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Jul 18, 2025
The arrest of Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri on 16 July 2025 by the authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany marks a significant milestone in the pursuit of justice for victims of serious international crimes.
This session will discuss the following topics in light of sanctionsrelated provisions commonly found in financial contracts:
• economic and financial sanctions in different parts of the world;
• implications of the extraterritorial effects of sanctions;
• impact of the sanctions against Russia;
• blocking statutes and their relevance; and
• are we expecting a movement from regulation to enforcement, and what does this mean for lenders and borrowers?
4th Asia-based International Financial Law Conference
Moderator
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Feb 17, 2023
This article will outline the development of China’s restrictions on the cross-border transfer of personal information (PI export), detailing PI export mechanisms provided by the Personal Information Protection Law. It will also explain the practical implications of the restrictions.
We will discuss key exit strategy considerations for start-ups and venture capital funds and the pros (and cons) on the IPO route, including enhanced liquidity for investors, access to capital, maintenance of control and employee equity incentives, but also exposure to market volatility and regulatory burdens.
38th IBA International Financial Law Conference
Sep 27, 2023
The rise in popularity of generative artificial intelligence (‘generative AI’) has ignited the discussion on whether junior employees can be replaced by it. Some have gone to the extent of questioning whether professionals, such as lawyers, can also be replaced by generative AI. Is it wise to replace junior employees or lawyers with generative AI? What factors should be considered before deploying generative AI tools in your business? To consider these questions, we first need to understand the basic workings of generative AI and what it can offer. Fundamentally, AI is intelligence that is not biological. The general understanding is that machines will be ascribed with this intelligence. These machines have the ability to interpret, learn from and process external data in a way that is similar to the capabilities of the human mind. Generative AI is a type of AI program that generates content from a data set. It uses deep learning, a type of machine learning system that behaves like a neural network to simulate the functions of a human brain. In other words, it can mimic human intelligence by exhibiting analytical skills to create new content. Not only can generative AI be utilised in chatbot programs to create text, but it can also be used in programs that can create images, sound or videos. This article will consider two major forms of generative AI, in the context of risks to businesses: chatbots using generative pre-trained transformer technology programs; and image generating programs.
While in some jurisdictions, super-voting shares and dual-class shares have been around for a considerably long time, these structures continue to be debated in many jurisdictions. This session discusses the pros and cons of super-voting shares and dual class shares from a securities markets and corporate governance perspective.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Jun 12, 2024
The new Foreign State Immunity Law 2023 of the People’s Republic of China came into force on 1 January 2024. This shifts the country (as well as its special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau) away from absolute state immunity to restrictive state immunity, bringing it more in line with the relatively prevalent practice among the international community. This article discusses the status of state immunity in public international law, analyses the new law’s provisions and examines practical challenges that will be faced by those seeking to utilise this law to enforce judgments or awards against foreign states and state entities, and the new law’s innovations that go beyond the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property of 2004 and the UK State Immunity Act 1978.
Approximately 1.5bn people have been or will be going to the polls across more than 50 countries this year. What will be the impact on the private equity sector and deal making? Our experts will share their views and insights.
Young Lawyers Private Equity Forum 2024
This session will discuss the green transition, more urgent than ever, creates various challenges of which financing the enormous investment amounts needs is one of the more prominent ones. Also, in addition to requiring large sums, the repeated access needed to capital for long term investments poses unique challenges for traditional financing instruments.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Jul 08, 2025
Mediation is on the rise internationally as a means to settle disputes in a cost-effective manner. Chinese parties appear to be increasingly interested in mediation as an option. This article examines the evolving landscape of mediation in China and internationally. It considers how mediation for Chinese parties is evolving and whether mediation is a good option for Chinese parties in cross-border disputes. Commercial mediation has seen remarkable growth, bolstered by a supportive PRC judicial system and legislative initiatives encouraging parties to find harmonious ways to resolve disputes. The article analyses the three primary types of mediation in China: people’s mediation, administrative mediation, and commercial mediation. It also looks at mediation rules and proceedings in common law jurisdictions, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. The article anecdotally considers the cultural elements, emphasising the Chinese parties’ preference for evaluative mediation styles as a reflection of civil law. Through case studies of international disputes involving Chinese and US parties, the article illustrates the practical dynamics of mediation involving Chinese parties and underscores the importance of cultural sensitivity in international mediation. As Chinese parties continue to go global, mediation is emerging as an attractive option for efficient and cost-effective dispute resolution. This analysis assesses whether the promotion of mediation is yielding tangible outcomes and explores the future of mediation involving Chinese and foreign parties.
In the current volatile geopolitical landscape, the approach to tariffs, state aid and foreign direct investment regimes needs to be carefully managed in order to avoid protectionism, which may have significant unintended consequences for competition in African markets, particularly as we move to implement the African Continental Free Trade Agreement. This panel will explore some of the risks – and the potential solutions – drawing on experiences from across the Continent and abroad.
2nd IBA African Competition Law Conference
Apr 22, 2022
This article discusses the recent SEC case involving PwC and highlights the wider implications for intermediary institutions providing professional services in a tightened regulatory and enforcement regime in China’s banking and financial sector.
The panel will deal with the various criteria to determine the price per share to be offered at a voluntary tender offer aimed at the delisting of a public company. The discussions will focus on the most critical aspects of the relevant procedures, including the requirements to challenge the price proposed by the offeror in each jurisdiction, the possibility of competing offers with different prices in cash or securities and related securities laws’ implications. The speakers will discuss corporate and regulatory issues and market trends from different jurisdictions’ perspectives and provide insights on how to handle complex legal questions when acting as counsel to the offeror and/or to the target’s board of directors and/or the minority shareholders.
40th IBA International Financial Law Conference
By Yi-An (Ann) Lai. Alipay and the impact of e-payment systems resulting in new regulations in China and other jurisdictions.
May 27, 2022
In a joint statement the IBAHRI has called for the conviction and life imprisonment sentences given to Qatari lawyers, and brothers, Hazza bin Ali Abu Shurayda al-Marri and Rashed bin Ali Abu Shurayda al-Marri to be overturned.
Aug 20, 2024
Research has found that companies are increasingly looking to set up operations in new markets. But In-House Perspective finds that for counsel, trying to facilitate the legal operations to help realise corporate strategy can be daunting.
Jun 09, 2025
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) is concerned about the recommendation by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) of the Republic of Maldives to dismiss Supreme Court Justices Dr Azmiralda Zahir and Mahaz Ali Zahir.
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) have jointly sent international observers to attend the second hearing of the criminal trial on the ‘Gezi Park’ protests, scheduled to take place on 18 and 19 July 2019 at the Silivri Prison Courthouse in Istanbul.
Feb 19, 2020
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) welcome today’s ruling by the Istanbul 30th Assize Court that acquitted all 16 defendants in the Gezi Park case due to insufficient evidence.
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) have jointly sent international observers to attend the first hearing of the criminal trial on the ‘Gezi Park’ protests at Silivri Prison Courthouse in Istanbul, scheduled to take place on 24 and 25 June 2019.
Jun 13, 2022
The fourth panel of the 23rd Annual IBA Arbitration Day dealt with a subject of utmost relevance: fostering diversity in international arbitration and the means to promote inclusion through procedural rules and institutional reforms.
Jan 21, 2022
In rapid succession, a number of jurisdictions have moved away from focusing on antitrust enforcement to the proposed regulation of digital platforms. Ostensibly, the regulatory focus is about competition and potential concerns that traditional ex post enforcement may be ill-equipped to address the power of digital platforms. This article focuses on the realities of what platform regulation might mean, and how to better frame and structure the nature of appropriate regulation. This article first identifies a number of the different approaches to regulation that various jurisdictions have put forward, and then lays out six basic principles for platform regulation to help address some of the potential harms that such approaches may unwittingly be pursuing.
Dec 03, 2020
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) condemns the assassination of senior Iranian nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on 27 November 2020.
Mr Fakhrizadeh, described by some individuals as the individual spearheading Iran’s alleged covert nuclear weapons programme, was assassinated while travelling in his car in the Abe-Sard region of Damavand Count, 40 kilometres outside of Tehran
In an open letter to His Excellency Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) expresses deep concern over the general situation of defence lawyers in Iran; the sentencing of human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh to 33 years’ imprisonment and 148 lashes; and the continued detention of human rights lawyer Amirsalar Davoodi.
Mar 27, 2023
It is imperative for Pakistan to formulate a comprehensive cybersecurity framework in line with the global practices, which also addresses data privacy and protection. It currently has no comprehensive legislation governing cybersecurity and the law can only be found in fragments under various legislations. A major recent development, however, has been the National Cyber Security Policy 2021, introduced by the Ministry of Information and Technology and approved by the parliament.
Dec 02, 2020
Today, in an open letter to the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Hosseini Khamene, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (RWCHR), the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).
Oct 17, 2022
The ever more authoritarian rule of President Qais Saied is moving the country away from democracy and rule of law, plunging into uncertainty.
Jun 17, 2020
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), alongside other professional legal representative bodies, has issued an open letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey urging him to discontinue criminal investigations into the Ankara Bar Association and the Diyarbakir Bar Association. The two organisations voiced concerns about comments made by Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, Mr Ali Erbas, in a sermon on 24 April 2020, when he suggested that members of the LGBT community
This article examines the power sector in Pakistan as a whole and ongoing efforts to modernise and liberalise the power transmission sector. We will also examine the role of Chinese foreign investment in various aspects of the sector. This article also outlines the role our firm has played in a number of areas in the power sector in connection with the scope of this article.
Feb 09, 2023
As the regime cracks down hard on protests, Global Insight assesses how the international community ought to respond in order to protect the rights of the country’s 88 million population.
IBA Global Insight Aug/Sept 2018. Populations prey to a combination of political upheaval and autocratic regimes across the Middle East face appalling consequences. Global Insight assesses the troubling and persistent use of the death penalty, particularly for minors.
The construction industry, like many others, has not escaped the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the magnitude of its impact varies between jurisdictions because of factors such as government measures and cooperation between stakeholders in dealing with these unprecedented circumstances. In this article, we shed light on Egyptian construction law and how the pandemic has been addressed, including whether it can be considered to have disturbed the economic equilibrium of the construction contract.
Twice a year, Florida State University and the International Bar Association offer the exciting opportunity to participate in a ground-breaking, distance learning, international law course. The application process included a 500-1000 word essay on what applicants currently consider to be the most pressing concern in International Human Rights Law. There was no right answer to this question, and we encouraged students to select a topic based on their current experience and interests.
Mar 27, 2023
The Taliban takeover in August 2021 unleashed an unprecedented crisis. Global Insight speaks to those involved in the IBA’s efforts to support the beleaguered country and its legal profession.
By William Julié and Juliette Fauvarque. The rule against the extradition of nationals: overview and perspectives - Criminal Law/Business Crime Committees.
A webinar presented by the IBA Arab Regional Forum, Date TBC 1100-1200 BST
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