EMPLOYING PEOPLE ABROAD 2015

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1 26 OCTOBER 2015, COPENHAGEN EMPLOYING PEOPLE ABROAD 2015 PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO NEW CHALLENGES FOR INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYERS

2 EMPLOYING PEOPLE ABROAD 2015 PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO NEW CHALLENGES FOR INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYERS After the successful conferences in 2010 with Novo Nordisk, in 2011 with ISS and in 2013 with Carlsberg, Norrbom Vinding is very pleased to announce a new international HR legal conference. This year, the conference is organised in partnership with Coloplast. The challenges facing HR change on a daily basis. What seemed obvious yesterday may be a major issue today, and what nobody had heard of last week may be a new way to move forward tomorrow. The legislative landscape changes and employers have to change with it, given that human resources are indeed the most important resource of most employers. For example, employers may suddenly find that the scope for keeping former employees away from competitors for a period of time in a certain country has changed dramatically, or that the protection they have against indiscreet or malicious employees in one country simply does not exist in the next country. Businesses work in an increasingly integrated way in a modern and globalised world, and they need to have focus on and an understanding of the differences between countries when it comes to protecting their own trade secrets, know-how as well as other internal and confidential information. In a globalised world, it does not help international employers much if they enjoy sufficient protection in one country, but not in the next country. To increase awareness and knowledge, Coloplast and Norrbom Vinding invite you to a one-day conference at the National Museum of Denmark, Ny Vestergade 10, 1471 Copenhagen K, Denmark. At the conference, highly experienced and specialised speakers and panellists will address the above issues and discuss practical and hands-on solutions to the various challenges facing HR today. Our aim is to provide you with inspiration on how to deal with the challenges and issues arising in your day-to-day work.

3 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME NON-COMPETE CLAUSES ACROSS THE GLOBE What has changed since 2011? Implementation of non-compete clauses in 20+ countries practical considerations, experience and advice from the LEGO Group CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND TRADE SECRETS: INTRODUCTION WHAT ARE THE ISSUES FROM AN EMPLOYER S PERSPECTIVE? How do we define confidential information? How do we protect it from an everyday and practical perspective? How do we protect it from a legal perspective? How worried should we be? CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND TRADE SECRETS: IS THERE A UNIVERSAL DEFINITION? Is there common ground between the countries? Are some countries good and others "not so good" when it comes to protecting confidential information and trade secrets? Do most countries have rules or practices in place? Is it possible to effectively enforce such rules or practices? CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION IN A CROSS-BORDER PERSPECTIVE: CAN WE IMPLEMENT A GLOBAL POLICY AND MAKE IT WORK, BOTH LEGALLY AND IN PRACTICE? How should it be phrased? Could we use a common basis and then add countryspecific provisions? Can we implement it worldwide? Can we enforce it worldwide? Should we refrain from even trying? IF WE DO NOT HAVE A GLOBAL POLICY ON CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION, OR IF THE GLOBAL POLICY DOES NOT WORK IN PRACTICE, HOW SHOULD WE HANDLE SUCH INFORMATION? Should we set up internal rules in order to keep such information in specific jurisdictions? Should we limit the number of employees involved? Should we set up national rules or rely on national legislation? CODE OF CONDUCT WHY DO WE NEED IT? What international aspects does a code of conduct involve? What specific issues should be considered? How do we avoid problems? PRACTICAL ADVICE ON IMPLEMENTING A GLOBAL CODE OF CONDUCT Who should start? Who should be involved in the process? How do we share ownership throughout an international organisation? Should employees be involved and how? How can we evaluate the code of conduct and keep it up-to-date? HOT TOPICS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT What s new and where? Which trends do we see? What do we expect in the near and perhaps not so near future? What should we prepare for? The above issues will be discussed by experienced professionals from Coloplast A/S, LEGO System A/S, A.P. Møller Mærsk A/S and FLSmidth A/S together with HR law experts from Norrbom Vinding and the Ius Laboris firms in France, Germany, Hong Kong, the US and the UK. This will truly be a day of discussion and input from across the world.

4 SPEAKERS AND PANELLISTS CLAUS LUNDBÆK OTTOSEN Attorney-at-Law, Coloplast A/S (Denmark) SIGNE ELBÆK Corporate Compliance Officer, Coloplast A/S (Denmark) KARINA TEWES Head of Headquarters HR and HR Legal, A.P. Møller Mærsk A/S (Denmark) JEPPE KROMANN HAARSTED Global Compliance Manager, FLSmidth A/S (Denmark) NIKOLAJ HOÉ KOUSGAARD Corporate Counsel, LEGO System A/S (Denmark) JEAN-MICHEL MIR Lawyer, Capstan (France) JAMES DAVIES Lawyer, Lewis Silkin (UK) DR. ALEXANDER ULRICH Lawyer, Kliemt & Vollstädt (Germany) TIMOTHY L. WILLIAMS Lawyer, FordHarrison (US) SCOTT ANDERSON Lawyer, Lewis Silkin (Hong Kong) MORTEN LANGER Lawyer, Norrbom Vinding (Denmark) ELSEBETH AAES-JØRGENSEN Lawyer, Norrbom Vinding (Denmark) YVONNE FREDERIKSEN Lawyer, Norrbom Vinding (Denmark)

5 The conference will take place in Copenhagen on 26 October The conference begins at 9:00, but you are welcome to join us from 8:30 for a light breakfast. The conference programme ends at 17:00, followed by drinks, snacks and an opportunity to network. After that, you are invited to join a guided tour of the Danish Prehistory 13,000 BC 1015 AD collection, exploring Denmark s earliest history and exhibiting treasures from the Viking campaigns, well preserved bog bodies and the unique 3400-year-old Sun Chariot. The tour will take approx. one hour. Registration fee: DKK 2,425 / EUR 325. There are no additional charges. The conference venue is the National Museum of Denmark, Ny Vestergade 10, 1471 Copenhagen K, Denmark. The National Museum of Denmark is located at the heart of Copenhagen within easy reach from Copenhagen Airport (only minutes by taxi or approx. 30 minutes by Metro). For more details about the conference programme, speakers, venue, etc., please contact Dorthe Pihl at (+45) or dpi@norrbomvinding.com, or see our website To register for the conference, please complete the registration form and send it to Dorthe Pihl. Alternatively, you can your name, title and company name, address and phone number to dpi@norrbomvinding.com. If you register by , please also inform us if you will need a certificate of attendance and if you would like to participate in the guided tour. REGISTRATION FORM Name: Title: Company name: Address: Phone: The conference will take place on 26 October 2015 from 9:00 to 17:00 at the National Museum of Denmark, Ny Vestergade 10, 1471 Copenhagen K, Denmark. Registration fee: DKK 2,425 / EUR 325 Payment will be made in: Participation in guided tour: I would like a certificate of attendance: DKK YES YES EUR NO NO Registration can be made by: dpi@norrbomvinding.com Fax: Letter: Norrbom Vinding Attn.: Dorthe Pihl Dampfærgevej 26 PO Box Copenhagen Denmark

6 COLOPLAST FACTS Coloplast develops products and services that make life easier for people with very personal and private medical conditions. Working closely with the people who use our products, we create solutions that are sensitive to their individual needs. We call this intimate healthcare. Our business includes ostomy care, urology and continence care, and wound and skin care. We operate globally with representation in more than 42 countries, employing more than 10,000 people. NORRBOM VINDING FACTS Norrbom Vinding was established in 1998 by a team of 11 experienced labour and employment lawyers and dedicated support staff. Our unique expertise builds on more than 30 years experience within labour and employment law. The core group of our lawyers are among those who pioneered and developed the area as a separate discipline for private practice lawyers in Denmark in the 1980s. Today Norrbom Vinding is the largest HR law practice in Scandinavia and considered the market leader in Denmark. Acting exclusively for the management/employer side, our advice is firmly rooted in an understanding of management and commercial realities and is tailored to safeguard each client s interests in terms of image, internal environment, public and media relations and all other relations of importance to the client. With a client base that is a mix of national and international clients in the private and public sectors, we have a strong international profile and are a member of Ius Laboris, Global HR Lawyers, which makes us ideally suited to advise on cross-border issues. IUS LABORIS FACTS Established in 2001, Ius Laboris is an alliance of leading law firms providing specialist advice on labour and employment law as well as pensions. With more than 1,300 employment lawyers in 47 countries, we bring a genuinely cross-border perspective. With 24% more ranked HR lawyers than our nearest rival, in 10% more jurisdictions, Ius Laboris brings together more leading law firms than any other HR legal services organisation, delivering a seamless integrated service.