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Louise Groom specialises in Cayman Islands law. She has a broad range of onshore and offshore experience and regularly advises local and international banking and commercial clients on Cayman Islands legal aspects of finance transactions (secured lending, asset finance, project finance, acquisition finance and structured finance) and corporate transactions (corporate restructurings and reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, strategic joint ventures, takeovers and stock exchange listings). Prior to joining Harneys in 2011, Louise worked as an associate with Walkers in its Cayman office for 3 years.

Indira frequently advises on multi-million dollar transactions. Recent experience includes advising Delancey, the specialist real estate investment and advisory company, on its US$892 million acquisition of the London Olympic Village as a joint venture with Qatari Diar and advising the borrower in a real estate financing involving VTB France (S.A.) and Lesnaya Plaza in Moscow.

Nadia Tarolli Schmidt heads up the Basel office of VISCHER’s tax team. She advises companies and private individuals on all matters pertaining to Swiss tax law (including criminal tax law) – both in the national and international environment. She has over ten years’ experience in restructurings, relocations and succession planning.

Nancy Erotocritou joined the Cyprus office in 2007 and became a partner in 2011. She is a member of the Banking and Finance Department and advises major international banking institutions in project and asset finance transactions and security structures. Nancy also advises multinational companies in corporate law matters and has particular expertise in cross border mergers.

Arleen Nand is a structured finance partner at Faegre Baker Daniels LLP. She represents commercial, cooperative and investment banks, hedge funds and corporations in complex and innovative structured finance transactions.

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.