Lextalk World | Legal & IP Conference

GLOBAL HYBRID CONFERENCE 2022

7th & 8th Feb 2022 | Crowne Plaza, Dubai-Deira, UAE

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The event was truly outstanding! In fact, bringing all people together under same roof and getting permission for event during this pandemic era was next to impossible but you guys did the same.

LexTalk World again proved that if you believe in yourself, entire universe will start believing you. Kudos to your entire team.

Raghvendra Verma

Group Head, Legal, Compliance and Company Secretary, ISON Group

Conference at a Glance

Physical & Virtual Attendees

1000+

50+

Notable Industry Speakers

Legal, IP & Law Tech Awardees

200 Discussion &

Presentations

30+

What's LexTalk World Conference

LexTalk World conference comes again after the hugely successful maiden conference in Dubai. It would be a platform intended to congregate the International legal fraternity under a single roof yet again in Dubai, UAE on the 7th & 8th of February’2022 to discuss ideas, concepts, experiences, expertise and percolate all knowledge on the legal industry worldwide. It will also look at challenges, opportunities, scope and significant developments that have taken place and are about to change the legal world forever. While the event would be carried on in a serious note but the air or ambiance would be relaxed in nature, making it an ideal platform to engage in business networking among the peer groups in the Legal Industry.

Advisory Board

Graham Lee

Magistrate
Ministry of Justice
UK

Dr. Yasser Abo Ismail

General Counsel & Compliance Officer (ME & N. Africa) at Schindler Group, UAE

Dr. Lalit Bhasin

President - Society of Indian Law Firms, India

Charles N. Bowen

Adjunct Professor Georgia State University College of Law, USA

Ama Ocansey

Senior Legal Counsel BNP Paribas,
UK

Dr. Aman Trehan

Vice President & Head-IP at Odin Pharmaceuticals,
USA

Aaron Spira

VP & Deputy General Counsel Whirlpool Corporation,
USA

Prantap Kalra

General Counsel, India & S. Asia Nissan Motor Corporation,
India

Edward Walker

General Counsel Abellio Group,
UK

Speakers

Antonin Sobek

Counsel,
DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre

Antonin Sobek is a counsel at the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre in Dubai and a lecturer at Sciences Po Law School in Paris. Before joining the DIFC-LCIA, he practiced international arbitration at leading international law firms in London and Paris.

Antonin is qualified to practice law in France and specializes in international dispute resolution with a particular focus on construction, energy, and investment disputes.

Apart from being a member of the MENA Sub-Committee of the Campaign for Greener Arbitration, Antonin is one of Arbitrator Intelligence Ambassadors and a co-founder of the UAE chapter of the Energy-Related Arbitration Practitioners.

Antonin speaks French, English, Spanish, and Czech.

Pooja Prabhakar

Managing Partner,
BCP Associates LLP

Pooja Prabhakar, as CEO & Managing Partner, develops and drives the vision & strategy at BCP Associates. After she moved to India from the US, where she held leadership positions at Fortune 50 companies, she took over the reins of BCP Associates where she envisioned and successfully rolled out enterprise programs in Legal Audit & Advisory, POSH & People Strategy across several large companies in India. Partnering with clients through innovative and disruptive service offerings across multiple verticals, Pooja has led the consistent, sustained, and diversified growth of BCP Associates. Her forte has been the innovative creation of Legal Technology that has widespread use in the industry today.

Somesh Tiwari

Managing Partner,
Vardharma Chambers

Mr Tiwari, is currently the Managing Partner at Vardharma Chambers. He has been practicing before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and the Hon’ble Delhi High Court in matters focusing on Arbitration, Banking, Company Law and Prevention of Money laundering Act. Mr. Tiwari has been appointed by the State Government of Uttar Pradesh and the State Government of West Bengal as panel counsel to represent the State Governments before the Hon’ble Supreme Court and the National Green Tribunal. Mr. Tiwari has also been appointed by the Agra Development Authority as their nodal counsel to represent the Authority before the Delhi High Court and all Tribunals including the National Green Tribunal.
The core area of practice of Mr. Tiwari is Civil and Criminal law before the Hon’ble High Courts in Writ Jurisdiction. He has represented clients across various High Courts in India touching matters in Criminal, Civil and Constitutional law. Mr. Tiwari has also been appointed by leading Public Sector Undertakings to represent them before various forums.
Mr. Tiwari has also been regularly appearing before various Tribunals mainly NCDRC, NCLT and NCLAT in matters spanning from Medical negligence to Builder /buyer disputes and insurance. Mr. Tiwari has also worked extensively in-service matters and banking matters and has been successful in getting relief for clients before the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) and service Writs before the Hon’ble Delhi High Court and Allahabad High Court.

Katie pimental

Assistant General Counsel,
Yahoo, Inc.

Katie Pimentel is a privacy attorney in the United States and is Assistant General Counsel of Global Privacy and Head of Privacy Governance at Yahoo Inc. (formerly known as Verizon Media). Katie has worked in entertainment and technology law, and focuses on intellectual property, transactions, and privacy matters. She earned a BAS from Loyola University in New Orleans, LA, and JD and LLM/IP from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL. Katie is also certified in CIPP/US and CIPM.

Prior to law school, Katie began her career as an operations analyst at a global logistics company, and worked her way into finance, where she excelled as a financial analyst. After law school, Katie worked in various transactions focused roles. She joined Yahoo in 2015, where she currently focuses on privacy matters supporting Yahoo’s media and entertainment properties as well as their digital media platforms. In 2020, Katie began building out Yahoo’s privacy governance program and continues to lead the program today.

The combination of Katie’s multi-faceted business experience and breadth of legal background gives her a unique perspective on the diverse issues her clients face. She enjoys applying those skills in her legal role every day, helping her clients solve complex challenges that are often on the cutting edge of technology and the law, in an evolving regulatory environment.

Ahmed Kandil

Regional Head Ethics and Compliance,
Bausch Health Companies Inc.

Ahmed Kandil started his career with the Healthcare industry in 2004, during his career he had the chance to support near 80 different markets in Middle East, Africa and Asia in HealthCare Compliance, Risk Management, Finance, Commercial and Projects management. Currently he works for Bausch Health Companies as Regional Head of Ethics and Compliance, Looking after Turkey Middle East and Africa. Prior joining Bausch Health Companies he also worked for Glaxo SmithKline and Johnson& Johnson

He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Chifley Business School (Australia), Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional-International (CCEP-I) from Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, USA, and
Certified Lead Professional Ethics & Compliance (LPEC) from Ethics & Compliance Initiative, USA.

Mumtaz Bhalla

Partner,
Economic Laws Practice (ELP)

Mumtaz has over 12 years of experience in the field of litigation and dispute resolution. She specialises in Domestic and International Arbitrations. She has a considerable amount of experience in the aviation sector, medical sector, real estate, construction, and civil-commercial sector, with her being the preferred choice for several domestic and international clients. She also possesses a wide range of experience in civil trial, criminal trial, appeals, consumer disputes, domestic and international arbitration. She also specialises in conducting compliance workshops for Companies.

She has advised and represented several multinational companies and organisations regarding appropriate strategies to be adopted at various stages of litigation and arbitration. She is liked by her clients for providing them with effective and quick solutions for every issue.

Mumtaz usually argues her own matters and regularly appears before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, various Hon’ble High Courts across the country, District Courts and quasi-judicial forums. She also appears before various Consumer Protection bodies such as National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, New Delhi (NCDRC), State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (SCDRC).

She has been instrumental in procuring several favourable orders, on issues where the law is rigid, for a number of clients from several judicial and quasi-judicial authorities in India.

Mumtaz is actively involved in drafting pleadings and various negotiations with respect to settling a number of complex disputes before they reach the contentious stage.

She has an in-depth experience of Aviation laws, Contract laws, International & Commercial Arbitration, Civil & Criminal procedure, Real Estate laws, Mines & Minerals disputes, Oil & Gas disputes, Medical Negligence Disputes, Regulatory Disputes and Property disputes.

Dr. Ajinkya Dagaonkar

Advocate

He is a regularly practicing Lawyer, Legal Consultant and Legal Expert from India having a International repute and having a independent professional experience of 17 years in field of Law from year 2003, specialization in Constitutional Law, Civil Law, Arbitration Law, Corporate Law, Commercial Law, Educational matters, Criminal Law and also a Blockchain Lawyer. Ordinarily practicing, appearing & arguing before the Hon'ble High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Learned District and Session Courts and frequently before the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India.

Shalinee Fernandez

Senior Legal Counsel Asia Pacific,
Ansell

Shalinee Fernandez graduated with a law degree from the University of London in 1999 and the University of New England, (New South Wales) Australia in 2020 and admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor to the High Court of Malaya in October 2002.

With close to 19 years of experience, 5 years in private practice as a partner undertaking both litigation and corporate work in the areas of general civil litigation, employment, family law, banking, industrial relations, and corporate winding up proceedings.

She spent the last 14 years as a corporate in-house legal counsel in the ICT and manufacturing industry- including being Regional Legal Counsel Asia-Pacific for ATOS, a French Information, Communications and Technology multinational corporation heading all legal & compliance matters for the Australian continent, New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries in the APAC region. Key successes include negotiating large contracts with the Australian government including GovNext-ICT in Western Australia and Commonwealth Games 2018 in Brisbane, Australia.

Her last role was based in Sydney, as a Legal & Regulatory Counsel for OLA, an Indian ride-share company that launched globally into the ANZ market. She was a key member of the international launch team putting in place legal operations and processes and successfully obtained licenses and accreditations across each state in the Australian continent and New Zealand.

She is now the Senior Legal Counsel Asia-Pacific for Ansell, an Australian multinational corporation which manufactures protective industrial and medical gloves and PPE worldwide and is part of the Ansell Global Legal team supporting Ansell’s global operations and sourcing.

Shalinee is also in the midst of completing her papers to get called as a Solicitor to the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia.

Raghvendra Verma

Group Head- Legal, Compliance,
ISON Group

Raghwendra Verma has over 20 years of experience as a Corporate Legal Leadership. His gamut of experience includes cross border M&A/ Privacy Laws /Cyber Security/Strategy/compliance/ Contract Negotiations /Litigation/Risk Management.
In a career spanning 20 years, Raghwendra delivered business-driven Legal strategy at global, regional and national levels across several industry verticals. Currently, he is Serving ISON as Group Head- Legal, Compliance and Corporate Secretary. ISON Group is into IT & ITES and have business operation in 29 Countries across Africa, Middle East and India.
He has a unique capability of identifying root cause of issue and is excellent solution provider, whether issue is related to contract, Litigation, Human resources, M&A, Board & Shareholders related, Regulator, Corporate Governance or Compliances. He helped organization in spreading its wings by
Carrying out acquisitions in Egypt, South Africa, Dubai, Cyprus, Mauritius, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique, and in other parts of Africa. He ensured smooth transition of business considering law of respective countries where acquisition was made.
Raghwendra worked with Promoters & Board and has been in the midst of building scale globally and in managing complexity. Some of his key achievements include, spearheading private equity investment in the organization, setting up of business in many countries in Africa & Middle East, Building a robust compliance system in Organization, Building culture in organization to minimize risk of employee related issues and litigation
In public life, Raghwendra is active in social services like organizing various stress elimination courses, distribution of foods, instrumental to launch “Girl Connect” project in Nigeria, writes articles on social issues for Magazines, social media.

Agenda

DAY 1 - 7th February 2022

7:30 AM to 9:00 AM

Registration

Welcome Hi-Tea & One-by-One Introduction

9:00 AM to 9:40 AM

Keynote Speech

A GC’s Guide To Cyber Risk: Understanding The Questions To Ask And How To Evaluate The Answers

9:40 AM to 10:00 AM

Case Study Presentation

Legal Process Improvement through Lean Practices

10:00 AM to 10:40 AM

Panel Discussion

Complex Litigation, E-discovery & Investigation Challenges: Latest Techniques for Advanced Collaboration in a Remote Environment

10:40 AM to 10:50 AM

LexTalk

A quick speech by an Industry Leader

10:50 AM to 11:00 AM

LexTalk

A quick speech by an Industry Leader

11:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Networking

Hi-Tea & Refreshments

11:30 AM to 12:10 PM

Panel Discussion

What Will GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) Look Like in 2022? An Anticipation Scenario

12:10 PM to 12:30 PM

Case Study Presentation

Step Forward of Investigations, e-Discovery and Litigation Management

12:30 PM to 12:40 PM

LexTalk

A quick speech by an Industry Leader

12:40 PM to 12:50 PM

LexTalk

A quick speech by an Industry Leader

12:50 PM to 1:00 PM

LexTalk

A quick speech by an Industry Leader

1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Networking

Luncheon

2:00 PM to 2:40 PM

Panel Discussion

COVID-19 Force Majeure and Contract Issues dealt smartly by adopting AI

2:40 PM to 3:00 PM

Case Study Presentation

Legal Projects: KPI's to Determine the Success of a Legal Project

3:00 PM to 3:10 PM

LexTalk

A quick speech by an Industry Leader

3:10 PM to 3:20 PM

LexTalk

A quick speech by an Industry Leader

3:20 PM to 3:30 PM

LexTalk

A quick speech by an Industry Leader

3:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Networking

Hi-Tea & Refreshments

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Awards & Recognition

Recognizing the Lex-Falcon Awardees 2022

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Lex-Falcon Awards

At LexTalk.World, we would be acknowledging and felicitating the best domain experts from across the world with Lex-Falcon Awards. The nominations will be closely reviewed by our awards committee and rated on various factors, such as the overall impact on the legal industry, innovation in their service/product, how futuristic their approach is, etc. Our awards are meant to recognize In-House Lawyers, Law Firms, Individual Practitioners, IP experts, Risk Attorneys, Data Protection Officers, Compliance Attorneys, Legal Technology Companies, Legal Services Provider etc who are working towards changing the face and future of legal space. So, if you or someone you know has been making strides in the Legal Industry, then ask for the nomination form here:

The recognition program includes, but isn't limited to:

Global Recognition in front of the live audience
Pre-Event and Post-Event Exposure
Live coverage of the Conference and Award Ceremony
Networking opportunities with industry experts
Dedicated Marketing and Branding through:
- LexTalk World Website
- Social Media Platforms
- LexTalk World Magazine
- Video Interview

So, if you or someone you know has been making strides in the Legal Industry, then ask for the nomination form here:

GLOBAL HYBRID CONFERENCE 2022

In Associations With

Conference at a Glance

Physical & Virtual Attendees

1000+

50+

Notable Industry Speakers

Legal, IP & Law Tech Awardees

200

Discussion &

Presentations

30+

What's LexTalk World Conference

Advisory Board

Speakers

Agenda

7:30 AM to 9:00 AM

Registration

Keynote Speech

Case Study Presentation

Panel Discussion

LexTalk

LexTalk

Networking

Panel Discussion

Case Study Presentation

LexTalk

LexTalk

LexTalk

Networking

Panel Discussion

Case Study Presentation

LexTalk

LexTalk

LexTalk

Networking

Awards & Recognition

Lex-Falcon Awards

Global Recognition in front of the live audience

Pre-Event and Post-Event Exposure

Live coverage of the Conference and Award Ceremony

Networking opportunities with industry experts

Dedicated Marketing and Branding through:

LexTalk World Website

Social Media Platforms

LexTalk World Magazine

Video Interview

Sponsors

Other Sponsors & Partners