October 15, 2009
Het West-Indisch Huis
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Standard Rate per Delegate: £450.00 GBP

08.30   Registration and Refreshments

09.00   Opening remarks of the chairman
Wieger Wielinga, Director, Omni Bridgeway

09.30   Economic Outlook - Recovery on the cards
Niklas Nordman, Senior Economist, Atradius

• Trends in economic activity
• The insolvency environment
• Business confidence and market expectations
• Implications for emerging markets

10.00   Funding and recovery
David Burstyner, Senior Legal Counsel, Omni Bridgeway

• Choices for claimants and lawyers 
• Current issues in litigation funding in Europe
• Collective redress in Europe
• The Australian experience

10.30   Networking break

11.00   Compliance, ethics and culture – and their role in risk and recovery management
Donna Boehme, Principal, Compliance Strategists, and Special Advisor to Compliance Systems Legal Group (former Group Compliance and Ethics Officer for BP)

• Challenges and complexities multinationals face in today's compliance environment (lessons learned from the front line)
• Stories ’ripped  from the headlines‘: harsh impact of compliance failures including private recovery actions

Peter D. Trooboff, Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling

• How compliance with foreign trade controls can affect claims recovery and settlements, including an Iraqi case study and some thoughts about issues for Cuban claims

12.00   Panel discussion: claim intelligence
Chairman: Wieger Wielinga, Director,Omni Bridgeway
Stephane Bonifassi, Partner, Lebray & Associés
Susan Pryde, Senior Executive Lawyer, Australian Government Solicitor
Mikhail Krapivin, Partner, Verity Advisors
Nicholas Plested, Senior Consultant Disputes & Investigations, Navigant Consulting (Europe)

• Claim, context and recovery intelligence
• Legal mechanisms to gather intelligence in common law and civil law jurisdictions
• Key witnesses and whistle-blowers
• How can information from criminal investigations be used for civil cases?

13.00   Lunch hosted by Atradius

14.30   SESSION A: Litigation funding and collective redress
Chairman: David Burstyner, Director, Omni Bridgeway

14.30   Why should the regulators help the victims?  
Susan Pryde, Senior Executive Lawyer, Australian Government Solicitor

• Claimants’ access to information gathered by governmental authorities
• Private enforcement complementing public enforcement

15.00  The European Commission and collective redress: the November 27, 2008 green paper, the public input and the future
Catherine Kessedjian, Professor, University of Panthéon-Assas Paris II

• The choices made by the EC both in November 2008 and May 2009
• The interests at stake and how to accommodate them
• A forecast

15.30   Panel: Funding collective redress in Europe
Chairman: David Burstyner, Senior Legal Counsel, Omni Bridgeway
Vincent Smith, Partner, Hausfeld & Co
Pierre Bos, Partner, BarentsKrans Advocaten Notarissen
Catherine Kessedjian, Professor, University of Panthéon-Assas Paris II
Ben Ogden, Partner, Ince & Co International Law Firm

• Practical experiences and overviews on collective redress in different European jurisdictions
• Claims which obtain / are denied funding
• Defendant and plaintiff perspectives
• Recovering the costs of funding 
• Competing sources for funding

14.30   SESSION B: Political risk and recovery
Chairman: Wieger Wielinga, Director,Omni Bridgeway

14.30   Arbitration and enforcement
Jackie van Haersolte, Partner, HaersolteHof

• Overview of different investment arbitration institutions
• Enforcement/execution of arbitral awards
• Outlook on the future of investment arbitration

15.00   Getting paid in emerging markets
Frank Masteling, Head of Special Products Northern Europe and Asia Pacific, Atradius

• Emerging market risks
• Contracting
• Improving payment outcomes

15.30   Export credit agency and political risk insurance panel
Chairman: Elena Daly, Esq, New York
Paola Valerio, Head of International Relations Department, SACE
Thibaut Dehaene, Deputy Head of Strategy, Legal Affairs and Risk Management, ONDD
Stephen Crabb, Claims Manger, Political Risk and Contingency Group, Beazley
James Masson, Head of Claims & Legal, Ark Syndicate Management Ltd
Lee C. Buchheit, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

• Private sector investment in bilateral sovereign credits
        Legal format
        ECA conflicts of interest
• Recoveries in commercial debt instruments of sovereign borrowers
        Collective versus individual recovery efforts
        Legal enforcement issues

16.30   Networking Break

17.00   Concluding thoughts
Lee C. Buchheit, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP 
Derrill Allatt, Managing Partner, Newstate Partners

• What will future sovereign debt workouts look like?
• What role will creditor legal remedies play?

17.30    Closing remarks of chairman
Wieger Wielinga, Director, Omni Bridgeway

17.40    Drinks Reception