Seminars

Future seminars

• Corporate internal investigations

• Overview: We are hosting a European series of seminars on current legal issues relating to corporate internal investigations, particularly in the international context. The seminars will address the way in which companies should conduct internal investigations in order to manage their legal risks and are aimed at in-house legal, finance and audit departments of corporates and financial institutions. There will be a chance to debate experiences, share views on best practice and discuss issues under the law of the local jurisdiction.
  
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• 	Düsseldorf	Wednesday 10 December 2008, 17.00-18.00 (followed by drinks)
  	Frankfurt am Main	Thursday 11 December 2008, 17.00-18.00 (followed by drinks)

• Related practice areas: Corporate internal investigations, Dispute Resolution, Managing the downturn

• Key issues facing the retail financial services market: the FSA’s RDR and TCF initiatives and the future for retail distribution in the UK

• Overview: This seminar will look at the future for retail distribution in the UK in the light of feedback from the FSA’s Retail Distribution Review (RDR) and the resulting regulatory change. It will also consider the interplay with the FSA’s Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) initiative and preparation for the FSA’s December TCF deadline.
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• Location:	London
  Date:	26 November 2008, 9-10am
  Speakers:	Dan Waters (director of retail policy and themes, FSA), David Rouch and David Scott

• Related practice areas: Financial institutions

• Consumer products: safety and liability

• Overview: The EU’s regulation of consumer product safety has tightened dramatically in recent years, and further developments are in the pipeline following 2007’s ‘summer of recalls’. At the same time, proposed reforms to facilitate consumers’ access to justice will increase litigation risk for businesses operating in the consumer products sector.
  
  This seminar will provide you with the lowdown on future developments in the product safety regime from Maija Laurila, Deputy Head of Unit, Product and Service Safety, Health and Consumers Directorate General, and with our own views of how class action and litigation funding reform are likely to affect consumer litigation.
  
  Registration for the seminar will commence 30 minutes before the start, with lunch available. Refreshments will be available after the seminar, giving the opportunity to continue discussions in a more informal environment. Please note that 1.5 CPD points are available.
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• Location:	London
  Date:	Friday 28 November 2008, 12:30-2pm
  Speakers:	Jonathan Isted, John Blain and Andrew Austin (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) Maija Laurila - Deputy Head of Unit, Product and Service Safety, Consumer, Affairs, Health and Consumers Directorate General, European Commission

• Related practice areas: Dispute Resolution, Environment, Product Liability

• What next for 2009? - key lessons from 2008 restructuring and knock-on effects for executive pay

• Overview: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP's employment practice group is hosting a conference which will focus on the immediate consequences of the downturn in the context of business restructuring and executive pay.
  
  Our panellists, legal counsels for international companies and Freshfields partners, will discuss the restructuring, nationalisation, outsourcing and post-merger integration that we have seen to date and consider what lessons can be learned as we head into 2009. The conference will also focus on the subject of incentive and severance packages for company executives and the likely impact on compensation policies for next year.
  
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• Location:	London
  Date:	Monday 8 December 2008, 10.30am - 5pm (with drinks afterwards)
  Registration deadline:	21 November 2008
  Speakers:	Our speakers and panel members will include senior counsel and HR

• Related practice areas: EPB, Managing the downturn

• FSA enforcement – annual review and looking ahead

• Overview: A review of the key areas on which the FSA’s enforcement division has focused over the last 12 months and the changing role of the Financial Ombudsman Service. The seminar will also consider likely future target areas for the FSA.
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• Location:	London
  Date:	9 December 2008, 1-2pm
  Speakers:	Andrew Hart, Simon Orton and David Scott

• Related practice areas: Financial institutions, Managing the downturn

• Solvency II update

• Overview: An update on recent developments in relation to Solvency II and a discussion of the key issues arising in relation to its implementation in France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and the UK.
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• Location:	London
  Date:	3 February 2009, 12.45-2.15pm
  Speakers:	Gunnar Schuster, Wessell Heukamp, Annemarie den Tex, Philippe Goutay, Raffaele Lener and Rob Stirling

• Related practice areas: Financial institutions, Managing the downturn

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