Business-law event to focus on competitiveness
Law Society Professional Training is organising the annual business-law conference, which will take place on Wednesday 5 November (2pm to 5.15pm).
The event takes place in Blackhall Place and focuses on competitiveness, productivity, and Ireland’s role in the EU after on competitiveness in the union.
Three CPD hours are available – 2.5 general and 0.5 client care and professional standards (accounting and AML compliance).
The conference will address topical themes and recent developments in the world of the business lawyer and is suitable for:
- Solicitors,
- Barristers, and
- Other legal professionals with an interest and involvement in business law and practice.
Investment screening
Topics include:
- Pro-competitive business-law reform: Irish and EU developments,
- An overview of the current landscape on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD),
- Ireland’s inward-investment screening regime, which continues to be of significant practical relevance to lawyers advising on M&A transactions, and
- Anti-money-laundering and nominee companies in employee share schemes.
The chair of the Law Society’s Business Law Committee Eleanor Daly (director and associate general counsel global corporate at Meta) will chair the conference.
The speakers and panellists include:
- Anne Barrett (director of the inward-investment unit, Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment),
- Neil Keenan (partner, Pinsent Masons Ireland LLP),
- Suzanne Kearney (of counsel, Arthur Cox),
- Professor Deirdre Ahern (Professor in Law, director of technologies, law, and society research group, Trinity College Dublin),
- Paul Egan SC (of counsel, Mason Hayes and Curran),
- Philip Andrews SC (principal, Andrews Law), and
- Justin McKenna (partner, Mason Hayes and Curran).