{"id":24767,"date":"2021-01-11T12:37:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T12:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/?page_id=24767"},"modified":"2021-03-26T10:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:56:50","slug":"business-beyond-covid-19-8-00am-uk-session","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/webinars-home\/business-beyond-covid-19-8-00am-uk-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Beyond Covid-19: 08.00am (UK) Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\">On 25 January 2021 join business and legal leaders from a real rainbow of united nations, including Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and USA, to conclude the 2020-21 <span style=\"color: #4472c4\"><b>Business Beyond Covid-19<\/b><\/span> online event series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Over the past year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/\"><b>The Legal 500<\/b><\/a> joined with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-blended-capital-group\/\"><b>The Blended Capital Group<\/b><\/a> to host a dynamic debate and exploration of how business in different countries across the world has mitigated the seemingly never-ending uncertainty and risks of the Global Pandemic. Now, in our closing session before offering recommendations to the <a href=\"https:\/\/worldinvestmentforum.unctad.org\/\"><b>UN World Investment Forum<\/b><\/a> we are exploring how business worldwide is preparing for a vaccine-driven return to a new form of reality, hopefully, during an improving 2021.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"western\">Leading legal minds<\/h2>\n<p class=\"western\">The online event series was kicked off by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mervynking.co.za\/\"><b>Judge Professor Mervyn King<\/b><\/a> of South Africa and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/paul-watchman-a9762614\/\"><b>Professor Paul Q. Watchman<\/b><\/a>, from the UK where he was a former Senior Partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Both Professors have kindly supported the on-line series from the start and will help deliver final recommendations to a forthcoming on-line event supporting the <span style=\"color: #4472c4\"><b>UN<\/b><\/span> global investment event. You will be advised of the<b> <\/b><span style=\"color: #4472c4\"><b>UN<\/b><\/span> event date\/time shortly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Respecting time zones ranging from Tokyo to San Francisco we will convene the event twice during the day at 8.00am (UK) and then again at 3.00pm (UK).<\/p>\n<h2>REGISTER<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_IKQITQ9dQfqzssoHzkDt5g\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">For the 8.00am session click here<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_b5cXRSoHSOu8vWB3R8b9bg\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">For the 3.00pm session click here<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"western\">Earlier debate<\/h2>\n<p class=\"western\">For a flavour of the earlier debate in 2020, including event videos and a thought-leader paper visit the dedicated <span style=\"color: #4472c4\"><b>Business Beyond Covid-19 website<\/b><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/businessbeyondcovid19.org\/\"><b>here<\/b><\/a><span style=\"color: #4472c4\"><b>.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">We would like to acknowledge our generous supporters throughout the global series including:<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org.za\/\"><b>United Nations South Africa<\/b><\/a><span style=\"color: #4472c4\"><b>;<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ocglobal.jp\/\"><b>Oriental Consultants Global Co., Ltd.<\/b><\/a><span style=\"color: #4472c4\"><b> (Japan); <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mwezi.org\/\"><b>Mwezi Co., Ltd.<\/b><\/a><span style=\"color: #4472c4\"><b> (Kenya); <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"https:\/\/futurefitbusiness.org\/\"><b>Future-Fit Foundation<\/b><\/a><span style=\"color: #4472c4\"><b> (UK Charity); <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/\"><b>The Tony Elumelu Foundation<\/b><\/a><span style=\"color: #4472c4\"><b> (Nigeria); <\/b><\/span>and<b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.busa.org.za\/\"><b>Business Unity South Africa<\/b><\/a><span style=\"color: #4472c4\"><b> (BUSA SA).<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Click below to register for the 8.00am session<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 January 2021 join business and legal leaders from a real rainbow of united nations, including Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and USA, to conclude the 2020-21 Business Beyond Covid-19 online event series. Over the past year, The Legal 500 joined with The Blended Capital Group to host a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/webinars-home\/business-beyond-covid-19-8-00am-uk-session\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Business Beyond Covid-19: 08.00am (UK) Session&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":20789,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24767","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26277,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24767\/revisions\/26277"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}