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Dear Colleagues,
It
is my pleasure to inform you of the very fine team of
distinguished academics and legal practitioners we have
assembled to make presentations at the forthcoming Caribbean
Commercial Law Workshop, to be held at the Loews Miami Beach
Hotel in
South Beach
,
Florida
, on August 16th to 18th, 2009.
On
the very first Panel: Drafting
the International Agreement: Jurisdiction and Choice of Law,
we have Professor Janet Walker of
Osgoode
Hall
Law
School
,
Toronto
,
Canada
; Mr. Jeffrey Elkinson of Conyers Dill & Pearman of
Bermuda; and Mr. Andrew Stephenson of Holland & Knight
LLP, Washington, D.C. Our
Senior Counsel, Dr. Trevor Carmichael, QC, of Chancery
Chambers,
Barbados
, will serve as Moderator/Commentator.
On
the second Panel: Enforcement
of Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards in Contractual
Disputes, are Professor Winston Anderson of the Faculty
of Law, UWI; Mr. Frank Walwyn of WeirFoulds LLP, Toronto,
Canada; and Mr. Dave Kissoon of Cozen OConnor,
New York
. Mr. Mark
Brantley of Daniel, Brantley & Associates,
Nevis
, will serve as Moderator/Commentator.
Then
there is the Latin American Panel of Mr. Giancarlo Angelucci
of LEXINCORP,
El Salvador
, and Mr. Gonzalo Biggs of Figueroa, Valenzuela y Cνa,
Santiago
,
Chile
, to present on Drafting
the International Agreement and the Enforcement of Foreign
Judgments: The Latin American Experience.
Professor Emeritus A. R. Carnegie will serve as
Moderator/Commentator.
Finally,
at the close of the first day, we have the fourth Panel: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Offshore Financial
Services Industry in the Caribbean.
Making presentations on this Panel are: Mr. Bruce
Zagaris of Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP of Washington, DC;
Ms. Renata Emery of Alberto de Orleans e Braganca of Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil; and Mr. David Spencer of Tax Justice Network,
New York
.
Then,
on the morning of the second day, Mr. Peter Darrow of Mayer
Brown LLP,
New York
, will present on The
Impact of the Global Crisis on the Financing of Major Projects
in the Caribbean. He
will be followed by a Panel on Infrastructure
Renewal and Development in the Caribbean, by Bradley
McLellan and Daniel Ferguson of WeirFoulds LLP, Canada.
This
will conclude what I am hoping will be as exciting,
stimulating and productive a Workshop as we have ever had.
Looking
forward to greeting you at the cocktail reception on Sunday,
August 16th, at the Loews Hotel in
South Beach
,
Florida
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