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I've come here today to talk to you about a problem. It's a very simple yet devastating problem, one that spans the globe and is affecting all of us. The problem is anonymous companies. It sounds like a really dry and technical thing, doesn't it? But anonymous companies are making it difficult and sometimes impossible to find out the actual human beings responsible sometimes for really terrible crimes. So, why am I here talking to all of you? Well, I guess I am a lifelong troublemaker and when my parents taught my twin brother and I to question authority

Yas Banifatemi is a Partner in Shearman & Sterling’s International Arbitration Group and heads the firm’s Public International Law practice.

She has appeared as counsel in both investment treaty and commercial arbitrations, with particular focus on investment, oil & gas, disputes arising from mergers & acquisitions and joint ventures, and general commercial matters. She also sits as arbitrator, in both investment and commercial matters.

Sofia Martins (born 1973), is currently a Senior Associate at Miranda Law Firm, which she joined in February 2014, after six years at Uría Menéndez. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon in 1996 and was admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association in 1998. She focuses her activity mainly on litigation and arbitration, both domestic and international.

Sandra Lodewijckx is a partner in and co-heads our Insurance and Reinsurance practice.

The high seas as seen from above — that area in the darker blue. To me, as an international lawyer, this scared me far more than any of the creatures or the monsters we may have seen, for it belies the notion that you can actually protect the ocean, the global ocean, that provides us all with carbon storage, with heat storage, with oxygen, if you can only protect 36 percent. This is indeed the true heart of the planet. Some of the problems that we have to confront are that the current international laws — for example, shipping — provide more protection to the areas closest to shore. For example, garbage discharge, something you would think just simply goes away, but the laws regulating ship discharge of garbage actually get weaker the further you are from shore. As a result, we have garbage patches the size of twice-Texas. It's unbelievable. We used to think the solution to pollution was dilution, but that has proved to be no longer the case.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, elected for the period 2014-2018 and who became President on March 11, has announced a significant reform to the Chilean tax system. The goal is to increase the tax burden to finance a very ambitious educational reform.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, elected for the period 2014-2018 and who became President on March 11, has announced a significant reform to the Chilean tax system. The goal is to increase the tax burden to finance a very ambitious educational reform.

Charlotte Breuvart focuses her practice on European, French, and Belgian antitrust and competition law. She has extensive experience in antitrust (cartels, horizontal and vertical agreements, abuses of a dominant position), merger control, and state aids (both in counseling and litigation). She also regularly advises on other aspects of EU law, such as free movement of goods and services, and implements learning and compliance programs in antitrust and competition law.

Charlotte Breuvart focuses her practice on European, French, and Belgian antitrust and competition law. She has extensive experience in antitrust (cartels, horizontal and vertical agreements, abuses of a dominant position), merger control, and state aids (both in counseling and litigation). She also regularly advises on other aspects of EU law, such as free movement of goods and services, and implements learning and compliance programs in antitrust and competition law.

A partner and member of IMK since 1997. Catherine McKenzie is a talented jurist who manages her litigation files with remarkable effectiveness.She has enviable experience in several large-scale litigation files.

Among other things, she has made her mark in several injunction proceedings, class action proceedings, as well as in the areas of employment and telecommunications law.

She has represented clients before all levels of Quebec courts, and has also appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada.