December 4, 2009
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 at the Taj Greenland
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)
• Strategies for Businesses Investing in India and the USA
• Alternate Dispute Resolution
• Infrastructure – The Emerging Landscape in India
• 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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Founded in 1876, the 76,000-member New York State Bar Association is
the official statewide organization of lawyers in New York and the
largest voluntary state bar association in the nation. The State
Bar’s programs and activities have continuously served the public
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