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Jun 23, 2025
In May, the UK government published a white paper setting out its plans to redesign the UK’s immigration system to ‘significantly’ reduce net migration
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.
COP28 capacity building: Africa in focus – facilitating the net transition
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.
This panel will address the complexities associated with incapacity for high net worth individuals in the cross-border context.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
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.
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.
The net zero challenge and road to COP28: Candid conversations with legal counsel
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
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.
Legal solutions for a net zero future: launching the International Bar Association's Climate Registry
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.
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
Apr 16, 2026
This conference session addressed one of the most sensitive and increasingly common challenges facing legal, tax and advisory professionals: how to respond when an ageing client becomes vulnerable, less autonomous and their decision-making is questioned, all this in the context of one’s mental capacity and exposure to undue influence. As global populations age and wealth concentrations grow among older individuals, professionals are encountering more cases where diminished capacity, undue influence and unconventional personal decisions converge.
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
Jul 26, 2021
United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1 – the eradication of poverty in all its forms everywhere – can be achieved by 2030, but it will require catalytic leadership and hard work by the legal profession. Active involvement in the elimination of poverty has become the ethical obligation of every lawyer. This book, edited and authored by members of the IBA Poverty and Social Development Committee, is a compilation of commentary and case studies about the broad variety of initiatives and actions that lawyers in all sections of the profession worldwide – law firms, law schools, bar associations and corporate law departments – are taking to achieve sustainable progress in the fight against poverty and the betterment of the communities they serve.
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
IBA Global Insight Aug/Sept 2019: Nearly four years after its creation, the Asean Economic Community is still struggling with integration. Could China’s investment in Belt and Road hold the key to its success?
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
When and how to pull levers: intent and enforceability of term sheet/letter of intent. Teresa Massaro, Christopher Scott, Luca CM Melchionna
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.
Feb 12, 2025
As global tensions deepen, Australia’s economic reliance on China has become a focal point of national discourse. While China remains a crucial trade partner, the growing risk of conflict in the Indo-Pacific, particularly in the South China Sea and around Taiwan, emphasises the need for Australia to reinforce its economic resilience. A diversified trade approach offers significant benefits, drawing insights from recent global shifts and showing how strategic, balanced partnerships could reinforce Australia’s economic future.
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
Oct 11, 2024
A summary of the IBA Aviation Law Committee’s activities at the IBA Annual Conference in Mexico City from 15–20 September 2024.
IBA Professional Wellbeing Commission Webinar Series: The regulators are watching you! – Understanding the risks of not taking action
May 20, 2022
The war in Ukraine has brought an awareness of the extremely dire consequences of corruption. Global Insight examines the dangers of leaving legal systems open to abuse by the rich and powerful
Conference delegates will hear from an experienced panel of international insolvency experts about the benefits and challenges of distressed M&A transactions, developments across jurisdictions and predictions for where the market is headed, including:
• understanding and designing stalking-horse and competitive bidding processes;
• choosing the right structure – share deals versus asset deals;
• mechanisms to transfer assets, contracts and other property, while minimising trailing liabilities;
• pre-packs: advantages/disadvantages of sales inside versus outside of an insolvency proceeding; and
• diligence and opportunities to implement operational changes as part of the transaction
28th Annual IBA Global Insolvency and Restructuring Conference - Restructuring vs Insolvency
IBA Global Insight April/May 2016 - After 20 years of talks, the Asian equivalent of the EU has finally become a reality. Whether it succeeds or fails is likely to depend on international free-trade agreements.
6th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference
The compatibility of investment protection treaties with European Union law has been a controversial issue for quite some time. The decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Achmea (formerly Eureko) v Slovakia clarified the issue and raised a number of concerns as regards the future of intra-EU investment protection treaties.
In this interactive session the conference will hear from a panel of industry experts from around the globe on various issues arising from the highly topical subject of distressed mergers and acquisitions (M&A). The session will consider:
- What makes distressed M&A different?
- Who are the stakeholders in distressed M&A?
- What are the tools for the debtor company to manage risk through a distressed M&A process?
- What are the emerging challenges and risks in distressed M&A in the current market environment?
- What are the outlook and opportunities for distressed M&A in future?
29th Annual IBA Global Insolvency and Restructuring Conference
IBA Global Insight February/March 2018 - Basic practices and fundamental rights have long been taken for granted by internet users worldwide. However, the recent US decision to roll back key ‘net neutrality’ legislation puts them in danger – is it time for a digital constitution?
Middle Eastern clients often use offshore/overseas entities to structure the assets they acquire all over the world. What are the main reasons for that, and for not using more often structures such as UAE Trusts and Foundations, Saudi family offices/ corporations and others? What are the main characteristics of these entities and is it ‘safe’ to use them whether by Middle Eastern clients or foreign clients to the region? This panel will address these topics, including a history of the above-mentioned structures, to whom and to which assets/projects this structuring is addressed and whether the structures in the Middle east might ‘replace’ other classical structures notably for the Middle Eastern clients.
28th Annual International Private Client Conference: New realities in the private client practice
Jan 17, 2024
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is still reverberating across multiple areas of law, from procurement to employment. Global Insight assesses how the experience will prepare us – and the law – for future pandemics.
We will deal with some of the main issues related to private funds
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
IBA Global Insight - February/March 2018
8th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference
IBA Global Insight December 2017/January 2018: Michael Froman served as US Trade Representative from 2013–2017 under President
Barack Obama and is also former Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs. In conversation with the IBA’s Director of Content, James Lewis, Froman outlines just how damaging President Trump’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership could be, and what it means for the Asia Pacific region, given the rising power of China.
This debate will examine the most effective approach to negotiation strategies with regulatory enforcement authorities; specifically, whether collaboration or adversarial tactics should be prioritised. Advocates for collaboration argue that maintaining open lines of communication, transparency and cooperation with regulatory agencies can lead to more favourable outcomes, including reduced penalties, streamlined investigations and improved compliance measures. On the other hand, proponents of adversarial tactics contend that taking a confrontational approach, challenging regulatory interpretations and vigorously defending against enforcement actions can protect organisational interests and preserve legal rights. Through rigorous debate, case studies and real-world examples, the speakers will explore the advantages and disadvantages of each approach, considering factors such as legal risk, reputational impact and long-term relationship building with regulatory authorities. Join us as we delve into the complexities of negotiation strategies with regulatory enforcement authorities and seek to identify the most effective path forward for organisations facing compliance challenges.
IBA Anti-Corruption Committee Asia Conference
Jan 12, 2024
In this session at the IBA Annual Conference in Paris, a group of experts from various backgrounds addressed topics such as doping, bribery, governance and social responsibility, and offered a comprehensive examination of the complex issues plaguing the world of sport.
On 28 April 2021, a set of amendments to the Belarusian law ‘On Commercial Companies’ entered into force and introduced a significant number of changes concerning various aspects of corporate law. Some of the most notable changes are additional net assets maintenance requirements and explicit regulation of debt-equity conversions.
Mar 03, 2023
Kirin Kalsi is General Counsel, Compliance Officer and Data Protection Officer at E.ON UK, part of the E.ON Group, one of the largest operators of energy networks and infrastructure in Europe. She tells In-House Perspective how her team learnt to expect the unexpected through its work in the pandemic and the energy crisis, and about how lawyers can assist in reaching net zero.
Sep 07, 2021
A new initiative for the legal sector, Lawyers for Net Zero, was launched in July and aims to support in-house counsel in delivering climate action in their organisation. In-House Perspective examines what in-house lawyers could and should be doing in this area.
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
Jul 30, 2024
The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive represents a significant step forward in the promotion of corporate accountability for human rights through regulation and, considering its extraterritorial reach, the legislation will have an impact outside of the EU. This article summarises the main requirements of the CSDDD, with particular focus on the requirements concerning human rights due diligence. It also highlights key areas of alignment between the CSDDD and the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).
This panel will explore the prospects for an EU Capital Markets Union asking whether regulatory harmonisation failed and can succeed. The panellists will also focus on the legal and non-legal barriers (including regulatory, infrastructural, culture and mentality). In addition, it will be discussed whether the U.S. is rather a threat or an opportunity for the EU Capital Markets Union.
41st International Financial Law Conference
By a decision dated 15 September 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union has confirmed that zero-rating practices are banned under Regulation 2015/2120, the Regulation that introduced net neutrality provisions into the EU framework.
Young lawyers and leadership
Nov 29, 2022
Spiralling energy prices due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should be accelerating the transition to low-carbon fuels. Global Insight assesses whether the world is slipping back on its post-pandemic pledges to build back better.
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 Capital Markets Forum has undertaken a project to monitor international selling restrictions. In the dropdown panels below, you will see information on selling restrictions in various jurisdictions that apply to offerings of equity securities by companies incorporated outside the jurisdiction. The information is accurate as of the date provided within the relevant link.
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
Nov 06, 2024
In Chile, distributed energy resources are divided into two categories: power plants up to 9 MW connected via distribution or transmission lines and smaller net billing facilities up to 300 kW connected solely through distribution lines within the service area of distribution companies. As of 2024, the installed capacity of these resources has rapidly expanded, driven primarily by solar projects. However, challenges have arisen, including transmission congestion, regulatory changes, infrastructure limitations and curtailments. Recent regulatory updates are promoting the use of energy storage as a solution to these issues, enabling better grid management and continued growth in distributed energy generation.
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
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