IBA Annual Conference Sydney 2017
8 Oct - 13 Oct 2017
Old Banco Court, St James Road Courts, St James Rd, Sydney
Session information
Mock trial: It’s the way business is done here, don’t worry! A fraud, corruption and money laundering trial of a multinational company and its chief financial officer (CFO)
Monday 9 October (1430 - 1730)
Old Banco Court, St James Road Courts, St James Rd, Sydney
Committee(s)
Criminal Law Section
(Lead)
Anti-Corruption Committee
Business Crime Committee
Criminal Law Committee
Description
This interactive criminal trial looks at the potential liability of a corporation and its CFO, charged with numerous counts of foreign bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and false accounting. The session will examine key issues of: • the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Australian courts over foreign corporations and their officers; • the criminal liability of a corporation and that of individual directors, officers and employees in the organisation; • the liability of a corporation and its CFO for the conduct of foreign subsidiaries and their agents; • the availability of plea bargaining to reduce or eliminate the criminal exposure of the corporation and/or corporate officers; and • avoiding the unexpected: anticipating and responding to parallel criminal and regulatory proceedings in multiple jurisdictions.
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Robert Wyld | Johnson Winter Slattery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Speakers
| Tarik Abdulhak | NSW Crown Prosecutors’ Chambers, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Shaul Brazil | BCL Solicitors , London, England; Membership Officer, Criminal Law Committee |
| Dan Conaway | Conaway & Strickler PC, New York, New York, USA |
| Bruno Cova | Greenberg Traurig, Milan, Italy |
| Adriana De Buerba | PEREZ-LLORCA, Madrid, Spain; Conference Quality Officer, Criminal Law Committee |
| Hon Justice Elizabeth Fullerton | New South Wales Supreme Court, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Andrew George | Doogue + George Defence Lawyers, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Hannah Laming | Squire Patton Boggs , London, England; Regional Representative Europe, Business Crime Committee |
| Riccardo Lucev | Studio Lucev, Milan, Italy |
| Elizabeth Eileen Macknay | Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| Sonja Maeder Morvant | Edmond de Rothschild, Geneva, Switzerland; Vice Chair, Business Crime Committee |
| Chris Maxwell KC | NSW Crown Prosecutors’ Chambers, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Enide Perez | Sjöcrona van Stigt, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Co-Chair, Criminal Law Committee |
| Hon Matthew Thomas Reinhard | Co-Chair, Criminal Law Committee |
| Anthony (Tony) Thomas | Victorian Bar in Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Brind Zichy-Woinarski KC | W Brind Zichy-Woinarski QC, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |