FATF has support from groups ranging from the UN, OECD, World Bank, and Transparency International, to national and regional law enforcement agencies.

An open meeting of the Agricultural Law Section held to discuss matters of interest and future activities.

Pressure from activist investors and financial institutions are holding companies increasingly accountable for their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance.

How will current legislative approaches and proposals to regulate the provision and use of AI affect the practice of the legal profession?

SustainabilityFocusESG practices and performance can significantly impact the value and future opportunities of any business, and be an important driver of success and failure in M&A.  This session of leading industry experts will cover the increasing role that internal and external ESG considerations are playing in M&A strategies, including the ability for activists and other investors to force M&A transactions as companies are pressured to ensure their strategic priorities align with investor ESG expectations, and also how ESG can be used as a wedge issue by activists seeking transactional outcomes.

In the current global deal environment, nationalism and protectionism are flourishing and the parties must anticipate interference from national or supranational authorities, often with political agendas. This panel of leading global deal lawyers will focus on strategies to deal with the uncertainties imposed including unpredictable outcomes, delayed timing and generally increased risks. A particular emphasis on what we have learned the hard way - case studies of recent tricky transactions – will be employed.

In 2020, the independent advisory body to the Media Freedom Coalition, the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, published an advisory report ‘A Pressing Concern: Protecting and Promoting Press Freedom by Strengthening Consular Support to Journalists at Risk’ examining the existing State approaches respecting consular assistance for journalists at risk abroad, and proposes a new paradigm of justice and accountability.

Every day, journalists and media personnel around the world fall victim to arbitrary detention, violence or intimidation on account of their work. These attacks resonate beyond their individual cases, being not only attacks on free expression, but also exponential assaults that silence the subjects of the reporting and deprive the public of their stories. By threatening and targeting journalists, States seek to send a dissuasive message, suppressing those who would report on their wrongdoings.

Beyond and before the documentation a panel of international experts discuss fundamental issues around pre-planning for structuring and restructuring. We also look at the differences between emerging and established jurisdictions and in the spirit of healthy competition see if we can find the ultimate champion jurisdiction.

The increasing digitalisation of the international commerce has been accelerated due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and now the War in Ukraine. Economic recovery is still dependent on international commerce increasing and the  positive impact of continual improvements in  digital commerce.

Jurisdictions around the world are seeking to reshape or control the impact of the major tech and social media platforms. In this session, we will examine two regulatory trends and how they may change internet and society. First, there is growing concern about the role and power of algorithms to amplify or minimise content in ways that affect individuals' beliefs, opportunities, and wellbeing.

The directive seeks to implement minimum standards and harmonize preventative restructuring frameworks within the European Union.  This session will address whether the culture of anticipation and prevention of insolvency has been effectively  reinforced.

YoungLawyersWhat is the regulation of legal tech and the blurred lines with traditional law? How are these “next-generation law firms” impacting young lawyers? What is gig economy’s impact on the future of the legal profession? These and many other related questions resonate on the way the law has been traditionally practiced.

The session, supported by the Regional Fora of the IBA and with expert speakers from different sectors and organisations, will be focused in helping lawyers — even those not practicing in international trade — understand their role and the opportunities arising for them and their clients in the public and private sectors, from the implementation of free trade agreements and new regional economic communities.

As part of this session, specific attention will be put also on explaining the current situation of hot topics in international trade, such as e-commerce, investment protection and investor-state disputes, and on the relevance of sunset clauses contained in recently negotiated free trade agreements (e.g., the USMCA case, among others).

From global law firms to local practices, differences in a lawyer's ethical obligations and the cultural underpinnings of those obligations impact the way in which ethical obligations in law practices are implemented. This panel considers the complexities of adhering to ethical obligations within and across jurisdictions, and discusses strategies to assist in lawyers fulfilling their ethical obligations.

In the last years, we have seen several Latin American companies filing for Chapter 11 in United States instead of filing for reorganization in their own countries and then seeking protection in the US under Chapter 15. This panel will address the reasons for such trends, focusing on the advantages and disadvantages of each of such strategies (Chapter 11 vs.

It will explore how lawyers in the private and public sectors can use a variety of legal tools including environmental and human rights law to promote sustainable and responsible investment in agriculture within their national contexts.

SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS sessions marked as such are part of the IBA Annual Conference 2022 sustainability focus on Tuesday and Thursday, grouping sessions discussing different aspects of ESG and sustainability across the different legal fields.

For start-ups and family businesses, establishing a professionalized board and other aspects of corporate governance tend to be far down the priority list. And yet, several experiences have demonstrated that investing in good governance is crucial for long-term success of non-listed companies. In this panel we will examine the advantages of adopting good corporate governance for private companies and the main risks associated with inertia, with a close look to the key issues that any private company should consider when structuring its governance, alongside with the new trends in legislation.

SustainabilityFocusPressure continues to mount on companies around the world to make Environmental, Social and Governance disclosure. Major institutional investors are taking a principled stand against companies that provide insufficient ESG disclosures and regulators across the globe are increasingly making adequate annual ESG disclosures mandatory. This session will explore emerging trends in ESG disclosure as well as the related risks and opportunities.

SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS sessions marked as such are part of the IBA Annual Conference 2022 sustainability focus on Tuesday and Thursday, grouping sessions discussing different aspects of ESG and sustainability across the different legal fields.

The session will explore how the rules and practice of international trade are evolving, as reflected in the expanded use of trade defence tools such as trade remedies, safeguards, unilateral tariffs and countermeasures, the return of managed trade arrangements and the reordering of global trading blocs. The session will be practical and forward-looking; it will focus on what lawyers need to know to help clients structure their supply chains and the extent to which domestic courts and international institutions like the WTO can offer meaningful recourse to protect parties’ interests in rules-based trade.