Biennial IBA Latin American Regional Forum Conference 2018 | International Bar Association (IBA) | 14 March 2018 | Hyatt Regency Mexico City, Campos Elíseos 204, Chapultepec Morales, Polanco V Secc, 11560 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico

Disruptive innovation in Latin America: the role of lawyers

TOPICS INCLUDE:
• Antitrust: A new era in the battle for control overconsumers’ information
• Compliance: Beyond Lava Jato and the Panama Papers
• Environmental protection v extraction technologies
• Free trade or protectionism: Are we going local? Renegotiation of Brexit, NAFTA and others: what are the challenges and opportunities?
• Goodbye traditional banking, hello crowdfunding!
• How technology is changing the future of real estate
• Innovation, startups and intellectual property management
• Labour and employment: Will employees still exist in the future?
• Law firms: To merge or not to merge? That is the question
• Tax evasion, elusion and money laundering: where to draw the line?
• The evolving business agenda of sustainability: protection, respect and remedy
• The future of in-house legal departments and their impact on the legal market: how are companies benefiting from artificial intelligence?
• The growth of green energy
• The individual and organisational challenges of artificial intelligence in law firms
• The impact of anti-corruption in Latin America
• The impact of protectionism in M&A transactions
• What infrastructure is Latin America still in need of?
• What will stay the same in arbitration and alternative dispute resolution?

2018 Speakers

David Gutierrez
BLP Abogados, San Jose; Co-Chair, IBA Latin American Regional Forum

Carolina ZanZang
Bergel & Viñes Abogados, Buenos Aires; Co- Chair, IBA Latin American Regional Forum

Martin Solc
Kocian Solc Balastik, Prague; IBA President

Carlos Slim
President, Grupo Carso, Mexico City

Nicola Bonucci
Director, Legal Affairs, OECD, Paris; Co-Chair, International Organisations Subcommittee, IBA Public Law Section

Pablo Artagaveytia
Marval O’Farrell & Mairal, Buenos Aires; Corporate Counsel Forum Liaison Officer, IBA Latin American Regional Forum

Alejandro Javier Torres Rivero
Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa, Mexico City

Luis Ortiz Hidalgo
Ortiz Hernandez y Orendain, Mexico City

Miguel Loran Osborne Clarke, Barcelona
Starling Marshall Covington & Burling, New York Stephan Neidhardt Walder Wyss, Zurich

Lucia Sahin
Loyens & Loeff, Rotterdam

Gustavo Alcocer
Olivares y Compañia, Mexico City Agustin Mayer
Ferrere, Montevideo; Regional Fora Liaison Officer, IBA Latin American Regional Forum

Ignacio de Leon
CEO, Directo Securities, Washington DC

Marc A Lieberstein
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, New York Roxana Penagos Vice-President Legal Counsel, The Coca-Cola Company, Mexico City

Matias Zegers
DLA Piper BAZ/NLD, Santiago

Carlos Dominguez
Hoet Pelaez Castillo & Duque, Caracas;

Antonio Bravo
Eversheds Sutherland, Madrid Jose Manuel Garcia Represa Dechert, Paris Dyala Jimenez-Figueres DJ Arbitraje, San Jose

Mary Juetten
CEO, Traklight & Evolve Law, Phoenix

Sarah Lieber Senior
Vice-President, Special Situations Group, Jefferies Investment Bank, New York

Fernando Perez-Correa
SOLCARGO, Mexico City

Carlos de Maria y Campos
Galicia Abogados, Mexico City

Luis Carlos Rodrigo
Rodrigo Elias & Medrano, Lima; Senior Vice Chair, IBA Latin American Regional Forum

Carlos Albarracin
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, New York Leopoldo Burguete-Stanek

Gonzalez Calvillo
Mexico City Amalia Saenz Zang Bergel & Viñes Abogados, Buenos Aires France Tenaille
Gowling WLG, Toronto

Juan Carlos de los Heros Estudio Echecopar - member firm of Baker & McKenzie International, Lima; Vice Chair, IBA Latin American Regional Forum

Turenna Ramirez Sanchez DeVanny Eseverri, Mexico City; Website Officer, IBA North American Regional Forum

Miguel Flores
Vice-President and Country Manager, Niagara Bottling, Mexico City

Ambassador Robert Holleyman
Crowell & Moring, Washington DC

Horacio A Lopez-Portillo
Vazquez Tercero & Zepeda, Mexico City; Newsletter Deputy, IBA International Sales Committee

Julissa Reynoso
Winston & Strawn, New York

S Todd Crider
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York

Carlos del Rio Santiso
Creel Garcia-Cuellar Aiza y Enriquez, Mexico City; Publication and Newsletter Officer, IBA Latin American Regional Forum

Maria Luisa Canovas
Jones Day, New York

Ivan Delgado
Perez-Llorca, New York; Scholarship Officer, IBA Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprises Committee Nicolas Lafont McDermott Will & Emery, Paris

Pablo Mijares
Mijares Angoitia Cortes y Fuentes, Mexico City

Taro Tsunoda
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Tokyo

Maria Jose Esteban Ferrer
Lecturer, Department of Law, ESADE Business & Law School, Ramon Llull University and affiliated researcher, Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School, Barcelona

Geert Aalbers
Control Risks, São Paulo

Michel Levien Gonzalez
DeForest Abogados, Puebla Lucinda Low Steptoe & Johnson, Washington DC

Alejandro Luna Arena
Santamarina y Steta, Mexico City Maria-Leticia Ossa Daza Willkie Farr & Gallagher, New York

Adriana Castro
BLP Abogados, San Jose

Kate Mogulescu
Assistant Professor of Clinical Law, Brooklyn Law School, New York

Dana Preston
Programme Manager, Hispanics in Philanthropy, Mexico City

Juliana Ramalho
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados, São Paulo

Miguel Crespo
Expansion Manager, H&M, Mexico City

Diego Gomez Haro
Legal Vice-President, The Blackstone Group, Mexico City

Eugenio Hurtado-Segovia
Ramirez Gutierrez-Azpe Rodriguez- Rivero y Hurtado, Mexico City; Member, IBA Latin American Regional Forum Advisory Board

Enrique Lavin Treviño
Prudential Mexico, Mexico City

Guillermo Smith
Falabella, Santiago

Jorge Allende
DCMS Carey & Allende, Santiago

Bruno Ciuffetelli
Hogan Lovells, Houston

Eduardo Rodriguez-Rovira

Uria Menendez
Madrid Leopoldo Hernandez Romano

KermaPartners
Mexico City Luiz A Sette Azevedo Sette Advogados, São Paulo; Chair, IBA Product Law and Advertising Committee

Javier Ybañez
J&A Garrigues, Santiago

Vicente Fenoll
CEO, kubo.financiero, Mexico City

David Flechner
Allen & Overy, New York; Regional Representative North America, IBA Securities Law Committee

Kosta Kostic
McMillan, Montreal

Maria Fernanda Mierez
Beccar Varela, Buenos Aires; Membership Officer, IBA Corporate Social Responsibility Committee

Arcelia Olea Leyva
Vice-President, Regulations, National Banking and Securities Commission, Mexico City

Alejandro Sobarzo Hadad
Kuri Breña Sanchez Ugarte y Aznar, Mexico City

Gabriel Bustamante
Vera & Asociados, Mexico City

Cesar Fernandez
Legal Vice-President for Projects and Business, Pemex, Mexico City

Alfonso Flores
Ramirez General Director of Impact and Environmental Risk, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico City

Rosa Posada
Bryan Gonzalez Vargas & Gonzalez Baz, Monterrey Melinda Truskowski
Director, Oil & Gas Sector - Americas, Ramboll, Denver

Willie Wood
Norton Rose Fulbright, Houston

Julio Flores Luna
Goodrich Riquelme y Asociados, Mexico City

Raquel Florez
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Madrid

Pablo Peralta
Senior Counsel, Employment - Latin America, Uber, Mexico City

Olavo Salcido
Human Resources Director, Amazon Mexico, Mexico City

Peter Susser
Littler Mendelson, Washington DC

Ilene Knable
Gotts Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, New York; North American Regional Representative, IBA Antitrust Committee Eduardo Perez Motta SAI Consultores, Mexico City

Rebeca Servin Lewis
Director for Corporate, External and Legal Affairs, Microsoft Mexico CELA Lead, Mexico City

Sandra Terepins
Barbosa Müssnich Aragão, São Paulo Mario Ybar
Deputy Prosecutor, Fiscalia Nacional Economica, Santiago

Agenor Correa
Vice-President for General Counsel, Panama Canal Authority, Panama City

Jaime Gray
Navarro Sologuren Paredes Gray Abogados, Lima; Co-Chair, IBA International Construction Projects Committee Eduardo Koch
Nicholson y Cano Abogados, Buenos Aires

Daniel Saltzberg
Cervantes Sainz, Mexico City

Carlos Umaña
Brigard Urrutia, Bogota

Luis Miguel Briola
Grupo Bimbo, Mexico City

Alejandro Cantu
America Movil, Mexico City

Samuel Libnic
General Counsel for Latin America and Mexico, Citi Latin America, Miami

Francisco Merino General Counsel and Senior Vice-President, Legal and Government Affairs, PepsiCo Central America, Caribbean and Andean countries, Mexico City

Pedro Pesqueira
Senior Vice-President Legal Latin America, MetLife, Mexico City

2018 Sponsors

• Consortium Legal
• Cuatrecasas
• EY Law
• Santamarina Streta
• Intralinks
• Dalgalarrando, Romero & Cia
• Arias
• Garcia & Bodan
• BLP
• Carey