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April 24th, 2012
in Intellectual Property, Legal, Legal Conferences, Legal Conferences, Litigation |
2012 is set to be a critical year for EU pharma regulation with the implementation of the pharmacovigilance rules, proposals to amend the data protection and clinical trials directives and the new falsified medicinal products directive.
In addition, the Mediator case triggered an overhaul of regulation governing the healthcare sector in France and a drive towards increased transparency and the impact of this case is likely to be felt across the EU.
Questions are being raised about anti-corruption efforts and where we are a year on from the introduction of the UK Bribery Act.
There are a number of competition law developments, there are concerns regarding off-label promotion and a number of legal problems are arising as a result of pharma companies developing their social media presence.
The budgetary pressures across Europe and the Eurocrisis are having a critical impact on health authorities across Europe and the scope of SPCs has been clarified.
Don’t miss this outstanding opportunity to learn from and network with those at the forefront of pharma regulatory law in the EU Market. Confirm your participation today and be rewarded with a significant discount.
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Hi-Tech Patent Litigation & IP Strategies
March 22nd, 2012
in Intellectual Property, Legal, Legal Conferences, Legal Conferences, Litigation, Telecoms & Technology |
With significant case law developments, numerous infringement actions and injunctive relief being sought across Europe and beyond, Hi-tech patent law continues to evolve rapidly.
Given the highly competitive and lucrative nature of the industry, coupled with an increasing need to get products to market, it is more important than ever that in-house counsel and patent attorneys stay abreast of recent court decisions and how they impact IP strategy on a global level.
In addition to current litigation tactics, hi-tech manufacturers, distributors, networks, software and hardware developers need to ensure they are implementing the most competitive licensing strategies to protect and defend their patent portfolios and maximise revenues when entering or consolidating their place in the market.
The 2012 Hi-Tech Patent Litigation and IP Strategies forum will focus on the latest case law developments on hi-tech patents across Europe and beyond and offer real-time initiatives on how to use these decisions in the licensing strategies you employ.
You will walk away with fresh insights, tactics and tools to strategise your IP licensing and keep up with the latest case-law and its implications on your patent strategy in this highly competitively market including:
- UK, Dutch, German and French Counsel on developing a cross-border enforcement strategy
- KPN, Qualcomm, RIM and Industry analysts Wiseharbor on the opportunities and pitfalls of FRAND licensing
- Ericsson on protecting your patent portfolio from the threat of NPEs
- Nokia on using litigation as a catalyst to conduct effective cross-licensing negotiations
- The inventor of the “Italian Torpedo” procedure on successfully navigating patent thickets
- The European Commission on the practical implementation of a single EU patent
- WIPO on proven ADR techniques that work
- Qualcomm on complying with competition law when drafting licensing agreements
For more information, check the link below:
http://www.c5-online.com/files/pdf/marketing/678L12-LON-E.pdf
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Anti-Corruption Southern Africa
March 19th, 2012
in Anti-Corruption / FCPA, International Trade & Defense, Legal, Legal Conferences, Legal Conferences, Litigation, Regulatory Compliance and Trade |
In October 2011, South African President Jacob Zuma ordered a new probe into the infamous Arms Deal that involved corruption and bribery allegations during a R30 billion procurement deal.
The new commission of enquiry will now have two years in which to finally put the arms deal scandal to rest. Meanwhile, yet another South African police chief and government ministers have hit headlines in the latest round of corruption allegations against President Zuma’s government.
Adding to mounting pressure, Japanese-based Marubeni Corporation has agreed to pay $54.6 million to resolve FCPA charges related to a decade-long scheme to bribe government officials in Africa, further demonstrates that no company is beyond the reach of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This is coupled with the implementation of the UK Bribery Act in July 2011 which will have extraterritorial reach throughout Southern Africa for any company that carries on any “part of a business” in the UK. Accordingly, all companies doing business or investing in Southern Africa and local companies listed on foreign stock exchanges or with ties to foreign companies must take extra care to ensure their organisation fosters a culture of strict compliance from management down and that ALL potential corruption and bribery risks are detected and minimised as quickly as possible to avoid intrusive government investigations, significant fines and costly settlement arrangements.
Following last year’s sell out success, C5 is pleased to bring you C5’s second Forum on Anti-Corruption – Southern Africa Edition which will once again bring together a leading faculty of experienced in-house and private practice lawyers, compliance executives and government officials who will provide the latest strategies to facilitate compliance with Southern African, US, UK and European anti-corruption laws and mitigate damages should a violation occur.
The fully updated agenda for 2012 includes:
- Southern Africa’s anti-corruption legislative reform and enforcement efforts: How the past year’s developments have changed the face of corporate compliance.
- How the Extraterritorial Reach of the UK Bribery Act will impact Southern African Business: Putting “Adequate Procedures” and a “failure to prevent bribery…” into Regional Context.
- What’s Next for FCPA Enforcement: What local and international Southern African Based Organisations Needs to Know.
- Building a Culture of Compliance from the Top Down: Getting Buy In and Leadership Support.
- Conducting thorough risk-based due diligence against all third parties to control and minimise liability risks.
- Installing a strong and safe whistleblowing system that employees will use: Accounting for cultural nuances.
- Navigating the Southern African customs process: Who to trust? What to Avoid? How to Respond to facilitation payment requests.
- Private to Private Corruption: New ways the private sector can be implicated in bribery and corrupt practices.
Use this opportunity to benchmark your practices with leading local and international organisations and pick up critical knowledge from the anti-corruption experts. This is an outstanding career, business networking and information sharing opportunity.
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C5’s Forum on Investment Protection in the MENA Region
March 16th, 2012
in Legal, Legal Conferences, Legal Conferences, Litigation |
Gain Insights on the Impact of Regime Change on Your Business Operations and the Practical Steps You Need to Take Now to Enhance Investment Protection. Assess and Minimise Future Legal Risks.
Instability generally in the economy worldwide has led to a permanent struggle to ensure stability for investors. Companies are desperate to find the right balance. Obviously when a major company invests in a foreign state, it mitigates for certain risks. But the situation thrown up by regime change and political instability can have a more significant effect on major projects. At the moment in the North Africa region, the focus is on risk assessment and safeguarding future investments. This is a highly lucrative region and companies will be keen to cement their place in its future. But caution is the key word. The issue in North Africa is incredibly topical and poses some very difficult legal issues. The legal concepts are complex – what rights do the new regime have? How can companies prepare for the review of contracts by the new regime? How should companies deal with the new governments? Invest in this two day conference and hear how you can use the experience of the past year to enhance your investment protection and risk assessment procedures.
C5’s Forum on Investment Protection and Future Risk Assessment in the MENA Region during Turbulent Times is offering you an intensive two day conference that will provide you with a clear understanding of the steps you need to take to protect your investments and assess and mitigate against potential future risks which may arise from the Arab Spring. There will also be plenty of practical and targeted case studies which will give you the opportunity to work through carefully selected scenarios with your peers. Take this insight and critical analysis back to the office and use it to enhance your existing investment protection and risk assessment strategies.
Highlights include learning about:
- the impact of the Arab Spring in different countries including Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria and how you should respond
- practical steps you should take now to protect your investments
- how to minimise potential future risks
- the extent of the protection currently afforded by contract and by international law
- lessons learned from the experience of the last year so that you can amend your contracts so that they provide further investment protection in future
the impact of the Arab Spring on dispute resolution mechanisms - successful strategies for re-entering Libya and resuming business operations there
- what you should do to comply with your obligations under international law while Syria is in a state of unrest
- how to prepare for situations where the current law is used differently as in Egypt and Tunisia
- practical steps you should be taking now to pre-empt action by the new regimes
- the latest arbitration cases against the Egyptian government and what this could mean for your business
There will be plenty of time for audience interaction with speakers, including class discussion and interactive, hands on exercises.
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SPORTS LAW AND BUSINESS
March 15th, 2012
in Legal, Legal Conferences, Legal Conferences, Litigation |
Commercial opportunities and legal strategies to ensure you stay ahead of the game
An Exemplary Panel of Business & Legal Speakers Covering a Range of Topical and Current Issues including:
- Maximising commercial opportunities when hosting a major sports event:
London 2012 Olympics case study
- What the Q.C. Leisure case means for broadcasters, agencies and rights holders
- What sports organisations must do to tackle corruption issues that can tarnish
their brand
- How best to capitalise on the opportunities arising from the growth of sports
business in emerging markets
- Protecting your brand from ambush marketing – lessons learnt from major sporting events that you can implement
- Balancing increased commercial pressures while maintaining sporting integrity when developing corporate governance structures
and much more…
For the full colour brochure including Speaker List, visit www.c5-online.com/SportsLaw
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C5’s Forum on Investment Protection in the MENA Region
March 14th, 2012
in Legal, Legal Conferences, Legal Conferences, Litigation |
C5’s Forum on Investment Protection and Future Risk Assessment in the MENA Region
during Turbulent Times is offering you an intensive two day conference that will provide you with a clear understanding of the steps you need to take to protect your investments and assess and mitigate against potential future risks which may arise from the Arab Spring. There will also be plenty of practical and targeted case studies which will give you the opportunity to work through carefully selected scenarios with your peers. Take this insight and critical analysis back to the office and use it to enhance your existing investment protection and risk assessment strategies.
Highlights include learning about:
• the impact of the Arab Spring in different countries including Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria and how you should respond
• practical steps you should take now to protect your investments
• how to minimise potential future risks
• lessons learned from the experience of the last year so that you can amend your contracts so that they provide further investment protection in future
• the impact of the Arab Spring on dispute resolution mechanisms
• successful strategies for re-entering Libya and resuming business operations there
• what you should do to comply with your obligations under international law while Syria is in a state of unrest
• how to prepare for situations where the current law is used differently as in Egypt and Tunisia
• practical steps you should be taking now to pre-empt action by the new regimes
• the latest arbitration cases against the Egyptian government and what this could mean for your business
There will be plenty of time for audience interaction with speakers, including class discussion and interactive, hands on exercises.
Supreme speaker faculty including:
Dr. Florian Amereller, Senior Partner, Amereller Legal Consultants (Egypt)
Mohamed Bahri, CEO of BCO Consultancy and the Libyan Hub Consortium (Libya)
Dr Mohamed Abdel Raouf, Director, Cairo International Arbitration Centre
Sami Houerbi, Director, ICC Dispute Resolution Services for Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa
Rukia Baruti, Founder of the African International Legal Awareness Organisation
Thomas Wilson, CEO, Samena Telecommunications Council
Noriko Yodogawa, Legal Counsel, Energy Charter Secretariat
Dr Charles Gurdon, Managing Director, Menas Associates
And many others!
For more information please follow the link www.c5-online.com/arbitrationmena.
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Economic Sanctions
March 13th, 2012
in Legal, Legal Conferences, Legal Conferences, Litigation, Regulatory Compliance and Trade |
Get clarification on the latest developments in sanctions regimes as well as best practice on how to adapt your compliance and screening programmes to ensure they comply with the all restrictions and prohibitions
Key learning outcomes include:
- Learn how the latest restrictions and prohibitions impact you
- Adapt your compliance programme to successfully protect against risks arising from EU and US Sanctions imposed on Iran
- Adopt best business procedures in response to new sanctions developments: lessons to be learned from previous sanctions regimes
- Successful strategies for overcoming the inconsistent approaches of licensing authorities: facilitating and expediting approvals
- Strengthen your existing compliance programme by learning from critical elements in enforcement cases and current trends
- Identify the red flags for banks: ten practical steps you should be taking to ensure the transaction can complete
- From best in class: how to update and maintain an effective screening programme
Enhance your experience by attending our Pre-Conference Workshop on Monday 14th May 2012 which will cover Successful Strategies for Overcoming Cross Jurisdictional Sanctions Compliance Issues
Back by Popular Demand! Attend our Insurance Focus Day on Thursday 17th May 2012. Leading experts in the insurance industry will help you avoid costly pitfalls when upgrading your compliance programme.
For the full colour brochure including Speaker List, visit
www.c5-online.com/EconomicSanctions
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Private Equity Secondaries
March 9th, 2012
in Legal, Legal Conferences, Legal Conferences, Litigation, Private Equity |
It is already evident that 2012 is going to be as busy as last year, when secondary transactions hit a record volume of USD25 billion (according to the latest research paper from Cogent Partners). The need for portfolio restructuring coupled with falling returns and much tightened regulation make many institutional investors re-think their commitments and market private equity portfolios up for sale.
If you are facing challenges of ensuring the most effective and high performing portfolios, freeing up capital for new investments, or seeking capital for fundraising, then you should join leading banks, insurance companies and pension funds looking to attend
“High topic relevance and strong speakers. Definitely the one I will want to join again next year”, Pablo de la Infiesta, Director, Lazard Private Fund Advisory Group
The conference will grant you access to the most influential secondary audience and an exceptional and diverse panel of speakers who will share practical insights and “need-to-know” information on sensitive issues, including:
- What is the real value of your portfolio and how do you to obtain the best pricing?
- How to find out which LPs are selling and beat your competitors in sourcing new mandates?
- How to improve future transactions by optimizing deal structures?
- How to avoid costly pitfalls and minimize legal traps when drafting partnership agreements?
- How to avoid throwing good money after bad and recycle your capital into better opportunities?
For more information, check the link below:
http://www.c5-online.com/files/pdf/marketing/671F12-LON-E.pdf
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Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery
March 8th, 2012
in Anti-Corruption / FCPA, Legal, Legal Conferences, Legal Conferences, Litigation |
With the number of global fraud cases soaring and fraudsters becoming increasingly creative in hiding assets, there are a wealth of opportunities for asset tracing and recovery practitioners. It is more important than ever to ensure that you are fully versed in the latest case-law, legal developments, tactics and strategies to locate and recover assets, so that your fraud practice can capitalise.
C5′s European Fraud, Asset Tracing and Recovery 2012 forum will provide you with real life examples of the techniques used to enforce orders, obtain mutual assistance recover the proceeds of crime in a multitude of jurisdictions. An international panel of experts will share their insights, experiences and best practices to give you the tools you need to get the most effective results for your clients.
New Sessions for 2012:
- Assessing the impact of the European Account Preservation Order on freezing injunctions.
- Interactive panel discussions, including asset tracing and recovery actions arising from the Arab Spring and investigating fraud and recovering assets in the Baltic and the Balkan states.
- Case studies on Moulin and Akai, Stanford and Madoff.
- Trial by media: Reputational issues in chasing fraudsters.
- Lifting the lid on Oligarch litigation.
- How and when to use contempt and committal proceedings as a tactic in civil fraud litigation.
For more information, check the link below:
http://www.c5-online.com/files/pdf/marketing/662L12-GEN-E.pdf
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Biotech Patenting
March 6th, 2012
in Legal, Legal Conferences, Legal Conferences, Litigation, Pharmaceuticals / Biotech / Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech |
Our 22nd Biotech Patenting forum will bring together key regulators from Germany, Spain, the EPO and USPTO, leading in-house representatives from GSK, Bayer, Pfizer, Merck, UCB, Ipsen Pharma, Qiagen, GE Healthcare (and many more) and their legal advisers from different European jurisdictions and the US.
This outstanding expert panel will provide you with up-to-the-minute information on the latest case law in Europe and the US to make sure you have the best patent strategy in place to deal with new and emerging challenges in biotech patent practice.
And our timely focus day on the US patent reform and its implications for European life sciences companies will highlight what you need to consider when enforcing and protecting your IP rights in the US.
You will hear directly from your industry peers on best practice approaches and their first hand experiences with current industry challenges regarding the entire patenting process throughout the patent cycle, from obtaining, extending to protecting. Issues addressed will include:
• G2/10 decision: analysing its impact on the biotech disclaimer practice across Europe
• Cross-border litigation: developing successful strategies
• Case law developments in double patenting: from a European and US perspective
• New patenting and marketing strategies to overcome the challenges of filing your SPC applications at an earlier stage
• Latest decision on patentability of stem cells: to help you examine the outcome of the CJEU decision in Brüstle
• Patentability of gene sequence patents: evaluate recent Eli Lilly v HSG decision and latest developments in the US regarding the Myriad, Prometheus and Classen cases
• US Patent Law reform: discussing the impact of the America Invests Act on European biotech firms
For more information, check the link below:
http://www.c5-online.com/files/pdf/marketing/660L12-MUN-E.pdf
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