Emerging Markets Risk & Recovery

Event Review

Exporta returned to the beautiful Dutch city of Amsterdam for the 2nd Annual Emerging Markets Risk & Recovery 2008 conference. 100 senior level delegates attended the conference and lively debates were heard on export credit agency (ECA) views and experiences; corporate case studies of corporate debt recovery; litigation funding; arbitration and settlement.

Description

Building on last year's successful one-day conference in Amsterdam, which focused on risk and recovery in emerging markets, Exporta returns to the beautiful Dutch city for a new programme of speakers sharing their experiences, insights and case studies.

The 2nd Annual Emerging Markets Risk & Recovery event will offer an informative day of presentations with plenty of debate between the audience and speakers. Angles covered will include: export credit agency (ECA) views and experiences; corporate case studies of corporate debt recovery; litigation funding; arbitration and settlement and much more.

 The conference is being sponsored by Omni Bridgeway and Atradius.

Companies sharing their expertise and experiences include: Omni Bridgeway, BNP Paribas, Atradius, H&Y Law Firm, Export Development Canada, Euler Hermes Kreditverischerung, Sace, Coface RBI, Debevoise & Plimpton, ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB).

The day will include lunch at the famous West Indies House with an evening reception onboard a canal boat, providing ideal networking opportunities.

“This is the event which every debt recovery industry professional should attend”

Valerio Ranciaro, Head of Claims and Corporate Recovery, SACE S.p.A

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Programme

Emerging Markets Risk & Recovery - Practical Experiences and Case Studies
Thursday October 30, 2008
Het West-Indisch Huis, Amsterdam

09.00   Registration and Refreshments

09.30   Chairman's opening remarks
Chairman: Wieger Wielinga, Managing Director - Omni Bridgeway Debt Trading BV

09.45   Sovereign debt rescheduling
Thierry Desjardins, Senior Vice President, Debt Rescheduling, BNP Paribas
Veronique Lebault, Assistant Senior Vice President, BNP Paribas

• The importance of in depth dispute resolution in the early stages of the process
• IIF good faith principles
• Early reconciliation of debt
• Good faith negotiations vs. unilateral exchange offers
• The role of IMF and Paris Club in these rescheduling

10.30   Promise or peril? The lure of the emerging markets
Jane Johnson, Director, Special Products, Northern Europe and Asia Pacific, Atradius

• The transformation in the economies of what we now call Emerging Markets, New opportunities for international trade
• Protective risk and recovery processes
• Audience Discussion 

11.15   Networking Coffee Break

11.30   Remedies for defaults in China
David Zhou Yi, Senior Partner, H&Y Law Firm

• Contracts with a Chinese counterparty
• The effectiveness of legal sureties
• Dispute resolutions
• Enforcement of titles

12.15   Lunch 

13.45   Central America: A discussion on lenders' motivation to pursue commercial loan remedies without expectations of recovery
Robert Sinclair, Senior Manager Special Risk, Export Development Canada (EDC)

• Case study of a North American company with activities in Central America
• Explanation of the background of the loan, loss of tangible collateral, inability to service the loan
• The possible recovery options
• What if legal expenses exceed any recovery?
• Audience Discussion

14.15   ECA Panel Discussion:
Chairman: Robert Sinclair, Senior Manager Special Risk, Export Development Canada (EDC)
Panellists: Catrin von Hesberg, Economic Advisor, Department International Debt Solutions, Euler Hermes Kreditversicherung, AG
Valerio Ranciaro, Head of Claims and Corporate Recovery, SACE S.p.A.
Guy Lepage, C.E.O, Coface RBI, French subsidiary anonyme, Subsidiary of Coface
Raymond van der Loos, Managing Director, Atradius Collections Holding B.V. 

• ECA's approaches in respect of corporate recovery
• What are the differences; use of a Recovery Measures Matrix
• What is the involvement of the state; differences between the different countries
• Globalisation, growing international complexity and value that can be brought by different members

15.00   Refreshment Break

15.30   Investing in Lithuania: experiences and frustrations of an entrepreneur
Björn Havnes, Senior Vice President, Skips AS Tudor

• The Agreement between the Municipality of Vilnius and a consortium to create, develop, maintain and enforce a public parking system in Vilnius
• How the Consortium made every effort to fulfil it's obligations
• How the Municipality made every effort to frustrate the Agreement
• The final destruction of the value of the Agreement
• Investor experiences with international tribunals

16.00   Costs and benefits of investment treaty arbitration
Gaetan Verhoosel, International Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

• Benefits/ advantages of investment treaty arbitration
• Costs/disadvantages of investment treaty arbitration
• Case examples

16.30   Practical measures for identifying and avoiding risk for trade finance bankers and traders in emerging markets - an analysis based upon cases handled by the IMB
Michael Howlett, Assistant Director, ICC International Maritime Bureau

• How bankers and traders can identify the risks in emerging markets
• Recent case studies of buyers, sellers and banks at risk
• Meaningful investigations into the recovery of losses
• Practical precautions for banks and traders      

17.00   Summary and Close of Conference

17.30   Evening Reception Canal Boat Ride 

Venue

Accommodation

Delegates are responsible for their own travel and accommodation. 

Some hotels situated near the West-Indisch Huis are:

5* - NH Barbizon Palace 
  +31 2055 64564
4* - Renaissance Amsterdam Hotel 
  +31 2062 12223
3* - Rembrandt Hotel
  +31 2062 21727
3* - Avenue Hotel Amsterdam
  +31 2053 09530

Sponsors

Sponsorship opportunities including exhibition stands are available for this event.

To become a sponsor, please contact Tom Whitehead, Head of Sponsorship Sales at twhitehead@exportagroup.com.

Exporta's events have a global reputation, renowned for superb networking opportunities and educational presentations by high-profile speakers.

Time after time our events attract the leading companies in our market as sponsors.

See below for a full list of our Event Sponsors, Institutional Partners and Media Partners and click on the logo to visit their web site. 

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