Speaker details

IBA Annual Conference Sydney 2017

8 Oct - 13 Oct 2017

Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Speaker information

Carolina Zang

Biography

Carolina heads the ZBV's Banking and Capital Markets Practice. She specializes in corporate legal advice with emphasis in financing, capital markets, debt restructuring, M&A, investment funds, private equity and venture capital, and real estate. She is a former chair of the IBA Real Estate Committee and she currently serves as Senior Vice Chair of the Latin American Regional Forum. She chairs the Corporate Law Committee of the City of Buenos Aires Bar Association. Carolina has recently been elected member of the Lawyer's Council for Civil and Economic Rights by The Vance Center for International Justice which aims to combat corruption in Latin America. Carolina was awarded the Euromoney Legal Media Group´s Women in Business Law Awards 2016, for Best Finance Lawyer in Latin America. In 2015, under her leadership, ZBV developed a very successful mentorship program for young lawyers that has already had two very successful editions together with the prestigious Universidad de San Andrés. This initiative earned ZBV the award from the Chambers Women in Law Latin America Awards in the Most Valuable Mentoring Program for Women Lawyers category. Carolina Zang graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1995, and she obtained her LLM at the New York University School of Law in 1998. She speaks Spanish, English and Hebrew. Ms. Zang is the only female and the youngest member of the Board of Directors at ZBV. She also heads the Marketing & Communications Committee and the Pro Bono Committee at the firm. She is a frequent speaker on diversity and inclusion issues in the legal profession.

Session

From birth to death, the adventurous life of a mining project in Latin America

Tuesday 10 October (1430 - 1730)

Room C3.3, Convention Centre, Level 3

Session Co-Chair

Why – and how – to enhance the ratio of female talent in law firms

Monday 9 October (0930 - 1045)

Room C4.8, Convention Centre, Level 4

Session Co-Chair

Where are all the women? Global themes and trends of the LPRU International Attrition and Re-engagement Study

Thursday 12 October (1430 - 1545)

Room C4.8, Convention Centre, Level 4

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