Cross-Border Investment FDI – ODI – economic security – trade wars

Date
Thursday, April 25
Time
16:00-17:30
Location (Room)
L'étoile

Panelists will discuss about:

  • the theory Vs the practice of FDI-ODI governmental scrutiny in their jurisdictions
  • how geopolitical turmoil and trade-wars may have affected cross-border transaction in the last 2-3 years
  • how clients perceive these constraints
  • how legal practitioner help clients to face these scrutinies
  • to which extent FDI-ODI governmental scrutiny increases polarization and affects globalization

Moderator

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Marco Nicolini

Marco advises Italian and international clients on corporate - M&A, real estate, and energy matters with a focus on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and commercial contracts.

Head of the Asia Desk in the Italian office, Marco worked at the Hong Kong office for four years (2010-2014) where his practice focused on advising Asian investors on outbound investments from Asia to Italy. 

Marco has been ranked as a leading lawyer by prominent international legal guides such as Chambers.

Speaker

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Rashmi Grover

Rashmi Grover is an attorney in the Singapore Office. She is qualified in India and the UK. Her areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, private equity and general corporate. She has extensive experience working in the Indian market and advising clients on corporate commercial and finance transactions including transactions involving mergers, acquisitions, formation of joint ventures, private equity investments, business/asset acquisition transactions, regulatory filings and debt issuances.

Speaker

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Ryoichi Kaneko

Ryoichi Kaneko is the Co-representative partner of the Brussels office. Ryoichi has extensive experience in M&A, Private Equity, Emerging Growth/Venture Capital, and Competition law. Ryoichi’s professional experience includes stints with the Corporate, M&A and Competition law departments at top law firms in London, Brussels and Madrid. Besides the depth and breadth of his experience, Ryoichi is also particularly noted for his ability to provide clear and highly effective bilingual advice to international clients on cross-border transactions involving Japan.

Speaker

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Zhiyi Ren

Zhiyi is a leading regulatory lawyer in China, specializing in regulatory, financial markets, fund products and M&A transactions in the financial sector. since 2003, he has provided legal services to multinational financial institutions and multinational asset managers in such areas as entity establishment, products, compliance, regulatory investigations, crisis management and cross-border transactions.

Speaker

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Patrick Marros Chu

Patrick Chu is a member of the Taiwan Bar Association. He is an experienced corporate and litigation lawyer at Lee and Li, and his main practice areas include dispute resolution, insolvency, consumer protection, competition law, labor law and M&A transactions.

Patrick represents many international financial institutions and companies handling compliance and general corporate matters, as well as civil actions and arbitration. Patrick also assists international TV-content providers and media businesses with regulatory issues and contract reviews. Such extensive experience in handling disputes and litigation and insights from having advised multinational companies in various industries enable Patrick to offer his clients sophisticated legal solutions. In addition to handling English matters, Patrick worked for Japan Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu Law Firm as a visiting lawyer and is very experienced in Japan related legal affairs and Japanese matters.