Efficient risk management requires legal services aligned with your corporation's business objectives. This lunch seminar is an event entirely devoted to commercial perspectives on dispute resolution, with a particular focus on pro-active dispute management and dispute avoidance. It is designed to give you the correct tools for a pro-active risk management in a commercial context, including:

‧ A checklist on how to avoid commercial disputes when entering into new commercial ventures

‧ How to best be prepared should a dispute arise.

Annette Magnusson is the Secretary General of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC). She joined SCC from Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra (Stockholm) in 2010. At Mannheimer Swartling she was a member of the dispute resolution group. Previously she headed strategic planning of knowledge management at Baker &McKenzie in Sweden. Magnusson was SCC legal counsel and later SCC Deputy Secretary General from 1998 to 2005. She earned her LLM at Stockholm University in 1998 and her BA/BSc at the University of Gothenburg in 1991. She is the author or editor of several publications on international arbitration. In addition, she is a member of the Research Panel for Arbitration Law at the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law and a frequent lecturer.

Nils Eliasson specializes in international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. Based in Hong Kong, Eliasson is responsible for Mannheimer Swartling's Asian dispute resolution practice. He is a Council member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). Eliasson has acted as counsel or arbitrator in disputes encompassing joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, supply agreements, construction, infrastructure and engineering, license disputes, professional services, telecommunications, energy, real estate, insurance and other areas. He has experience of disputes governed by various different national legal systems, including Austrian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hong Kong, Indian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Malaysian, Russian, Singaporean, Swedish, Swiss, Ukrainian, U.S. (New York), and Vietnamese. He holds a Doctor of law (Jur.dr.) degree from the University of Lund.