Global Business Law Review
*** Unfortunately, this symposium has been cancelled and rescheduled for the spring term. Thank you for your interest. ***
Symposium
International Finance after the Crash: Regional Responses to the Global Financial Crisis of 2009
Date: TBA
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
1801 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115-2223
(216) 687-2344
3.5 CLE Credits Approved
Advance Registration - $90 (by October 22)
Day-of Registration - $100
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Agenda
12:00 p.m. Registration
1:00-1:15 p.m. Mark Sundahl, Associate Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law: Introduction
Mark Sundahl is the author of numerous publications on international secured transactions, international finance, and commercial space law, and speaks frequently on these topics. He is also Of Counsel toYormick & Associates in Cleveland, Ohio on matters of international business. Professor Sundahl holds a B.A. from UCLA, a J.D. from HastingsCollege of Law at the University of California, and a Ph.D. from Brown University.
1:15-2:00 p.m. Robert Brown, Partner at Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald: Comparative Analysis of Financial Crises: John Law and Mississippi Scheme, South Sea Bubble, Tulipmania, 1929 Depression, October 1987, Asian Financial Crisis, Dot.bomb and 2008-2009 Crisis
Synopsis: Mr. Brown’s presentation will consider the similarities and differences between current and past financial crises. While much remains the same, there are significant differences which could have great significance for the US economy.
Based in the Louisville Office, Robert Brown is a member of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC. He advises on investments, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures for U.S. companies and foreign companies’ operations in the U.S., including manufacturing, distribution, sales, retail and wholesale operations. Chair of the firm’s China Team and International Team, he has also worked in London, New York City, Tokyo, San Francisco and San Diego. For the past 20 years, Mr. Brown has worked closely with companies as an investment banker and attorney, serving both in-house and as an outside advisor. He is admitted as an attorney in New York, Washington, D.C., California and Kentucky, and is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and in Hong Kong. From 1991-1993 he was admitted as a foreign lawyer in Japan. Mr. Brown has two PhD. degrees. The first was from Cambridge University in Japanese privatization, while the second one was from The London School of Economics and Political Science and dealt with Indonesian legal reforms and creditor relations. He also has a Masters degree from Jochi University in Tokyo, and an Advanced Accounting Certificate from Bellarmine University. During three years of law school, he earned J.D., M.B.A. and Masters Degrees from the University of Louisville. Mr. Brown has taught law and economics courses at the law schools of the University of San Francisco and University of California Berkeley, as well as business plan, managerial finance and economic courses at the school of business of Bellarmine University.
2:00-2:45 p.m. Bruce J. L. Lowe, Partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP: The Response to the Financial Meltdown in the UK and Europe
Synopsis: Mr. Lowe will describe the effects of the recent collapse of the financial markets in the United Kingdom and Europe and examine the regulatory responses that were taken in order to restore the health of the financial system. In the course of his presentation, he will share his insights as a commercial law and bankruptcy lawyer who witnessed the effects of the meltdown on the British business community and helped companies cope with the resulting challenges.
Bruce J.L. Lowe is a partner in the Cleveland office of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University in England. Mr. Lowe is a Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple, having graduated from the Inns of Court School of Law in London, England. He concentrates his practice in business bankruptcy, creditor's rights law and commercial litigation. Mr. Lowe has served as Honorary Legal Advisor to Her Majesty's Consul, and is currently Chair of the Great Lakes Region's British-American Chamber of Commerce and a member of the British-American Business Council as its Midwestern U.S. Regional Representative. He is also President of the Greater Cleveland International Lawyers Group. Mr. Lowe is a frequent speaker at bankruptcy and commercial, as well as real estate and litigation law, seminars. He has also lectured on the legal aspects of doing business in the U.K. Over a nearly 30-year period, Mr. Lowe has counseled and represented virtually every type of major constituent party in interest in complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court workouts, and complex construction, real estate, and commercial and business litigation matters.
2:45-3:00 p.m. Break
3:00-3:45 p.m. Daniel Chow, Joseph S. Platt-Porter Wright Morris & Arthur Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law: China's Response to the Global Financial Crisis
Synopsis: Professor Chow will discuss the response of the PRC central government to the global financial crisis through the use of a domestic stimulus package designed to stimulate domestic growth. The talk will include a discussion of China's economy, its weak points, how China's stimulus plan is designed to work, problems with the plan, and challenges.
Daniel Chow is the author of numerous books and articles relating to international business and trade, including casebooks on International Business Transactions (Aspen 2005), International Intellectual Property (West 2006), International Trade Law (Aspen 2008), and Doing Business in China (forthcoming West 2010). Professor Chow lived and worked in China during the late 1990s as in-house counsel for a large multi-national enterprise with substantial business operations in China, handling all legal issues arising in connection with the company’s foreign investment in China and protection of its intellectual property rights. He received his BA and JD degrees from Yale University.
3:45-4:30 p.m. Isam Salah, Partner at King & Spalding: The Response to the Financial Crisis in the Middle East
Synopsis: Mr. Salah will discuss the impact of the financial crisis on the business environment in the Middle East, including the impact on Islamic financial institutions and investment companies. Particular attention will be given to examining whether these financial institutions and investment companies, which operate in accordance with principles of Islamic Shari'ah, responded differently than conventional institutions to these economic forces.
Isam Salah is a senior finance partner in King & Spalding’s New York and Dubai offices, and heads up the firm’s Middle East & Islamic Finance Practice Group. His practice covers a broad range of international and domestic finance and investment matters, with particular emphasis for the past fifteen years on the structuring of Shari’ah-compliant finance and investment transactions. His work in this area has included the first, and more than a dozen, Shari’ah-compliant financings for private equity investments, the utilization of a Rule 144a high-yield note offering to fund the Shari-ah-compliant financing of private equity investment, several billion dollars worth of Shari’ah-compliant property investments, the implementation of the first Euro-Sukuk transaction on behalf of a corporate issuer, the structuring of mezzanine and junior secured property financings (securitized and rated), and the structuring of a home mortgage product. Mr. Salah is a frequent writer and speaker on the topic of Islamic finance and investment. He is a former President of the Arab Bankers Association of North America. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University, Mr. Salah received his law degree from Cleveland State University, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cleveland State Law Review. He received his LL.M from Georgetown University, where he held a fellowship at that University’s International Law Center.
4:30-5:00 p.m. Panel Discussion
5:00 p.m. Reception