Practice Group and Committee Meetings

2007 Annual and Asia/ Pacific Regional Conference
Singapore

Conference Agenda

Schedule of Events:

THURSDAY, October 11, 2007
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
	Agribusiness General Business Meeting
	Global Technology and Outsourcing (tentative) General Business Meeting
	Telecommunications General Business Meeting
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
	Immigration General Business Meeting
	Insurance/ Reinsurance This meeting will include an informal discussion of a paper on Australian law reform of regulation of Direct Offshore Foreign Insurers and Insurance Contract Act reform.  Particpants will also identify potential business development materials for the practice group.
	International Tax General Business Meeting
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
	Cross-Border Transactions This meeting will feature a discussion and presentation on the market in Singapore, as it relates to Cross-Border Transactions.  A report will be given on the group's European Regional Meeting, which took place in Munich from September 12-13, 2007.  Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the results of this meeting with a view of identifying possible avenues that the group can take to further business growth and project collaboration.
	Media and Entertainment Informal Business Meeting
3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
	Antitrust, Competition and Trade The session will feature presentations on current issues in competition law in Singapore and China and current trade issues relevant to the Asia Pacific region.
	Dispute Resolution Lex Mundi is pleased to feature three special guests, plus Lex Mundi firm experts, in a program on the insider’s view on international arbitration in Asia.  Topics will include: the problems encountered in international arbitrations held in China and India, the relative advantages of ad hoc versus institutionally-supervised arbitrations in Asia, the attitude of the Asian business community towards arbitration, and the enforcement track record across Asia.  Panelists include: Lawrence Boo, Executive Director, Singapore International Arbitration Centre; Richard Naimark, Senior Vice President, International Centre for Dispute Resolution; Manuel Jun Bautista, Director, International Centre for Dispute Resolution; Pallavi Shroff, Partner, Armachand Mangaldas & Suresh Shroff & Co and Linfei Liu, Partner, Jun He, Beijing.
	Environmental and Real Estate Joint Meeting General Business Meeting
FRIDAY, October 12, 2007
2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
	Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Restructuring This meeting will feature a panel discussion and presentation on Multi-jurisdictional Issues: Duties and Responsibilities of Officers and Directors in Insolvencies.  Participants will have the opportunity to share ideas and experiences with the panelists.
	Labor and Employment General Business Meeting
	Toxic Tort and Products Liability The reliance on the provisions of the EC Product Liability Directive as a model for reform has provided some measure of uniformity in the region.  Australia, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines have all introduced laws similar to the EC Directive.  With this in mind, over the past three years Clayton Utz has undertaken a survey of product liability risks in the Asia-Pacific region. The survey sought to assess the impact of legislative reforms, identify product liability trends and to provide a base line for comparison of trends in the future.   The results of the survey will be presented and discussed during this practice group meeting.
	Women and the Law Committee General Business Meeting
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
	Bank Finance and Regulation General Business Meeting
	Employee Benefits and Pensions The Employee Benefits Practice Group will discuss: (1) ways for the member firms to work together to improve the level of service to our clients; (2) new developments in the jurisdictions of the members, and (3) issues relating to Employee Benefit Plans in Cross-Border transfers of executives and Cross-Border transactions.
	Managing Partners Committee General Business Meeting