richard Eitel Carter 

Most law firms provide some kind of continuing education but 

internationally the number of in-house programmes with a fulltime 

director (not a partner dividing his or her time) is not large. In 

this session we will look at the special concerns in developing the 

resources for a good in-house effort. We will look at the benefits 

and problems. We will discuss the integration of the unit and the 

decisions management should make. We will look at a step-by-step 

analysis of the benefits, risks and deterrents. There is no definitive 

model – each firm must develop its own plan, and the Professional 

Development Consortium has considerable experience with a variety 

of firms. The hiring process will be discussed. Needs will differ – at 

least one firm hired a former English professor. There will be an 

opportunity to ask questions and discuss alternatives. 

Speakers 

Steve Armstrong Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, 


John Claydon McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Joseph Harbaugh Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, 

Florida, USA 

Tony King Clifford Chance LLP, London, England; Vice-Chair, 

Academic and Professional Development 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


the business case for professional development – is it 

an expense or an investment? How does it relate to 

marketing the firm? 

Session Chair 

Richard Eitel Carter 

In the spring of 1985 a small group of specialists working inhouse 

in law firms around Canada and the United States gathered 

in Philadelphia to discuss common interests. By the end of the 

summer the group learned that there were many others doing 

the same work. The group founded the Professional Development 

Consortium, with officers, and began to examine common projects. 

The Consortium has grown considerably and now meets twice each 

year in the US and Canada. 

Most, but not all, of the Consortium’s number are lawyers. Most 

coordinate training for several offices in the large, global firms. They 

are more than coordinators – developing curriculum designed to 

meet the needs of the firm, using the best of in-house and outside 

speakers. Some of them have specialities, which they teach in the 

in-house programmes. 

This session will examine the expense as well as the usefulness 

to the firm. Many managing attorneys look at the ‘bottom line’. 

What does it mean to the firm if a promising young attorney is the 

beneficiary of the expense and then leaves the firm – is it a loss? 

We will also look at the benefits of making the in-house training 

available to the lawyers in the legal departments of client companies. 

Speakers 

John Claydon 

Tony King 

Timothy E Powers Haynes and Boone LLP, Dallas, Texas, USA; Chair, 

Project Finance Subcommittee and Co-Chair, North American 

Forum 



A BReAkfAst meetIng will be held to discuss 

matters of concern and interest in the academic and 

professional development field. 

0800 – 0930 tHuRsDAY 


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greening the tiger: balancing client profitability with 

environmental responsibility – the role of the legal 

profession 

Session Chair 

David McQuoid-Mason Commonwealth Legal Education 

Association; Durban, South Africa; Vice-Chair, Academic and 

Professional Development 

The birth of the 21st century has been characterised by a greatly 

increased focus on the problems of environmental degradation 

and its consequences. Within the field of law, the emergence of 

the right to a clean and healthy environment has attracted heated 

academic debate, and has led to litigation at both the domestic and 

international levels. 

Increasingly, members of the legal profession who are required 

to advise clients in either the business or government sectors, need 

to appreciate the manner in which the budding third-generation 

rights impact on economic development and business profitability 

generally. Of growing importance is the significant extent to which 

developing international rules and conventions have become 

binding on states at the domestic level. Problems that have arisen in 

attempting to balance the ever-increasing need for environmental 

protection with demands for economic development and profitability 

are particularly acute in the case of the tiger economies of Southeast 

Asia. This session will explore the responsibilities of lawyers to their 

clients in this respect and engage the audience in a case study. 

Speakers 

Frank Astill 

Michael Ewing-Chow National University of Singapore, Singapore 

Steve Pete University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


Anti-Corruption 


Bob Stein University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; 

Vice-Chair, Public and Professional Interest Division 

Chair 

Homer E Moyer Miller & Chevalier, Washington DC, USA 

gaming 





olympic 


0930 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


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global anti-corruption survey 

Session Chair 

Homer E Moyer 

Members of the new Anti-Corruption Committee from different 

regions of the world will give updates on developments in anticorruption 

enforcement that have occurred in the last year in their 

respective regions. Reports may include major enforcement actions, 

ongoing investigations, new legislation, treaty implementation, 

national initiatives, recovery of looted assets, and exposés of 

high-level corruption by the media and NGOs. Objectives of the 

session are information-gathering and information-sharing, so the 

format will be an open forum, with opportunity for contributions 

and discussion from the floor. Enforcement officials, judges, 

representatives of NGOs, professors and scholars, and members of 

the Bar have been invited to speak. 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


open committee business meeting 

An open meeting of the Anti-Corruption Committee will be held to 

discuss future activities. 

1230 tHuRsDAY 


organised crime, corruption and terrorism: all about 

money 

Joint session with Criminal Law. See page 45 for details. 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


Bar Issues Commission 

Chair 

Alejandro Ogarrio Ogarrio Daguerre SC, Mexico City, Mexico 

BIc welcome meeting 

The Bar Issues Commission (BIC) invites new and former BIC 

members and Member Organisation representatives to join them at 

a welcome meeting that will provide attendees with the opportunity 

to meet with the BIC officers and with each other at the beginning 

of the conference week. The officers will run through the conference 

week, highlighting sessions and social events of particular interest 

and will share insight on how to make the most of the conference 

week. 

0800 – 0915 monDAY 


tour of the law society of singapore, local law firms 

and court visit 

The Law Society of Singapore has organised and will facilitate a tour 

for bar leaders of their offices and two nearby law firms, providing 

insight into their day-to-day operations. A visit to the court will also 

be arranged. Places will be limited and participation will be by ticket, 

obtainable from the IBA speakers’ desk. 

A more comprehensive tour of Singapore law firms will also be 

arranged by the IBA’s Law Firm Management Committee on Friday 

19 October. See page 96 for details. 

1400 – 1730 monDAY

law firms and bar associations – friends, foes or merely 

acquaintances? 

Session Chairs 

Philip Jeyaretnam SC President, Law Society of Singapore, Singapore 

Stephen Revell Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, England 

With the globalisation of law firms, the development of in-house 

training programmes and the increasing power of the major 

international law firms, how is the relationship between law 

firms and bar associations faring in the 21st century? Are the two 

becoming mutually exclusive or are they really mutual friends? This 

roundtable session will bring leaders of bar associations together 

with some major international law firms to discuss their relationship. 

A panel of participants from bar associations and law firms will be 

selected to instigate discussions. All are welcome to join the debate, 

though as the room may have a set capacity we suggest you secure 

your attendance by e-mailing your name and this session title to 

sibylle.duell@int-bar.org. 

Speakers 

Lester Huang Law Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 

Bill Neukom American Bar Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Ben Rigby European Young Bar Association, Brentwood, England 

James Roselle Northern Trust Company, Illinois, USA 

Kevin Wong Linklaters LLP, Singapore 

0900 – 1030 tuesDAY 


the public interest work of bar associations 

Joint session with Pro Bono and Access to Justice. 

Session Chairs 

Haji Sulaiman Abdullah Bar Council of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 

Malaysia; Co-Chair, Pro Bono and Access to Justice 

Peter Maynard Peter D Maynard & Co, Nassau, Bahamas; Secretary- 

Treasurer, Public and Professional Interest Division 

In the current trend of deregulation, the activities of lawyers 

and law firms are dominated by business needs and competition 

practices. Has this eroded the public interest work of lawyers? 

What responsibilities do lawyers have to the public? What role 

do bar associations play in upholding access to justice, legal aid, 

guidance on legal solutions and general advice to the community? Is 

organisational reform of bar associations necessary? 

This workshop will invite bar leaders to discuss their role in public 

interest activities and examine whether benchmarks can be set to 

help bar associations achieve some primary objectives in this area. 

Speakers 

Olufunke Adekoya AELEX Partners, Lagos, Nigeria 

Don Deya East African Law Society, Arusha, Tanzania 

Roberto Hernàndez Garcia Mexican Bar Association, Mexico City, 

Mexico 

Andrew Holroyd Law Society of England and Wales, London, 

England 

Russell Miller Law Council of Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia 

Bill Neukom American Bar Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Nozomu Ohara Ohara Law Office, Tokyo, Japan, Japanese Federation 

of Bar Associations 

Anne Ramberg Swedish Bar Association, Stockholm, Sweden 

Colin Tyre QC Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), 


1115 – 1300 tuesDAY 


mandatory v voluntary membership of bar associations 


Horacio Bernardes Neto Xavier Bernardes Bragança, São Paulo, 

Brazil; Council Member, Public and Professional Interest Division 

Margery Nicoll Law Council of Australia, Canberra, Australian 

Capital Territory, Australia; Officer, Bar Issues Commission 

Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal 

profession in their jurisdiction; others are professional organisations 

dedicated to serving their members, and some bars are both. In many 

jurisdictions, the ‘bar association’ comprises lawyers who are qualified 

as barristers or advocates, while the ‘law society’ comprises solicitors. 

These bodies are sometimes mutually exclusive. In other jurisdictions, 

the ‘Bar’ may refer to the entire community of persons engaged in the 

practice of law. Some jurisdictions demand mandatory membership 

of a bar association or law society; in others there are no mandatory 

associations, but voluntary associations of lawyers which, in addition 

to regulating the profession, choose their own purposes, for example 

education or organising specialist sections. 

This session will examine the different perspectives and functions 

of mandatory and voluntary bars, debating what is required to 

enhance both the protection of lawyers and the public, the provision 

of services and their role in promoting confidence in the legal 

profession. 

Speakers 

Dorjsuren Batsukh Association of Mongolian Advocates, 

Ulaanbaater, Mongolia 

Andrew Bellers Aon-Asia, Hong Kong SAR 

John Corcoran Law Council of Australia, Canberra, Australian 

Capital Territory, Australia 

Otto Hasibuan Indonesian Advocates Association (PERADI), Jakarta, 

Indonesia 

Péter Köves Köves Clifford Chance, Budapest, Hungary; IBA 

Councillor, Hungarian Bar Association 

Oscar Kihika Uganda Law Society, Kampala, Uganda 

Angeline Joyce Lee SPH Magazines, Singapore; Singapore Corporate 

Counsel Forum 

Carlos Urrutia Valenzuela Brigard & Urrutia, Bogotá, Colombia 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


Running a bar association on limited funds 

Session Chair 

Sternford Moyo Scanlen & Holderness, Harare, Zimbabwe; Advisory 

Board Member, African Regional Forum 

Meeting office overheads, staff salaries, running a database, 

developing good communications resources, handling complaints, 

providing specialist sections for lawyers, creating a website, 

producing information leaflets and guidelines and creating training 

programmes are all part and parcel of running a bar association or 

law society. 

The challenges facing developing bars are enormous. These 

include meeting the needs of members as well as enabling the 

organisation to grow and provide more services to the public and to 

lawyers, and the funds to achieve all this can be scarce. This session 

will look at the resources available to bar associations, share insight 

into how to solve organisational problems and learn more about 

capacity-building. 

Speakers 

Mabvuto Hara Malawi Law Society, Blantyre, Malawi 

Philip Tahmindjis International Bar Association, London, England 

Ly Tayseng Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Phnom 

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BIc open forum and open Policy committee meeting 

This session is open to all IBA Member Organisation representatives 

and BIC members and will provide an update from the Policy 

Committee Working Groups, an opportunity to discuss issues of 

current concern and suggest topics for future BIC projects and 

programme sessions. 

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0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


Corporate Social Responsibility 


Charles Lawton Rio Tinto Plc, London, England 

Peter Rees Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, London, England 

Co-Chairs 

Jonathan Lux Ince & Co, London, England 

Jan Eijsbouts Akzo Nobel NV, Arnhem, the Netherlands; Council 


law firms and csR 

Session Chair 

Jonathan Lux 

More and more, law firms are being ‘beauty paraded’ before the 

client decides which firm to appoint. Clients will increasingly expect 

to see evidence of the law firm’s espousal of CSR. 

Mishaps in the energy, pharmaceutical and extractive industry 

sectors can have dire consequences for the workers involved, the 

communities in which they operate as well as the environment, and 

these make headline stories. It’s little surprise, therefore, that the 

pressure to adopt CSR policies and regulations has been greatest in 

these areas. What, however, is the role of the business lawyer and is 

the business lawyer in danger, through apathy, of losing this fertile 

area of new work – just as lawyers gave away the field of tax work 

to the accountants? 

This session will suggest that the business lawyer has two separate 

but interrelated roles to attend to. First, he / she must get his / her 

own house in order and demonstrate his / her firm’s adherence to 

CSR values and principles. 

Secondly, having demonstrated their credentials, law firms will be 

called upon to advise clients upon both the hard and soft law issues 

arising in this burgeoning field of CSR. 

Speakers 

Guy Beringer Allen & Overy LLP, London, England 

Peter Gordon Slater & Gordon Lawyers, Melbourne, Victoria, 

Australia 

Thomas Hickey Hess Oil & Gas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Marion Sangen-Emden Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Düsseldorf, 

Germany 

Richard Taylor Solicitors Regulation Authority, London, England; 

Senior Vice-Chair, Corporate Social Responsibility 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


the un norms on the responsibility of transnational 

corporations and other enterprises with regard to 

human rights 

Session Chair 

Richard Taylor 

Corporations have taken a leading role in the economy and in our 

ordinary lives and have already accepted the responsibility inherent 

to this role. A full range of questions arises from this commitment 

and particularly whether corporate codes of conduct are the 

best mechanisms, whether corporations can violate international 

law, whether the imposition of human rights rules is possible 

and advisable, whether CSR voluntary and compulsory activities 

are compatible and can intertwine themselves and other crucial 

questions for business actors. 

Human rights were proclaimed in the 20th century and must be 

universally applied in the 21st. Many initiatives, both public and 

private, and national and international, have been put in motion 

to face this reality. The project of the UN to adopt Norms on the 

Responsibility of Transnational Corporations and other enterprises 

with regard to human rights has originated a great debate among 

the business world, NGOs and civil society organisations. Many 

arguments are being given for and against the adoption of the 

Norms and the project is already being road-tested. If adopted, the 

Norms would be the first legally compulsory text to impose legally 

binding obligations regarding human rights. Such obligations would 

apply to both states and corporations, so any victim of human rights 

violations could be entitled to economic compensation as granted by 

courts of justice. 

Speakers 

Charles Lawton 

Craig Phillips Allens Arthur Robinson, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

Michael Smyth Clifford Chance LLP, London, England 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


Forum for Barristers and 

Advocates 


Jacqueline Leong QC Hong Kong Bar Association, Hong Kong SAR 

Co-Chairs 

Noelle McGrenera QC Bar Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast, 

Northern Ireland 

Jeremy Gauntlett QC General Council of the Bar of South Africa, 

Cape Town, South Africa 

What is a referral bar and how does it work? 

Session Chair 

Noelle McGrenera QC 

There are a number of core duties that define and shape the 

independent referral bars. These include: 

• duty to the court to act with independence in the interest of 

justice; 

• duty under the ‘cab rank rule’; 

• duty to promote the client’s interests fearlessly; and 

• in some bars, the duty to act as a sole trader. 

The consequences that flow from these core duties are many. The 

chief ones are: 

• maintaining the confidence of the judiciary; 

• independent fearless representation for a client by the counsel of 

choice; and 

• availability of advocacy and specialist expertise. 

Many of the referral bar jurisdictions have faced developments 

in recent years that have challenged these core duties, from 

investigations by competition authorities and the Office of Fair 

Trading to tighter controls on public funding. The session will involve 

a series of presentations, with each attending referral bar outlining 

developments encountered and challenges faced, followed by a 

discussion providing opportunities for referral and non-referral bars 

alike to share experiences and provide insights into these important 

developments. 

Speakers 

Jannie Eksteen SC General Council of the Bar of South Africa, 

Johannesburg, South Africa 

Stephen Estcourt QC Australian Bar Association, Brisbane, 

Queensland, Australia 

Roy Martin QC Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh, Scotland 

Paul Sreenan Bar Council of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland 

Geoffrey Vos QC Bar Council of England and Wales, London, 

England 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 



Co-Chairs 

Ambassador Emilio J Cárdenas Former Permanent Representative to 

the United Nations for Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Justice Richard J Goldstone Past Justice of the Constitutional Court 

of South Africa and former Prosecutor for the ICTR and ICTY, 

Morningside, South Africa 



technology? 


0900 – 1300 tuesDAY 


trial observations: a practical approach 


Session Chair 

Honourable Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG High Court of Australia, 


The IBA’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) sends independent experts 

to observe trials around the world; observers are sent to encourage 

compliance with fair trial standards and monitor and report upon 

legal proceedings. The IBAHRI collaborates with other international 

organisations, including member bar associations and law societies, 

in this endeavour. 

We are keen to encourage the practice of trial observations, 

and to this end the IBAHRI, in collaboration with the Media 

Law Committee, is offering IBA members the chance to attend 

a workshop briefing participants on the appropriate skills and 

approaches relevant to observing a trial. The session, led by lawyers 

with particular expertise in the area, will focus on the provisions of 

international and regional standards and the role lawyers can play in 

ensuring these provisions are met. The workshop will also draw on 

the experiences of previous IBA observers to examine how best to 

monitor and report on a trial. 

Speakers 


Treasurer, Public & Professional Interest Division 

Sternford Moyo Scanlen & Holderness, Harare, Zimbabwe; Advisory 

Board Member, African Regional Forum 

Mark Stephens Finers Stephens Innocent, London, England; Chair, 

Media Law 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


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International justice on trial – the first Icc case goes to 

court 

Session Chair 

Justice Richard J Goldstone 

In January 2007, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal 

Court (ICC) confirmed the charges brought by the prosecutor 

against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, President of the Union des Patriotes 

Congolais (UPC) and Commander in Chief of the Forces Patriotiques 

pour la Libération du Congo (FPLC). Mr Lubanga has been charged 

with the war crimes of enlisting and conscripting children under the 

age of 15 years and using them to participate actively in hostilities. 

As the first case to be referred to trial, the confirmation of charges 

marks a new and exciting phase in the court’s development. This 

session will explore the latest developments at the ICC, reflecting 

on the impact of the court’s activities on peace and justice in the 

situations currently under investigation in the Democratic Republic of 

the Congo, Darfur and northern Uganda. 

Speakers 

Angelina Mana Namakula Nalukwago Barclays Bank of Uganda 

Limited, Uganda 

Liliana De Marco International Bar Association’s Human Rights 

Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands 

Paolina Massidda Office of Public Counsel for Victims, International 

Criminal Court, The Netherlands 

David Tolbert Deputy Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for 

the former Yugoslavia, USA 

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sHoWcAse sessIon: the many faces of corruption 

– efforts, challenges and opportunities for the future 





fairness? 

Joint session with Human Rights Law. See page 74 for details. 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


the internationalisation of legal education 

Session Chair 

Justice Richard J Goldstone 

This session will explore recent developments in the field of the 

internationalisation of legal education and look at the growing number 

of partnerships between law schools in different countries across the 

globe. Panellists will examine the consequential growth of international 

comparative law and the internationalisation of legal ideas and teaching 

methods. This session will also consider the possible implications of 

this trend on the teaching of human rights law and the approach of 

domestic courts to the use of international and foreign law. 

Speakers 

Simon Chesterman Global Professor and Director of the New York 

University School of Law Singapore Programme, Singapore 

Roberto Guerrero Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile School of 

Law, Santiago, Chile 

Tan Cheng Han SC Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 

Singapore 

Franklin Gevurtz University of the Pacific, Sacramento, California, USA 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


Judges’ Forum 


John Morrison Evanston, Illinois, USA 

Chair 

Honourable Sheila Murphy Former Judge of the Cook County Circuit 

Court; Rothschild Barry & Myers, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

How adults suffer from sexual abuse as children and 

how drug treatment and mental health courts can help 


Honourable Sheila Murphy 

Justice Anderson Zikonda High Court of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia; 

Vice-Chair, Judges’ Forum 

Drug treatment courts were started in North America about 15 years 

ago by judges who had tired of putting defendants on probation for 

drug-related offences only to see that their addictions caused them 

to reoffend while on probation. Over 1,500 judges in the United 

States preside over drug treatment courts. 

Their goal is to turn offenders away from drug and alcohol 

addiction with the help of certified treatment advisers. In these 

cases, prosecutors and defence attorneys are not adversarial; they 

work with defendants, family members and probation officers 

to help defendants become ‘clean and sober’. If defendants test 

positive for drugs, they are placed in more intense treatment 

programmes and referred for counselling; prison is the last resort. 

These court-mandated treatment programmes work, and they save 

a great deal of money that would otherwise be spent on housing 

offenders in prison. Drug treatment courts in England take a 

somewhat different approach, also used quite effectively. To what 

extent can and should these courts be replicated elsewhere? 

This session is directed toward judges and lawyers who wish to 

increase their knowledge of how therapeutic justice works to save 

children of parents who are mentally ill and/or addicted to drugs. 

The collateral effect of parents’ recovery can save generations. 

Suggested reading for this session is Abraham Lincoln’s Temperance 

Address delivered before the Springfield Washington Temperance 

Society, February 22, 1842: http://showcase.net/web/creative/ 

lincoln/speeches/temperance.htm. 

Speakers 

Barbara Blaine Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests 

(SNAP), Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Jeff Anderson Jeff Anderson and Associates, Minneapolis, 

Minnesota, USA 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


Law Firm Management 


Stephen Macliver Bell Gully, Auckland, New Zealand 

Chair 

Robert Vineberg Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Montreal, 

Quebec, Canada 

Where to draw the line? ethical issues that law firms 

may ignore at their peril 

Session Chair 

Robert Vineberg 

The panel will lead a lively debate on a variety of law firm practices 

that may present ethical issues, such as not disclosing premium 

billing, overstaffing files, offering different rates for the same 

services to different clients, abusive tactics during litigation, the law 

firm holding an interest in an entity that provides ancillary services to 

clients, surcharges on disbursements and advising clients respecting 

backdating documents. Our panellists will consider how law firms 

deal with these issues in practice, and views will also be solicited 

from those in the audience. 

Speakers 

Peter Bartlett Minter Ellison, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

Máximo Luis Bomchil M&M Bomchil, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 

Communications Officer, Law Firm Management 

Charles Coward Uría Menéndez, Barcelona, Spain 

Gregory S Gallopoulos Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Herman Jeremiah Rodyk & Davidson LLP, Singapore 

Richard Rassel Butzel Long, Detroit, Michigan, USA 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


Where have all the flowers gone? the latest strategies 

for attracting and retaining young lawyers 

Session Chair 

Stephen Denyer Allen & Overy LLP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 

Vice-Chair, Law Firm Management Committee 

This panel will deal with what is often considered to be the most 

difficult problem facing law firms today – how to attract and retain 

young lawyers. For some years, law firms have been losing large 

numbers of their talented young lawyers. Initially, the reaction was to 

attract and retain lawyers by increasing salaries, but it appears that 

the attrition rates have continued to climb. Firms have been forced 

to become more innovative in order to overcome this dilemma, and 

our speakers will describe a number of creative solutions that have 

been used and which of them appear to work best. 

Speakers 

Steve Armstrong WilmerHale, Washington DC, USA 

Joel Henning Hildebrandt International, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Helen McKenzie Blake Dawson Waldron, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia 

Alberto Rebaza Rebaza Alcázar & De La Casas, Lima, Peru; Vice- 

Chair, Senior Lawyers 

Peter Smith Addleshaw Goddard, London, England 

Jimmy Yim Drew & Napier, Singapore 

0930 – 1230 tuesDAY 


strategic planning: is it an oxymoron for the smaller 

firm? 

Session Chair 

Norman Clark Walker Clark LLC, Fort Myers, Florida, USA; Vice- 

Chair, Law Firm Management 

Can a small firm realistically plan a strategy? Or should it merely try 

to respond to new opportunities as they arise? 

While they may lack much of the structure and resources of large 

firms, smaller firms also have a number of distinct advantages, 

such as a sharper focus on a limited number of practice areas, a 

more collaborative atmosphere, and the ability to take and execute 

decisions quickly. 

This session will present practical tools and methods that smaller 

firms can use to plan and execute successful business and marketing 

strategies for ‘big firm’ results. 

Speakers 

George Etomi George Etomi & Partners, Lagos, Nigeria 

Roberto Hernández García COMAD SC Law Firm, Mexico City, 

Mexico 

Christopher Honeyman Brown Performance Improvement 

Partnership, Warnham, England 

R Anthony Jenkinson Nunes Scholefield DeLeon & Co, Kingston, 

Jamaica 

Carlos Ruffinelli Moreno Ruffinelli y Asociados, Asunción, Paraguay 

Carlos Valls Iuris Valls Abogados, Barcelona, Spain 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


the Asian legal market – business development models 

for law firms in Asia 

Session Chair 

Lucien Wong Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore 

The economies of the countries of Asia are the fastest growing in 

the world today and both Asian and international law firms have 

had to move very quickly and in some cases, dramatically, in the 

region to be responsive to the needs of their clientele. In examining 

the current state of the Asian legal market, our panel will look at 

how Asian firms have joined with firms elsewhere in the region and 

from other continents to exploit opportunities in Asia and how they 

have established ‘home-grown’ solutions. We will also consider how 

international firms have capitalised upon the opportunities in Asia 

and how they have created an Asian presence. 

Speakers 

Tony Angel Linklaters LLP, London, England 

George Goulding Slaughter and May, Hong Kong SAR 

Hisashi Hara Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, Tokyo, Japan 

Joseph Longo Deutsche Bank AG, Hong Kong SAR 

Stephen Maloy General Electric Company, Shanghai, China 

Tim Massad Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, USA 

Desmond Ong DLA Piper Singapore, Singapore 

Cyril Shroff Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co, 

Mumbai, India 

David Liu Jun He Law Offices, Beijing, China 



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managing partner’s breakfast 

If you are a managing partner or have some other leadership 

or management role in your firm, or if you are interested in 

the management of law firms, this breakfast will give you the 

opportunity to exchange views and share experiences in an informal 

atmosphere. You will meet fellow practitioners performing similar 

roles, get to know the officers of the Law Firm Management 

Committee and learn about the work of the committee. 

The breakfast will be addressed by three speakers on the subject 

‘Is there life after managing partner?’ 

Speakers 

Susan de Silva Alban Tay Mahtani & de Silva, Singapore 

Paul Montgomery Former Managing Partner, Freehills, Melbourne, 

Australia 

Peter Mendell Former Managing Partner, Davies Ward Phillips & 

Vineberg LLP, Montreal, Canada 

0800 – 0930 tHuRsDAY 

Pearl River Restaurant, suntec convention centre 

making a new start after retiring from your firm 

Joint session with Senior Lawyers. See page 98 for details. 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


law firm visits 

Officers of the IBA’s Law Firm Management Committee will lead a 

group of IBA delegates to visit a number of Singapore law firms for 

briefings on strategy, practice management, organisational issues, 

marketing and office systems. 

Places will be strictly limited and allocated on a first come, first 

served basis at the conference. Tickets and further information can 

be obtained from the speakers’ desk at the IBA registration desk. 

0930 – 1230 fRIDAY 

Legal Profession and World 

Organisations 


Graeme Kirk Gross & Co, Bury St Edmunds, England 

Chair 

Tore Wiwen-Nilsson Mannheimer Swartling, Malmö, Sweden 


An open meeting of the Legal Profession and World Organisations 




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Pro Bono and Access to Justice 



Treasurer, Public and Professional Interest Division 

Co-Chairs 

Haji Sulaiman Abdullah Bar Association of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 

Malaysia 

Philip Zeidman DLA Piper, Washington DC, USA 

Who is doing the best international pro bono work? 

What models are being developed? How can they be 

adapted? 

Session Chair 

Philip Zeidman 

This programme will showcase some of the most innovative and 

promising pro bono initiatives, provide an opportunity to meet to 

discuss them with those instrumental in their creation, and facilitate 

the establishment of relationships across borders, based on common 

interest in the challenge of pro bono work. 

Whether you are a lawyer seeking to contribute to a pro bono 

programme, a law firm looking for a way to channel the interest 

in pro bono being expressed by your lawyers, or a bar association 

seeking assistance with projects in your own country, this is a very 

special opportunity. Join the dialogue, and learn how it will continue 

after Singapore. 

Speakers 

Ruth Greenspan Bell International Senior Lawyers Project, 


Richard Ferris Holland & Knight LLP, Washington DC, USA 

Fiona McLeay World Vision Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

Alison Moore China Program, American Bar Association, Beijing, China 

Sarah Poland International Lawyers Project, London, England 

Kayal Sachi Allen & Overy LLP, Singapore 

Jennifer Smith International Bridges to Justice, Beijing, China 

Michael Smyth Clifford Chance LLP, London, England 

Robin Sully Canadian Bar Association, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 

Communications Officer, Pro bono and Access to Justice 

Justin Yap The World Bank, Washington DC, USA 

1430 – 1730 monDAY 


the public interest work of bar associations 

Joint session with Bar Issues Commission. See page 91 for details. 

1115 – 1300 tuesDAY 


When disaster strikes – how lawyers can mobilise to 

restore order and preserve access to justice 


Evlynne Gilvarry Law Society of England and Wales, London, 

England; Secretary, Pro bono and Access to Justice 

Robin Sully 

This half-day session will focus on rapid response by the legal 

community to some recent disasters – terrorist attack (eg 9/11, 

bombings in Bali, London), natural disaster (eg Hurricane Katrina, 

Southeast Asian tsunami), and civil unrest (eg Nepal and Malaysia). 

Lawyers, often acting in a pro bono capacity, helped to ensure that 

the infrastructure of justice did not collapse and that both victims and 

accused were provided with access to justice. 

The session will showcase examples of such mobilisation of

lawyers’ efforts and attempt to learn the lessons of what worked 

best. It will also explore the challenges faced by lawyers who may be 

acting for accused persons. 

Speakers 

Betsy Cavendish Appleseed, Washington DC, USA 

Ramona Fernandez Loyola Law Clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 

Ragunath Kesavan Malaysian Bar Association, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Shambu Thapa Former President, Nepal Bar Association, 

Kathmandu, Nepal 

Professional Ethics 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 



John Moorhouse Attorneys Fidelity Fund, Cape Town, South Africa 

Daniel M Ferrere Ferrere Attorneys at Law, Montevideo, Uruguay 

Co-Chairs 

Adrian Evans Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

Victoria Rees Nova Scotia Barristers Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 

Canada 

A successful lawyer is an ethical lawyer – true or false? 

Joint session with Client Protection. 


Geraldine Clarke Gleeson McGrath Baldwin Solicitors, Dublin, 

Ireland; Chair, Client Protection Subcommittee 

Adrian Evans 

Victoria Rees 

Professional responsibility and legal ethics principles are highly 

relevant and essential to the successful practice of law in any field 

today. This day-long programme will address what every lawyer 

needs to know about achieving success through the application of 

ethical principles and sound judgment. 

Topics for this programme will include the costs of poor judgment 

and resulting professional liability claims; the costs of failing to report 

lawyers who have shown a predilection toward serious unethical 

behaviour, including a discussion of risk factors and red flags; the 

benefits of an ethical practice and identification of unique ethical 

challenges presented within various practice areas; and continuation 

of the debate on mandatory professional ethics education and how 

to stop the decline in ethics awareness and application of rules of 

professional conduct that occurs following admission to the Bar. 

Speakers 

Max Boqwana Boqwana Loon & Connellan, Port Elizabeth, South 

Africa 

Richard Devlin Dalhousie University Law School, Halifax, Nova 

Scotia, Canada 

Anne Birgitte Gammeljord Gorrissen Federspiel Kierkegaard, 

Copenhagen, Denmark 

Jonathan Goldsmith Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe 

(CCBE), Brussels, Belgium 

Kari Lautjarvi Hannes Snellman, Helsinki, Finland 

Ed Nally Fieldings Porter, Bolton, England 

George van Niekerk Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs, Cape Town, 

South Africa 

Peter Turner Australian Corporate Lawyers Association (ACLA), 

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

Heinz Weil Weil & Associés, Paris, France; Council Member, Public 

and Professional Interest Division 

0930 – 1630 tHuRsDAY 



An open meeting of the Professional Ethics Committee will be held 

to discuss future activities. 

1630 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 



Implementation Working Group 

Chair 

Stephen Revell Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, England 

How to money-launder – a guide for lawyers 

Joint session with Banking Law. 

Session Chair 

Stephen Revell 

If lawyers become actively and knowingly involved in money 

laundering they probably commit a primary offence in most 

jurisdictions – this is clear. What if lawyers become ‘unwittingly’ 

involved in money laundering; what is the definition of ‘unwittingly’ 

and to what obligations and/or consequences should lawyers be 

held? If lawyers do need to have their ‘wits’ about them to avoid 

becoming unwittingly involved, what is the appropriate customer 

due diligence lawyers need to take and what should they be on the 

lookout for? How do we improve training to the profession in this 

area? This session will examine the difficult position that lawyers 

are faced with in many jurisdictions, where anti-money laundering 

legislation both exists and has been extended, in line with the FATF 

Recommendations, to include lawyers. 

We will also discuss the various challenges around the world 

that have been made to such laws, and in particular their extension 

to lawyers given that this changes, arguably fundamentally, the 

relationship between a lawyer and his/her client. Are the FATF 

Recommendations and the laws that have implemented them 

sufficiently clear about the dividing line between providing bona 

fide advice that should be the subject of client confidentiality and 

privilege, and turning a blind eye to the ‘obvious’ intentions of 

clients to launder money? When does and when should the duty to 

‘whistleblow’ arise, if at all? 

this session will be recorded for cle purposes 

Speakers 

Tan Boon Gin Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore 

Andrew Holroyd OBE Law Society of England and Wales, London, 

England 

Colin Tyre Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), 


Louise Delahunty Simmons & Simmons, London, England 

Michael W Milani Federation of Law Societies of Canada, Regina, 


Anna Lenahan Allens Arthur Robinson, Sydney, New South Wales, 

Australia 

Michael Lintern-Smith Robertsons, Hong Kong SAR 

James Roselle Northern Trust Company, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Andy Yeo Allen and Gledhill LLP, Singapore 

Representative from the Financial Action Task Force 

1430 – 1730 tuesDAY 


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Client Protection 

A successful lawyer is an ethical lawyer – true or false? 

98 

Joint session with Professional Ethics. See page 97 for details. 

Senior Lawyers 


Heinz Weil Weil & Associés, Paris, France 

0930 – 1630 tHuRsDAY 


Co-Chairs 

Fernando Scornik Gerstein Fernando Scornik Gerstein Abogados, 

Madrid, Spain 

Albrecht Schulz CMS Hasche Sigle, Stuttgart, Germany 



1230 – 1430 monDAY 

making a new start after retiring from your firm 

Joint session with Law Firm Management. 

Session Chair 

Albrecht Schulz 

Partnership for life – myth or reality? 

Two countervailing trends are found in practice today: 

• early retirement of senior partners in order to give younger partners 

better opportunities (is this an issue only in big US or London 

firms?); and 

• maintenance of know-how and clients’ relations with senior lawyers 

by avoiding early retirement, break-ups and unfriendly departures. 

This session will examine how to manage a firm in these situations. 

Speakers 

Bernard L Greer Jr Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Chair, 

WTO Working Group 

Michael Simmons Finers Stephens Innocent, London, England 

What are the different (most attractive) options after 

retiring from your firm? 

What are the different – and most attractive – options for your 

professional life after you retire from your firm? If you set up a new 

law practice, what are the reasonable minimum conditions to do 

so? You may be considering many other options, including law firm 

consulting, in-house practice, corporate directorship, investment 

banking and private equity, government appointments (including the 

bench), and entering politics. Are these realistic alternatives or just 

dreams? Come and discuss these and other ideas with the panel. 

Speakers 


Malaysia 

Ronnie Fox Fox Solicitors, London, England; Vice-Chair, Senior 

Lawyers Committee 

Osvaldo Jorge Marzorati Allende & Brea Abogados, Buenos Aires, 

Argentina; Council Member, Legal Practice Division 

Francis W Neate Kirkland & Ellis LLP, London, England; Chair, 

Presidential Task Force on the Rule of Law 

Gérard Tavernier Gide Loyrette Nouel, Paris, France 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 


Women Lawyers’ Interest Group 


Gabrielle H Williamson JD Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Brussels, 

Belgium and Düsseldorf, Germany 

Chair 

Gabrielle H Williamson JD 

glass ceilings and compensation discrimination facing 

women lawyers 

Session Chair 

Gabrielle H Williamson JD 

Much has been written about the need to eliminate glass ceilings 

facing women lawyers in companies, government and law firms and 

the need to eliminate compensation discrepancies between equally 

skilled men and women lawyers doing the same jobs. However, 

in practice, in most countries, not much has changed in these 

discriminatory situations. 

A multidisciplinary panel will discuss developments in this area and 

provide strategies for achieving equitable advancement in women’s 

legal careers (for example, from associate to partner status) on an 

equal footing with male colleagues. In addition, discussion will focus 

on how to conduct successful compensation negotiations, whether 

it be within one’s organisation or outside with clients, and the role of 

networking in such negotiations. 

Speakers 

Toyin Bashorun Churchfields Solicitors, Lagos, Nigeria 

Roxana Kahale Kahale Abogados, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 

Secretary, Women Lawyers’ Interest Group 

Rachel Levitan Levitan Sharon Law Firm, Tel Aviv, Israel; 

Communications Officer, Senior Lawyers’ Committee 

Almudena Arpón de Mendevil Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados, 

Madrid, Spain; Council Member, Legal Practice Division 

Karen J Mathis President, American Bar Association, Denver, 

Colorado, USA 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


A luncH will be held for conference delegates 

Speaker 

Lim Hwee Hua Minister of State for Finance and Transport, 

Singapore 


1230 – 1430 monDAY 

Young Lawyers 


Alberto Perez Cedillo Alberto Perez Cedillo Spanish Lawyers and 

Solicitors, London, England 

Chair 

Carmen Pombo Clarke Modet & Co, Valencia, Spain 

Young lawyers’ introductory meeting 


Alberto Perez Cedillo 

Carmen Pombo 

IBA Annual Conferences can be rather overwhelming – particularly 

for those who attend a conference for the first time. To that end, the 

Young Lawyers’ Committee is organising an introductory meeting 

for young lawyers, to which you are warmly invited. Officers of the

Young Lawyers’ Committee will guide you through the conference 

programme, share with you how to get the most out of the 

conference and inform you of social events particularly targeted at 

young lawyers. 

Officers from various IBA committees will be introducing their 

committees to you. The meeting will also provide a platform for 

young IBA members to voice their needs and concerns as officers of 

the committee discuss and update their business plan. 

0930 – 1230 monDAY 


networking tools for the future 

Session Chair 

Carmen Pombo 

Networking is a tool oriented to develop and enhance 

relationships. The long-term effects of networking may not be 

perceived immediately. Raising a profile, creating allies, reinforcing 

acquaintances and maximising your position in your law firm are 

only some of the benefits and goals of networking successfully. 

Young lawyers must learn to identify that networking is not the 

same as selling. Networking is not just about helping you or your 

firm but involves situations where others may be in need of your 

assistance or your connection. A basic commitment to invest time in 

others is necessary for networking to be a successful tool. 

The session will take the form of two parts: presentations 

followed by role play exercises. 

Networking: make your duty your joy… reap the 

benefits from global connections 

Speaker 

The Honourable Sheila Murphy Rothschild Barry & Myers, Chicago, 

Illinois, USA 

Networking: spider’s web or springboard? 

Speaker 

Robert Driman Deneys Reitz Attorneys, Johannesburg, South Africa 

Speakers – role play exercises 

Máximo Luis Bomchil M&M Bomchil Abogados, Buenos Aires, 

Argentina; Communications Officer, Law Firm Management 

Eric Rieger Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Brussels, Belgium; 

Newsletter Editor, Young Lawyers Committee 



guidelines for setting up a national young lawyers’ 

association 

Joint session with the Association on Internationale Des Jeunes 

Avocats (AIJA) and the American Bar Association (ABA) 


Alberto Perez Cedillo 

Carmen Pombo 

This session will focus on finding agreement on some guidelines for 

the setting-up of a young lawyers’ association in those countries 

where young lawyers have not hitherto been acknowledged as a 

particular constituency. Representatives from major young lawyers’ 

associations around the world like the American Bar Association 

Young Lawyers’ Division (ABA) and Association Internationale Des 

Jeunes Avocats (AIJA) will participate in the session. 

0930 – 1230 tHuRsDAY 


strategy for a successful legal career plan – 

becoming a partner, going in-house, pro bono, 

going solo 

Session Chair 

Alberto Rebaza Rebaza Alcàzar & De las Casas, Lima, Peru; Vice- 

Chair, Young Lawyers 

This session will focus on the possibilities and opportunities available 

for lawyers, key factors involved in each career option, as well as 

their advantages and disadvantages. 

• Becoming a partner – the key strategies and steps in becoming a 

partner in a law firm are not matters to be dealt with exclusively 

by older associates, but are rather a path that lawyers must follow 

throughout their careers. 

• Going in-house and finding a niche market– in-house lawyers are 

involved in all legal aspects of the corporations they work in and 

often they become experts on specific markets. 

• Pro bono and governmental entities – increasingly, pro bono work 

and work at governmental entities has become an option for 

those lawyers seeking hands-on experience and specialisation. 

• Creating your own law firm – achieving independence and greater 

financial rewards. Leaving a big law firm and starting your own 

business requires much more than the skills taught at law school. 

Key points to bear in mind when facing unfamiliar grounds, such 

as drafting budgets, coordinating client billing, marketing the 

practice and recruiting staff and lawyers. 

• Maternity and the legal profession – how to balance pregnancy, 

maternity, family time and cope with office hours, producing 

successful results. 

this session will be recorded for cle purposes. 

Speakers 

Fahri Azzat Azzat & Izzat, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 

Laura Christa Christa & Jackson, Los Angeles, California, USA; Vice- 

Chair, North American Forum 

Niels Kornerup Bech-Bruun, Copenhagen, Denmark 

Claire Nazar KS Chia Gurdeep & Param, Singapore 

Luis Sáenz Mariscal Luna Rossa Challenge for the 32nd America’s 

Cup, Valencia, Spain 

1430 – 1730 tHuRsDAY 



The Young Lawyers’ Committee invites you to join in the IBA football 

match. See page 105 for details. 

Sponsored by 

1700 – 1900 tHuRsDAY 

Young lawyers’ night out 

A night out is being organised by the Young Lawyers’ Committee at: 

The Pump Room, 3B River Valley Road 

The Foundry, #01- 09/10, Singapore 179021 

Tel: +65 6334 2628 / 6338 0138 

www.pumproomasia.com 

For further information please contact: 

Laura Liew Chair, The Young Lawyers’ Committee of the Law Society 

of Singapore 

laura@infinituslaw.com.sg 

Tel: +65 6389 9176 

Or 

Carmen Pombo Chair, IBA Young Lawyers Committee 

cpombo@clarkemodet.com 

2230 tHuRsDAY 

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general information 

conference headquarters 

Suntec Singapore International 

Convention & Exhibition Centre 

1 Raffles Boulevard Suntec City 

Singapore 039593 

Please note that the Suntec Convention 

Centre is a non-smoking environment and 

smoking is not allowed anywhere inside the 

convention centre. 

All working sessions and delegate lunches 

will take place at the Suntec Convention 

Centre. 

cyber café 

Sponsored by 

The Cyber Café is located in the 

Registration/Exhibition Area, Convention 

Hall, Level 6, Suntec Singapore International 

Convention & Exhibition Centre. Access to 

the internet is free for delegates. Limited to 

30-minute sessions. 

message centre 

The Message Centre is located in the 



Convention & Exhibition Centre. Messages 

can be left and collected here during the 

conference hours between Sunday 14 and 

Friday 19 October. Message monitors are 

located throughout the Suntec Convention 

Centre. 

Tel: +65 6825 4804 

Fax 1: +65 6825 4805 

Fax 2: +65 6825 4806 

Business centre 

The Business Centre is located in the 



Convention & Exhibition Centre and is open 

from Monday – Friday, 0830-1700. They 

offer a full range of office supplies and 

business services. 

Wireless internet access 

Wifi broadband is available throughout the 

Suntec Convention Centre on a pay-per-use 

access with a credit card using the SSID: 

ACCESS-starhub. 

Delegate / guest conference 

badges 

For security reasons, badges must be worn 

at all times during the conference and at 

social events. Proof of identity is required 

for replacement badges. 

Public transport 

Taxis are by far the most convenient 

way to get around Singapore. Fares are 

inexpensive and the drivers speak English. 

Singapore does have a good subway service 

(Mass Rapid Transport). The nearest MRT 

Station to the Suntec Convention Centre 

is City Hall; then a ten minute walk via the 

underground City Link Mall. Alternatively, 

Suntec City offers a courtesy shuttle bus 

– pick-up point is outside the City Hall 

station entrance at St Andrew’s Cathedral, 

opposite Capitol Building. 

transport to IBA and committee 

social functions 

Unless otherwise indicated transport to IBA 

conference events and committee social 

events is NOT provided. 

tours / excursions 

Please visit our official tour operator Pacific 

World in the Registration / Exhibition 

Area, Convention Hall, Level 6, Suntec 

Singapore International Convention & 

Exhibition Centre to collect your excursion 

/ tour tickets, book excursions, subject to 

availability, or to amend existing bookings. 

All excursions will depart from Suntec 

Level 1 (ground level) front lobby. Please 

ensure you arrive ten minutes prior to your 

excursion departure time. 

Tel: +65 6825 4800 

Tel: +65 6825 4801 

Fax: +65 6825 4807 

medical facilities 

In the event of medical assistance being 

required during conference hours please 

contact IBA staff on the Registration Desk 

or a member of Suntec staff. 

Health and insurance 

The International Bar Association cannot 

be held responsible for any medical costs 

incurred by participants. 

Banks / shopping 

Banks are open from 0930-1500 Monday 

through Friday and from 0900-1100 on 

Saturdays. There are ATM machines located 

in the connecting Suntec Mall. 

The general opening hours for shopping 

centres are: 

Monday – Saturday from 1000-2100 

key contacts 

Message Centre 

Tel: +65 6825 4804 

Fax 1: +65 6825 4805 

Fax 2: +65 6825 4806 

Local hospitals 

Mount Elizabeth Hospital 

3 Mount Elizabeth (near Orchard Road) 

(emergency dental treatment can also 

be obtained here) 

Tel: 6737 2666 

Central Police Divisional 

Headquarters 

391 New Bridge Road 03-112 

Police Cantonment Complex Block A 


Tel: 1800 224 0000 

Fire emergencies 

Tel: 995 

Medical emergencies 

Tel: 995 

Police emergencies 

Tel: 999 

Airport Information 

Changi International Airport 

Tel: 6542 1122 

Taxi companies 

CityCab cash bookings 

Tel: 6552 2222 

CityCab credit card bookings/ 

Premier Cabs 

Tel: 6553 8888 

Comfort Cablink 

Tel: 6552 1111 

Comfort Premier Cabs 

Tel: 6552 2828 

Silvercab 

Tel: 6363 6888 

SMRT Taxis Skytrek Bookings/ 

Premier Cabs 

Tel: 6555 8888 

Transcab Services Pte Ltd 

6555 3333 

Yellow-Top Taxi 

6293 5545 

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geneRAl InfoRmAtIon

Venue layout 

level 3 

level 2 

Registration, legal exhibition, cyber café, message centre and 

business centre can be found on level 6, see page 121. 

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Venue lAYout

social Programme 

conference events 

* Indicates functions open to 

delegates and registered guests for 

which there is no charge. Admission 

is by conference badge. 

Tickets, where relevant, must be 

purchased for children over 13. Some 

social functions may not be suitable for 

young children and, if this is the case, 

the IBA reserves the right not to admit 

them. 

Social function prices: the IBA does 

not mark up ticket prices or make a 

profit from social functions. Dining in a 

large group will often cost more than 

dining individually because of additional 

costs such as room hire, transport, 

decoration, etc. 

The conference dress code is casual for 

working sessions and smart casual for 

social events. 

Delegates’ lunches, included in the 

registration fee, will take place in 

the Registration and Exhibition area, 

Convention Hall, Level 6, Suntec 

Singapore International Convention & 

Exhibition Centre. 

Sunday 

1800 – 1900 

*opening ceremony 

Convention Hall 60 , Level 6 

Suntec Singapore International 

Convention & Exhibition Centre 

The welcome party is approximately a 

ten-minute walk from Suntec. Some buses 

will be provided. Staff will be lining the 

route. 

1930 – 2230 

*Welcome party 

Raffles Hotel 

1 Beach Road 

The world-famous Raffles Hotel is the 

venue for this evening’s welcome party. 

Its timeless colonial atmosphere is in 

marked contrast to the bustling modern 

city outside its confines. The party will be 

spread throughout the hotel and grounds 

so you will have the opportunity to enjoy 

the courtyards, gardens and famous indoor 

areas such as the Raffles Grill and the Bar 

and Billiard Room where the last tiger in 

Singapore was apparently captured in 

1902! Excellent entertainment, food and 

wine will be available throughout the 

evening. 

Sponsored by 

1 st Legal 

Monday 

1230 – 1430 

european forum lunch 

Pearl River Palace Restaurant 

Suntec Convention Centre 

Price: £27 

1230 – 1430 

north American forum lunch 

Ballroom 2 


Price: £21 

1230 – 1430 

senior lawyers’ committee lunch 

Ballroom 1 


Price: £21 

1230 – 1430 

Women lawyers’ Interest group lunch 

Speaker 

Lim Hwee Hua Minister of State for Finance 

and Transport, Singapore 

Ballroom 


Price: £21 

1900 

*Hosted singapore law society 

reception 

The Legends – Fort Canning Hill 

We would like to thank the following 

for kindly sponsoring this event: Allen & 

Gledhill LLP; Drew & Napier LLC; Harry 

Elias Partnership; Rajah & Tann; Rodyk & 

Davidson LLP; Shook Lin & Bok; Singapore 

Academy of Law; Singapore International 

Arbitration Centre; Singapore Ministry of 

Law; Stamford Law Corporation; Tan Kok 

Quan Partnership; and WongPartnership. 

Tuesday 

1230 – 1430 

Asia Pacific forum lunch 

Sponsored by 



Price: £27 

1230 – 1430 

corporate counsel forum lunch 

Sponsored by 

Ballroom 1 


Price: £21 

1230 – 1430 

latin American Regional forum lunch 

Ballroom 2 


Price: £21 

1745 

*newcomers’ reception 

Ballroom 1 


Wednesday 

1230 – 1430 

legal Practice Division lunch 

Ballroom 2 


Price: £27 

Thursday 

0630 – 1600 

IBA golf day 

Laguna National Golf and Country Club 

11 Laguna Golf Green 


Transport: please refer to your confirmation 

details for transport information. 

Price: £160 

1230 – 1430 


lunch 



Price: £27 

1700 – 1900 


Sponsored by 

St Wilfrid Road 

1 920 Singapore 

A nominal fee will be charged on-site to 

participate in the football match. 

Note: Transport will not be provided to 

the football match. The football pitch is 

a 20-minute walk from the city centre. 

Changing facilities are available. 

1745 

*Young lawyers’ reception 

Ballroom 1, Suntec Convention Centre 

Friday 

1900 – 2200 

closing party 

Asian Civilisations Museum 

and IndoChine Waterfront 

1 Empress Place, Singapore 1 9 

Our closing party venue is located on the 

spectacular waterfront. The buildings at 

Empress Place were built at the mouth 

of the Singapore River and were once 

the offices of the colonial government. 

Today these beautiful buildings have been 

transformed into a complex that holds the 

Asian Civilisations Museum and Singapore’s 

top restaurants. We will have exclusive 

access to the museum and the IndoChine 

Waterfront restaurant will provide a superb 

buffet of dishes from the Indochinese 

region. The views across the river and of 

Singapore’s skyline should not be missed! 

Price: £65 

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socIAl PRogRAmme confeRence eVents

social Programme 

committee events 

Monday 

1230 

capital markets forum lunch 

socIAl 

Long Bar Steakhouse, Raffles Hotel 

Price: £70 

1230 

cultural Issues Programme lunch for 

guests 

Pacific 1 Ballroom, Pan Pacific Hotel 

Price: £28 

1245 

Antitrust committee lunch 

PRogRAmme commIttee eVents 

† 

China Club 

Price: £80 

Tuesday 

1130 

maritime and transport law committee 

lunch excursion † 

1930 

2000 

Investment funds committee dinner International construction Projects 

Senso 

committee dinner 

Price: £65 

Ivory – The Indian Kitchen 

Price: £52 

1930 

taxation section dinner 

2000 

Tower Club 

maritime and transport law committee 

Price: £74 

dinner 

2000 

committees on media law and Art, 

cultural Institutions and Heritage law 

joint dinner 

Senso 

Price: £65 

2000 

committees on employment and 

Industrial Relations law and 

Discrimination and gender equality 

joint dinner 

My Humble House 

Mount Faber 

Price: £53 

Price: £45 

2000 

1230 

committees on International sales 

committees on Banking law and 

and Product law and Advertising joint 

securities law joint lunch 

dinner 

Long Bar Steakhouse, Raffles Hotel China Club 

Price: £70 

Price: £74 

† 

Singapore Zoo 

Price: £72 

2030 

leisure Industries section dinner 

Xi Yan 

Price: £76 

Thursday 

1230 

Human Rights law committee lunch † 

Ocean 6, Pan Pacific Hotel 

Price: £50 

1245 

mediation committee lunch 

Le Papillon 

Price: £58 

1300 

litigation committee lunch 

1230 

consumer litigation committee lunch 


Price: £53 

1230 

International franchising committee 

lunch 

Ba Xian 

Price: £75 

1930 

African Regional forum dinner 

Sponsored by 

Cilantro 

Price: £48 

1930 

Business organisations committee 

dinner 


Price: £70 

1930 

committees on communications law 

and outer space law joint dinner 

Indochine Waterfront 

Price: £75 

1930 

Insolvency, Restructuring and creditors’ 

Rights section dinner 

Sponsored by 

East India rooms, Raffles Hotel 

Price: £66 

2030 

Intellectual Property and entertainment 

law committee dinner 

China Club 

Price: £74 

2030 

section on energy, environment, 

natural Resources and Infrastructure 

law (seeRIl) dinner 

Ba Xian 

Price: £75 

Wednesday 

1930 

Aviation law committee dinner 


Price: £53 

1930 

technology law committee dinner 

Ivory 

Price: £52 

2000 

Arbitration committee dinner 

Sponsored by 

Grand Shanghai 

Price: £36 

1830 

Pre dinner drinks sponsored by SIAC and 

ICDR 

Cheng Ho III 

Price: £56 

1930 

criminal law section dinner 

Li Bai 

Price: £72 

1930 

Immigration and nationality law 

committee dinner 


Price: £70 

1930 

Insurance committee dinner 

Poppi 

Price: £54 

Friday 

0900 

International construction Projects 

committee excursion † 

Sungei Buloh/Mandai Orchid Garden 

Price: £38 

† return transport provided 

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Hotels 

If calling from abroad, the following 

numbers must be prefixed by +65 

Raffles Hotel 

1 Beach Road 


Tel: 6337 1886 

Fax: 6339 7650 

www.raffles.com 

the Ritz-carlton, millenia singapore 

7 Raffles Avenue 


Tel: 6337 8888 

Fax: 6338 0001 

www.ritzcarlton.com 

conrad centennial singapore 

Two Temasek Boulevard 


Tel: 6334 8888 

Fax: 6333 9166 

www.conradhotels.com 

Raffles, the Plaza 

80 Bras Basah Road 


Tel: 6339 7777 

Fax: 6337 1554 

www.singapore-plaza.raffles.com 

Pan Pacific singapore 

7 Raffles Boulevard 

Marina Square 


Tel: 6336 8111 

Fax: 6339 1861 

www.panpacific.com 

swissôtel the stamford 

2 Stamford Road 


Tel: 6338 8585 

Fax: 6338 2862 

www.singapore-stamford.swissotel.com 

the oriental singapore 

5 Raffles Avenue 

Marina Square 


Tel: 6338 0066 

Fax: 6339 9537 

www.mandarinoriental.com 

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Hotels

embassies and consulates 

Argentina Embassy 

9 Temasek Boulevard 

44-03 Suntec Tower 2 


Tel: +65 6883 0415 

Australian High Commission 

25 Napier Road 


Tel: +65 6836 4100 

Austria Embassy 

600 North Bridge Road 

24-04 Park View Square 


Tel: +65 6396 6350 

Republic of Bangladesh High 

Commission 

101 Thomson Road 

05-04 United Square 


Tel: +65 6255 0075 

Belgium Embassy 

8 Shenton Way 

14-01 Temasek Tower 


Tel: +65 6220 7677 

Consulate of Belize 

101 Cecil Street 

22-01 Tong Eng Building 


Tel: +65 6224 4312 

Embassy of Brazil 




Tel: +65 6256 6001/2 

British High Commission 

100 Tanglin Road 


Tel: +65 6424 4200 

High Commission of Brunei 

Darussalam 



Tel: +65 6733 9055 

Royal Embassy of Cambodia 

400 Orchard Road 

10-03/04 Orchard Towers 


Tel: +65 6333 6372 

Canadian High Commission 

11-01 One George Street 


Tel: +65 6854 5900 

Embassy of Chile 


25-00 The Octagon 


Tel: +65 6223 8577/8 

Embassy of the People’s 

Republic of China 



Tel: +65 6418 0246 

Consulate of Union of the 

Comoros 




Tel: +65 6220 1815 

Consulate of the Republic of 

Colombia 

9 Raffles Place 

Level 58 Republic Plaza 


Tel: +65 6823 1367 

Consulate of Cote d’lvoire 

1 Maritime Square 

09-43 World Trade Centre 


Tel: +65 6278 8666 

Consulate-General of the 

Republic of Cyprus 

102F Pasir Panjang Road 08-03 


Tel: +65 6271 9659 

Embassy of Czech Republic 


Suntec City Tower One 18-02 


Tel: +65 6332 2378/6 

Royal Danish Embassy 




Tel: +65 6355 5010 

Consulate of Ecuador 

9 Rhu Cross 

12-10 Costa Rhu 


Tel: +65 6346 8205 

Egyptian Embassy 

75 Grange Road 


Tel: +65 6737 1811 

Consulate General of the 

Federal Democratic Republic 

of Ethiopia 

23 Chin Bee Avenue 


Tel: +65 6262 1233 

Honorary Consul of the 

Republic of the Fiji Islands 

126 Owen Road 


Tel: +65 6294 7284 

The Embassy of Finland 




Tel: +65 6254 4042 

The French Embassy 

101-103 Cluny Park Road 


Tel: +65 6880 7800 

Embassy of the Federal 

Republic of Germany 

12-00 Singapore Land Tower 



Tel: +65 6533 6002 


Ghana 

c/o Lum Chang Holdings Ltd 

38 Kim Tian Road 

03-00 Kim Tian Plaza 


Tel: +65 6273 8888 

Embassy of the Republic of 

Hungary 


29-01 Raffles City Tower 


Tel: +65 6883 0882 

High Commission of India 

31 Grange Road 


Tel: +65 6737 6777 


Indonesia 

7 Chatsworth Road 


Tel: +65 6737 7422 

Embassy of Ireland 


08-00 Liat Towers 


Tel: +65 6238 7616 

Embassy of Israel 

58 Dalvey Road 


Tel: +65 6235 0966 

Embassy of Italy 


27-02/03 United Square 


Tel: +65 6250 6492 

Embassy of Japan 

16 Nassim Road 


Tel: +65 6235 8855 

Embassy of the Democratic 

People’s Republic of Korea 

7500A Beach Road 

09-320 The Plaza 


Tel: +65 6440 3498 


Korea 

47 Scotts Road 

08-00 Goldbell Tower 


Tel: +65 6256 1188 

Embassy of the Lao People’s 

Democratic Republic 


05-03A United Square 


Tel: +65 6250 6044 

Latvian Consulate 

27 Moulmein Rise 

10-29 Grand Tower 


Tel: +65 6256 6597 

Consulate of Lebanon 

3 Temasek Avenue 

31-02 Centennial Tower 


Tel: +65 6333 1614 


Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 

1 Pickering Street 

16-01 Great Eastern Centre 


Tel: +65 6428 2218 


Madagascar 

26 Eng Hoon Street 


Tel: +65 6223 1316 

Malaysian High Commission 

301 Jervois Road 


Tel: +65 6235 0111 


Malta 

10 Anson Road 

15-01/02 International Plaza 


Tel: +65 6324 2060 

The Embassy of Mexico 

152 Beach Road 

06-07/08 Gateway East Tower 


Tel: +65 6298 2678 

Honorary Consulate of 

Morocco 

300 Beach Road 

02-01 The Concourse 


Tel: +65 6392 9881 

Embassy of the Union of 

Myanmar 

15 St. Martin’s Drive 


Tel: +65 6735 1672 (consular) 

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embassies and consulates (continued) 

The Royal Netherlands 

Embassy 


13-01 Liat Towers 


Tel: +65 6737 1155 

New Zealand High 

Commission 

391A Orchard Road 

Tower A 

15-06/10 Ngee Ann City 


Tel: +65 6235 9966 

Nigeria High Commission 

390 Havelock Road 

06-06 King’s Centre 


Tel: +65 6732 1743 

The Royal Norwegian Embassy 

16 Raffles Quay 44-01 

Hong Leong Building 


Tel: +65 6220 7122 

Pakistan High Commission 

1 Scotts Road 

24-02/04 Shaw Centre 


Tel: +65 6737 6988/6621 

Embassy of Republic of 

Panama 

16 Raffles Quay 41-06 

Hong Leong Building 


Tel: +65 6221 8677 


Peru 


12-03 Palais Renaissance 

Building 


Tel: +65 6738 8595 

Philippines Embassy 



Tel: +65 6834 2938 


Poland 


10-01/02 Wisma Atria 


Tel: +65 6734 0466 

Consulate of Portugal 

55 Waterloo Street 09-03A 


Tel: +65 6334 1231 

Romanian Embassy 

48 Jalan Harom Setangkai 


Tel: +65 6468 3424 

Embassy of the Russian 

Federation 



Tel: +65 6235 1834 

Consulate of Samoa 

c/o 

Asiaciti Management Pte Ltd 


09-01 Bharat Building 


Tel: +65 6533 2611 

Royal Embassy of Saudi 

Arabia 


Singapore 258 449 

Tel: +65 6734 5878 


Republic of Seychelles 

22 Cavenagh Road 01-17 


Tel: +65 6732 2202 


Slovak Republic 

200 Cantonment Road 

09-01 Southpoint 


Tel: +65 6236 6103 


Slovenia 


32-00 Singapore Land Tower 


Tel: +65 6239 7522 

South African High 

Commission 


15-01/06 Odeon Towers 


Tel: +65 6339 3319 

Embassy of Spain 


39-00 Suntec City Tower One 


Tel: +65 6725 9220 

High Commission of the 

Democratic Socialist Republic 

of Sri Lanka 

51 Newton Road 

13-06 to 12 Goldhill Plaza 


Tel: +65 6254 4595 

Embassy of Sweden 

111 Somerset Road 

05-01 Singapore Power 

Building 


Tel: +65 6415 9720 

Embassy of Switzerland 

1 Swiss Club Link 


Tel: +65 6468 5788 

Taipei Representative Office 

460 Alexandra Road 

23-00 PSA Building 


Tel: +65 6278 6511 

Consulate of the United 

Republic of Tanzania 




Tel: +65 6220 1815 

Royal Thai Embassy 



Tel: +65 235 4175 


Tunisia 

15 Scotts Road 07-00 

Thong Teck Building 


Tel: +65 6737 7544 


Turkey 

20B Nassim Road 


Tel: +65 6732 9211 

Embassy of the United States 

of America 

27 Napier Road 


Tel: +65 6476 9100 

Honorary Consulate of the 

Republic of Ukraine 

3 Shenton Way 

20-03 Shenton House 


Tel: +65 6227 9400 

Embassy of the United Arab 

Emirates 


09-01/05 Parkview Square 


Tel: +65 6238 8206 

Embassy of the Socialist 

Republic of Vietnam 

10 Leedon Park 


Tel: +65 6462 5938 


Vanuatu 

101A Upper Cross Street 

13-23 People’s Park Centre 


Tel: +65 6533 6888 


Yemen 

36 Purvis Street 

02-05 Talib Centre 


Tel: +65 6339 1727 

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exhibition 

• Compare the latest international 

legal products and find out how 

technology can help your practice. 

• Meet the world’s leading publishers 

and software providers face-to-face. 

Our exhibitors can be found on Level 6, 

where you will also find Registration and 

the Cyber Café. 

exhibition hours 

Saturday: 1400-1730 

Sunday: 1000-1800 

Monday-Friday 0900-1700 

Official Corporate Supporter 

With offices in 120 countries, Aon acts 

for many of the worlds large, medium, 

and small firms around the globe. Aon’s 

professional services experts can assist 

your firm in addressing its risk transfer 

and risk mitigation needs. Also, as the 

leading global provider of risk 

management services, insurance and 

reinsurance brokerage, human capital 

consulting, and specialty insurance 

underwriting, Aon can help you help 

your clients. 

Official Corporate Supporter 

lexisnexis ® is a leading global provider 

of information and services solutions to 

the legal, risk management, corporate, 

government, law enforcement, tax, 

accounting and academic markets. The 

company provides customers access to 5 

billion searchable documents from more 

than 35,000 legal, news and business 

sources. LexisNexis combines applied 

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world class consulting and professional 

services to benefit our customers in their 

own marketplace. LexisNexis delivers 

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Alm is a leading integrated media 

company, focused on the legal and 

business communities. ALM publishes 

magazines and newspapers, and hosts 

law.com, the web’s leading destination 

for legal professionals. The company is 

one of North America’s largest 

producers of conferences and 

tradeshows. Other businesses include 

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reporting, market research and content 

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We are delighted to be launching 

chambers Asia at the 2007 

Conference. Chambers Global, USA, 

Europe, UK and now Asia, are products 

of in-depth interviews with clients and 

peers assessing lawyers and law firms’ 

expertise. Chambers rankings and 

editorial are referred to extensively by 

Corporate Counsel, CEOs and other 

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The International law office (ILO) 

delivers global analysis to lawyers via a 

subscription-only email service. It 

provides legal developments from over 

100 jurisdictions, a directory of firms, a 

database of the world’s major deals, 

and a news roundup. ILO is proud to be 

the IBA’s official online media partner. 


kluwer law International provides 

the global business community with 

reliable international legal information 

in English. Legal practitioners, corporate 

counsel and business executives around 

the world rely on our journals, loose 

leafs, books and electronic products for 

comprehensive information in many 

areas of international legal practice. 


legalease is the leading provider of 

market information for commercial law 

firms and clients. The Legal 500 Series 

and Legal Business provide thorough, 

impartial research and analysis. 

Internationally, The Legal 500 series is 

relied on as a first point of reference on 

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Through its international coverage, its 

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legal Week offers clear reporting and 

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From negotiating with and lobbying the 

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solicitors across England and Wales. 


the european lawyer publishes the 

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directory of independent law firms; the 

Brussels Legal Yearbook and an 

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manupatra the pioneers in online legal 

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Legal, Taxation, Corporate and Business 

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tottel Publishing has a wide list of 

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law, banking and finance, intellectual 

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exhibition plan 

1 International Bar Association 

2 International Bar Association 

3 Chambers & Partners 

4 Chambers & Partners 

5 AIJA 

6 Legal 500 (Legalease) 

7 Legal 500 (Legalease) 

8 Citi 

9 Informa Professional 

10 Euromoney Legal Media Group 

11 Euromoney Legal Media Group 

12 Informa Professional 

13 ICDR 

14 UKTI 

15 Law Society of England and Wales 

16 Tottel Publishing 

17 Legal Week 

18 Getting The Deal Through 

19 Getting The Deal Through 

20 The American Lawyer 

21 Kluwer Law International 

22 Cambridge University Press 



25 Aon 

26 Aon 

27 The European Lawyer 

28 Aon 

29 LexisNexis 

30 LexisNexis 

31 LexisNexis 

32 LexisNexis 

33 LexisNexis 

34 LexisNexis 

35 LexisNexis 

36 LexisNexis 

37 Oxford University Press 

38 Who’s Who Legal 

39 Who’s Who Legal 

40 Oxford University Press 

41 Wildy & Sons Limited 

42 Practical Law Company 

43 Practical Law Company 

44 Destination Dubai 

45 International Law Office 

46 Saybi Business Solutions 

47 Asia Law & Practice 

48 Unallocated 

49 Unallocated 

50 Global Law and Business 

51 LexisNexis 

52 LexisNexis 

53 CLS Communication 

54 World Bank – Doing Business Project 

55 Law Business Research 

56 Manupatra India 

57 Uniquely Singapore 

58 takelegaladvice.com 

59 Sweet & Maxwell Asia 

60 LegalStudio 

61 Transperfect Translations 

62 Bloomberg 

63 Madrid 

64 Bloomberg 

121 

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Access to justice 

on disasters 96-97 

pro bono 96-97 

Acquisitions, non-corporate income tax 

aspects 79 

Advocacy in arbitration 46 

Aerospace industry, consolidation in 69 

African Regional Forum 82 

Aircraft accidents, mediation in 76 

American Bar Association 35 

Anti-corruption 90 

survey 90 


Implementation Working Group 97 

Antitrust 40-41 

criminalisation of cartels 41 

international comity 40 

Arab Regional Forum 82 

Arbitration 46-47 

advocacy in 46 

court support for in Asia Pacific region 

46 

energy and natural resources industries 

47 

Latin American forum on 86 

hot topics 47 

investment treaties 46-47 

Art 

buying 65 

cultural institutions and heritage law 65 

Asia, insolvency law reform 64 

Asia Pacific Forum 83 

Asian employment and labour law 61 

Auctions, company 42 

Aviation law 76-77 

accidents 76 

financing structures 76 

roundtable 77 

terrorism 76 

Banking 55-56 

bilateral investment treaties 56 

confidentiality 56 

Islamic finance 55 

legal opinions 56 

Bar associations 

mandatory v voluntary membership 91 

public interest work 91 

running on limited funds 91 

Bar Issues Commission 90-92 

Barristers’ and Advocates’ Forum 93 

Beijing Olympics 55 

Bilateral investment treaties 56 

European forum on 86 

Bio and pharma research and development, 

globalisation 70 

Business immigration update 62 

Business intelligence, industrial espionage 

44 

Capital markets 

financings for private equity deals in 

Asia 60 

Forum 56-57 

China, insolvency reform 64 

Class actions, global, judgments and 

settlements 47 

Clearing and settlement, recent 

developments 56 

Client protection 98 

Closely held and growing business 

enterprises, cross-border strategic 

alliances 43 

Committee information 9-12 

Communications law 65-66 

new multimedia platforms 66 

Content liability 67 

Continuing Legal Education 3 

Continuing professional development 3 

Contractors, payment 51 

Convention on International Sale of Goods 

(CISG) 72 

Copyright 67 

Copyright and entertainment law 67 

Corporate Counsel Forum 83-84 

Corporate governance 57 

Corporate information governance 70 

Corporate law 42-44 

business enterprises 43-44 

business organisation 42-43 

company auctions 42 

cross-border strategic alliances 43-44 

deal mediation 43 

M&A law 43 

M&A transactions in China 43 

private equity 43 

shareholders 42 

vendor’s due diligence 42 

venture capital 44 

Corporate social responsibility 92 

Corruption 31 

Counterfeiting and piracy, combating 41 

Criminal law 44-45 

access to witnesses for the prosecution 

45 

business crime 44-45 

cartels 41, 45 

corruption 31, 94 

fraud 45 

gaming 44 

industrial espionage 44 

Iraqi Higher Tribunal 45 

Olympic Games 45 

organised crime, corruption and 

terrorism 45 

partnerships 45 

transnational insolvency 45 

Cross-border insolvencies 64 

Cross-border patient mobility, legal issues 

for 74 

Cross-border strategic alliances 43 

Cultural differences 31 

Cultural issues 33 

Current Developments Panel, taxes 81 

Deal mediation, corporate counsel forum 84 

Disasters, access to justice following 96-97 

Discrimination 

law firms, in 60 

workplace claims 60 

Discrimination and gender equality 60-61 

religious symbols in workplace and 

public places 61 

sex, age and race discrimination in law 

firms 60 

workplace discrimination claims 60 

Dispute resolution 

arbitration 46-47 

enforcement of dispute resolution 

clauses 46 

international insurance and reinsurance 

57 

litigation, 48-49, see also Litigation 

mediation 49 

negligence and damages 50 

Distribution networks, protecting 40, 72 

Distribution structures 

rationalising in Greater China and Latin 

America 73 


Latin American Forum 87 

Due diligence, vendor’s 42 

Electricity 

market manipulation 54 

renewable 54 

Employment law 61-62 

Committee business meeting 62 

HR law for Asian multinationals in non- 

Asian countries 62 

HR law for non-Asian multinationals in 


understanding Asian employment and 

labour law 61 

Energy, environment, natural resources and 

infrastructure Law, 50-55, see also SEERIL 

Enforcement 

dispute resolution clauses 46 

European judgments in Asia/Asian 

judgments in Europe 85 

EPC contracting in the PPP environment 51 

Estate planning for the Asian family 80 

European Forum 84-86 

open meeting 85 

European Union 

investment incentives 81 

investment opportunities 84 

tax harmonisation v tax competition 81 

forum 85 

Extraterritorial application of laws, 


Extraterritorial jurisdiction, IBA Task Force 39 

Family assets, holding, managing and 

transferring 80 

Family law 73 

Financial services 55-60 

banking 55-56 

capital markets forum 56-57 

insurance 57-58 

investment funds 58-59 

securities 59-60 

Financing structures 76 

Franchising 71 

competition issues in 71 

international 71 

Pacific Rim 71 

Free trade 

Pacific Rim 41 

impact in Latin America, forum on 87 

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Funds, anatomy of a blow-up 58 

Gaming 68, 75 

anti-corruption 90 

Glass ceilings, compensation discrimination 

98 

Globalisation, bio and pharma research and 

development 70 

Hazardous cargo, transportation and 

storage 78 

Health and insurance 101 

Hedge funds 

as clients 59 

role in financial restructuring 63 

Historic wrongs, redress through courts 74 

Hotel and casino development 75 

Human remains, return of 65, 68, 74 

Human resources 60-63 

Asian multinationals operating in non- 


discrimination and gender equality 60-61 

employment and industrial relations 

61-62 

immigration and nationality law 62-63 

non-Asian multinationals operating in 


Human resources law 

Asian multinationals in non-Asian 

countries 62 

non-Asian multinationals in Asian 

countries 61 

Human rights, UN Norms 92 

Human Rights Institute 93-94 

Human rights law 74 

Human Rights Law Committee 25, 107 

IBA Foundation, open forum 33 

IBA Task Force on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction 

39 

Immigration 

coordination with tax law strategies 62 

enforcement trends 62 

global business update 62 

issues for franchisors 71 

law 62-63 

enforcement trends 62 

tax law, strategies for expatriates 62, 81 

work visa options in the Asia Pacific 

region 63 

Indigenous peoples 74 

Industrial espionage 44 

Insolvency 

cross-border 64 

hedge funds in financial restructuring 63 

reform in Asia 64 

restructuring and creditors’ rights 63-64 

transnational insolvency and fraud 64 

Insurance 57-58 

captives 58 

directors’ and officers’ liability insurance 

57 

effective regulation 58 

resolving international disputes 57 

Intellectual property 

best practice in IP litigation 66 

communications and technology 64-70 

copyright 67 

entertainment law, and 66-68 

licensing IP and international treaties 67 

media law 68-69 


outer space law 69 

patent law 67 

technology law 70 

trademarks 68 

virtual gaming 66 

wireless distribution issues 67 

International cartels, strategic leniency 40 

International comity, dominance cases 40 

International commercial arbitration, 


International construction 51-52 

developments 52 

EPC contracting in the PPP environment 

51 

exclusion and limitation of liability 52 

financing PPP construction projects in 

emerging countries 51 

getting paid 51 

International Criminal Court (ICC) 94 

International family, the 73 

International justice, first ICC case 94 

International maritime centres – Singapore 

77 

International sales 

franchising and product law 70-73 

advertising 73 

international franchising 71 

international sales 72-73 

Internet, content liability 67 

Investment funds 58-59 

in Asia 58 

fund blow-up 58 

private 59 

Investment incentives in the European 

Union 81 

European forum on 84 

Investment treaty arbitration 46 

IP litigation, best practice in 66 

Iraqi Higher Tribunal 


human rights 74 


Islamic finance 55 



banking law 55 

Judges’ Forum 94 

Judgments, enforcement 85 

Key contacts 101 

Latin American Regional Forum 86-87 

open meeting 86 

Law firms 

bar associations, and 91 

corporate social responsibility 92 

Law and individual rights 73-75 

family law 73 

human rights law 74 

indigenous peoples 74 

medicine and the law 74-75 

Legal education, internationalisation of 94 

Legal markets, Asia 95 

Legal opinions, banking law 56 

Legal Practice Division Fora 82-87 

African Regional Forum 82 



Corporate Counsel Forum 83-84 

European Forum 84-86 

Latin American Regional Forum 86-87 

North American Forum 87 

Legal profession, world organisations, and 

96 

Leisure industries 75-76 

business meeting 75 

gaming 75 

hotel and casino development 75 

low cost carriers in Asia 75-76 

loyalty programmes 75 


section business meeting 75 

Liability 

allocation in upstream project contracts 

53 

insurance 57 

internet content 67 

maritime service providers 77 

Licensing, IP and international treaties 67 

Limitation on benefits 80 

Litigation 48-49 

consumer 47 

dispute resolution process 48 

enforcement of European judgments in 

Asia/Asian judgments in Europe 49 

IP, best practice in 66 

patent, strategies 48 

preserving privilege and confidentiality 

48 

resolving international insurance and 

reinsurance disputes 48 

Young Litigators’ Forum 48 

Low-cost carriers in Asia, emergence 75-76 

Loyalty programmes 73, 75 

Maritime and aviation law 76-78 

Maritime law, recent developments 78 

Maritime service providers, liability 77 

Maritime and transport law 77-78 

international maritime centres 

– Singapore 77 

land transport 78 

liability of maritime service providers 77 

piracy and crimes at sea 78 

recent developments 78 

Marriage 73 

Media, state intervention in 69 

Media law 68-69 

communication strategies in securities 

and M&A transactions 68 

gaming 68 

Google issues 68 

new multimedia platforms 69 

return of human remains 68 

state intervention in the media 69 

trial observations 68 

Mediation 49 

aircraft accidents 49 

cultural perspectives 49 

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cultural perspectives on 83 

deal mediation 49 

discrimination claims in the workplace 

49 

Medical facilities 101 

Medicine and the law 74-75 

Merger control/foreign investment 

promotion, interface between 40 

Mergers and acquisitions 

communication strategies 59, 68 

non-corporate income tax aspects 79 

recent developments 43 

Mineral industry 

forum 83 

influence of China and India on 53 

Mining law 52-53 

China and India, influence on the 

mineral industry 53 

development and financing 

infrastructure 52 

security of tenure 53 

Mining projects, financing of infrastructure 

55 

Mobile communications 65 

Money-laundering 97 

My partner or my spouse 73 

Nationality 62-63 

coordination of immigration and tax law 

strategies 62 

immigration enforcement trends 62 

immigration update 62 

immigration and work visas in Asia 

Pacific region 63 

Negligence and damages 

committee business meeting 50 

lawyer liability 50 

what the East can teach the West 50 

Negotiating, handling conflicting tax 

interests 80 

Networking 99 

Networking tools for the future 99 

New multimedia platforms 66, 69 

North American Forum 87 

Oil and gas law 53 

liability in upstream project contracts 53 

prospects for refineries in Southeast Asia 

53 

security of tenure 53 




legal guide 66, 75 

Open committee business meeting 


legal profession and world organisations 

96 

negligence and damages 50 

Open forum 

business meeting 86 


identification of issues common to 

corporate counsel 84 

Open meeting 

European Forum 85 

Latin American Regional Forum 86 

Organised crime 45 

corruption and terrorism 45, 90 

Outer space law 69 

Patents, maximising 67 

Payment, alternative methods of 73 

Piracy 78 

Power law 54 

PPP construction projects, constraints in 

financing in emerging countries, forum 

86 

PPP environment, EPC contracting in 51 

Practice development 33 

Practice management 95-96 

access to justice 96-97 

Asian legal market 95 

attracting and retaining young lawyers 

95 

ethical issues 95 

retirement 96 

strategic planning 95 

Precautionary principle 78 

Presentations, giving 33 

Presidential Task Force on Rule of Law 12 

Private equity consortia, representing 43 

Private equity funds as clients 59 

Private investment funds 59 

Private ownership, water 54 

Privilege 

confidentiality, corporate counsel forum 

83 

preserving 83 

Pro bono 96 

access to justice 96-97 

Procurement 

water projects in Southeast Asia 54 

forum on 83 

Product law and advertising 73 

Product recalls 70-71 

Professional development 89-90 

business case for 89 

Professional ethics 97-98 

Anti Money-Laundering Legislation 

Implementation Working Group 97 

client profitability and environmental 

responsibility 90 

client protection 98 

Protecting distribution networks 40 

Public interest work of bar associations 91 

Public law 78-79 

Public procurement, trends in 2007, 72 

RAINBOW strategy 33 

Rainmaking 33 

Real estate 79 

impact of environmental aspects 79 

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) 57 

Real estate private equity, global impact 79 

Redressing historic wrongs through the 

courts 74 

Referral bar 93 

Regulatory environment in Asia, antitrust 41 

Religious symbols in workplace and public 

places 61 

Renewable electricity and clean 


Resolving international insurance and 

reinsurance disputes 57 

Retirement 96, 98 

Return of human remains 65, 68, 74 

Rule of law 36-37 

global challenges 35 

international business, importance to 31 

resolution 37 

Rule of Law Presidential Task Force 12 

Sale of company, auction 42 

Schedule of sessions 13-27 

showcase sessions 31 

Scholarship Programme 35 

Securities law 59-60 

communication strategies 59, 68 

exchanges, consolidation of 59 

M&A transactions and 59, 68 

recent trends 60 

SEERIL 50-55 

arbitration in energy and natural 

resources industries 50 

environment, health and safety 51 

impact of environmental aspects on real 

estate projects 51 

international construction projects 51-52 

mining law 52-53 

oil and gas law 53 

piracy and crimes at sea 51 

power law 54 

renewable electricity and clean 


water law 54-55 

Senior lawyers 98 

Sex, age and race discrimination in law 

firms 60 

Sexual abuse, treatment and mental health 

courts 94 

Shareholders 

activism 

Corporate Counsel Forum on 84 

European Forum on 85 

burdens, duties and obligations 42 

State intervention, media 69 

Strategic alliances, cross-border 43-44 

Strategic planning 95 

Strategies for companies facing patent 

litigation 48 

North American forum on 87 

Subsidies, challenging and defending 39 

Surveillance technology 65, 69, 70 

human rights 74 


Taxation 79-82 

construction projects 82 

coordinating immigration and tax law 

strategies for expatriates 81 

current developments 81 

EU harmonisation v EU competition 81 

EU investment incentives 81 

handling conflicting tax interests 80 

individual tax and private client 80 

limitation on benefits 80 

non-corporate income tax aspects of 

acquisitions 79 

non-corporate income tax aspects of 

mergers and acquisitions 79 

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tax law, immigration law, strategies for 

expatriates 62, 81 

tax-efficient investment in China 80-81 

taxes 80-82 

Technology law 70 

risk assessment and management 70 

Terrorism 76 

Theocracies 78-79 

Theocracy, democracy and secularisation 

78-79 

Trade and customs law 41 

Trade liberalisation 41 

Trademark law 68 

Traditional land rights, Malaysia, case study 

74 

Transnational insolvency, fraud, and 64 

Transnational legal practice 89 

Transport 

hazardous cargo 78 

land 78 

Trial observations 68, 93 

Trusts 80 

UN Norms, human rights 92 

Venture capital 44 

Water law 54-55 

incentive-based mechanisms 55 

private ownership 54 

Wireless 

distribution IP issues 65, 67 

internet access 101 

Women Lawyers’ Interest Group 98 

Working Sessions 13 

Legal Practice Division 39-87 

Antitrust and Trade Law 39-41 

Consumer Litigation 47-49 

Corporate Law 42-44 

Criminal Law 44-45 

Dispute Resolution 46-50 

Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, IBA Task 

Force on 39 

Financial Services 55-60 

Fora 82-87 

Human Resources 60-63 

Insolvency, Restructuring and 

Creditors’ Rights 63-64 


Product Law 70-73 

IP, Communications and Technology 

64-70 

Law and Individual Rights 73-75 

Leisure Industries 75-76 

Maritime and Aviation Law 76-78 

Public Law 78-79 

Real Estate 79 

SEERIL 50-55 

Taxation 79-82 


89-99 


Development 89-90 

Anti Corruption 90 

Bar Issues Commission 90-92 

Barristers and Advocates Forum 93 

Corporate Social Responsibility 92 

Human Rights Institute 93-94 

Judges’ Forum 94 

Law Firm Management 95-96 

Legal Profession and World 

Organisation 96 

Pro Bono and Access to Justice 96-97 

Professional Ethics 97-98 

Senior Lawyers 98 

Women Lawyers’ Interest Group 98 

Young Lawyers 98-99 

Workplace, discrimination claims in 60 

Young lawyers 98-99 

career planning 99 

guidelines for setting up a national 

association 99 

introductory meeting 98 

legal career plan 99 

networking tools 99 

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