6th Annual Corporate Governance Conference 2019 | International Bar Association (IBA) | 5 December 2019 | Villa Kennedy, a Rocco Forte Hotel, Kennedyallee 70, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

This essential Conference will provide you with the opportunity to discuss issues and challenges facing the sector with other leading lawyers, academics and organisations in the fields of corporate governance and regulation.

Sessions include:
• Recent trends and hot topics
• Current developments in executive compensation
• Corporate governance at state backed companies
• Governance issues with a large investor in a public company
• Proxy advisory firms - truths & myths
• Nissan case study
• Corporate governance with a 'celebrity' CEO or chairperson
• Role of the board in corporate culture - more than just #metoo

2019 Speakers

CO-CHAIR:

Rabel Akhund
Founder, Managing Partner of Akhund Forbes in Karachi, Pakistan

SPEAKERS:

Juan Carlos Alfonso
Secretary of the Board of Directors and Legal Director, Spanish

Michael Arnold
Leading Corporate Lawyers in Germany, Honorary Professor, University of Tübingen

Maria Isabel Bueno
Chair of the Women Lawyers, Interest Group Committee of the International Bar Association

John Buretta
Partner, Litigation

Steffen Carl
Partner, Rechtsanwalt

Sophie Cornette de Saint Cyr
Partner, Bredin Prat (121 Attorneys), Paris, France

Anchal Dhir
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, India

Deborah Finkler
Partner, Dispute Resolution Group, Leading Individual for Banking Litigation and for Financial Services (Contentious Regulatory), Chambers UK

Andrew Gebelin
Lead Glass Lewis, Largest Research Organization

Sergio González Galán
Partner, Corporate Commercial Department of Garrigues, International Associate, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (New York)

Sophie Javary
Vice Chairman, EMEA Corp & Institutional Banking, BNP Paribas SA

Rabindra Jhunjhunwala
Partner, Senior Member of the Corporate Law Practice of the Firm

Ilkin Karakaya
Senior Vice President Corporate Legal, Group General Counsel, Knorr-Bremse

Jonathan Katz
Virginia Criminal Lawyer, Fairfax DUI Attorney, Northern Virginia Drug Attorney, Incorporating T'ai Chi & Mindfulness Into My Life, Law Practice

Alison Kellett
Partner, Banking and Real Estate Finance Team

Christian Kledal
General Counsel of Copenhagen Airports A/S

Adam Kokas
Senior Vice President, AAWW, General Counsel, Secretary

Michael Kramarsch
Founders, Investors and Consultants in the HR Management Scene

Derk Lemstra
Specialism Including Capital Markets, Securities, Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Governance

Simon Link
Corporate and Equity Capital Markets Practice

Phil Linnard
Partner with a Broad Transactional and Advisory Practice, Covering All Aspects of Employment, Incentives and Pensions Matters

Giorgio Meo
Former Dean of the Faculty of Economics of the Telematic University of Italy Chambers of Commerce, Universitas Mercatorum

Christoph Moser
Partner, Weber Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Dagmar Mundani
head of the worldwide function Legal, Compliance and ECC, LL.M (UIUC), General Counsel of Siemens Healthineers AG

Richard Neuwirth
Chief Legal Officer, SVP, General Counsel

Andrew Nussbaum
Top Rated Mergers & Acquisitions Attorney in New York, NY

Patrik Peyer
Partner, Corporate/M&A

Marianne Philip
Partner, Copenhagen

Paul Rodel
Corporate Partner and a Member of Debevoise’s Capital Markets, Private Equity and Latin America Groups

Henrik Rossing Lonberg
Attorney-at-Law, Partner, LL.M.

Melissa Sawyer
Partner, New York

Michael Schouten
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Netherlands

Stefan Schulte
Chairman of the Executive Board of Fraport AG

Pieter Schütte
Capital Markets Group with a Focus on the More Complex Capital Markets and Corporate Transactions

Professor Holger Spamann
Research Member, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Karen Steidle
Richmond, VA

Damien Zoubek
Partner, Corporate

2019 Sponsors

CONFERENCE DINNER:
• Hengeler Mueller

CONFERENCE LUNCHHEON:
• Noerr

CONFERENCE SUPPORTERS:
• ILO
• Lexology