Partners Barnabas Reynolds (London-Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory) and Patrick Clancy (London-Derivatives & Structured Products) will speak at the City Week International Financial Services Forum in London on May 12.

Counsel Sara Ashall (Brussels-Antitrust) will speak at the 1st International Mergers Conference organized by Concurrences in London on February 19, 2020. Sara will participate in the panel “Merger Hotchpotch - Enforcement and Procedure : Due Diligence, Gun jumping, Due Process, Remedies”.

Partner James Webber (London-Antitrust) will speak at the Global Competition Review (GCR) Live 9th Annual Antitrust Law Leaders Forum held in Miami on February 7-8, 2020. James will participate on the panel “Mergers: Magical Thinking: Considering Modern Theories of Harm,” which will consider how to articulate theories of harm in merger reviews before different triers of fact, as sophisticated economic projections of prices, output and leverage are debated, in contrast to traditional economic approaches.

Partner James Webber (London-Antitrust) will speak at the IFLR European In-House Counsel Summit in London on February 4, 2020. James will moderate the panel on “Interacting with Regulators.” This panel will provide in-depth insight into a few key issues such as dealing with the global trend of increasing regulatory interventions and best practices for responding to investigations. The panelists also include Claire Larbey, General Counsel at Trowers & Hamlins, Julie Varcoe-Cocks, Associate General Counsel at Serco and Peter Tyson, Brexit Programme Director at Standard Life Assurance.

Senior associate Paschalis Paschalidis (Paris-International Arbitration) will comment on the keynote speech titled “Alternative Dispute Resolution in Investment – The Role of Complementary Mechanisms and Approaches,” at the 5th EFILA Annual Conference in London on January 30, 2020. Paschalis will focus on the new ADR tools considered by the European Commission for intra-EU investment disputes and the need to create a European court specifically such disputes.  

Partner Daniel Laguardia (New York and San Francisco- Litigation) will be participating at the San Francisco Bar Association’s In-House Conference on January 30, 2020. The panels will analyze numerous subjects, including investigations, crisis management and considerations for hiring outside counsel.

Adam Hakki (New York- Litigation), Global Managing Partner and Head of the Firm’s Litigation Practice and Disputes Unit, and partner Daniel Laguardia (New York and San Francisco- Litigation) will be participating in the 8th Annual Securities Litigation & Enforcement Institute event on January 29, 2020 at the New York City Bar. The panels will include prominent securities litigators, senior in-house counsel at major financial institutions and corporations, nationally recognized trial lawyers, professors of law and economists.

Emma Maconick (Menlo Park-Intellectual Property Transactions) will be speaking on the “Cyber, Information and Data Security: Protecting Confidential Information” panel at the New York State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting on Wednesday, January 29, 2020 in New York, NY. 

Partner Jennifer Younan (Paris-International Arbitration) will speak at the C5 Annual “International Disputes and Asset Recovery Involving Former Soviet Union Parties” conference in London.

Partner Sarah McLean (Austin/Houston-Energy Transactions), will moderate a panel titled “Candid Conversations: Two Executives’ Journeys to the Top” during the EUCI Leadership Conference for Women in Oil & Gas, to be held at the JW Marriott Hotel in Downtown Houston on January 27-28.