For the first time in Asia, the ITA, IEL and ICC join together to bring you what has become the definitive annual program on international arbitration in the energy sector. Speakers from around the globe and across the industry gather in Singapore to focus on the key issues in this space ? from recent developments in construction disputes in major energy projects through geopolitically significant boundary disputes to the new forms of ?resource nationalism? emerging in the context of expiring production sharing contracts in the Asia-Pacific region. The program includes a keynote address by Singapore?s Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law, K Shanmugam; a luncheon interview with Loretta Malintoppi, one of the deans of the practice in Singapore; and all you need to know about last year?s energy disputes: the always-popular Year in Review.
Highlights:
? Keynotes by K. Shanmugam, Singapore Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law and Laura M. Robertson (Deputy General Counsel, Litigation, Arbitration & IP, ConocoPhillips, Houston)
? A forward-looking program examining the future of international energy disputes featuring the client perspective with in-house counsel from Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, GE Renewable Energy, and INPEX
? Energy Disputes Year in Review presented by Matthew Gearing QC (Allen & Overy, Hong Kong)
? An exceptional faculty of leading international arbitration experts including Alexander Fessas, Secretary General, ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris, Alastair Henderson (Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, Singapore), Christopher Lau SC (3 Verulam Buildings, Singapore), Alvin Yeo SC (WongPartnership LLP, Singapore), Kevin Nash (Deputy Registrar & Centre Director, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Singapore), and Gonzalo Flores (Deputy Secretary-General, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), Washington, D.C.)
? Oral History Luncheon Interview with Loretta Malintoppi (39 Essex Chambers, Singapore)
? Organized by Conference Co-Chairs Edmund Chan (Executive Legal Counsel, ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, Singapore), Wade Coriell (King & Spalding LLP, Singapore) and Nicholas Lingard (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Singapore)
? Conference Dinner at The Villa in the Singapore Botanic Gardens, Singapore?s first and only UNESCO world heritage site