Saravana Kumar, CIO and Senior VP, Tata AIA Life

India’s life insurance market has grown rapidly in the last decade, but penetration in the country is still only 3.4 percent. Saravana Kumar explains how the insurance market has been changing, the potential for growth following the changes to limits on foreign investment, and what Tata AIA Life is doing to improve its penetration in India.

Krishnakumar Natarajan, Rostow Ravanan and Tridip Saha, Mindtree

India’s equity market is still very young but growing fast, which makes good governance and best-in-class practices especially important to inspire the market’s confidence. Krishnakumar Natarajan, Rostow Ravanan and Tridip Saha of technology solutions company Mindtree discuss the way corporate governance legislation is evolving, how effective adoption of technology can improve governance models, and its plans to develop its knowledge and expertise in local markets.

Lakshmi Kumaran, Founder and Managing Partner, Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan

Indian companies may once have been slow to protect their intellectual property rights, but a recent surge in filings of patents and designs show the country’s businesses are increasingly aware of the value of their IP. Lakshmi Kumaran discusses the importance of international businesses registering their patents in India, good practice for investors beginning a joint venture in the jurisdiction, and the fierce independence of the country’s judicial system.

Pedro Oller, Senior Partner, Oller Abogados

Costa Rica has been opening and expanding its economy since the 1990s, enacting significant free trade agreements and reforming its laws to enable international integration. Costa Rica’s business disputes, however, are still being resolved offshore. Pedro Oller has worked with the country’s government to reform their arbitration laws: he discusses his vision to make Costa Rica an arbitration hub in Latin America.

Richard W Silverthorn, Attorney, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek

The scale of today’s M&A transactions means corporate lawyers must call upon an incredible array of specialists – in tax, real estate, employment and anti-trust, to name but a few – to achieve a quality result for their clients. Richard W Silverthorn discusses the many strategic considerations of planning and executing a transaction, and the importance of experience and comprehensive due diligence.

Dr Victor Marroquin, Partner, Marroquin & Merino Abogados

The recent success of the Peruvian economy is being driven by light touch regulation of business creation, investment and acquisition. Dr Marroquin outlines Peru’s investor-friendly tax and regulatory regime, and updates us on the state of the local M&A market.