Presentations

Kemsley is the current Chair of the IPBA Insurance Committee. Kemsley has over 30 years’ experience in acting for multinational insurers and reinsurers. He has been recognised as a leading individual in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific and recommended in Best Lawyers as a pre-eminent Australian Insurance Lawyer. Kemsley acts for corporate clients and Insurance based clients including Insurers, reinsurers, underwriting agencies and intermediaries Kemsley’s practice extends to insurance and reinsurance front end advisory and management of complex insurance disputes. With the front-end advisory work, Kemsley has acted for a number of insurers and reinsurers advising on complex insurance and reinsurance regulatory compliance issues including distribution agreements, Australian insurance operations and outsourcing, portfolio transfers and Royal Commissions. Kemsley advises corporates on the purchase of insurances and health-checks of their insurance programs and assisted in negotiating and drafting of insurance terms including endorsements and assessing the appropriateness of insurance covers for local and international programs and alternative risk transfer including captives and mutuals. Kemsley is also involved in advising Corporates in respect of the insurance aspects of due diligences arising out of IPOs, major share and asset sales, privatisation. Kemsley advises State and Commonwealth Governments on insurance and corporate risks; drafting insurance requirements; and review of and drafting of contracts and insurance provisions/terms.

Miriam Rose Ivan L. Pereira is a registered foreign lawyer licensed in the Philippines and the State of New York. She is Counsel and Co-Head of the International Dispute Resolution Practice Group at Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners in Tokyo, where she advises on international commercial transactions and represents clients in cross-border disputes and investigations.

She plays an active leadership role in the regional arbitration and legal community. She serves as Public Relations Officer and Advisory Board Member of the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association and is Co-Chair of the TMT Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association. She is also a member of ArbitralWomen, a co-founder of Energy Related Arbitration Practitioners – Japan, and an APAC Subcommittee Member of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge.

Christian Mayer is Co-Head of Noerr’s Regulatory & Governmental Affairs department and our Automotive & New Mobility practice group. He specialises in advising national and international companies on all regulatory matters in the areas of transport, energy and environment. This particularly includes all environmental aspects in transactions as well as ongoing advice on all site and product-related environmental law issues. Christian holds lectureships at the University of Stuttgart on “Environmental law & Regulation” and at the Technical University of Berlin on “Urban Planning & Mobility Law”. He is a member of the Advisory Board on Mobility Data of the Ministry of Transport Baden-Württemberg.

Ralph is an International Counsel in the Intellectual Property practice at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo.
He specialises in new technology law, intellectual property, media law, litigation and cross-border transactions in general.

He has a master’s degree in Natural Sciences and Chemical Engineering from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK and is a graduate of York College of Law. He completed the course of Homologation for Community Lawyers at the CEU San Pablo University and is a member of the Madrid Bar Association and the Law Society of England and Wales. Formerly a research process engineer at Unilever Research Ltd., Bedford, UK.

He has participated as author or coauthor in several specialised legal publications.