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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.
IBA European Fashion and Luxury 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.
Well-being issues are affecting lawyers’ ability to do their jobs, according to new data from Bloomberg Law published in September 2024. With the increasing demand placed on the legal profession due, in part, to the increasingly competitive and technological environment, the topic of lawyer well-being is increasingly – and rightly – at the forefront of conversations in the context of legal careers/practices. For this session, our panellists will identity and discuss several highlighted issues with lawyer well-being in general as well as propose existing and novel solutions to tackle this ubiquitous issue faced by a large number of law practices worldwide.
The Fundamentals of International Legal Business Practice
Apr 22, 2021
As the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic continues, a new £180,000 funding programme offers a much-needed financial lifeline to frontline legal aid providers worldwide.
This session will explore the critical challenges in-house counsels face in a rapidly changing environment and to discuss strategies for staying ahead. It aims to share with in-house counsels the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate the complexities in the modern dimensions effectively.
8th IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum Biennial Conference: Vibrant Asia – Land of opportunity and promise
Dec 04, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing rapidly in China, with the number of patents and the size of the market both ranking highly among countries. However, this rapid development has posed new challenges to the legal framework, ethical norms and social governance, prompting China to continuously adjust and improve the relevant regulatory system.
The role of international law and institutions in attaining Goal 1 of the SDGs
As regulatory requirements and ethical expectations continue to rise, the discussion will focus on how far companies should go to ensure compliance and best practice, including corruption, anti-money laundering (AML), labour, environmental, and human rights standards. We will discuss best practices in balancing cost-efficiency and regulatory obligations while maintaining responsible and sustainable supply chains in an increasingly regulated world.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
A webinar presented by the IBA Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprises Committee, supported by the IBA Corporate and M&A Committee, IBA European Regional Forum, IBA Latin American Regional Forum, IBA Law Firm Management Committee and IBA Young Lawyers Committee.
7th IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum Biennial Conference
Sep 03, 2023
The Mexican Tax Administration Service has construed the term ‘business profits’ under domestic law, leading to the denial of treaty benefits to foreign residents. Federal tax courts have supported this interpretation, resulting in double taxation due to a deficient interpretation.
Antitrust and competition law continues to shape the way mergers and acquisitions are structured, particularly with tightening enforcement across global markets. This panel will discuss the latest trends in antitrust policy and competition law enforcement and how dealmakers can navigate these evolving challenges.
Mergers and Acquisitions in India: a key engine to the USD 30 trillion goal
In June 2020, the obligation to collect and pay value added tax on digital services provided by foreign digital platforms to users in Mexico entered into force. However, such obligation was imposed without facilities for such digital platforms, which has led to a disproportionate compliance cost for these businesses and a lack of compliance.
Negotiating technology contracts today to protect your client for the future in a changing technological and regulatory environment. How to conclude contracts in an efficient manner while achieving certainty and flexibility in light of evolving technologies, standards and practices, including advancements in AI, the growing importance of data as a critical asset and other emerging technology and business trends. Best practices for efficient contracting for successful technology projects in a complex and ever-changing environment.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
The trajectory of China’s VAT legislation: major changes to draft VAT Law proposed. Grace Lin
A panel discussion of Business and Human Rights and impacts for General Counsel to consider locally and globally.
IBA Human Rights Conference: Climate, justice and law - challenges and opportunities
Dec 18, 2025
This session at the 17th IBA/ABA US and Latin America Tax Practice Trends Conference in Miami, in June 2025, examined how Latin American jurisdictions are redesigning their tax and regulatory architecture to capture value from digital payment flows, particularly in cross-border contexts.
Starting in 2022, Lisa Monaco, Deputy Attorney General, began describing ‘sanctions’ as ‘the new FCPA’, as a logical extension of the US federal government’s effort to use economic sanctions and trade controls to incrementally apply pressure against foreign governmental activity seen as adverse to the interests of the US. Since 2020, there has been a proliferation in US measures focused on China, including Hong Kong, in the form of primary legislation, Presidential Executive Orders and the addition of specially designated nationals (SDNs) to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list. China has not been the only focus, though, with sanctions issued arising out of the Russia–Ukraine war, for example. Other countries, including China, view such sanctions as generally contrary to international law. But, in addition, Canada, China, the EU and the UK, have responded by enacting their own ‘blocking statutes’, enabling domestic non-compliance with US laws and requiring notification to authorities about any US sanction enforcement measures (for example, China’s 2021 Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law). China has also imposed restrictions and requirements on provision of information offshore to assist foreign regulators. The result has been that everyone doing, and facilitating, business must navigate their way through complex, sometimes unclear and often conflicting sets of new legal requirements. All lawyers in Asia, whatever their area of practice, must have at least a clear, basic understanding of trade remedies and sanctions.
This session will address the following questions:
• What are the different forms of sanctions that have been issued and how do they work in practice? What is their scope and what are their limits?
• What is the difference between primary and secondary sanctions?
• What has been the effect, in practice, of blocking statutes?
• How do financial institutions navigate the requirements and restrictions?
• How are third-party countries and businesses affected?
• What is the potential impact on securities and other markets?
• What future developments may occur?
8th IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum Biennial Conference: Vibrant Asia – Land of opportunity and promise
May 19, 2025
This article delves into the risks that arise heading into closing, which commonly create a no-deal situation. It will walk readers through the most important aspects to have in mind and share practical strategies to build a due diligence checklist that actually works in Mexico – keeping the reader informed, compliant and on track to close on time.
Statutory adjudication is designed to provide a quick, flexible and efficient means of resolving payment disputes which may otherwise delay or disrupt the completion of a construction contract. In countries which have enacted legislation for statutory adjudication such as Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom, the statutory process has become one of the primary methods of resolution of disputes for domestic construction projects. Hong Kong has recently taken a significant step by gazetting its Construction Industry Security of Payment Bill, and once enacted, aims to serve a similar purpose as other statutory adjudication regime. At the same time, countries such as India, Japan and Korea have navigated large scale construction and infrastructure disputes without the aid of statutory adjudication. Instead, these jurisdictions rely on other modes of alternative dispute resolution for resolving construction disputes. In this session, the speakers from Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore will provide a comparative analysis of the statutory adjudication regime in their respective jurisdictions as well as the lessons learnt and the future of the regime. Thereafter, speakers from India, Korea and Japan will share insights into the various mechanisms available in their jurisdictions in dealing with construction disputes, the effectiveness of the same and how these have developed over the years.
8th IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum Biennial Conference: Vibrant Asia – Land of opportunity and promise
May 27, 2021
Over the past few years, we have seen the evolution of the world’s financial systems, particularly how transactions and their functions have changed or targeted certain sectors. This article specifically examines Mexico's regulation of virtual assets.
IBA European Fashion and Luxury Law Conference
At first glance, the legal framework governing Indian public M&A transactions may appear to be similar to that in England and Wales. The company law foundation is similar, and a number of familiar English law concepts find place in the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations 2011 (the ‘Takeover Regulations’). However, on closer examination, the Indian regulatory regime is very different to that in England and Wales in relation to matters such as
Environmental lawyers under threat: how can the legal community respond?
The aviation industry is particularly suited to adopting mediation in its dispute resolution process. However, aviation disputes have traditionally been resolved through litigation or arbitration. This is largely due to the absence of a universally recognised framework for the direct enforcement of international mediated settlement agreements. The United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (‘Singapore Convention on Mediation’, initially signed on 7 August 2019
- Use of technology and access to justice, such as live streaming of court proceedings, free access to information/judicial precedents, and transcription of the hearings.
- Virtual hearings – India and global experience? Guidelines issued by various organisations?
- Performance enablers and softwares that can be used to bring efficiency in dispute resolution: assistance in drafting pleadings, e-discovery, and recording of evidence.
- Use of artificial intelligence driven softwares and their assistance in adjudication of disputes: international and Indian perspective, opportunities and challenges.
- Use of private online dispute resolution (ODR) for adjudication of disputes: a discussion on ‘the ODR Policy Plan for India’ issued by Niti Aayog.
- Ethical issues in managing a dispute virtually – screen fatigue, bandwidth issues, breach of confidentiality, cyber and data breach.
The 2nd IBA Litigation and ADR Symposium - the changing landscape of litigation and arbitration in India
Us Too? Update: how is the legal profession responding to bullying and sexual harassment? A webinar presented by the IBA Legal Policy and Research Unit. 10 June 2020 1300-1415 BST.
Criminal offences are increasingly being included in financial
regulatory statutes and dozens of new legislations. These include
initiatives covering privacy, data protection, competition law,
intellectual property, food safety, foreign exchange regulation,
tax, securities, insolvency and almost everything else from airports
to zoos. The incursion of criminal law into regulatory regimes
underscores the state’s inability to achieve compliance with the
rule of law without stiff penalties.
This panel will discuss the above issues from an international
perspective, exploring inter alia the cross-border application of law,
fugitives and multi-jurisdictional enforcement problems not only
to trace the offender but also to discourage the commission of an
offence by non-resident and untethered entities.
Third IBA India Litigation and ADR Symposium 2024: From fringe to focal: India at the centre of international dispute resolution
A webinar presented by the IBA Legal Policy and Research Unit. 22 September 2020 1300 – 1415 BST
The future of legal services in the Asia Pacific
Aug 13, 2023
Otto L.O. de Witt Wijnen, chairman of the Working Group on the Guidelines (2002-2004) explains the origins and drafting of the Guidelines
Challenges and disruptions in-house: how are general counsels coping?
Oct 11, 2019
O-Gon Kwon is an attorney-at-law at Kim & Chang and serves as the president of the firm’s International Law Institute.
This session will discuss:
- What are the future expectations of ESG factors within the companies?
- Does the social object of a traditional company will be understood as a real social purpose?
- Can profit financing tackle social and environmental gaps?
- What exactly a sustainable world of 2100 will require?
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Feb 27, 2026
This article analyses the transformation of the tax adviser’s role in Mexico within a context characterised by intensified tax enforcement, technological oversight, judicial reform and evolving client expectations. It argues that the profession has evolved from being a predominantly technical function into a strategic, preventive, interdisciplinary and ethical practice, focused on risk management and legal certainty.
For some time, ESG has been gaining attention from large law firms, auditors and their clients. ESG issues are also gaining traction in other circles in the legal profession, notably alternative business structures. ESG frameworks evaluate business practices and performance but also measure risks and opportunities. The panel will assess each pillar of ESG (environmental, social, governance), exploring the practices and steps law firms and alternative business structures can adopt and implement to uphold the 2030 UN Sustainability and Development Goals.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
May 13, 2021
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) strongly condemns the dismissal of El Salvador’s Attorney General, Raúl Melara and five magistrates of the country’s Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice on 1 May 2021.
7th IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum Biennial Conference
May 20, 2021
The International Bar Association (IBA) and the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) condemn the attempted assassination of former Maldives President, Mohamed Nasheed. The organisations call for an impartial and independent investigation into the attack, and to ensure fair trial standards and due process are observed as the perpetrator(s) are held to account.
Beyond rhetoric, our panel of globally-renowned, erudite speakers shall examine and evaluate the concept of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all ramifications with a view to enhancing its mechanisms and bolstering its impact positively and ubiquitously within and outside the International Bar Associaiton.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Interview with Kimberley Prost, IBA Annual Conference 2012, Dublin
Shortages of medicines and medical devices are caused not only by manufacturing challenges, but also by distribution unavailability, due to issues at distribution chain level. This session will examine the phenomena within the distribution chain that can lead to shortages of medicine and medical devices, such as parallel trade. The session will also explore different approaches to deal with such shortages by several jurisdictions, including the imposition of regulated prices, blacklist, export controls/restrictions, government mandated distribution and challenging product registration rules.
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
She formerly sat as a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1999 to 2004, on the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Ontario.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
In June, the lower house of Argentina’s Congress voted to legalise abortion in the country in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, marking a major step forward for reproductive rights in Latin America.
The bill is awaiting a vote in the Senate to be held on August 8, but has already been hailed as a milestone in a region that has some of the world’s most stringent abortion laws. This was highlighted in 2016 when the Zika virus and suspected risks to unborn babies prompted calls for the laws to be relaxed.
Nov 29, 2024
Public inquiries in the UK into disasters such as the Grenfell Tower fire are unduly long, expensive and their recommendations are often not implemented, according to a recent parliamentary report
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) reiterates due process concerns with regard to the ongoing trial of Judge María Lourdes Afiuni, who was summoned on 21 February to a hearing to be held the following day. During the hearing on 22 February, the judge summarised previous hearings and denied preceding requests made by the defence. The next hearing is scheduled for 15 March 2019.
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
Aug 07, 2023
The term ‘de-risk’, meaning to reduce economic vulnerability to a country without damaging trade or investment, was first used in the context of China by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in March.
Mar 29, 2022
In all areas, astonishing advances in technology are presenting significant legal and regulatory challenges – none more serious than the use of military AI.
11 February 2021, 1630-1830 GMT (TBC)
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