• This meeting includes more than 70 programs on numerous international law topics of interest to a wide-range of attorneys. We have organized these programs into seven separate tracks:
  
  • Corporate Counsel Track (14 programs)
  • Customs/Trade Track (13 programs)
  • Dispute Resolution/Litigation Track (15 programs)
  • Law Practice Track (7 programs)
  • Public Law Track (14 programs)
  • Regulatory Track (13 programs)
  • Transaction Track (13 programs)
    
    
• Earn up to 24 CLE credits – Attend all three days and potentially earn sufficient credit (including ethics credit) to satisfy your 2-year NY CLE obligation, including ethics credit.
  

  We have requested at total a total of:           

  22.67 CLE Credit hours based on a 60-minute hour
  27.20 CLE Credit hours based on a 50-minute hour

  Of this total:                                       

  8.25 Ethics CLE Credits based on a 60-minute hour
  9.90 Ethics CLE Credits based on a 50-minute hour

• Receive extensive program materials on CD-ROM.
  (For supplemental program materials, please click here.)
  
• Get to know your fellow Committee members at
  • Committee business breakfast meetings on Thursday and Friday mornings
  • Committee Leadership Dinner on Thursday Evening
  • Divisional business breakfast meetings on Friday morning.
  • Numerous networking breaks throughout the entire meeting
    


• Special Events:
  • International Wine Tasting and Buffet Reception on Wednesday evening
  • Reception at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York on Thursday evening, following a blockbuster program on the lessons of 9/11 for combating international terrorism, featuring a distinguished panel including former Illinois Governor (and 9/11 Commission member) James Thompson
  • Closing Consular Reception at New York University School of Law on Friday evening
  • Wednesday Luncheon with distinguished keynote speaker (TBA)
  • Thursday Luncheon with Judge Thomas Buergenthal from the International Court of Justice
  • Friday Luncheon with television and radio personality Charles Osgood
    
    
• Blockbuster Programs:
  • Dialogue with Dr. Jane Goodall - The world-famous scientist will discuss modern threats facing the environment, her beloved chimpanzees and other species. Hear why Dr. Goodall believes there is hope that humankind will find solutions to these problems.
  • Negotiating Peace Agreements – Experienced negotiators from the Israeli-Palestinian peace process will discuss how unofficial peace negotiations and parallel track efforts such as the “Geneva Accord” can make a difference in resolving international conflicts.
    
    
• Numerous Showcase Programs, Including:
  • May It Please the Court: A Forum with Some of the World’s Leading International Arbitral Institutions
  • Using International Litigation to Enforce Corporate Social Responsibility
  • The Corporate Counsel Perspective on International Law and Dispute Resolution: Are Improvements Needed in Laws, Rules, and Services?
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution Around the World
  • The Problems and Potential of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
  • International Developments in Corporate Governance, with Particular Reference to Privately Held Entities
  • Fighting Global Corruption: Lessons from the Oil for Food Program
  • International Securities Exchanges: The Stock Market of the Future
  • International Corporate Compliance for U.S. and Foreign Filers - Maintaining an Ethical Culture
  • Cross-Border Employment and Global Mobility Issues in Europe and Latin America: A Closer Look at International Assignments
  • Managing International M&A Transactions: The Anatomy of a Multijurisdictional Deal
  • Is China Taking Over the World?
  • Practical Aspects of Cross-Border Expansion
  • Public Takeovers in the International Context
  • Commoditizing the Environment
  • Expanding Operations Internationally: A View from the General Counsel’s Office
  • A Conversation with the WTO Appellate Body

Section Chair:
Michael H. Byowitz • Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY

Spring Meeting Co-Chairs
Soraya E. Bosi • Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP; Associate Director, Association of Corporate Counsel - Greater New York, New York, NY
David A. Schwartz • Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY
Victor Xercavins • Cuatrecasas, New York, NY

Steering Committee
Janet Belkin • College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, NY
Lorraine Brennan • US Council for International Business, New York, NY
Kathleen Ebner • ABA Section of International Law, Washington, DC
Jessica Elliot • ABA Section of International Law, Washington, DC
Glenn Hendrix • Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Atlanta, GA
Heather Kight • Bloomington, MN
Nina Kulmala • Cuatrecasas, New York, NY
Lauren Newman • ABA Section of International Law, Washington, DC
Charles Schmerler • Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP • New York, NY

Planning Committee
Luis Acuña • Uria & Mendenez, New York , NY
Paula Adoradio • Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson PA, Minneapolis, MN
Jorge Alers • Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP, Washington, DC
Steve Andersen • International Centre for Dispute Resolution, San Diego, CA
Oliver Armas • Thacher Proffitt Wood, New York, NY
Scott Bain • Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP, Washington, DC
Marcio M.S. Baptista • Tozzini, Freire, Teixeira e Silva Advogados, New York, NY
Jeff Barnes • Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, New York, NY
Roger Barton • Barton Barton & Plotkin LLP, New York, NY
Carole Basri • Association of Corporate Counsel, New York, NY
Philip Berkowitz • Nixon Peabody, LLP, New York, NY
Jonathan Blackman • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, NY
Bruce Bowden • Duane Morris LLP, Pittsburgh, PA
Timothy Brightbill • Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP, Washington, DC
Jeffrey Bruce Gracer • Torys LLP, New York, NY
Carl Bruch • United Nations Environment Programme – RONA, Washington, DC
Ingrid Busson • Caylon , New York , NY
Charles Cannon • Haynes and Boone LLP, Dallas, TX
Juan Pablo Cappello • Greenberg Traurig LLP, Miami, FL
Flavio Cardoso • Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, NY
James Carter • Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY
Tomaso Cenci • Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners, Rome, Italy
Wai Ping Chan • U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC
Erika Collins • Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, New York, NY
Philippe David • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, New York, NY
Antonio Del Pino • O’Melveny & Myers, New York , NY
David Dick • Larchmont , NY
Paul Downs • Heller Ehrman LLP, New York, NY
James P. Duffy III • Berg & Duffy, New Hyde Park, NY
Matthew Dunne • Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP, Washington, DC
Demetrios Eleftheriou • Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Washington, DC
Deborah Enix-Ross • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY
Natalie Everaert • Teigland-Hunt & Associates LLP, New York, NY
Richard Fields • Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, New York, NY
Diego Fissore • G.BREUER, Buenos Aires, , Argentina
Edward Fleischman • Linklaters , New York , NY
Andrew Foley • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY
Carl Fornaris • Greenberg Traurig PA, Miami, FL
Isabel Franco • Demarest e Almeida, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Melanie Frank • Hogan & Hartson LLP, Washington, DC
Paul Frank • Alston & Bird LLP, New York, NY
Daniel Friel • Lovells, New York, NY
Frederick Fucci • Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, New York, NY
Ruggero Gambarota • Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners, New York, NY
Kiera Gans • DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP, New York, NY
Elvia Gastelo • Federal Trade Commission, New York, NY
Phil Gelston • Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY
Paolo Giacometti • Chiomenti Studio Legale LLC, New York, NY
Ralph Glass • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Toronto, Canada
Marc Goldstein • Hodgson Russ LLP, New York , NY
Ronald Goodman • Winson & Strawn LLP, Washington, DC
Michael Grasty • Grasty Quintana Majlis y Cia, Santiago, Chile
Guillermo Malm Green • Brons & Salas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
William Griffith • Reed Smith LLP, New York, NY
Jon Grouf • Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, New York, NY
Joseph Hall • Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY
Marcello Hallake • Thompson & Knight LLP, New York, NY
Kristina Han • Kroll Worldwide, New York, NY
Grant Hanessian • Baker & McKenzie LLP, New York , NY
Marc Hankin • Hankin Patent Law, West Hollywood, CA
Emery Harper • Harper Consultants, Inc., New York, NY
Ronan Harty • Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY
Michael Heaton Yanowitch • Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, New York, NY
Raul Herrera • Winston & Strawn, LLP, Washington, DC
Christopher Hilbert • Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, New York, NY
Akil Hirani • Majmudar & Company, Mumbai, India
Randal T Hughes • Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Johnnie Jackson • Barton Barton & Plotkin LLP, New York, NY
Eric Jiang • Beijing Times-Highland Law Firm, Beijing, China
Thomas Jorgens • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, New York, NY
Andreas Junius • Clifford Chance LLP, New York, NY
Jean Kalicki • Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington, DC
Arthur Katz • Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, New York, NY
Mark Katz • Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Toronto, Canada
Jeffrey Kerbel • Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto, Canada
Haksoo Ko • Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP , New York, NY
Kees H. T. Koetsier • NautaDutilh , New York , NY
Ruben Kraiem • Covington & Burling, New York, NY
Vanessa Krauser • NautaDutilh , New York , NY
Nicholas Adams Kronfeld • Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY
George Krouse • Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY
Owen Kurtin • Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP, New York, NY
Francis K. Lackington • Baeza, Larrain, Rozas y Cia. Ltda., Santiago, Chile
Diane Langston • The United Nations Population Fund, Norfolk, VA
Ruth Lynn Lansner • Holland & Knight LLP, New York, NY
Roman Lee • Attorney at Law, San Francisco, CA
Robert Leo • Chair, New York State Bar Association, Section of International Law and Practice, Meeks & Sheppard, New York, NY
Steven Levin • Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, New York, NY
Michael Levine • Epstein Becker & Green PC, New York, NY
David Levy • SimmonsCooper LLC, Archer City, TX
David Lindsey • Clifford Chance, New York, NY
Kenneth Mason • Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY
Cathleen McLaughlin • Allen & Overy LLP, New York, NY
Mauro Andre Mendes Finatti • Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Patricia Menendez Cambo • Greenberg Traurig PA, Miami, FL
Christopher Mesnooh • Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, Paris, France
Mark I. Michigan • Greenberg Traurig LLP, New York, NY
Michele Moss • New York, NY
Daniel Murdock • Winston Strawn LLP, New York, NY
Alberto Navarro • G.BREUER, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Renata Neeser • Fischer & Mandell LLP, New York, NY
Matthew Nolan • Miller & Chevalier Chartered, Washington, DC
Kristen Oakman • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Washington, DC
Edward Osei • Boies, Schiller Flexner LLP, Short Hills, NJ
Juergen Ostertag • Piliero Goldstein Kogan & Miller, LLP, New York, NY
Kenneth Ottenbreit • Stikeman Elliott LLP, New York, NY
Sona Pancholy • Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, DC
James Passamano • Sufian & Passamano LLP, Houston, TX
Robert Pender, Jr. • Hogan & Harston LLP, Washington, DC
Simone Perez • Felsberg e Associados, Washington, DC
Jorg Perez-Taiman • Muniz Ramirez Perez-Taiman & Luna-Victoria, Lima, Peru
Lennaert Posch • Stibbe , New York , NY
Eduardo Ramos-Gomez • Duane Morris, New York, NY
James Rayis • Sokolow, Carreras, Lemoine & Partners, LLP, Atlanta, GA
And ers Reitz • Nixon Peabody LLP, New York, NY
Mark Richardson • Societe d’avocats, Paris, France
Charles Rumbaugh • International ADR, Rolling Hills, CA
Theodore Ruthizer • Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, LLP, New York, NY
Alejandro Sainz • Cervantes, Aguilar-Alvarez y Sainz, S.C., Lomas De Chapultepec, Mexico
S. Gerald Saliman • Edmonds & Co., PC, New York, NY
Dean Saul • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Toronto, Canada
Paul Schnell • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY
Gerrit Schohe • Rechtsanwalt, Brussels, , Belgium
Kenneth Schwartz • Schwartz Law Firm LLC, New York, NY
Ramon Segura • Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Careen Shannon • Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen & Loewy LLP , New York, NY
Michael Sher • Johns Hopkins University , New York , NY
Lawrence Shoenthal • Weiser LLP, New York, NY
James Silkenat • Arent Fox PLLC, New York, NY
Joel Simon • Serko & Simon LLP, New York, NY
Hernan Slemenson • Marval O’Farrell & Mairal, New York, NY
Bernard Spoor • De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, New York, NY
Helena Sprenger • Allen & Overy LLP, New York, NY
Steven J. Stein • Reed Smith LLP, New York, NY
Robert Steine • The Law Office of Robert Owen Steine PC, Aurora, CO
William Steinman • Powell Goldstein LLP, Washington, DC
George Stephanakis • Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY
David Stoelting • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, New York, NY
Henry Sztutman • Pinheiro Neto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Mark Tannenbaum • Ropes & Gray LLP, New York, NY
Bill Thomas • Clifford Chance LLP, Washington, DC
Katlyn Thomas • Katlyn Thomas, PC, New York , NY
Lucy Thomson • Computer Sciences Corporation, Vienna, VA
Robert Treuhold • Shearman & Sterling LLP, Paris, France
Christine Turner • Seward & Kissel LLP, New York, NY
Edna Udobong • NGO/NPO Committee, Marietta, GA
Mark Vecchio • Venable LLP, New York, NY
Juan Carloz Velazquez de Leon • Basham, Ringe Y Correa, S.C., Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Eduardo Vidal • Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, NY
Jose Ramon Villar • J & A Garrigues, New York, NY
John Walker • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY
Gerhard Wegen • Gleiss Lutz, Stuttgart, Germany
Sidney N. Weiss • Law Offices of Sidney N. Weiss, New York , NY
Mark Winston • Baker & McKenzie LLP, New York, NY
Alexandra Wrage • TRACE International, Inc, Washington, DC

Marketing Committee:
Flavio Cardos, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York, NY
Martina Paulus Conti, Xavier, Bernardes, Bragança, Sociedade de Advogados
Nisha Chotai, Barton Barton & Ploktin LLP, New York, NY
Connie A. Gilchrist, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Chicago, IL
Maria Gray, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, Washington, DC
Anita Gupta, Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, Toronto, Canada
Jenny Hebler, Alston & Bird, New York, NY
Stephen J. Kimmerling, Sedgwick, Detert Moran & Arnold, LLP, New York, NY
Vanessa R. Krauser, NautaDutilh, New York, NY
Nina Kulmala, Cuatrecasas, New York, NY
Amy Lau, Reed Smith, LLP, New York, NY
Manju Mathai, Miller & Chevalier Chartered, Washington, DC
Jaime Mercado, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY
Maria Alicia Panting, Arias & Munoz, Central America
Andrea Saravia, Arias & Munoz, Costa Rica
Marilia Silvério, Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil
Bill Thomas, Clifford Chance LLP, Washington, DC