5th Mergers and Acquisitions in the Technology Sector Conference 2021 | International Bar Association (IBA) | 18 March 2021 | Hotel Arts Barcelona, Carrer de la Marina, 19, 21, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

Topics Include:

Silicon Valley meets Barcelona:
• Cutting edge technology issues facing Silicon Valley companies
• What do Silicon Valley companies expect when acquiring a company
• Navigating cultural differences in tech M&A deals: how differently do we do things, really?
• Trade wars and Tech M&A – perspectives from around the world
• The impact of Artificial Intelligence on M&A
• Cybersecurity risks in M&A
• Artificial Intelligence in health care: how software is revolutionising medicine
• Hot topics roundtables
• General Counsel roundtable

2020 Speakers

CO-CHAIRS:

Ronald Chen
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, New York

Clara-Ann Gordon
Niederer Kraft Frey, Zürich; Website Officer, IBA Women Lawyers’ Interest Group

Yuval Horn
Horn & Co, Tel Aviv

Sergio Sánchez Solé
J&A Garrigues SLP, Barcelona; Council Member, IBA Legal Practice Division

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Courtney McBean
Managing Director, Evercore, Menlo Park

SPEAKERS:

Connie Chen
Head of M&A Legal, Broadcom

Wendra Liang
Director M&A, Atlassian

Joe Gette
Assistant General Counsel M&A and Securities, PPG Industries

Bryan Ko
General Counsel, Logitech

Ning Liu
JunHe, Shanghai

Josep Sanfeliu
Asabys Partners, Barcelona

Alethea Au
Stikeman Elliott, Toronto

Ileana Glodeanu
Wolf Theiss, Bucharest

Javier Gómez
Pérez Llorca, Madrid

Adina Shapiro
Herzog Fox & Neeman, Tel Aviv

Clément Destoumieux
CEO, medmesafe, Madrid

Joan Guanyabens
Founder, SalusCoop, Barcelona

Rafael Torres
Senior Vice President/Strategy and Business Development, Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, California

Albert Agustinoy
Cuatrecasas, Barcelona; Vice Chair, IBA Disputes and Rights Subcommittee

Conrad Harrington
Sard Verbinnen, London

Shira Kaplan
Cyverse, Zürich

Andrew Kim
General Counsel, Netgear, San Jose, California

Meg Strickler
Conaway & Strickler, Atlanta, Georgia; North American Regional Forum Liaison Officer, IBA War Crimes Committee

Hasani Caraway
General Counsel, Zendesk

John Kuo
General Counsel, Varian Medical Systems

Eve Saltman
General Counsel, GoPro

MODERATORS:

Gabriella Covino
Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners, Rome

Anka Ehrich
Noerr, Berlin

José Soria
Uría Menendez, Barcelona

Miguel Kindelán
Bullhound, Madrid

Patrik Peyer
Niederer Kraft Frey, Zürich

Norman Heckh
Ramón y Cajal, Madrid

Jay Lefton
Fasken, Toronto, Ontario

Anna Jonsson
Vinge, Malmö

Harry Rubin
Kramer Levin, New York

Ilona Zekely
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, Moscow

Barbara Sartori
CBA Legale e Tributario, Milan and Padua

Emanuel Strehle
Hengeler Mueller, Munich

Elisa Henry
BLG, Toronto, Ontario

Erik Valgaeren
Stibbe, Brussels

Elisabeth Vestin
Hannes Snellmann, Stockholm

Stefan Weidert
Gleiss Lutz, Berlin

Naomi Assia
Naomi Assia & Co, Tel Aviv

Johan Hübner
Delphi, Stockholm

Belén Arribas
Sánchez Andersen Tax & Legal, Barcelona

Carmen de la Cruz
Böhringer De La Cruz Beranek, Zug

Andrew Zammit
GVZH, Valletta

Claire Bernier
ADSTO, Paris

Marlene Schreiber
Harting, Berlin; Vice Chair, IBA Intrusive Technologies Subcommittee

Joacim Johannesson
Setterwalls, Stockholm; Chair, IBA Corporate Information Governance Subcommittee

Soren Skibsted
Kromann Reumert, Copenhagen; Co-Chair, IBA Technology Law Committee

Shirin Herzog
RGR, Tel Aviv

Stephan Muller
Oppenhoff, Cologne

Alex Edmondson
Macfarlanes LLP, London

Thomas Kulnigg
Schoenherr, Vienna

Larry Naughton
Mintz, Boston, Massachusetts

Dagmar Dubécka
KSB, Prague; Secretary, IBA private Equity Subcommittee

Takashi Toichi
TMI, Tokyo; Conference Coordinator Asia Pacific, IBA Corporate and M&A Law Committee

Mary Julie
John J Sagar Associates Bengaluru

Melte Koning-Gungormez
Kennedy van der Laan, Amsterdam

Evy Marques
Felsberg, Sao Paulo

Xavier Foz
Roca Junyent, Barcelona

Laurent Schummer
Arendt, Luxembourg; Website Officer, IBA Space Law Committee

Miquel Marti
CEO, Barcelona Tech City, Barcelona

Dovile Burgiene
Walles, Vilnius; Young Lawyers Liaison Officer, IBA Corporate and M&A Law Committee

Sergio Sánchez
Solé J&A Garrigues SLP, Barcelona; Council Member, IBA Legal Practice Division

Rabindra Jhunjhunwala
Khaitan & Co, Mumbai

Tarun Stewart
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, New York

Matthias Nordmann
SKW Schwarz, Munich

Cécile Théard-Jallu
De Gaulle Fleurance, Paris; Newsletter Officer; IBA Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee

Roland Mathys
Schellenberg Wittmer, Zürich; Chair, IBA Outsourcing and Shared Services Subcommittee

Christopher Meshooh
Fieldfisher, Paris

Kosturi Ghosh
Trilegal, Bangalore; Website Officer, IBA Corporate and M&A Law Committee

Gisele Rosselle
Strelia, Brussels

2020 Sponsors

CONFERENCE LUNCHEON SPONSOR:
• MacFarlanes

CONFERENCE SUPPORTERS:
• Lexology
• mLex