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Apr 28, 2023
A recent ruling of the United States District Court in Sarcuni v bZx DAO, No 22-cv-0618 (S.D. Cal. March 27, 2023), has raised more than an eyebrow amongst many in the decentralised finance community who, until now, largely believed that decentralised autonomous organisations (DAO), and those that sit behind them, were outside of the traditional legal system and as such, not exposed to corresponding liabilities.
A panel of experts will debate several timely issues relating to multilateral development bank (MDB) debarment and exclusion, including:
• The implications of Rosenkrantz et al v Inter-American Development Bank (3 June 2022) for MDB investigations and decisions, such as how systems are not contractually based.
19th Annual IBA Anti-Corruption Conference
Oct 25, 2024
Recent allegations that gagging clauses contributed to the cover-up of decades of sexual abuse by former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed have once again led to calls to ban them in the U
Moderator
Emily Elliott Kingsley Napley, London; Membership Officer, IBA War Crimes Committee
Speakers
Farea Al-Muslimi Research Fellow, Chatham House Middle East Programme, London
Sara Elizabeth Dill Esq., Partner Anethum Global, London; Treasurer, IBA War Crimes Committee
Sahar Fetrat Assistant Researcher Afghanistan Women's Rights Human Rights Watch, London
Natalia Kubesch Legal Officer Human Rights Sanctions Redress, London
Yemen, Syria & Afghanistan: Case Studies in International Law, Peace, Justice, and Sanctions in Armed Conflict
Jul 28, 2017
Comunicado de prensa: viernes 28 de julio de 2017. A medida que se profundiza la crisis política en Venezuela, el International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute [Instituto de Derechos Humanos de la Asociación Internacional de Abogados o IBAHRI] pide al gobierno venezolano que proteja los derechos humanos y la independencia del poder judicial, mantenga el estado de derecho y garantice acceso a la justicia a todos los venezolanos.
Oct 07, 2021
La International Bar Association (IBA) ha recibido el premio Aptissimi 2021 por su contribución al sector legal y a la sociedad.
Electronic travel authorisation from the North American and European perspective
El International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) reitera su preocupación sobre las continuadas violaciones al debido proceso en el juicio a la Jueza Maria Lourdes Afiuni. El pasado 21 de febrero la Jueza Afiuni recibió una citación para una audiencia judicial que tendría lugar al día siguiente.
Asset recovery practitioners know all too well that debtors are constantly coming up with new escape routes to flee from or resist asset recovery strategies. This panel will discuss common (and uncommon) defences that are typically raised and how they can be tackled and conquered by creditors. Panellists will consider, for example:
- the use (or misuse) of restructuring plans;
- what creative strategies might be deployed to enforce judgments/awards against difficult debtors;
- issues around establishing ownership;
- surpassing the challenges of piercing the corporate veil and alter ego arguments; and
- defeating third-party interference.
2nd Annual IBA Asset Recovery Conference
Feb 08, 2022
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) calls on Sudan’s self-appointed Ruling Council leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Sudanese military to cease immediately the use of lethal force against peaceful demonstrators...
The 2017 edition of the Global Entrepreneurship Conference was devoted to the “disruptors” and how they were changing the economy. The perception was that traditional businesses and business models would have to adapt quickly or face extinction. Recent developments have seen a revival of non-technological businesses, and in an environment of general downturn for technology companies several scandals seem to have shaken confidence in the actual value of disruptors. Sceptics argue that the innovations brought by the tech industry in the last years have not benefited humanity. Can disruptors and innovators meet the needs of a world that seeks sustainability and to improve the quality of life?
We will ask these and other challenging questions to several entrepreneurs and representatives of innovative companies, and discuss with them what the future of disruptors looks like.
7th Global Entrepreneurship Conference
Apr 09, 2020
En una carta abierta al Presidente de El Salvador, el Sr. Nayib Bukele, el Instituto de Derechos Humanos de la Asociación Internacional de Abogados (IBAHRI) lo llamó a tomar medidas para defender el estado de derecho y respetar los derechos humanos fundamentales mientras se toman medidas para prevenir la propagación del Covid-19.
Consideration of permanent establishment (PE) issues, exit taxes, flips and other transformative events.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
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.
This session will consider how to ensure deal success and risk management in a regulated industry, including special DFI requirements, public pricing law risks, defence joint ventures, special contracting risks and liabilities as well as intellectual property issues on cutting edge security.
6th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference
The burden of proof plays a pivotal role in both tax litigation and alternative dispute resolution with tax authorities. This panel will analyse how different jurisdictions allocate the burden between taxpayers and tax administrations, and how this impacts the outcome of disputes. Particular attention will be given to evidentiary standards, the role of presumptions, and practical strategies for meeting documentation requirements in complex cross-border cases. The panel will also address how burden of proof considerations influence the dynamics of tax mediation and settlement procedures.
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.
Mohamed Elewa Badar Professor of Comparative and International Criminal Law at Northumbria University, Newcastle; Middle East and North African Regional Forum Liaison Officer, IBA War Crimes Committee
Speakers
Saleh Al-Batati Journalist alumnus/alumni at Reuters Institute the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
John Balouziyeh Partner, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, LLP, New York; North American Regional Forum Liaison Officer, IBA War Crimes Committee
Toby Cadman KC Guernica 37 Chambers, London; Secretary, IBA War Crimes Committee
Colonel (Retired) Charles Garraway CBE, London
Hasina Safi Former Minister for Women’s Affairs and first Afghan UN CEDAW representative, London
Maria Varaki Co-Director War Crimes Research Group, King’s College, London
Yemen, Syria & Afghanistan: Case Studies in International Law, Peace, Justice, and Sanctions in Armed Conflict
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.
Young Lawyers Private Equity Forum 2024
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.
As the visionary leader spearheading the ambitious reinvention of Carrefour, one of the world's largest retailers with operations spanning over 30 countries, Alexandre Bompard offers a unique perspective on navigating disruption, digital transformation and the evolving global landscape. In this fireside chat, Bompard will share his strategic insights. Don't miss this rare chance to gain an inside look at the bold vision propelling one of the world's retail giants into the future.
13th IBA European Corporate and Private M&A Conference
In the first part of the workshop, delegates will work in roundtable groups to discuss financing topics including:
1. What are the key options to finance growth in the current market?
2. What are the alternatives to “traditional” EBITDA financings?
3. How can non-bank lenders, such as direct lenders and venture debt or credit funds, support closely held companies?
4. Experiences with non-bank lenders in the recent financial downturn?
5. Convergences in debt and equity financing
6. Pros and cons of margin loans (secured by shares in the closely held company)
7. Differences in financing of early stages vs more mature stages
8. Trends in debt and equity terms during and following COVID-19
9. Change of control clauses in enforcement scenario
10. 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?
12. Is the importance and role of due diligence changing?
13.What are new financing areas of focus for closely held companies following recent bank failures and instability?
Delegates will discuss a first topic of their choice in a roundtable group, and after 30 minutes move to a second table of their choice.
7th Global Entrepreneurship Conference
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.
6th IBA Global Entrepreneurship Conference: The Netherlands – sailing the seas of global innovation
May 12, 2024
Privilege is a fundamental legal right and a powerful tool under English law. Legal advice privilege protects communications between a lawyer and a client that are made for the purpose of giving or receiving legal advice. Litigation privilege protects communications between lawyers or their clients and any third party for the purpose of obtaining advice or information in connection with existing or reasonably contemplated litigation. Privilege is vital in allowing parties to access legal advice safe in the knowledge that confidential and sensitive information will not fall into the public domain. Were these protections not in place, parties may fail to seek legal advice or fail to communicate openly with their lawyers and there would be a risk that legal advisers would have to advise based upon an incomplete factual basis. Despite the importance of the rules of privilege, it has long been understood that legal advice privilege and litigation privilege cannot be asserted in respect of communications that further a criminal or fraudulent purpose. This principle is known as the ‘iniquity exception’. The recent Court of Appeal judgment in Al Sadeq v Dechert LLP and Others provides helpful guidance on the applicability of the exception and the threshold that must be met in order for the exception to be applied by the court. This article analyses the Court of Appeal’s judgment and comment on the key take-away points for practitioners.
Is a family office right for ‘your family’? Considerations include
· where to set it up
· how to staff it
· what is its role
· what challenges does it face in dealing with the family and outsiders
· privilege issues
· costs
· conflicts among family members.
Here an insider’s view of being inside the family office and the outsider’s view of advising the family office.
· What will it do: own staff or just employ people, one jurisdiction or multiple?
· Regulatory consequences of what it does and where it sits?
· How to pay for it?
· What is its role vis à vis the family and vis à vis the investments or assets of the family?
· What is the role of the family office vs management of family businesses?
· What challenges does it face in dealing with the family: privilege issues, costs, conflicts among family members and other considerations?
· What challenges do advisors face dealing with family offices: Incomplete information, gatekeeping?
· What challenges to family offices face dealing with advisors: lack of clarity, practical and actionable advice?
28th Annual International Private Client Conference: New realities in the private client practice
Aug 03, 2023
A report on the War Crime Committee’s ‘Yemen, Syria & Afghanistan: Case Studies in International Law, Peace, Justice, and Sanctions in Armed Conflict’ conference, which took place on 27 Jun 2023 in London.
Young Lawyers Private Equity Forum
May 16, 2023
La International Bar Association,) manifiesta su inquietud por la interferencia del presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, con la independencia judicial, tras la profusión de graves y repetidos comentarios que afectan la integridad de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación .
28th Annual Competition Conference
Jun 10, 2020
While Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has the unswerving support of the US administration, his reckless rule has provoked destabilising opposition closer to home.
9th Global Entrepreneurship Conference
Mixed signals are emerging from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. While appearances indicate a willingness to become more liberal, a crackdown on women activists suggests otherwise.
In the first part of this workshop, delegates will work in roundtable groups to discuss corporate governance and M&A topics, including:
- Duties of the board in M&A transactions as a buyer and seller, and the management of a takeover target
- How does the role of the board, management and founders evolve as the company progresses from a start-up to a scale-up, and finally, to a growth company?
- Due diligence and warranty and indemnity insurance revisited
- State control of foreign investments – how to deal with new regulations from the European Union and other states in the context of M&A transactions
- What are the governance challenges and missteps often encountered in respect to growth companies? How can they be avoided? How can they be remedied?
- Ethics, diversity and social responsibility: do corporate directors have a duty to shareholders, or are they permitted to look beyond to other stakeholders in the business?
- Covid-19 two years later – are there any lasting consequences in this area?
6th IBA Global Entrepreneurship Conference: The Netherlands – sailing the seas of global innovation
At least 70 political activists, intellectuals and prominent public figures were detained in Saudi Arabia in September in an unprecedented wave of mass arrests. Many observers see it as a crackdown on potential opposition to the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his increasingly controversial policies.
HumanRightsIn December 2020, the United Nations' Human Rights Office and the University of California, Berkeley's Human Rights Center published an advance version of the Berkeley protocol on digital open source investigations. Created through a collaborative
international process, the protocol was designed to set professional standards and guidelines for the identification, collection, preservation, verification and analysis of digital open source Information. The ultimate aim was to improve the effective use of
such information in international criminal, human rights, and humanitarian investigations, and ultimately, courts. In early 2022, the protocol will be released in all of the languages of the United Nations. To mark the protocol's global release, members of the protocol's coordinating committee will provide an introduction to the document, as well as a brief training for international judges and/or lawyers that spotlights the opportunities and challenges that come with using such information in court processes. The training will be designed to help participants systematically evaluate digital open source information's authenticity and reliability, including how to assess whether such information is disinformation or misinformation, and how to minimize the risk of human or machine bias in such information's collection and evaluation.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Jun 12, 2024
Los países con un sólido estado de derecho, apoyado por una fuerte profesión legal, consiguen mayores beneficios socio económicos conforme al estudio de la International Bar Association
8th Global Entrepreneurship Conference
Nov 13, 2023
El partido socialista español (PSOE) alcanzó un acuerdo con el partido catalán Junts (el “Acuerdo”) el pasado 9 de noviembre
In many countries, natives and immigrants are punished differently under the law. In addition to paying fines and facing incarceration, some non-citizens also face additional immigration penalties for violating laws and some countries have made violating immigration law itself a criminal act. Additionally, some countries offer crime victims and witnesses visa benefits. This panel will discuss these topics as well as the overall collaboration between immigration and criminal lawyers as they seek to represent their mutual clients.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Dec 21, 2022
Over 120 participants attended a panel hosted by the War Crimes Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) on Thurs, 8 December 2022 to discuss Guantánamo Bay from an international humanitarian and criminal law perspective.
Join a panel of thought leaders in exploring current and future implications of artificial intelligence (AI), with discussion ranging from the regulation of AI to how AI can be used as a force for good.
IBA 5th Silicon Beach Conference: From Start-Up to Exit
Oct 10, 2022
The protection of cultural property is crucial to the preservation of civilisations’ historical experiences. An articulation of this ethos in conjunction with the development of principles, such as military necessity, assist in understanding how and why the rules governing the protection of cultural property in times of armed conflict may be regarded as part of international humanitarian law.
What are the best ways of avoiding disputes which go to arbitration? Panellists will present and debate the procurement methods and contractual provisions which they consider to be the most effective.
8th Biennial Conference on Construction Projects from Conception to Completion
IBA Global Insight April/May 2017 - Set to be the world’s biggest initial public offering, the sale of a small stake in oil company Saudi Aramco is expected to herald a new era of diversification and openness for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
9th Annual IBA World Life Sciences Conference
Feb 13, 2020
As the dust settles on the killing of Iran’s most senior General and the world comes to terms with heightened tensions in the Middle East, a focus on the legality of drone strikes is imperative.
• How best should regulators support innovation whilst ensuring consumer protection?
• How to regulate life of civil society in this new age?
• What will be the most efficient way for law and regulation to close the gap and catch-up with the realities of disruptive technologies?
• In light of recent legislation, international developments and the recent COMESA Competition Commission’s ruling on Jumia, is the gig economy already under threat in Africa?
Biennial IBA African Regional Forum Conference: future-proofing the African legal profession
IBA Global Insight December 2017/January 2018 - Israel/Palestine young lawyers' initiative; Amicus briefs to US courts in travel ban cases; preventing torture in custody; ICC honoured with Stockholm Human Rights Award; gender parity and GQUAL; IBA Human Rights Award; human rights and sustainable development; Saudi mass arrests;
Partners as leaders: understanding how to lead the lawyers of tomorrow
As the dust settles on the killing of Iran’s most senior general and the world comes to terms with heightened tensions in the Middle East, a focus on the legality of drone strikes is imperative.
Overview of the business and development of MGAs across the globe.
IBA Insurance Conference 2024: AI in insurance and other global insights
For all of the criticism he received over Guantanamo Bay, President George W. Bush released 532 of its 780 orange-clad inmates. And, while President Obama’s Guantanamo policy satisfied no one, he did try desperately to empty the place, leaving only 41 symbols of America’s historical attempt to evade legal constraints in the so called ‘war on terror’.
Topics :
- Influencers, bloggers and content creators
- Dual distribution/antitrust
- Trademarks protection
- Taxation in fashion
- Supply chain
IBA European Fashion and Luxury Law Conference
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