40th IBA International Financial Law Conference
7 May - 9 May 2025
Session information
Committee(s)
Banking & Financial Law Committee
(Lead)
Securities and Capital Markets Committee
(Lead)
Description
Dramatically changing geopolitical environment fuels rapidly increasing military spendings in many countries. In addition to increasing their budgetary spendings, states are looking for additional sources of financing military equipment and boosting their defence industries, including the use of commercial debt financing, often backed by ECAs and IFIs, but also subsidies or grants from dedicated military financing programs.
The panellists will explore, among others, the interplay of public and private funding for military investments, the increasing role of financial institutions as well as specifics of such sovereign debt financing structures and ways to unlock private funding for defence industry players.
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Ellen-Teresa Heyerdahl | Thommessen , Oslo, Norway; Chair, Financial Innovations Subcommittee |
| Lukasz Szegda | Wardynski & Partners, Warsaw, Poland; Young Lawyers' Committee Liaison Officer, Banking & Financial Law Committee |
Speakers
| Arild Bakås | Eksfin, Oslo, Norway |
| Tom Longmuir | Ashurst LLP, Paris, France |
| Anette Stavem Høgmoen | Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, Oslo, Norway |