11:00 am to 11:20 am Registration & Networking
11:20 am to 11:30 am Opening and Welcome Remarks
Speaker: Kirk Durrant, Managing Partner, Qatar, DWF
(Middle East) LLP
11:30 am to 12:20 pm Panel session: Legal finance in the Gulf
Panellists:
- Kirk Durrant, Managing Partner, DWF (Middle East) LLP
- Alexander Kelsall, Senior Associate, DWF (Middle East) LLP
- Solomon Ebere, Partner, International Arbitration, DWF Law LLP
- Edward McCullagh, Investment Manager, Senior Legal Counsel, Omni Bridgeway
- Aidan Coyne, Managing Director, Kroll
- Tom Bullock, Partner (Restructuring), Deloitte
The session will feature experts in their respective areas with a wealth of experience, in particular, in the Gulf and further afield. We will touch on:
- best practices in contract negotiation (in context of the new KSA Civil Law) and project administration, and the relationship with legal finance;
- the fundamentals of legal finance– what options are available, which cases are suitable, and how to obtain finance; and
- the general trends regarding enforcement of arbitral awards in the region.
12:20 pm to 12:30 pm Q&A
12:30 pm to 01:00 pm Coffee Break and Networking