P.R.I.M.E. Finance 2018 | P.R.I.M.E. Finance Foundation | 22 January 2018 | Peace Palace, Carnegieplein 2, 2517 KJ Den Haag, Netherlands

Our 7th Annual Conference brings together the most distinguished practitioners, academics, judges, regulators and experts who influence the day-to-day workings of the international financial markets.

We cordially invite you to join the P.R.I.M.E. Finance Annual Conference. As is a tradition now, the event will be held at the Peace Palace in The Hague.

The conference will be an excellent opportunity to gain insight into recent case law and related topical issues regarding complex financial products, and also offer a unique chance to personally discuss these developments with many of the members of our Panel of Experts who will be present at the event.

2018 Speakers:

H.E. The Hon. Sir David Baragwanath KNZM
Chairman, P.R.I.M.E. Finance Advisory Board

Saskia Bruines
Deputy Mayor of The Hague

The Rt. Hon. Lord Briggs of Westbourne
Justice, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Hugo Hans Siblesz
Secretary-General, Permanent Court of Arbitration

Professor Jeffrey Golden
Chairman, Management Board, P.R.I.M.E. Finance Foundation

The Hon. Judge Elizabeth S. Stong
P.R.I.M.E. Finance Management Board

Professor Dr. Dr.h.c. Carl Baudenbacher
President, EFTA Court 2003-2017

Professor Sir William Blair
P.R.I.M.E. Finance Advisory Board

The Hon. Judge Francisco Orrego Vicuña
Judge, the International Monetary Fund Administrative Tribunal

The Hon. Judge James M. Peck
Global Co-Chair, Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group, Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Hon. Mr. Justice Nicholas Segal
Judge, the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, Financial Services Division

The Hon. Mr. Justice Richard Snowden
High Court and Financial List Judge of The Business and Property Courts of England and Wales

Luc Frieden
Partner, Elvinger Hoss Prussen

Pedro Cardigos
Partner, CARDIGOS; Portugal Counsel, International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA); P.R.I.M.E. Finance Expert

Mark Hapgood QC
Member, Brick Court Chambers; P.R.I.M.E. Finance Expert

Edward Murray
Consultant, Allen & Overy LLP

Professor Eddy Wymeersch
Chairman, the Public Interest Oversight Board

Lisa Curran
Senior Counsel, Allen & Overy LLP

Joshua Cohn
Managing Principal, JBHS LLC

Rick Grove
P.R.I.M.E. Finance Management Board

Peter Niculescu
Partner, Capital Market Risk Advisors (CMRA)

Eli Whitney Debevoise II
Senior Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP

Carolyn Lamm
Partner, White & Case LLP

David W. Rivkin
Co-Chair, International Dispute Resolution Group, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Professor Steven L. Schwarcz, Stanley A.
Star Professor of Law & Business, Duke University School of Law

Carolyn Jackson
Partner, Katten Muchin Rosenman UK LLP

Sharon Brown-Hruska
Director of the Securities and Finance Practice, NERA Economic Consulting

Professor Pim Rank
Of Counsel, NautaDutilh N.V.

Professor Akihiro Wani
Senior Counselor, Morrison & Foerster LLP

Professor Gerard Meijer
Partner, NautaDutilh N.V

Camilla Perera – De Wit
Legal Counsel, Permanent Court of Arbitration

Kristy Tillman
Executive Director, P.R.I.M.E. Finance

Philip Wood CBE, QC (hon)
Head, Global Law Intelligence Unit, Special Global Counsel, Allen & Overy LLP

Professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler
Partner, Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler

Professor Georges Affaki
Professor of International Banking Law and Dispute Resolution, University of Paris II

Markus Burianski
Partner, White & Case LLP

Professor Loukas Mistelis
Clive M Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration, Queen Mary University of London

Antoine Maffei
Founding Partner, De Pardieu Brocas Maffei A.A.R.P.I.

G. Massimiliano Danusso
Partner, BonelliErede

Simon Firth
Partner, Linklaters LLP

Jeremy Goldring QC
Barrister, South Square Chambers, P.R.I.M.E. Finance Expert

Jay Tambe
Partner, Jones Day

Tony Willis
Independent Mediator, Brick Court Chambers

Joanna Perkins
Chief Executive, Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC)

Richard Tredgett
Partner, Allen & Overy LLP

Thomas Werlen
Partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP

John Williams
Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP

Duncan Goldie-Morrison
P.R.I.M.E. Finance Management Board

Vladimir Khrenov
Partner, Head of Derivatives and Capital Markets, Monastyrsky, Zyuba, Stepanov & Partners

Habib Motani
Partner, Global Head Derivatives Group, Clifford Chance LLP

Michael Nelson
Assistant General Counsel and Senior Vice President, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Robert G Pickel,
P.R.I.M.E. Finance Management Board

Klaus Löber
Senior Adviser, Market Infrastructure and Payments, European Central Bank

Joanna Perkins
Chief Executive, Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC)

Hubert de Vauplane
Partner, Kramer Levin, Paris

Peter Werner
Senior Counsel, International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA)

Jacek Kubas
Principal, Local Capital Markets, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Mohamad Akram Laldin
Executive Director, the International Shari’ah Research Academy for Islamic finance (ISRA)

Olasupo Shasore
Partner, Africa Law Practice

Professor René Smits
Professor of the Law of the Economic and Monetary Union, University of Amsterdam

H.E. The Hon. Sir David Baragwanath
KNZM, Chairman, P.R.I.M.E. Finance Advisory Board

Joseph Bauman
Affiliate, Rutter Associates LLC

Professor Cally Jordan
Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School

Robert G. Pickel
P.R.I.M.E. Finance Management Board

Jonathan Ross
Director, Reserve Bank of New Zealand

2018 Sponsors:

• 3 Hare Court
• Allen & Overy
• Binder Grosswang
• BonelliErede
• Brill
• Cardigos
• Coernerstone Research
• Debevoise & Plimpton
• Eversheds Sutherland
• Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
• Houthoff
• Jones Day
• Kramer Levin
• The Law Reviews
• Loyens Loeff
• Mannheimer Swartling
• Mayer Brown
• Milbank
• Monastyrsky Zyuba Stepanov & Partners
• Morrison Foersters
• Nauta Dutilh
• Nera Economic Consulting
• Oxford University Press
• Pinsent Masons
• Sidley
• Raines & Co
• Rutter Associates LLC
• Stibbe
• Thomson Reuters
• White & Case
• Wolters Kluwer