Bird & Bird at the International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference - Mexico 2024

Our team is comprised of lawyers from various practices and sectors from several of our offices. They are all looking forward to meeting, sharing knowledge, and building business with you during the conference.

We are delighted to announce that some of our partners will be speaking at or chairing the following sessions:

• Monday 16th September (14:30-15:45) Bird & Bird at the International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference – Jalal El Ahdab Co-Chair
  
• Tuesday 17th September (11:15-12:30) Mediation for construction disputes: is it successful? What does it take? - Jalal El Ahdab Co-Chair
  
• Wednesday 18th September (11:15-12:30) Emerging digital regulations: first lessons learned on the DSA, DMA, Data Act, AI act – Hein Hobbelen Co-Chair
  
• Wednesday 18th September (14:30-15:45) An Olympic year, the football World Cup around the corner and what's next - Jalal El Ahdab Speaking

Our attendees:

Dr. Matthias Lang, Partner, Commercial, Germany
Hein Hobbelen, Partner, Commercial, Belgium 
Jalal El Ahdab, Partner, Dispute Resolution, France
Joaquin Muñoz, Partner, Commercial, Spain
Luis Alfonso Fernández Manzano, Partner, Dispute Resolution, Spain
Mariano Santos, Partner, Intellectual Property, Spain

About us

• More than 1,600 lawyers in 32 offices globally
  
• Leading-edge expertise across a full range of legal services, with a particular focus on technology driven, IP-rich and regulated industries
  
• Specialists in cross border and multi-jurisdictional work
  
• Excellent at managing complex projects across multiple regions with a seamless one-firm approach

Our Practices

Our teams work across 17 international practice groups:

• Banking & Finance
  
• Commercial
  
• Competition & EU
  
• Corporate
  
• Dispute Resolution/ Intl. Arbitration
  
• Franchising
  
• Infrastructure
  
• International HR Services
  
• Intellectual Property
  
• Outsourcing
  
• Privacy & Data Protection
  
• Public Projects & Procurement
  
• Real Estate
  
• Restructuring & Insolvency
  
• Tax
  
• Trade & Customs
  
• Transformational Projects

Our Sector Focus

By choosing to focus on specific industries, our lawyers are able to build up considerable knowledge of the commercial drivers unique to an industry.

• Automotive
  
• Defence & Security
  
• Financial Services
  
• Life Sciences & Healthcare
  
• Retail & Consumer
  
• Aviation & Aerospace
  
• Energy & Utilities
  
• Hotels, Hospitality & Leisure
  
• Media, Entertainment & Sport
  
• Technology & Communications

Bird & Bird Plus

In countries where we do not have an office, we utilise our Bird & Bird Plus programme which taps into longstanding relationships with 500+ recommended firms across 175+ jurisdictions.

Our global offices regularly coordinate multijurisdictional work with local firms.

We also have over 20 geographical steering groups which include Africa, APAC, Greece & Cyprus, India, Israel, Middle East, Nordics, and North America.

If you would like to learn more about Plus, please find our page on the link here.