Managing Risk & Funding Recovery Conference

Event Review

Leading risk experts the world over returned to Amsterdam for Exporta's annual Managing Risk & Funding Recovery Conference (previously titled Emerging Markets Risk & Recovery), the only event of its kind within the market.

Welcoming strong attendance from leading specialists in the risk and recovery field, delegates were provided with unparalleled insight into claims recovery and funding management in today’s challenging environment. The combination of in-depth presentations, lively panel discussions and unrivalled networking opportunities made for a very interesting day, with a range of issues covered, from individual country analysis to issues of litigation funding and collective redress.

Hugely indebted to its strong support within the marketplace and the key role played by its sponsors, the conference will be returning to Amsterdam next year, where we shall look to draw further on this success.

Description

Exporta returns to Amsterdam for the 3^rd annual event titled ‘Managing Risk & Funding Recovery Conference' (previously called ‘Emerging Markets Risk & Recovery’).

This year, hear and question speakers on the following topics:

• Global risk analysis of countries and industries
• Funding and management of litigation
• Claim intelligence: fraud types; business intelligence gathering; forensic accounting; legal views
• International arbitration and enforcement of arbitral awards of different tribunals 
• Political risk and recovery: including outlooks of the European market and the role of the export credit agencies.
• Multiparty disputes and collective redress: shareholders litigation, cartel cases, consumer actions

This conference offers unparalleled insight into claims recovery and funding management in today’s challenging environment, with a focus on cross-border trade. Treasurers, trade financiers, credit and political risk insurers, finance officers ECA's. banks, legal counsels, consumer organisations and all those with cross-border business would benefit from attending this event.

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Programme

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

Venue

Accommodation

Delegates are responsible for the arrangement and payment of their own travel and accommodation.  Please note that there is no accommodation available at the Het West-Indisch Huis. Upon registration Exporta will provide a list of hotels which are situated close to the venue.

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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