6th IBA Global Entrepreneurship Conference: The Netherlands – sailing the seas of global innovation
16 May - 17 May 2022
Session information
Interactive workshop one: selected corporate topics connected to developments and consequences of the global pandemic - part one
Monday 16 May (1430 - 1530)
Committee(s)
Closely Held Companies Committee
(Lead)
Description
In the first part of this workshop, delegates will work in roundtable groups to discuss corporate governance and M&A topics, including:
- Duties of the board in M&A transactions as a buyer and seller, and the management of a takeover target
- How does the role of the board, management and founders evolve as the company progresses from a start-up to a scale-up, and finally, to a growth company?
- Due diligence and warranty and indemnity insurance revisited
- State control of foreign investments – how to deal with new regulations from the European Union and other states in the context of M&A transactions
- What are the governance challenges and missteps often encountered in respect to growth companies? How can they be avoided? How can they be remedied?
- Ethics, diversity and social responsibility: do corporate directors have a duty to shareholders, or are they permitted to look beyond to other stakeholders in the business?
- Covid-19 two years later – are there any lasting consequences in this area?
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Alessandro Barzaghi | COCUZZA, Milan, Italy; Programme Officer, International Commerce and Distribution Committee |
| Jack Berk | Cleber NV, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Marie Brasseur | Altius, Brussels, Belgium; Co-Chair, Young Lawyers' Committee |
| Arthur Davis | Addisons, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Chair, Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee |
| Peter De Ryck | Lydian, Brussels, Belgium |
| Tom Ensink | Ploum, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Martin Imhof | HEUKING, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Florian Jorg | Bratschi AG, Zürich, Switzerland; Scholarship Officer, Closely Held Companies Committee |
| Andreas Kloyer | Luther, Frankfurt, Germany; Conference Quality Officer, Closely Held Companies Committee |
| Ralf Morshäuser | Gleiss Lutz, Munich, Germany |
| Elke Napokoj | bpv Hügel , Vienna, Austria |
| Alessandra Nascimento S F Mourao | Nascimento e Mourao Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil; SPPI Council Member |
| Mariana Norton dos Reis | Cuatrecasas, Lisbon, Portugal; Membership Officer, Women Lawyers' Committee |
| Michael Schmidt | Schmidt Tax Law, Frankfurt, Germany |
| Sven Von Mensenkampff | Legance, Milan, Italy |
| Noreen Weiss | gunnercooke US LLP, New York, New York, USA; Treasurer, Closely Held Companies Committee |