Three tracks.
One forum.
GLF 2027 runs three parallel deep-tracks. Pick the path that matches your practice, and meet the rest of the legal world at the keynotes, plenaries and receptions in between.
The General Counsel &
In-House Counsel Forum.
The flagship in-house room: General Counsel, Chief Legal Officers and Heads of Legal on the questions that define the modern legal function.
Strategy, AI, geopolitics, ESG and the boardroom, plus the closed-door roundtables, under the Chatham House Rule, where the real benchmarking happens.
Who is in this room
- → Group General Counsel & Chief Legal Officers
- → Heads of Legal and deputy GCs with regional mandates
- → Heads of Legal Operations & Legal Tech
- → Sanctions, trade compliance and ESG leads
- → Managing partners who serve them
The dossiers on every GC's desk in 2027.
The GC as strategist
The mandate beyond legal: risk, AI and the boardroom, and what that means for the modern legal function.
AI governance from the legal seat
Policy, risk, adoption and board reporting, from first principles to the hardest questions.
Geopolitics, sanctions & export controls
The in-house risk agenda: sanctions architecture, trade controls and supply-chain exposure.
ESG in practice: CSRD & CSDDD
The compliance reality of Europe's sustainability regime, from reporting to due-diligence duties.
The GC and the board
Crisis, reputation and the hardest moments in the boardroom.
Running a modern legal function
Team design, budgets, legal ops, legal spend and getting more from outside counsel.
Data protection, cyber & NIS2
Where the GC is exposed, and how in-house teams are building a defensible posture.
Disputes, investigations & the regulator
Dawn raids, whistleblowing, investigations, and managing litigation as a global portfolio.
Closed-door GC roundtables
Chatham House peer exchange, by invitation. The conversations General Counsel cannot have elsewhere.
The IP Forum.
Two days for the UPC bar, patent partners and in-house IP counsel: patents, the UPC and the global patent map.
The Unified Patent Court has hit critical mass. Generative AI has broken copyright doctrine. FRAND is being set worldwide. The questions you'll be asked in 2027 get worked here first, from Europe to the US, India and the Gulf.
Who is in this room
- → UPC litigators & patent partners
- → Heads of IP at pharma, tech, automotive & brands
- → SEP & standards licensing teams
- → Trademark & brand enforcement counsel
- → AI & data licensing specialists
The IP dossiers everyone will cite next year.
The UPC in practice
Winning (and resisting) a UPC preliminary injunction, parallel proceedings, and coordinating the UPC, national courts and EPO oppositions.
Forum choice in Europe, 2027
UPC vs Germany, the Netherlands and the UK: where European patent litigation is actually being filed.
Patenting AI at the EPO
Machine learning, AI-discovered molecules, biomarkers and materials: what counts as technical now.
SEPs & global FRAND
FRAND rate-setting after the withdrawn EU Regulation, and who sets the world's rate: China, the US, Europe or India.
Pharma, SPCs & the unitary SPC
Term, scope and the CJEU's moving line, plus the biosimilar and generics calendar.
Cracking the US
Hatch-Waxman and the patent dance, US patent litigation for Europeans, and US trade secrets (DTSA).
India & the Gulf
The generics and pharma powerhouse, Section 3(d), and the GCC and India as emerging IP and market-entry powerhouses.
Generative AI & IP
Copyright, training data and the litigation wave reshaping the field.
Trademarks, designs & enforcement
Brand protection, online enforcement and the DSA.
The Employment
Law Forum.
For cross-border employment partners and senior in-house employment counsel, anchored to the CIELA certification. CPD accreditation applied for.
Pay transparency, AI at work, platform work, restructuring across borders and global mobility. Employment law has stopped being a back-office function and become a board-level conversation. This track is where that conversation happens.
Who is in this room
- → Heads of Employment & Workplace Law at multinationals
- → Partners with cross-border employment practices
- → CHROs with legal & compliance mandates
- → Restructuring & labour specialists
- → Pay equity & whistleblowing compliance leads
The future of work, on the legal record.
EU Pay Transparency Directive: one year in
Audit-ready pay-gap playbooks, reporting mechanics and where employers are most exposed. CIELA CPD applied for.
AI in hiring, management & monitoring
The EU AI Act inside the employment relationship: high-risk duties, algorithmic management, works councils. CIELA CPD applied for.
The Platform Work Directive & the gig economy
Member-state transposition and the presumption of employment in practice.
The cross-border & remote workforce
Posting of workers, mobility, immigration and remote-first compliance.
Restructuring & redundancies across borders
Collective consultation, transfers and reorganisation handled across several jurisdictions at once.
Pay equity, DEI & the shifting landscape
The legal record on pay equity and DEI, and where the law is heading.
Whistleblowing & workplace investigations
Investigations, retaliation risk and protecting the business on exit, including non-competes.
Business, human rights & the workforce
CSDDD, forced labour and supply-chain due diligence.
The great talent redirect & the future of work
US immigration shifts, what European employers inherit, and the 2030 outlook. Plus the CIELA masterclass and certification pathway.
A single delegate pass unlocks every track, every keynote, every reception.
Day one is a shared common programme; on day two, choose your room, and move as the agenda demands. Lock in your seat at €595 before 31 October.
Register at €595 →