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The 28th issue of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) Covid-19 Human Rights Monitor includes increased calls to domestic violence hotlines during the pandemic, displaced refugees and violence against peaceful protestors.
This workshop will explore the impact of global macro-economic trends and geopolitical situation on (i) market access, (ii) product design and (iii) fundraising in traditional and alternative structuring jurisdictions. This workshop will also cover the regulatory trends and challenges to overcome with respect to utilising offshore financial centres.
21st Annual International Conference on Private Investment Funds
The 22nd edition of the IBAHRI Covid Monitor includes coverage of the United Nations General Assembly resolution encouraging international cooperation, measures to combat rape in Liberia, LGBTQI+ rights in Southern Africa, Tajikistan and Iraq, effects of the fire at Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, reports of dangerous medical practices at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the US, homelessness and Covid-19 in the Middle East, Germany and Chile, and furlough schemes and disability.
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. Chapter 15), as well as on cultural matters.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
The 21st edition of the Monitor covers topics including a fire in Moria refugee camp forcing refugees ill with Covid-19 to flee and the growing crisis for worldwide refugee camps, the effect on low-income earners, including redundancies and homelessness and the difficulties for those living with disability in the reopening of schools.
Defence JVS: issues with shareholders and IP
11. Directors' liability in M&A transactions
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7th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference
The latest issue of the Monitor covers topics including Covid-19 outbreaks in refugee camps, prisons and detention centres. Also: the lasting impact of the pandemic on individuals with disabilities and on children without access to education.
Impact of space data on investments and technological advancements in the new space realm
11. M&A and military technology
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8th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference
The latest issue of the IBAHRI Covid-19 Human Rights Monitor contains updates on gender-based violence and women’s health in India and Northern Ireland. Also: refugee camps, including the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, which has no reported cases of Covid-19 to date.
The 11 members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPPa) have combined economies representing 13.4 per cent of global gross domestic product, at approximately US$13.5tn making the CPTPP one of the world’s largest free-trade areas by gross domestic product (GDP). Mexico and seven Asia Pacific countries make up eight of the 11 signatories. This session will critically examine whether the CPTPP has delivered on its promise, and what the Asia Pacific region, in particular, can look forward to in the next few years.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
On 15 January 2020 the Austrian Supreme Court considered whether a final arbitral award on its merits violated Austrian public policy (Case: OGH 18 OCg 9/19a). The underlying arbitration was conducted under the rules of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) with seat in Vienna.
Tulloch, Chief Justice of Ontario
- 9:15-10:30am - Session #1 - The Burden of Proof in ESG Disputes
Session Chairs
Yvette Borrius Florent, Amsterdam; Member, IBA Litigation Committee Advisory Board
Richard Garcia-Almendros Stephenson Harwood, London; ESG Officers, IBA Litigation Committee
Speakers t.b.d.
- 10:30-11:00am - Coffee Break
- 11:00-12:15pm - Session #2 - The (Controversial) Role of Experts in Dispute Resolution
Session chairs
Jacques Bouyssou Alerion, Paris; Co-Chair, IBA Litigation Committee
Samaneh Hosseini Stikeman Elliott, Toronto; Diversity and Equality Officer, IBA Litigation Committee
Speakers t.b.d.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Aug 11, 2022
Eighteen months after Myanmar’s military seized control and arrested then-leader Aung San Suu Kyi, alongside other members of the democratically-elected National Unity Government (NUG), the international community grapples with how to treat the country. As things stand, there’s no sign of an end to the junta’s bloody and contentious rule.
In-depth discussion of the Aeromexico Insolvency. A US Chapter 11 restructuring of a Mexican corporation. The panel will consist of professionals with first-hand knowledge about this restructuring.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Buses will be leaving the JW Marriott at 18:45. Return transport from the JW Marriott will be provided.
17th Annual Bar Leaders' Conference
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), in conjunction with the Anti-Torture Initiative (ATI), has written to Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, condemning the conviction of 11 members of the Turkish Medical Association (TMA) Central Council on terrorism charges.
The case was the largest chapter 11 proceeding to file in the U.S. in 2022 and proposed a $1.9 billion financing facility.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Jan 03, 2023
The Anti-Corruption Law was first regulated, at the federal level, by Decree No 8,420 of 18 March 2015. On 12 July 2022, more than seven years later, Federal Decree No 11,129 of 11 July 2022, which regulates Anti-Corruption Law and repeals Decree No. 8,420/2015, was published by the Brazilian government. This article provides a detailed overview of the new Decree.
Feb 17, 2023
Report on the session of the Insolvency Section of the Latin American Regional Forum at the IBA Annual Conference in Miami
A webinar presented by the IBA Insolvency Section, 8 September 2020, 1400-1500 BST
This article is aimed at providing detailed information about the procedures and pertinent details of rehabilitation or Chapter 11 proceedings of Korea regarding shipping companies.
This article focuses on a ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning the competence of the Independent Supervisory Authorities to determine of airport charges. Through analysis of the ruling in question and identification of the peculiarities of the Italian system, this article provides an overview of the main legal barriers to the implementation of Directive 2009/12 on airport charges.
Jun 27, 2022
Report on session at 6th IBA Global Entrepreneurship Conference, 16 – 17 May 2022, presented by the IBA Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprise Committee
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.
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.
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.
Cloud contracting for the public sector - overcoming doubts and legal challenges
11. Emerging litigation and regulatory risks in crypto
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IBA 5th Silicon Beach Conference: From Start-Up to Exit
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.
Jun 02, 2021
While the pandemic disruption has extended for far longer than initially expected, courts (after the first wave), arbitral institutions and stakeholders in commercial dispute resolution have largely continued operations, increasingly supported by innovative digital technology, flexible scheduling and flexible cost structures, among other tools.
Trends on opinions and counsel reports
11. How can corporate lawyers add value when a company pursues an alternative to new financing, such as a reduction in force?
7th Global Entrepreneurship Conference
By Yi-An (Ann) Lai. Alipay and the impact of e-payment systems resulting in new regulations in China and other jurisdictions.
This article explores how the pandemic has significantly affected Singapore court proceedings and family law jurisprudence on divorce, division of assets, and children issues as caused by the new way of family life in Singapore, the new normal.
ESG litigation – trends and strategies in both civil and common law court
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Global class actions - coming soon to a court near you
12:15PM – 1:30PM
Comparative approach of international commercial chambers
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
The role of the profession, ethics, representation and social responsibility
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Spaces are limited and are assigned on a first come first served basis.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Like in many jurisdictions, the digital economy has become one of the most prominent enforcement priorities of the Canadian Competition Bureau. However, to date, the Bureau has advocated for a more measured approach to the application of competition law to the digital economy than some of its counterparts in other countries. In particular, the Bureau and its officials have consistently maintained that the current Canadian antitrust framework is sufficiently robust to address the unique issues presented by
Feb 20, 2024
The year 2023 brought significant changes to the Brazilian tax landscape, including, among others, the approval of a tax reform encompassing the taxation of consumption, the introduction of new taxes (IBS, CBS and IS) and the abolishment of others (PIS, COFINS, IPI, ICMS and ISS), as well as the alignment of the Brazilian transfer pricing rules with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations through the conversion of Provisional Measure No. 1,152/2022 into Law No. 14,596/2023. This article provides a brief summary on the key changes from the past year and early 2024.
ESG litigation – trends and strategies in both civil and common law court
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Global class actions - coming soon to a court near you
12:15PM – 1:30PM
Comparative approach of international commercial chambers
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
The role of the profession, ethics, representation and social responsibility
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Spaces are limited and are assigned on a first come first served basis.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Jun 22, 2021
This article considers what the Canadian approach should be to the regulation of no-poach and wage-fixing agreements. It provides an overview of the dual-track approach to agreements between competitors included in the Canadian Competition Act; explains why no-poach and wage-fixing agreements have become such a ‘front and centre’ issue in Canada for both the Canadian Competition Bureau and politicians; describes the approach to no-poach and wage-fixing agreements in Canada and in various jurisdictions around the world; and discusses the path forward in Canada, including our opinion that the Bureau will likely push for amendments bringing no-poach and wage-fixing agreements within the scope of the Competition Act’s per se criminal cartel provision – inline with the approach of enforcement agencies in the United States. However, this article highlights that the nuanced and contextual effects of no-poach and wage-fixing agreements, which have yet to be fully understood in Canadian labour markets, may necessitate a more fulsome analysis of these agreements under section 90.1 of the Competition Act.
Sep 26, 2023
Venture debt, a different funding alternative for startups, has positioned itself firmly in the venture business in the past few years, reaching high numbers in the US market by 2022, and more recently has begun to gain position in other markets, such as Latin America. This type of financing seems counterintuitive at first, since the logic behind loan financing has not aligned traditionally with the high-risk profile and low cash flows of startups. This has led to burdensome requirements for its founders, who have had to back up the loans personally, but the empirical data seems to point towards a significant use and growth of this type of financing. This article looks at how venture debt works and why it works.
ESG litigation – trends and strategies in both civil and common law court
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Global class actions - coming soon to a court near you
12:15PM – 1:30PM
Comparative approach of international commercial chambers
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
The role of the profession, ethics, representation and social responsibility
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Spaces are limited and are assigned on a first come first served basis.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Interview with Renée Duplantis, PhD, former TD MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Competition Bureau.
ESG litigation – trends and strategies in both civil and common law court
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Global class actions - coming soon to a court near you
12:15PM – 1:30PM
Comparative approach of international commercial chambers
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
The role of the profession, ethics, representation and social responsibility
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Spaces are limited and are assigned on a first come first served basis.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
United States antitrust enforcers have held off on rigorous enforcement actions of some of the largest US technology companies for years, but now the tide is turning. This year, the FTC launched the Technology Task Force and the Division opened investigations into online platforms. Areas of likely increased antitrust scrutiny, and potentially enforcement include the collection and use of Big Data and the review of acquisitions of nascent competitors.
IBA Global Insight, June/July 2016. Despite what commentators view as a disappointing sentence for Radovan Karadzic, the first ad hoc tribunal since Nuremberg has indicted 161 suspects. The pursuit and capture of the fugitives was the most successful manhunt of modern times and a high point of international humanitarian law.
Paulina Silva
Jessica Lee
Erik Valgaeren
Technology Law Committee
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11. How to stay compliant with ever-changing AI-related competition rules
AI is transforming markets (including the market for AI foundation models) and regulators are trying to react them as quickly as possible.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
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