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Jan 22, 2024
A report on the Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee session at the 2023 IBA Annual Conference in Paris.
The Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) together with the International Bar Association (IBA) invite you to the Business Breakfast: “ReOpen Ukraine 2023”.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
The mission of the Committee is to address issues of particular interest to start ups, owner-managed, closely held and family businesses and their legal advisors, and to organisations with ambitions for growth. The Committee's aim is to provide a focus for the different needs of ownership, management and financing of such organisations. Particular focus is placed on: management and ownership issues, finance and the raising of tier one and two capital, shareholder issues and agreements, business succession plans, exit planning, relationships with outside investors, protection of minority interests, dispute monitoring and resolution, the role of professionals in management and advisory roles and relevant issues arising from tax, employment, real estate, estate planning and family law.
By Sanjay Buch and Devanshi Nanavati. Law relating to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Settlement Proceedings) Regulations 2018
This session will feature a roundtable discussion of experts who will recount on the most noticeable developments they have observed in 2023 affecting the legal profession. The panellists will represent different jurisdictions (from both civil law and common law) and give an insight on the current and evolving roles of lawyers in these jurisdictions.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
IBA Global Insight October/November 2018. Editorial
IBA Global Insight - October/November 2018
This Roundtable will explore:
• Challenges and opportunities of operating an asset management business across multiple jurisdictions
• Product development in the current market environment; tensions between active management, passive management and alternative products
• Fee compression and cost considerations
• New technologies and efficiencies in operating an asset management firm
• The roles of compliance, regulation and culture in a global asset management firm
IBA Global Challenges and Opportunities for the Asset Management Industry Conference
The Asset Recovery Committee, re-launched as an independent committee in 2023, provides an international platform for private and public-sector practitioners, civil society, international and regional organizations, policy makers, experts and funders to meet and discuss best practice and experience in the field of asset tracking and recovery, including asset recovery laws and orders, practical tools and techniques, know-how and case studies, from both criminal and civil law perspectives, across both civil and common law jurisdictions.
IBA Global Insight October/November 2018 -Russian corruption: growing calls for tougher sanctions to combat ‘dirty’ money; The United Kingdom has long been recognised as a favoured destination for wealthy Russian investors, but the flow of ‘dirty money’ from Russia is tainting the country’s reputation. It is increasingly viewed as a safe haven for the Kremlin’s coffers, according to a recent report by the UK House of Commons’ Foreign Affairs Committee
32nd Annual Conference on the Globalisation of Investment Funds
The Oil and Gas Law Committee focuses on issues such as: exploration and production of hydrocarbons, onshore and offshore oil and gas, joint Operating Agreements and industry contracts, financing and insurance, comparative tax regimes, state participation and national oil companies, trans-national pipelines, storage, and refining, sales and shipping agreements, alternative dispute resolutions, licensing, PSA, and other regimes, downstream issues, oil and gas trade and marketing, natural gas transportation and distribution, LNG chain and hydrocarbon regulatory bodies and agencies.
IBA Global Insight October/November - Migration crisis: European Parliament moves to prevent the criminalisation of those supporting migrants ;IBAHRI shares international tools to support UN torture prevention framework in Mexico; International justice and accountability – new films; Kofi Annan – a tribute; Conference to mark 30th anniversary of the Bangalore Principles; IBA focuses on civil society organisations and starvation as a war crime to support UNHRC; India: Supreme Court decriminalises gay sex in
Join high-level executives who lead by example and are at the forefront of driving change as they share experiences about how their organization's commitment to gender representation yields tangible results. Learn about their approaches, the challenges they face, and how corporate culture is finding ways to sustain progress and change for the better.
10th World Women Lawyers' Conference: Driving Change
The Communications Law Committee is a leading global forum for legal practitioners with specialist expertise or interest in the communications sector. The Committee offers members access to a worldwide network of leading practitioners, in-house counsel and regulators active in digital, communications and media markets. We encourage the sharing of sectoral expertise through regular publication of articles, periodic issues of our technical journal, the annual committee conference hosted jointly with IBA Antitrust Section, and specialised sessions at the IBA Annual Conference.
The scope of the Committee’s work covers network, service and content-related developments across all delivery platforms. This provides members with access to practical global perspectives on the array of technological, commercial and policy issues which confront communications lawyers, their companies and clients.
Securities settlement procedures and requirements represent an important and technical, although often misunderstood, element of capital markets, and are particularly complex in the case of cross-border transactions. This panel will explore important legal and commercial settlement issues relevant to counsel of both issuers and security holders throughout a settlement cycle in the context of equity-based transactions involving differing jurisdictions for listing, incorporation and place of issuance. Topics to be discussed include:
• Overview of settlement systems in Europe and the U.S.;
• Key elements of a settlement cycle;
• Interaction between corporate and securities laws applicable at the place of incorporation and settlement rules applicable at the place of listing;
• Interaction between central securities depositories (CSD) and custodian banks;
• Impact of certain jurisdictions’ plans to transition to a T+1 settlement cycle in May 2024; and
• Involvement of CSDs in corporate actions (voting, dividends, take-privates) post-IPO.
39th IBA International Financial Law Conference
The African Regional Forum aims to enhance the value and significance of the International Bar Association (IBA) by addressing issues unique to African lawyers. The Forum focuses on cooperation with bar associations, supporting legal development, and promoting IBA participation across Africa. We organise regional conferences, workshops, and seminars to foster specialisation and partnerships within the legal profession. The Forum also works to educate about legal rights, strengthen sub-regional bars, and facilitate exchanges between developed and developing bars. We play a crucial role in training, legal reforms, and fostering collaboration with government and other regional fora.
The Forum for Barristers and Advocates represents Bar Associations whose members practice as independent referral practitioners in jurisdictions with a divided legal profession. Formed by Bar Leaders, the Forum advocates for the principles of independent advocacy within the IBA. The Forum addresses the importance of advocate and judiciary independence, ethical conduct, and training. The Forum supports human rights and collaborates with the Judges' Forum and other committees on litigation and trial topics. The Forum’s inaugural members include Bar Associations from England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and Hong Kong, representing over 16,000 barristers and advocates. Membership is open to bar associations which are full or supporting members of the IBA, and to individual members of any Divisions.
The Asia Pacific Forum offers fantastic opportunities to establish contact with legal experts in and outside of the region, practising in many different areas of law, and to keep abreast of legal business developments in the region.
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 region. Members also benefit from excellent working relations with national Bars, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association and LAWASIA.
The International Trade and Customs Law Committee is a forum for international practitioners, corporate counsel, academics and government officials to convene, exchange ideas and promote discussion of issues across the spectrum of international trade and customs law.
The International Trade and Customs Law Committee also works closely with bar associations and other organisations across the world to organise events and to ensure that the committee and its members are on the leading edge of international trade and customs issues.
The Academic and Professional Development Committee connects law schools, legal professionals, and the IBA. We aim to enhance the quality of lawyers worldwide, modernise legal practice, and attract top talent to the profession. We engage directly with law schools, helping students prepare for international practice, and support IBA initiatives to strengthen local Bars globally.
At annual conferences, we bring together academics, lawyers, and experts to explore issues in legal and business education. Additionally, we conduct research on these topics and share insights through newsletters and updates on our webpage to benefit the global legal community.
Political upheaval on multiple continents, disasters, economic challenges, and, of course, war, are forcing more people than ever to leave their homes. We will discuss developments since the last IBA Annual Conference.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
The Forum for Government and Public Lawyers provides a platform for government and public lawyers worldwide. As the global voice of the legal profession, the IBA supports these lawyers and connects them with both public and private sector practitioners. The Forum focuses on the role of government and public lawyers, covering public service values, ethics, specialist skills, and public international law developments. Membership is open to Bar Associations that are IBA members and individual members of any Division. The Forum is especially relevant to practitioners working in government or public entities at domestic, regional, or international levels.
In view of the current challenges by states of dispute resolution mechanisms in investment treaties, what are the likely changes to expect around the world?
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
The European Regional Forum (ERF), established in 1989, has over 8,000 members. The forum is divided into four regions - Northern, Western, Central, and Southeastern - each led by a Chair and Vice-Chair. We have five working parties - communications, D&I, ESG, mental wellbeing, and next-gen law - and we organise four conferences annually (automotive & mobility services, fashion & luxury law, ESG and start-up) in addition to many leading and participating in many smaller initiatives.
Our goals include: addressing the needs of professional organisations and individual members, increasing participation in the IBA, fostering cross-border collaboration among European lawyers and bars and supporting the Rule of Law and civil society. The ERF promotes professional development and networking opportunities through our many initiatives.
This session will discuss the different perspectives on Investor-State dispute settlements.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
An interactive session discussing the evolving role of lawyers and law firms in the context of regulation of lawyers and client expectations requiring those running law firms to wear multiple hats, including CEO, COO, CFO, Head of Human Resources, Head of D&I, Director of Procurement, Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO), Director of Business Development and Public Relations, Crisis manager, Head of Sustainability, etc.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Feb 28, 2023
The topics covered by this session included: active and passive holding companies; the impact of European Union directives on these structures; substance requirements of Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive III and new domestic rules; the debt-equity bias reduction allowance proposal; and beneficial ownership rules, as well as their impact on financing and funds.
Closely held companies have been affected by post COVID economic environment, the Ukraine-Russia war and the increase of energy prices. A number of companies from various sectors are suffering signs of stress. This interactive session will explore, among other issues:
- the opportunities for investors prepared to engage in the acquisition of distressed companies (including PE, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds);
- the implications of ongoing restructuring processes or formal insolvency proceedings;
- transaction structuring issues, including carve-outs and related tax and commercial implications;
- how to address the gap between valuation expectations of buyers and sellers (earn-outs and other mechanisms);
- the different incentives of the parties involved (buyer, seller, creditors, shareholders, board);
- time constraints;
- limited due diligence scope and uncertainty and implications for pricing and risk allocation (including warranty protection and W&I insurance); and
- how to prepare a company to get sold.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
The purpose of this article is to emphasise the obstacles that Brazilian case law and scholars’ opinions have created in holding officers and directors liable for losses they have caused to their companies.
Jan 12, 2024
In this session, Antonia Verna and Pavla Prikrylova presented the European Regional Forum Diversity & Inclusion Working Party with the Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit for Lawyers. The Toolkit was developed by the International Bar Association (IBA) to provide law firms with an action plan to embed the core principles of diversity and inclusion into their organisations.
Global impact of the Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
Jan 12, 2024
The European Regional Forum (ERF), in particular its Professional Wellbeing Working Party (PWWP), organised a session on lawyers' wellbeing and ways in which we can make our law firms become better working environments. This session was additionally organised with the support of the IBA’s Presidential Task Force on Mental Health and wellbeing and the Professional Ethics Committee; it took place at the IBA 2023 Annual Conference in Paris.
By Byung-Woo Im. Judges and arbitrators as adjudicators and settlement facilitators, and the Singapore Convention on Enforcement of Mediated Settlements
A discussion of the ever-evolving landscape of public M&A around the world.
22nd Annual International Mergers & Acquisitions Conference
Even where parties are embroiled in adversarial disputes resolution, mutual settlement remains a cheaper and more effective alternative. The legal fraternity, however, remains divided on whether a neutral can and should facilitate settlement.
This paper argues that a neutral’s participation in mutual settlement is not only permissible, but also beneficial to disputing parties. The key is to establish the right safeguards.
This is an opportunity for Member Organisation Representatives to be updated on the status of ongoing projects in which the IBA is involved, and specifically those that touch on sensitive areas for bar associations.
It will also allow them to find out what work is being planned, and propose subject matter and programmes for future activities within our very dynamic BIC.
For those of you travelling to Paris for the Annual Conference 2023, we have a meeting for all our bar association members on Wednesday 1st November from 1115-1230 CET in room 241, Level 2, at the Palais des Congres.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Dec 01, 2023
On 4 May 2023, during the IBA Litigation Conference in Buenos Aires, the first session of the conference sought to explore what tech companies are demanding from their lawyers in the new and evolving global economy for legal services. Rodrigo Fermín García of Marval O’Farrell & Mairal, who had compiled an excellent panel of speakers from South America's tech scene, moderated the session. The speakers were Mariana Alvarez Gaiani (JPMorgan Chase Argentina), Daniela Bianchi (Uala), Santiago Gini (OLX), Horacio Liendo (Mercado Libre) and Pamela Moreno (IBM).
The 2019 Stockholm Human Rights Award winners were David Miliband and the International Rescue Committee, the organisation he leads. In conversation with IBA Executive Director, Mark Ellis, Miliband spoke about migration, the climate crisis and the need for passion, as well as reason, in confronting populism.
This session will discuss the practical application of the IBA updated guidance on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) released in 2023.
It will provide new insights into the UNGPs in practice, recent updates in business and human rights, the maturation of the right to a healthy environment (R2HE), due diligence approaches for human rights and the environment, and the trends in transnational business and human rights litigation.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Sep 30, 2018
In this filmed interview, James Thornton of environmental public interest law firm ClientEarth discusses the use of the law and litigation to protect the Earth, air pollution litigation, diesel emissions scandals, Brexit and environmental law, China’s long-term vision for the environment, the Paris Agreement, Divestment from fossil fuels, climate change risk and the threat of the 'carbon bubble', the US and its short-term approach to the environment, and challenges facing environmental lawyers.
This interactive session will explore the benefits (and costs) of remaining a privately held company as compared to embarking on a public offering.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Legal & General to vote against combined CEO-chair roles, Rachael Johnson, In-House Perspective March 2020
When to settle, when to fight? Is settlement always the best solution for clients? How to start settlement discussions?
IBA Young Litigators Seminar 2024
While the academic study of leadership roles found in a board of directors and management is not new, it is almost unheard of in Cambodia. This is not surprising given the country’s entire corporate governance and economic structure are still evolving.
The Fundamentals of International Legal Business Practice
Bobby Lee is CEO of BTC China, which was founded in 2011. It is the country’s first and largest exchange for bitcoin – a decentralised virtual currency that has taken the financial world by storm.
Jun 02, 2025
This article explores the new legal environment in the European Union arising from the revised Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2), which is applicable to the management boards of health sector services providers, notably hospitals and clinics. This EU Directive establishes a new set of obligations, which makes board members directly and personally responsible for the level of cybersecurity compliance by the entities that they manage and administer, as well as making them responsible for the cybersecurity failures the entities may suffer. This article emphasises the importance of management boards designing and adopting strict cybersecurity policies and internal control systems to ensure compliance with the EU Directive and to avoid any liabilities.
But in ever-expanding situations, it is legally or informally required from companies that they make sure not only their officers and employees abide by laws and regulations, but also that all the third parties they are interacting with do so, in the countries where they are based as well as nearly all over the world. They are increasingly expected to detect potential criminal offences, internally investigate them, collect data, question people, establish potential individual liabilities, disciplinary sanction employees, self-report to the judicial or administrative authorities and cooperate to reach settlements while being strongly incited to do so.
But to what extent is this their role? What is it telling about public enforcement policies around the world? Are commercial companies becoming private prosecutors and should such a trend be questioned?
25th Annual IBA Transnational Crime Conference
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