Speakers ⇽ ABL's 44th Conference | Alliance of Business Lawyers
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Lord Garnier

Kings's Counsel at 4 Pump Court

Edward Garnier KC is a highly experienced silk in England & Wales and Northern Ireland.

His practice includes corporate advisory and financial services work, corporate crime and international human rights as well as defamation, privacy, confidence, malicious falsehood, contempt and related media law cases. His extensive experience in practice is underpinned by a parallel career in politics and as one of the Government’s two Law Officers: he served as an MP from 1992 until 2017 and was HM Solicitor General from 2010 to 2012. He is now in the House of Lords.

When in Government as Solicitor General, he developed and introduced into this jurisdiction from the United States the Deferred Prosecution Agreement, a means of dealing with companies who admit their offending to supplement prosecutions against individuals suspected of economic crime. He appeared for the Serious Fraud Office in two of the DPAs so far approved by the Court, the first one, Standard Bank, in 2014, and the then-largest, Rolls-Royce, in 2017. In 2020-21 he led the legal team acting for two respondent companies in the 11th and 12th DPAs to be approved by the Court.

In the media law sphere, Edward acts for individual and corporate claimants, both within England & Wales and Northern Ireland and abroad, and for individual defendants and corporate defendants from the publishing, internet and broadcasting world.

Lord Garnier will be joining us for Dinner at at Innholders Hall on Friday to speak to us about Sanctions in the International Arena.

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Richard Bailey

Partner at Druces LLP

Richard is a highly regarded Construction lawyer with broad experience across the sector. This encompasses the drafting of all forms of construction contracts and the handling of complex disputes in construction and engineering cases, both domestic and international. His clients include contractors and subcontractors; property owners and developers; consultants and project stakeholders.

Today, Richard splits his time fairly equally between dispute resolution and non-contentious advisory work. Richard regularly advises on the terms of contracts and other related contractual documentation. He provides a contract review and advisory service to his contractor clients and regularly advises developers on development agreements and putting together suites of contract documents for major projects.

Richard will be speaking about International Arbitration.

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Neil Pfister

Partner at Druces LLP

Neil is a specialist Commercial, IT & IP Partner in our Corporate and Commercial Department. He brings his real-life experience at the sharp-end of the IT world to the advice he gives in his core specialism of Commercial Law. Neil specialises in advising clients based in technology and software, particularly on terms and conditions, agency agreements, confidentiality / NDAs, consultancy, distribution, e-commerce, franchising and intellectual property law. He also advises commercial clients on how to structure their businesses, buying and selling companies, partnerships, LLPs or sole trader businesses. Prior to entering the law, Neil set up an IT company specialising in providing bespoke software to Local Government. He began his legal career in Surrey, joining Downs Solicitors, rising through the ranks to become Head of Corporate and Commercial. He is also the founder and editor of the technology law website, IT Legal. Neil will be presenting about Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Uses and implications of AI in Law and Business.

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Alexander Yearsley

Managing Director of Martello Risk

Alex Yearsley has over 25 years’ experience as an investigator, campaigner and adviser on all issues relating to natural resource corruption and conflict. Deftly switching careers as an MTV presenter in the mid-90s to going undercover to document the illegal logging trade of the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia for the UK NGO Global Witness he went on to launch and run the global campaign on Blood Diamonds and a variety of other campaigns. He has worked on hundreds of investigations relating to the illicit trafficking of natural resources especially gold and diamonds and actively works with a variety of global law enforcement partners once spending 4 years assisting the DEA on Operation Cassandra investigating the global financial operations of Hizballah and Iran. He established Martello Risk in 2009 with former United Nations Security Council Investigator Dr Caspar Fithen which is a boutique investigation, advisory and audit firm working on the natural resource sector, terrorist finance, conflict and corruption. They regularly conduct field investigations into human rights abuses, environmental crimes, illicit trafficking of commodities and are official auditors for the International Conference on the Great Lakes established to end the trade in conflict minerals.. Alexander will be speaking about Current State of International Concerns Over Conflict Minerals.

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Jim Haywood

Director of Achill Management - hosts of the Legal Sustainability Alliance

Having spent the early part of his career in engineering and management roles in the Royal Navy submarine service, Jim widened his experience further in environmental management roles with international ‘blue chip’ corporates, including The BOC Group (now part of the Linde Group) and AMP Incorporated (now TE Connectivity AMP). He set up the Environment Agency’s centre for expertise in flood forecasting and warning before going on to head up the environment campaign of Business in the Community, one of the former Prince of Wales’ responsible business charities. Jim is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IMechE and a passionate environmentalist,. He now brings all his passion and expertise together through his own consultancy business, as executive producer of the regular Planet Pod sustainability podcasts and as a key member of the Achill Management team. Jim's interests include painting, wildlife photography and scale model making. Jim will be presenting What does a sustainable law firm look like and how can the Legal Sustainability Alliance help?.

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Margarida Bonito

Director of MBC

Margarida is a former lawyer who felt lost at some point in 2012 with the profession’s day-to-day reality, so made the decision to start again.

After a while trying to find the right track, it wasn’t until she started studying coaching that she realised that it was not just an amazing tool but a crucial skill set the university didn’t provide and certainly would have positively impacted the beginning of her career.

As a coach, she had the privilege to work with a wide range of businesses, but Margarida is specially found of help young lawyers. In early 2021 Margarida decided to deliver this skill set to Portuguese young lawyers through a Podcast called «Artigo Zero».

Later that year Margarida released an E-book with helpful tips on how to take the first career steps.

In the same year, Margarida delivered workshops to the European Law Students Association (ELSA), about time management and the first steps after graduation Margarida has also been delivering workshops to a few regional branches of the Portuguese Lawyer Bar Association.

Last year, Margarida started a networking group and she will be speaking to us about Marketing and Personal Branding – Your Differentiation Strategy.

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Laurence Brown

Regional Director of Council of International Investigators

Laurence Brown spent the first 15 years of his working career, between 1973 and 1987, in UK Law Enforcement (Trading Standards) investigating issues relating to Copyright and Trade Mark infringements and commerce in general. In 1987 Laurence joined the UK Video Industry, holding a pivotal role in one of the industry’s leading trade associations. In 1993 Laurence joined Sega Europe Limited as Chief Investigating Officer. In November 1995 Laurence left Sega and formed his own consultancy practice working as an independent investigating consultant with a number of International Corporations.

Laurence joined TAPA EMEA in 2008 where he held the role of Executive Director, working with the Board and members of the Association to implement its policies and programs throughout the EMEA region in their fight against cargo crime.

Laurence will be speaking about Investigations- The Good The Bad and The Challenging.

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Robert Moore

Managing Partner at Bright Grahame Murray

Robert Moore is Managing Partner at Bright Grahame Murray and is responsible for the day-to-day running of the practice. Robert is also a Main Board Director and EMEIA Board Member of Integra International.

Robert looks after a significant portfolio of clients covering many sectors including property, FCA regulated businesses, together with not-for-profit organisations. He is an RI and responsible for audits together with tax planning for clients and strategic advice.

Other responsibilities within the BGM group include being Managing Director of BGM Helmores Limited and Managing Partner of BGM Corporate Finance LLP.

Robert joined Bright Grahame Murray in 1985 and after a brief time away from the firm in the mid 1990s, he returned to become a partner in 1998. He became Managing Partner of the firm in 2016.

Outside of work Robert enjoys spending his free time with his family and travelling with his wife. Robert will be presenting Integra International – Your Global Advantage.

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