PROGRAMME FOR LONDON AIJA SEMINAR

IN MAY 2009

MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE MODERN INTERNATIONAL FAMILY

Thursday. 7th May 2009

At the offices of Withers LLP (Auditorium, lunch and refreshments booked) - to be

chaired by Christian Montana, Felipe Faltay Katz de Castro and Ville Salonen

8.30 – 9.00 a.m. Registration and Welcome – by Saverio Lembo, Geneva

The Married Family

9.00–9.30 a.m. Cross jurisdictional divorces – Anna Worwood of Manches LLP

and Charles Hale, Counsel, 4 Paper Buildings, London

9.30–10.40 a.m. Cross jurisdictional succession – Paola Fudakowska of Withers LLP

(20 minutes) followed by a discussion led by a panel comprising 4
other non-UK lawyers (50 minutes) including Ian Edge, Counsel,
London, Nicholas Lobenthal of Teitler and Teitler, New York,
Diane Nijkamp of Brada Kuttner, Netherlands and Alessia Paoletto
of Withers LLP

10.40-11.00 a.m. Coffee

The Unmarried Family

11.00am-12.30 What happens on relationship breakdown? (property rights,

p.m. financial provision for children and same sex couples) – Eliza
Hebditch of Farrer & Co LLP (40 minutes) and two other non-UK
AIJA members, TBC from France, (20 minutes), and TBC from
Sweden, (20 minutes) followed by questions (10 minutes)

12.30-1.40 p.m. Lunch

1.40–2.20 p.m. What happens on death? (Inheritance Act, forced heirship, and
guardianship)– Ruth Holtham, Counsel, of Serle Court (30
minutes) and Eliza Hebditch of Farrer & Co LLP (10 minutes)

The High Net Worth Family

2.20 – 3.10 p.m. Pre Nuptial Agreements and other protective measures – Anna
Worwood of Manches LLP and Michael Bradley, junior counsel, of
1 Hare Court (20 minutes) and two other non-UK AIJA members,
John Teitler of Teitler and Teitler New York, (15 minutes), and
Rudiger Bock, Lugano, Switzerland, (15 minutes)

3.10 – 3.30 p.m. Tea

3.305 – 5.00 p.m. Wealth Protection Structures and Family Office – Madeleina
Loughrey-Grant of Farrer & Co LLP (Wealth Protection Structures
London and Dublin) together with Stefan Wenaweser of Marxer

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and Partner, Liechtenstein, Patricia Milner of Withers LLP (Family

Office London), and Justine Markovitz (Family Office Geneva)

Friday, 8th May 2009

Late breakfast at Manches LLP and sightseeing trip of City

Responsibility for this programme lies with the organising committee consisting of four
lawyers from three leading London law firms:-

· Anna Worwood, of Manches LLP specialist in Family Law

· Paola Fudakowska, and Henrietta Mason, of Withers LLP specialists in Contentious
Trusts and Succession
· Eliza Hebditch of Farrer & Co LLP specialist in Family Law
· Madeleina Loughrey-Grant of Farrer & Co LLP specialist in International Private
Client

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