March 2

Event                 

Location

Cocktails & Dinner
                   

Welcome

Betty Temple, CEO and Chair, US - Womble Bond Dickinson (Greenville, SC)

Panel with Former Presidents from Guatemala and Ecuador

Moderated by José Luis Vittor, Head of Latin America Practice - Womble Bond Dickinson (Houston, TX)
            

Park Room

March 3

Event

Location

7:00 - 8:00 am

Breakfast          

8:00 - 8:10 am       

Welcome

Elizabeth Lee, Office Managing Partner, DC - Womble Bond Dickinson (Washington, D.C.)

8:10 - 9:00 am

Presentation by Alessandro Maffioli, Division Chief Development Effectiveness, Inter-American Development Bank

9:00 - 10:00 am           

Sustainable Finance: Impact, Risk and Opportunity in Bridging the Project Funding Gap

            
Moderated by Charlie Reid, Partner - Womble Bond Dickinson, (London, UK) 

            
Panelists:

            
Gonzalo Soriano, Principal Counsel at CAF- banco de desarrollo de América Latina, CAF

            
Salvador Villanueva, Vice President Emerging Markets Structuring - Goldman Sachs

            
Alice Burke, Associate General Counsel, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation - DFC
 

Kevin Curley, Director, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation - DFC

            
Panel Discussion Highlights:      

• What current structures are being used to finance projects in Latin America?             
• Are multilaterals essential to getting large projects to financial close?
• What are the barriers and opportunities in the current market?            
• What is the impact of ESG in financing new projects?                
• Are particular jurisdictions and sectors being prioritized?   

10:00 – 10:30 am

Break

10:30 – 11:30 am

Latin America’s Compliance Climate: Corporate Criminal Enforcement in LATAM
 

            
Moderated by Luke Cass, Partner - Womble Bond Dickinson (Washington, D.C.)

            
Panelists:         

Jonathan Slonim, Partner, Deputy General Counsel, Head of Americas Legal - McKinsey & Company           

Menaka Kalaskar, Legal Counsel - Palantir Technologies

Jisha Dymond, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer - OneTrust            

            
Panel Discussion Highlights:             

• What is the aftermath of the Lava Jato investigation?              
• What are the most critical compliance issues when analyzing new markets? 
• Given the DOJ’s focus on FCPA enforcement in Latin America, what can companies do to be prepared?           
• How do recent changes to DOJ’s corporate criminal enforcement policies affect companies in Latin America?              
• What do political changes in Latin America mean for the future of bi-lateral cooperation between the US and Latin America and how can companies prepare? 

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Networking Lunch

Park Room

1:00 – 1:45 pm

International Trade: Navigating Obstacles and Maximizing Opportunities
            
Moderated by Alan Enslen, Partner - Womble Bond Dickinson (Washington, D.C.)

            
Olinda Salguero, Executive Director of the Esquipulas Foundation for Peace, Democracy, Development and Integration - The Esquipulas Foundation 

Jorge Raúl Cruz, Executive Director - Esquipulas Foundation for Peace, Democracy, Development and Integration

Tim Phillips - Renaissance Evolution
 

           
Panel Discussion Highlights:         

• Appreciating key aspects of trade with the LATAM region from a public and private-sector perspective.                
• Identifying opportunities for LATAM – US trade due to applicable Free Trade Agreements and customs arrangements.       
• Understanding and Navigating US foreign investment (CFIUS) controls.   
• Developing supply chain strategies that maximize opportunities and limit risk.         
• Mitigating the global impacts of US export controls and economic sanctions programs. 

1:45 – 2:30 pm

Perspectives on the Latin American Energy Transition

            
Moderated by Lisa Rushton, Co-Head of Energy and Natural Resources Sector & Head of Renewable Energy Subsector - Womble Bond Dickinson (Raleigh, NC)

            
Panelists:

Mariano Juarez-Goñi, General Counsel - Petroquímica Comodoro Rivadavia S.A.

Guilherme Recena Costa, Head of Legal - Latin America at Barrick Gold Corp.

Silvia Carolina Lopez Rocha, Senior Energy Consultant, Energy & Extractives Global Practice - The World Bank

            
Panel Discussion Highlights:                

• What is the new energy matrix in Latin America?
• What are the most attractive projects and jurisdictions?
• What’s the timing of transition energy in Latin America?
• What are the regulatory changes? 

2:30 – 2:45 pm

Break

2:45 – 3:30 pm

A Volatile Global Cocktail and its Impact on M&A and Corporate Transactions in LATAM
 

           
Moderated by Francisco Balduzzi, Partner - Womble Bond Dickinson (Houston, TX)

            
Panelists:

            
Shannyn Piper-Rock, Counsel - Neste

            
Tulio Scaciatti, Head of Corporate Development, M&A / Strategy - Expro

            
Kathleen Dohmlo, Chief Counsel Americas - SABIC


Rosalía Martinez Rial, Vice President, BlackRock

              
Panel Discussion Highlights:             

• The war in Ukraine, tensions between US and China, and populist trends within the region, an interesting cocktail and its impact on the M&A and corporate transaction activity within Latin America.             
• What countries within the region may benefit of corporate transactions activities?              
• Under this scenario, what advice is provided to the board on M&A and corporate transactions?          
• Most common deal structures we are seeing in the region, cross border vs global transactions.                 
• Corporate transactions best practices and the current scenario.       

3:30 – 4:00 pm

LATAM Influence on US Economic Development

            
Dr. Juan José Daboub, President of the Board, ThinkHUGE