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The IBA’s first live webcast of 2015 featured Viviane Reding MEP, former EU Vice-President and the first Commissioner responsible for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, broadcast live from the European Parliament on 17 March.
Litigating in the Asia Pacific Region
The IBA’s first live webcast of 2014 featured Michael Kirby, Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea. The former Australian High Court judge discussed the findings of the report, his methods of inquiry and what steps can be taken to bring accountability for the gross human rights abuses perpetuated by the Pyongyang regime. He also gave views on the global ‘war on drugs’, his work with the Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS and efforts to get worldwide reform for anti-gay laws
By invitation only: IBA Mid-Year Leadership meetings 2024
May 24, 2023
This article considers the role of lawyers in assisting their clients in recognising the challenges and opportunities created by the transition to a net-zero, low-carbon economy. In particular, it focuses upon the impact of United Kingdom regulation and environmentally focused litigation on the private sector’s transition to net zero and the sustainability of business practices.
All IBA officers of sections, committees and fora are invited to attend this Q&A session on how to be a successful officer, best-practices guides by fellow officers, and the opportunity to network with other committee officers.
By invitation only: IBA Mid-Year Leadership meetings 2025
This article examines the Future Energy Scenarios set out in the National Grid ESO’s recent report, with a particular focus on the role of digitalisation and open data in achieving net zero in the UK by 2050.
Sep 03, 2023
The past few decades have witnessed a widespread improvement in investor confidence and positive market sentiment, catapulting India’s image as a global investment hub. While the government’s policy initiatives, such as ‘Make in India’ liberalising Foreign Direct Investment in over 25 sectors, aim to catalyse ease of doing business, recent amendments to regulations, such as Indian Penal Code 1860, the Companies Act 2013, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 and the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988, are enablers in preserving the economic reputation of the country by effectively tackling fraud, corruption, bribery and serious white-collar crimes.
COP28 capacity building: Africa in focus – facilitating the net transition
Q&A session with the IBA's President and Executive Director
This panel will address the complexities associated with incapacity for high net worth individuals in the cross-border context.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
This webcast and audience Q&A with Paul Rawlinson, Global Chairman of Baker McKenzie, covered law firm strategy and culture, as well as topical issues such as the potential effects of Brexit and a Trump presidency
Aug 22, 2016
This webcast and audience Q&A with Funke Abimbola, General Counsel of Roche UK, explored the corporate compliance challenges facing the leading biotech company and the evolving role of in-house lawyers.
The interview examined the legal aspects of supporting Roche’s pharmaceutical R&D and healthcare strategies, addressing issues such as company operations, risk management, and diversity in the profession. The interview was conducted by the BBC's Sally Bundock.
The net zero challenge and road to COP28: Candid conversations with legal counsel
The third IBA webcast of 2015 featured José Ugaz, Chair of Transparency International (TI), and was broadcast live on 10 June. Ugaz is one of the world’s leading anti-corruption lawyers, During his time as Ad Hoc Attorney General of Peru, Ugaz prosecuted hundreds of government officials. He led the corruption case against the former President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence.
Jan 03, 2024
Multiple factors compel high-net-worth individuals to consider relocation, such as entrepreneurial ventures, educational opportunities or tax considerations. The discussion by the panel delved into these complex migration considerations and their subsequent ramifications for affluent individuals.
Legal solutions for a net zero future: launching the International Bar Association's Climate Registry
In Telenor Hungary adopted on 15 September 2020, the European Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) has, for the first time, interpreted Regulation 2015/2120 on the ‘open internet’ (the Net Neutrality Regulation). Through this preliminary ruling, the Court gives some guidance on the validity and limits of so-called ‘zero-rating’ offers
Alison Taylor, a Clinical Associate Professor at the New York University Stern School of Business and Executive Director of Ethical Systems, recently published Higher Ground. In an interview with Nicola Bonucci, Alison will examine her acclaimed book’s main themes, including why running a business has become so complicated and how businesses can act responsibly in the modern world.
20th Annual IBA Anti-Corruption Conference
In this article, we focus on the group specifically formed by the US Internal Revenue Service to audit high net worth individuals and how global transparency has impacted its activities.
The panel will discuss potential implications on EU existing regulation such as net neutrality and competition as well as in IP interconnection.
32nd Annual IBA Communications and Competition Law Conference
Jun 06, 2016
This webcast with Drago Kos, Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery, covered timely issues in anti-corruption, including relevant aspects emerging from the Panama Papers as the OECD commenced the 4th phase of review under the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention.
The webcast was conducted by Jonathan Rugman, Foreign Affairs Correspondent at UK broadcaster Channel 4.
Following our session in Paris 2023, this session will consider the legal roadmap to net zero with a particular focus on issues related to the delivery of key infrastructure. As we move along the journey towards the delivery of net zero milestones, this session will review key themes encountered along the way: the role of legal frameworks, national and trans-national; the issue of environmental justice and achieving a just transition for emerging economies; friction in areas such as regulation, permitting and grid capacity; and the impact of conflicts and imposition of sanctions. This session will look forward and consider how to transform the delivery process, drawing on lessons learned to date and considering key milestones achieved, roadblocks encountered and how to create a clear path to achieve the net zero goals.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
The second IBA webcast of 2015 featured James Palmer, Senior Partner of Herbert Smith Freehills, and was broadcast live on 24 April. Discussion covered law firm management and strategy, and corporate governance among other themes.
Biennial Conference of the Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law (SEERIL): A transformative era of action for the law and lawyers - implementing the energy transition and global sustainability
In this article, the authors discuss the myriad of changes to Mexico‘s entity classification rules and controlled foreign corporate (CFC) regime. Such changes potentially affect Mexican resident individuals that have elected to use offshore limited partnerships to conduct their investments in ‘US situs assets’. Mexican resident individuals investing through these vehicles may face different income tax rates, different income characterisations and disclosure requirements.
Hear about legal capacity building across nations; how lawyers, bars and law societies are facilitating the net zero transition; and the rise of climate competent lawyering and what this means in practice for lawyers when advising clients.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Interview and Q&A with M Cherif Bassiouni, Chair, Bahrain Independent Commission Inquiry, at the IBA Annual Conference in Dubai. In discussion with Nick Clark of AlJazeera. Plus question and answer session
In a context of increasing global mobility and tax competition, several jurisdictions have introduced preferential regimes to attract high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs), digital nomads, and internationally mobile professionals. At the same time, the debate around a global minimum wealth tax, particularly targeting ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs), has gained momentum in international fora.
Jan 24, 2023
Grace Perez-Navarro is Director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. Here, she speaks to Global Insight about the key issues facing the OECD, from the implementation of its ‘Two Pillars’ tax reforms to ensuring that the interests of developing countries are protected.
While there has been dramatic growth in the number of voluntary corporate commitments and government targets under the Paris Agreement, the legal roadmap to net zero remains vastly underdeveloped. Developing a legal roadmap to net zero has the opportunity to create both carrots and sticks approaches to enable governments to accelerate net zero efforts, to foster environments where companies are incentivised to control and limit emissions, and where the public has opportunities to participate in advancing climate change policies and address adaptation. This panel will focus on how to create the first international law roadmap to net zero - a set of aspirational milestones for countries, companies and the public to achieve in order to facilitate success toward political and corporate net zero goals (including the building blocks of legal frameworks critical to these goals). The panel also will also focus on the role of lawyers in developing and implementing these milestones domestically to help ensure the law is in a position to achieve broader net zero goals.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, was the interviewee for a wide-ranging IBA webcast and Q&A, broadcast on Friday 30 May 2014 as part of the IBA's webcast series.
A South African of Indian Tamil origin, Ms Pillay served as the first non-white female judge of the High Court of South Africa and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda before taking up her post at the UN in 2008.
Sep 14, 2022
‘Did you conduct an internal investigation at the time?’ This is how an investigating judge questioned our client during a first appearance hearing concerning 20 year-old facts.
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.
Jun 09, 2024
In the Chinese legal system, provisions addressing commercial bribery are dispersed across various legal instruments and judicial interpretations. Among the different legal authorities in China, the core provisions guiding anti-corruption can be found in the Anti-Unfair Competition Law and its draft Amendment (issued in 2022 and still open for public comment); the Criminal Law of China, along with its amendments; and the Supervision Law of China and its accompanying regulations for implementation.
Young lawyers and leadership
By Yi-An (Ann) Lai. Alipay and the impact of e-payment systems resulting in new regulations in China and other jurisdictions.
How have law firms in Latin America evolved since 2000? What has changed in terms of structure, operations and client expectations?
Law Firm Management Committee Latin America Conference - Building the law firm of the future
Interview with Judge Thomas Buergenthal - film
Practical applications of AI in law firms – what’s hype and what’s real? Regulatory concerns and ethical implications.
Law Firm Management Committee Latin America Conference - Building the law firm of the future
The IBA held a live webcast interview and Q&A on Thursday 16 December 2010 with one of the world's leading experts in combatting corruption. For 20 years, Professor Mark Pieth has chaired the Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD) Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions.
Watch film here
In many jurisdictions, lawyers sit on boards of directors as non-executive directors, independent directors or as representatives of one or more shareholders.
In this session, experienced lawyers and industry representatives will debate the roles and duties of a lawyer sitting in the boardroom, and will answer:
- Should they be an entrepreneur, a trusted advisor or a related party?
- What duty of care, diligence and specific competence is required of a lawyer in a boardroom?
- Does a dual set of (conflicting) obligations apply to a lawyer?
- What is the role of the lawyer in the ESG debate?
These and other challenging issues will be addressed in this interactive session, featuring different perspectives and experiences.
6th IBA Global Entrepreneurship Conference: The Netherlands – sailing the seas of global innovation
Film of webcast interview with Peter Rees QC, Legal Director, Royal Dutch Shell, 24 May 2011. Topics include:
•Challenges facing the energy sector
•The changing business of Royal Dutch Shell
•The increasingly powerful role of the General Counsel
•Corporate social responsibility
Have you ever wondered what factors judges consider when making suspension and debarment decisions? This interactive session brings the multilateral development bank sanctions process to life through an engaging moot court. Officers from the World Bank, IDB, EBRD, and AfDB will form the judicial panel, while IBA Anti-Corruption Committee members will advocate as the investigative office and respondent company representatives. The simulated case will tackle critical issues at the frontier of sanctions practice, including attribution of liability within complex corporate structures, balancing punitive measures with development imperatives, and evaluating the true effectiveness of corporate compliance programs. Audience members will have the opportunity to engage directly with the panel and provide their input into the decision-making process as they navigate the nuanced considerations that shape decisions that end in cross-debarment. This interactive approach provides international legal practitioners with insight into how sanctions systems operate in practice while illuminating the different approaches MDBs take when addressing prohibited practices in development finance.
21st Annual IBA Anti-Corruption Conference
Mar 03, 2025
The notion of taxing a taxpayer when they end their residential status in a country has been an issue for debate among scholars. Countries view the main risk associated with such withdrawal from the jurisdiction as the erosion or complete disappearance of the tax base. Tax is levied in such circumstances in order to provide the relevant tax authority with an opportunity to secure income tax from the departing individual without having to deal with the instant realisation of tax gains or losses. However, the Ethiopian principle in regard to an exit tax is focused on a perceivable gain obtained by the taxpayer upon ceasing residency in the country, which often comes with the disposal of investment assets through a sale or transfer.
A series of roundtable discussions will look at recent developments in the following areas:
Topic one: International tax risks and insurance solutions: strategies for mitigating global fiscal challenges
Topic two: Artificial intelligence: challenges and opportunities in the age of automation
Topic three: Exchange of information - joint tax audits
Topic four: PE and global mobility - tax certainty
Topic five: Beneficial ownership and treaty eligibility
The article explains the differences in the Chinese antitrust regulator’s approach to regulating antitrust concerns in the digital market from the approach adopted by regulators in other jurisdictions, including the European Union
A dialogue between Andrea Appella and Professor Stefano Quintarelli.
The AI battlefields - How to navigate and overcome the legal challenges
Jan 21, 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated Korea’s progression towards an ‘untact’, or contactless, economy. Working from home is now a culture for many, and digital transactions and services are becoming a necessity for businesses and consumers. With many of today’s social and economic activities taking place online, digital markets in Korea have grown exponentially in recent years and are expected to fundamentally change both personal and professional lives. Amid this rapidly evolving digital landscape, enforcement authorities in Korea – including its competition law authority, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) and information communications technology sector regulator, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) – are proactively addressing new competition and consumer protection issues arising from the digital economy, leading to an increasing number of multilateral regulatory probes.
• How are athletes’ rights and duties taken into account in modern sport?
• Gender equality in sports today: is it the beginning of a new era?
• The fight against racism and violence and for integrity: the example of FIFA.
• The specifics of ethics in sports: tools and objectives.
• The fight against doping: an old fight looking for a better outcome today?
• Sport as a soft power: is it a political instrument to further peace?
• Sanctions in sports and international trade: are we talking about the same creatures?
The Laws of Sports: fast and furious or stable and reliable?
Apr 03, 2023
The year 2024 is colloquially referred to as the ‘board refresh year’ for India, because of the statutory director tenure provisions. This presents an opportunity for India Inc to ingrain diversity principles at the board level and achieve a real-time notch-up in corporate governance. In the past several years, there has been a notable trend of regulatory intervention to increase gender diversity in corporate boards globally, by either mandating gender quotas or setting out principles as a voluntary guideline for the appointment of at least one woman director to the board of directors.
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.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
IBA Global Insight August/September 2020 - Diversity: law firms push for BAME representation amid Black Lives Matter protests; a message from the IBA President; Contested Histories in Public Spaces project; IBA leadership Q&A among latest webinars; IBA focuses on mental wellbeing in the legal profession; In memoriam: José Eduardo Carneiro Queiroz; IBA co-publications available now; and Covid-19 crisis poses challenges for insurance industry
7th IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum Biennial Conference
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