This economy is fertile ground for an outburst of litigation action between shareholders, banks and investment houses. After years of exuberance investors are pulling their funds and shoring up their positions like never before. As all securities market participants try to minimise their loss to the current economic climate expert securities litigators and dispute resolution specialists will be increasingly in demand.
Hedge funds will sue their investments and be sued by their investors. In-house counsel will scramble to maximise their litigation risk protection procedures. Speculative capital will test the market for securities litigation funding in Europe. A flurry of sometimes hastily prepared regulation will need to be digested by the market and the future of the regulatory landscape will need to be discussed.
In this exciting legal landscape International Financial Law Review and Euromoney presents our inaugural European Securities Litigation Conference. This is your most important chance to prepare for the turbulence of the coming years by hearing the top experts in the field discuss the most pressing issues while building business networks with the most European securities litigation industry participants. It will also be an excellent opportunity to show case your own abilities to a large audience of key decision makers.
Key issues to be discussed at this conference will include:
- Opportunities and pitfalls of litigation action over misselling, mismanagement, and due diligence failure claims stemming from Europe’s complex securities instruments
- An in depth look at the credit crunch’s worst and best securities regulations and a discussion of what regulation will be needed going forward and what changes will actually be put in place
- Prospects for securities class actions and the looming threat of activist shareholders
- A look at the challenges and opportunities faced by the European securities litigation industry
- Picking through the pieces of collapsed firms and securing investor value
- What a European can expect in an American securities litigation case
- Dealing with increasingly complex disclosure and accounting standards in an ever evolving market
- Managing the risk of securities litigation in the modern European economy
Confirmed speakers to date include:
Andrew Legg, Partner, Mayer Brown
Timothy Babich, Founder, Fortelus Capital Management
Beata Gocyk-Farber, Partner, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann
John L. Powell, QC, Four New Square
Ross Barrett, Policy Director of Wholesale and Regulation, British Bankers Association
Dan Williams, General Counsel, Equities, ABN Amro
Paul Reynolds, Head of Legal UK, BNP Paribas
Lisa Rosen, Head of Litigation and Contentious Regulatory Matters, UK, Merrill Lynch
Gregory Mitchell, QC, 3 Verulam Buildings
Richard Brent, Barrister, 3 Verulam Buildings
Susan Markel, Managing Director, Corporate Investigations, Alix Partners
Susan Dunn, Managing Director, Harbour Litigation Funding
Anthony Maton, Partner, Hausfeld & Co
Erik Bomans, Managing Partner, Deminor
Clare Ducksbury, Director, FRA
Anthony Perotto, Litigation Partner, NCTM LLP
Daan Lunsingh Scheurleer, Partner, NautaDutilh
David Greene, Partner, Edwin Coe
Carlos Conceicao, Partner, Clifford Chance
Hubert Grignon-Dumoulin, Head of Issuers and Market Regulation, Luxembourg Stock Exchange
Christophe Caillot, Senior Enforcement Officer, Market Surveillance Division, AMF
Paul Richards, Head of Regulatory Policy, ICMA
Bernd Jochem, Partner, Rotter Rechtsanwaelte
Louise Inward, General Counsel, Pension Corporation
Daniel Summerfield, Co-Head of Responsible Investment, Universities Superannuation
Caroline Goodman, Managing Director, Institutional Protection Services
Chris Angell, Principal, Investment Consulting, Mercer
Leslie Perrin, Chairman, Calunius Capital LLP
Bob Champney, Principal, Calunius Capital LLP
Adam Johnson, Partner, Litigation and Arbitration, Herbert Smith
Shane Gleghorn, Partner, Taylor Wessing