Reducing risk in cross-border transactions
Sigmund Freud University Freudplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, AustriaReducing risk in cross-border transactions The Role of the Hague Choice of Court Convention 13 December 2018, 6 pm Sigmund Freud University Freudplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria Thomas John (ACIArb) Hague Conference on Private International Law, Permanent Bureau Thomas John works as Principal Legal Officer at the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Confe-rence of Private Internation Law. He will di-scuss identification of typical risks in cross-border transactions with a particular focus on certain transactional, litigation and enforce-ment risks typically encountered by parties. While domestic settings are used for compa-rison purposes, Thomas will concentrate on the international aspects of those risks, intro-ducing risk management and mitigation strategies, including as available under the 2005 Hague Choice of Court Convention which has entered...