IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
4 Oct - 9 Oct 2026
B3 9+10, Level 0
Session information
Uber regulators: new supervisors, sanctions and shenanigans
Tuesday 6 October (1115 - 1230)
B3 9+10, Level 0
Committee(s)
Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee
(Lead)
IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit
Regulation of Lawyers Committee
Description
Professional services firms (lawyers, accountants, trustees and real estate dealers) increasingly have to report to, and face enforcement action from, general purpose financial regulators or supra-national agencies such as the new European Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA). A cultural and compliance clash in the making?
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Bradley Henry | Blank Rome, New York, New York, USA; Chair, Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee |
| Gary Hughes | Britomart Chambers, Auckland, New Zealand; Co-Chair, Regulation of Lawyers Committee |
| Paddy Oliver | AML Experts, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Vice Chair, Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee |
Speakers
| Noah Arshinoff | Federation of Law Societies of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Member, Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee |
| Colette Best | Kingsley Napley LLP, London, England; Member, Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Expert Subcommittee |
| Carolin Gardner | AMLA - The EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Hasan Mandviwalla | Mandviwalla & Zafar, Karachi, Pakistan; Scholarship Officer, Young Lawyers' Committee |
| Felix Obiamalu | Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, Abuja, Nigeria |