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Hedge Fund Regulation 2012 Agenda:

08.30 Registration

09.00 Conference welcome

09.05 Keynote address: Gareth Murphy, Director of Markets Supervision, Central Bank of Ireland

09.25 Financial Supervision in 2012 and Beyond the current wave of legislation

• What lies ahead: prospects for more regulation
• The costs of compliance: How to survive the regulatory burden
• The practitioner’s view – can smaller hedge funds stay afloat
• Winners and losers – which financial centres will dominate
• Systemic risk in 2013 – what are the regulators looking for?
Carine Delfrayssi, Deputy Head of International Affairs division, Association Française de la Gestion financière
Thomas Donegan, Partner, Shearman & Sterling
Steven Woolfe, General Counsel, Boyer Allen
Moderated by Nathan Greene, Partner, Shearman & Sterling

10:25 AIFM Directive: The Devil and the Detail - Assessing the business impact of Level 2 implementation

• Flashpoints looming
• Who is being targeted: the fund or the fund manager?
• Impact of domicility on registration
• How local regulators will interpret the rules
• Understanding the impact of the rising dominance of depositories
Jonathan Hebst, Partner, Norton Rose
Alexander Nightingale, Director, Legal , Blackrock
Achim Putz, Partner, Dechert
Moderated by Mark Berman, CEO, CompliGlobe

11.25 Morning coffee break

11.40 Hedge Fund Regulation and investors’ perspective: Unveiling a new set of standards

• Why the investor perspective matters
• Plugging the “best practice” gaps that regulation alone cannot achieve
• Managing priorities against a constantly changing regulatory backdrop
• Diverging attitudes in the US versus Europe
Thomas Deinet, Executive Director of the Hedge fund Standards Board
Robert Mirsky, Partner, KPMG
Moderated by Mark Berman, CEO, CompliGlobe

12.40 - 13.40 Lunch

13.40 Keynote address: Ed Harley, Head of Department, Asset Management, FSA

14.00 Insider Dealing: Navigating a way through the regulatory storm

• Common themes and the lessons to be learned from the recent crackdown
• Latest developments in the Market Abuse Directive
• Charting the SEC’s shifting focus under Dodd-Frank
• Drawing the line between a competitive edge and breaking the law
• When to settle and when to litigate
Jordan Thomas, Partner, Labaton Sucharow
Moderated by Nathan Greene, Partner, Shearman & Sterling

15.00 Afternoon tea break

15.15 US Financial Reform

• Identifying last minute problems arising from implementation of Dodd-Frank
• Assessing the relative merits of London versus the US
• The US regulatory outlook and how it might change under a Republican administration
• How London’s competitive edge might shift as Bank of England assumes oversight from SEC
Mark Berman, CEO, CompliGlobe
Nathan Greene, Partner, Shearman & Sterling

16.15 Bribery Act and Foreign and Corrupt Practices Act: latest developments

• Understanding the SFO’s approach and how it will impact hedge funds
• Practical tips for compliance
• After the US sweep on sovereign wealth funds... what happens next?
• The implications for European hedge funds
Barry Vitou, Partner, Pinsent Masons
Robert Amaee, Partner, Covington & Burling
Moderated by Mark Berman, CEO, CompliGlobe

17.15 Closing remarks and end of conference

Workshop: How to Navigate a Prime Brokerage Agreement, 24th January 2012
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The 3rd annual Hedge Fund Regulation conference will be held in conjunction with the workshop How to Navigate a Prime Brokerage Agreement on 24th January 2012. How to Navigate a Prime Brokerage Agreement explores relationship between hedge funds and prime brokers forms the core of and drives the alternative investment industry, and is at the heart of our financial markets. Neither could exist without the other. This partnership resolves around and is based on the prime brokerage agreement.

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