LEADERS OF
INDIA’S LEGAL AND BUSINESS COMMUNITIES WILL COME TOGETHER AT
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL SECTION
CONFERENCE IN MUMBAI
Section’s
India Chapter Will Hear from Global Experts on Business
Opportunities
While Sharing
Information with Colleagues from Across India
Building
upon the success of the inaugural meeting of the New York
State Bar Association International Section’s new India
Chapter in New Delhi last June, members of India’s legal
profession and business communities will come together next
March for a conference that highlights India’s emerging
presence in the global economy. The meeting, scheduled to
take place March 25-27, 2010 atthe
Taj Land End Hotel in Mumbai,
will explore various business and legal issues, including
strategies for business investment in India and ways to
promote corporate social responsibility.
“Expanding knowledge of business opportunities
through the sharing of expertise from other nations is vital
to lawyers and law firms who work in an increasingly
interconnected world,” said Michael E. Getnick (Getnick
Livingston Atkinson & Priore, LLP of Utica and
of counsel to Getnick & Getnick of New
York City). “This conference in Mumbai will help the State
Bar to build on its strong partnership with India’s business
entrepreneurs and leaders in the legal profession while also
serving as a forum for attorneys from the U.S. and India to
discuss a myriad of issues important to both countries. I
want to thank the members of the International Section and
the members of the new India Chapter for their steadfast
commitment to cultivating close working relationships with
our many legal and business colleagues abroad.”
The panels at the meeting will consist of
well-respected legal and business practitioners from New
York, India and China. Among the topics to be discussed by
presenters will be:
-
Corporate
Social Responsibility: Regulation, Governance and Money
Laundering under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
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Strategies
for Businesses Investing in India and the USA
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Alternate
Dispute Resolution
-
Infrastructure – The Emerging Landscape in India
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International
Trusts and Estates Program and Taxation
-
Emerging
Areas of Practice in India
-
Compliance
and Trade Issues Affecting Multinationals – The Role of
In-House Counsel
-
Protecting
Intellectual Property Rights
-
Energy
Issues: How Hungry is India?
Among the attendees scheduled to participate at
the March meeting in Mumbai include New York State Bar
Association President-Elect Stephen
P. Younger (Patterson
Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP of New York City), current
International Section Chair Michael W. Galligan (Phillips
Nizer, LLP of New York City), incoming International Section
Chair Steven C. Krane (Proskauer Rose, LLP of New York
City), and Chair of the International Section’s India
Chapter Kaviraj Singh (Trustman & Co., New Delhi). James P.
Duffy, III, past chair of the International Section and a
co-chair for this meeting, also will attend.
“The India Chapter’s upcoming meeting in Mumbai
represents another excellent opportunity to learn about the
current state of Indian and International law as well as
exciting business opportunities from authoritative legal and
corporate leaders,” said Singh. “Our first meeting in New
Delhi attracted more than 200 attorneys from across India,
and I am confident that the expert panels we have assembled
for this meeting will be sure to elicit even greater
interest from a diverse range of attorneys and
entrepreneurs. I look forward to working together with
members of the State Bar and with my colleagues here in
India to increase our ability to share resources and to
collaborate on many future joint initiatives.”
The India Chapter is one of the International
Section's newest Chapters. The section has more than 50
Chapters around the world in countries including Australia,
Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Denmark, England, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Peru,
Sweden and elsewhere.
The International Section of the New York State
Bar Association is dedicated to the promotion of the
international practice of law on all planes of international
life – whether commercially or for the public good – and to
the support of the rule of law throughout the world. The
section, which was founded in 1987, has about 2,200
members. While the majority of the section’s members are
admitted to the Bar of the State of New
York, many members are licensed attorneys in other states of
the United States
or other countries. All licensed attorneys who are resident
or non-resident members of the New York State Bar
Association are invited to join the section.
For
more information about the International Section go to: http://www.nysba.org/ilp.
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