Ensuring payment for international assignments by foreign trading partners
Join the Perth Branch for their Perth Branch In-Person and Livestream event: Ensuring payment for international assignments by foreign trading partners.
About this event
Australians are increasingly venturing into international trade and investment. In particular, in the Resources Industry, Australians are called upon for their expertise throughout the developed and developing world. Whether the Australian is to work as an individual consultant or as a complex contracting company or a small to medium enterprise (SME), it will be essential to ensure that the terms of the contract ensure that the Australian identity will be paid for the work performed.
International involvement in commercial relations entails both increased costs, risks and benefits. One important element of such additional risks is non-payment of debts: ie getting paid. The debtor may feel itself to be safely out of the creditor’s reach when across a sovereign border.
Should such a situation arise, whereby an Australian Enterprise or individual experiences such difficulties, what can be done? What mechanisms are available? and, are they effective?
This presentation will inform delegates on the essential steps to be taken to mitigate such risks.
Who should be interested?
- Anyone contemplating or working transboundary
- Anyone providing goods or services to foreign companies, governments, or individuals at home or transboundary
- Consultants
- Contractors
- Resource Managers
- Bankers
- Geologists
- Engineers
- Lawyers
- Exploration Personnel
- Academics
In-Person Program
5.00pm - 6.00pm: Pre-event networking
6.00pm - 7.00pm: Presentation
Livestream Program
6.00pm - 7.00pm: Livestream presentation
Speaker/s
EurIng Professor Colin Roberts
Colin is also a Professor at WASM: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering - Curtin University, a member of Raffles Chambers – London and Director of Natural Resource Geo‐Strategy (NRG), Resource Dispute Resolution (RDR), and the Centre for International Dispute Resolution (CIDR).
After military service, Colin started his resources career as a driller and then mining and petroleum engineer. He now specializes in dispute resolution, mitigation of sovereign risk, advising governments in resources law and policy and facilitation of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the resources, energy, and infrastructure sectors. Fifty percent (50%) of Colin’s time is donated pro bono publico.
Colin holds, and has held, numerous public and private directorships, and among others was for eight years, the Honorary Investment Consul for Pakistan in Australia, Authorized Emissary for the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) ‐ World Bank Group, Australian Consular Warden – Zambia, Past Chairman of the AusIMM‐WA, Past-Chairman of the Mining Institute of Scotland, Past‐Chairman of the Society of Petroleum Engineers–WA (SPE) and has served or is serving on committees and boards of Energy Resources Law (formerly AMPLA), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), Australian Institute of Energy (AIE), and others.
In his spare time, he serves as Patron of the International Bar Association (IBA), the AusIMM Professional Conduct Committee and the AusIMM Perth Branch Committee.
Location
Celtic Club
48 Ord Street
West Perth WA 6005
Monday, 10 February 2025
5.00pm – 7.00pm (UTC+08:00)
Date and Time
5.00pm – 7.00pm (UTC+08:00)
Cost
Member: Free
Non Member: Free
Livestream
Member: Free
Non Member: $40