China Trade Conference Focuses on Dispute Avoidance and Resolution

BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Business and government leaders from Asia, the America and Europe are planning to attend “Dueling with Dragons -- Managing disputes wisely for business excellence,” the LexisNexis® Third Annual Conference on Dispute Avoidance and Resolution, on 13-14 October at the Swissotel Beijing.

The two-day conference will focus on topics critical to international business success, including managing Chinese disputes effectively, achieving better risk control and finding creative solutions to cross-border dispute resolution.

Conference chair Michael Diaz, Jr., managing partner, Diaz Reus & Targ, LLP, the exclusive platinum sponsor of the event, will focus on trends in international arbitration as a preferred form of dispute resolution in an increasingly global economy. “We expect a continued increase because of the perception that arbitrators are generally more knowledgeable about the nature of the dispute and less subject to bias or influence than the local courts,” he said.

Diaz noted the particular importance of effective dispute resolution in the growing volume of business transactions involving China and Latin America. He was the keynote speaker at first China-Latin America Business Summit held in November 2007 in Santiago, Chile.

One of the speakers at the two-day Beijing conference will be the senior official from the Supreme People’s Court of PRC, who will discuss “The Status Quo and Development of a Diversified Dispute Resolution Mechanism in China.” Yu Jianlong, secretary general, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) will focus on the outlook for China’s arbitration system.

Another key issue for multinational companies doing business in China is protection of intellectual property (IP) rights. Presenter Lucy Nichols, global director of intellectual property rights, Brand Protection, Nokia, noted, “An accurate knowledge and appreciation of China's dynamic legal environment is the key to preventing and satisfactorily resolving IP disputes in China.”

Conference presenter LexisNexis® is a leading provider of comprehensive information and business solutions to professionals in legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc (http://www.reed-elsevier.com/) , LexisNexis provides customers access to 5 billion searchable documents from more than 32,000 legal, news and business sources.

Miami-based Diaz Reus & Targ, LLP is a full-service international law firm with offices in Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The firm’s lawyers focus on international trade and business transactions and complex commercial, civil, and criminal litigation and arbitration matters.

For more information about the conference, contact Tracy Zhang at (8621) 52286122 * 113, (tracy.zhang@lexisnexis.com), Michael Diaz at (305) 375-9220, (mdiaz@diazreus.com), or Samantha Hu at shu@diazreus.com