Seminar | Commercial Litigation

FSA Enforcement: The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth....?
Tuesday 11th May 2004
at 222 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8XF

The Financial Services Group and the Litigation Department of SJ Berwin are holding a Breakfast Seminar for in-house lawyers and compliance professionals at Financial Services Authority authorised firms looking at the powers of the FSA and the rights of firms and how best to deal with FSA enforcement action.

Speakers
Craig Pollack (Chairman)
Partner
Litigation Department

Daniel Tunkel
Partner
Financial Services Group

Alex Leitch
Partner
Litigation Department

Ian Meade
Solicitor
Financial Services Group

Background
Two years on, the FSA has demonstrated its willingness to be the financial services industry's "enforcer". Its investigatory and enforcement powers are complex.

This seminar will

• provide an outline to the FSA's legal powers
  
• suggest effective and proper tactics to take from the time that the FSA starts an investigation
  
• explain the steps that in-house professionals should take to protect their advice with "privilege"

Timetable
08.30 Registration/Breakfast
08.45 Seminar begins
09.30 Questions & Answers
09.45 Seminar ends (Refreshments)

Programme

• Chairman's Introduction
  Craig Pollack
  
• The FSA's powers: theory and reality
  Ian Meade
  
• Help! Tactical approaches when an investigation is threatened or brought
  Alex Leitch
• Privilege in a financial services context: what is it and what does it protect?
  Daniel Tunkel

RSVP
For further information on this seminar please contact Dawn Haynes on +44 (0)20 7980 5340 or by email dawn.haynes@sjberwin.com