7:30–8:30am - Breakfast and registration
 

8:30–9:45am - Managing the legal team: navigating uncertain times
The ongoing adverse economic climate, coupled with fundamental regulatory challenges, places intense pressure on the leaders of legal teams to help drive their companies forward safely.
 

9:45–10:00am - Coffee
 

10:00–11:00am - Breakouts
Delegates will have a choice of breakout sessions listed below.

• Corruption: the Bribery Act one year on
       Is the picture any clearer?
• Alternative legal service providers: an ethical minefield?
       How can counsel ensure that they use outsourcing in accordance with Bar rules?
• External counsel: getting value
       What are legal departments doing to ensure that they source external legal services as efficiently as
       possible?

11:00–11:30am - Coffee
 

11:30–12:45pm - Information governance: taking control
General counsel are expected to have complete control over every last piece of information produced by their companies. How can this be done?
 

12:45–2:00pm - Lunch
 

2:00–3:30pm - Global regulation: managing the risks
Companies in sectors far beyond financial services are subject to an increasingly complex web of regulation from multiple regulators. Keeping on top of changes, running appropriate compliance programmes and balancing the demands of different regulatory standards are key challenges.
 

3:30–4:00pm - Coffee
 

4:00–5:00pm - Breakouts
Delegates will have a choice of breakout sessions listed below.

• Knowledge management: share and share alike
       How can legal teams capture and share knowledge to avoid reinventing the wheel?
• Work area roundtables
       — IP roundtable
        Managing IP rights globally, with a particular emphasis on BRICs, MINTs and CIVETs.
       — Antitrust roundtable
        It is no longer just Brussels and Washington to worry about.
       — Employee benefits roundtable
        Running effective incentives programmes worldwide for mobile workforces.
       — M&A roundtable
        Managing successful cross-border transactions.

5:00-6:00pm - Potential Eurozone failure: are you prepared?
The crisis in the Eurozone continues and there is still a distinct possibility that one or more member countries will cease using the euro. All multinational businesses need to review their exposure to this risk and have contingency plans in place. There are wide-ranging implications for euro-denominated contracts and financial documentation.

This session will take a practical approach to what might happen, how companies can best protect themselves and lessons from previous crises such as that in Argentina in the 2000s.

Of course, the Eurozone may hold firm, but all business continuity and contingency planning is useful practice. The next unexpected crisis will be upon us soon enough.

 
The 2012 programme is currently being developed. To view the confirmed speakers click here.

* Preliminary programme subject to change

** ILO will apply for CLE requested by registrants for US states with CLE requirements. Approvals will be subject to the relevant bar rules and regulations.