FIRE Starters Global Summit: Dublin

Connect with the Next Generation of FIRE - just £799 per ticket, or £665 each for group bookings.
25th - 27th February 2026 | Conrad Hotel, Dublin, Ireland

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Agenda

Wednesday 25th February 2026 Thursday 26th February 2026 Friday 27th February 2026

Registration & Networking Welcome
1.30pm

FIRE Starters Committee Welcome Remarks
1.50pm

FIRE Up Your Career: Build Your Own Brand
2.00pm

  • Importance of cross-jurisdictional collaboration and trusted relationships
  • Leveraging professional organizations and informal networks
  • The value of curiosity, adaptability, and saying yes to the right challenges

The Evolving Landscape: Fraud, Insolvency, and Enforcement in a Changing World
2:40pm

  • What current macroeconomic conditions mean for asset recovery work
  • How geo-political changes will impact your work
  • Impacts of "Failure to Prevent Fraud" Offence
  • Legal developments driving convergence — or divergence — between jurisdictions

Networking & Refreshment Break
3.20pm

Industry Focus: Litigation against Banks
3.40pm

  • Banking law knowledge to be aware of for asset recovery professionals
  • Impacts of virtual systems
  • Compliance procedures
  • Civil liability for money laundering

How Technology Has Impacted Enforcement Procedures
4.20pm

  • Understanding the influence technology has on cross-border enforcement
  • Digitalisation of court processes
  • Legal frameworks for digital assets

Committee Summation & Close of Day 1
5.00pm

Welcome Drinks Reception
5.10pm

Women in FIRE Dinner
7.30pm

Allies welcome! 

Register Interest

Registration & Morning Refreshments
9.00am

FIRE Starters Committee Opening Remarks
9.30am

Keynote Session
9.40am

Ethical Dilemmas in Asset Recovery
10.30am

  • Balancing aggressive recovery tactics with legal and ethical boundaries
  • Confidentiality, privilege, and data protection in international investigations
  • Managing conflicts of interest

Networking & Refreshment Break
11.20am

Workshop Sessions
11.50am

Build your own agenda! Choose one of the following themed streams:

Workshop A -
Practitioners of the Future
Workshop B -
101 on Asset Recovery
Workshop C -
Navigate the International World

What Tools Are Out There for FIRE Practitioners

Protecting Your Assets - Applying for Interim Relief

A Transatlantic Conversation
  • Tracing assets through corporate insolvency and liquidation
  • Appointment of receivers and liquidators in multi-jurisdictional contexts
  • Disclosure orders with third parties
  • Using international cooperation mechanisms to assist you
  • The opportunity and limitations of applying for relief in aid of arbitration
  • Strategies for urgent court orders
  • Effectively ensure a freezing order once granted
  • Efforts toward transatlantic standard-setting or best-practice models
  • How insolvency, fraud enforcement, and recovery laws differ across the EU, UK, and US
  • Practical challenges in coordinating with foreign courts and regulators

Networking & Lunch Break
12.40pm

Workshop Sessions
1.40pm

Build your own agenda! Choose one of the following themed streams:

Workshop A -
Practitioners of the Future
Workshop B -
101 on Asset Recovery
Workshop C -
Navigate the International World

Women in FIRE

(allies are welcome!)

Mastering Asset Freezing Strategies

  

Enhancing Your Cross-Border Enforcement Strategy
  • Career progression without compromise
  • Finding the right people to champion your growth
  • Dealing with difficult cases, emotional toll, and work-life boundaries
  • Criminal vs. civil freezing mechanisms
  • Steps to protect assets in the run up to insolvency
  • Evidential requirements for obtaining freezing orders

     
  • Effectively enforce judgements and arbitral awards across borders
  • Updates on the Hague Judgments Convention 2019
  • Using key multilateral conventions and their impact on enforcement
  • Distinguish between civil law common law approaches

Workshop Sessions
2.30pm

Build your own agenda! Choose one of the following themed streams:

Workshop A -
Practitioners of the Future
Workshop B -
101 on Asset Recovery
Workshop C -
Navigate the International World

Your day-to-day life using AI

Leveraging Technology in Asset Recovery

 Working Towards International Cooperation
  • Practical experiences with everyday use cases
  • The most efficient way to use AI
  • The future impacts of using AI in the legal industry
  • How technologies can be used for asset tracing
  • Managing large volumes of evidence
  • Gathering intelligence and finding publicly available information
  • Understanding the varying approach in civil and common law jurisdiction
  • The complexities of cross-border judgements
  • Using mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs) effectively
  • Navigating conflicting international laws and asset tracing hurdles

 

 

 

Networking & Refreshment Break
3:20pm

All about Sovereign & States Dispute and Enforcement
3:50pm

  • Practical considerations with enforcing judgments and awards against states
  • Legal examples of going against sovereigns and states
  • Recovering assets linked to sovereign states

Committee Summation of Day 2 & Time to Change
4:40pm

FIRE up in RED Drinks Reception
6:00pm

Wear your best RED outfit!

Conference Dinner
7:30pm

After-Party Drinks Reception
9:30pm

Hair of the Dog Morning Refreshments
10.00am

FIRE Starters Committee Welcome Back
10.30am

Keynote Session
10.35am

The Commercial Aspects of Asset Recovery
11.15am

  • Understanding the legal costs and creating a strategy
  • Asset repatriation and the impacts of moving assets cross-border
  • Dealing with high-value complex asset recovery cases
  • Using insurance to mitigate risk

Networking & Refreshment Break
11.55am

The Differing Perspectives of Disclosure
12:10pm

  • Assisting US and UK disclosure from a continental perspective
  • Differences in disclosure obligations in common vs. civil law jurisdictions
  • The evolving threshold for disclosing documents in civil fraud claims
  • Disclosure from the Defendant’s Perspective

Insolvent Crypto Exchanges
12.50pm

  • Insights from IPs and Insolvency lawyers
  • Understand the legal classification of crypto assets in insolvency proceedings
  • Applying traditional insolvency laws to crypto assets
  • Investigative techniques for tracing crypto assets

Lunch & FIRE Starters Committee Summary
1.30pm

Networking Activity: Guinness Storehouse Tour
2.30pm

Meet at the Hotel Lobby at 2:30pm for transport

1.30pm
Registration & Networking Welcome
1.50pm
FIRE Starters Committee Welcome Remarks
2.00pm
FIRE Up Your Career: Build Your Own Brand
  • Importance of cross-jurisdictional collaboration and trusted relationships
  • Leveraging professional organizations and informal networks
  • The value of curiosity, adaptability, and saying yes to the right challenges
2:40pm
The Evolving Landscape: Fraud, Insolvency, and Enforcement in a Changing World
  • What current macroeconomic conditions mean for asset recovery work
  • How geo-political changes will impact your work
  • Impacts of "Failure to Prevent Fraud" Offence
  • Legal developments driving convergence — or divergence — between jurisdictions
3.20pm
Networking & Refreshment Break
3.40pm
Industry Focus: Litigation against Banks
  • Banking law knowledge to be aware of for asset recovery professionals
  • Impacts of virtual systems
  • Compliance procedures
  • Civil liability for money laundering
4.20pm
How Technology Has Impacted Enforcement Procedures
  • Understanding the influence technology has on cross-border enforcement
  • Digitalisation of court processes
  • Legal frameworks for digital assets
5.00pm
Committee Summation & Close of Day 1
5.10pm
Welcome Drinks Reception
7.30pm
Women in FIRE Dinner

Allies welcome! 

Register Interest

9.00am
Registration & Morning Refreshments
9.30am
FIRE Starters Committee Opening Remarks
9.40am
Keynote Session
10.30am
Ethical Dilemmas in Asset Recovery
  • Balancing aggressive recovery tactics with legal and ethical boundaries
  • Confidentiality, privilege, and data protection in international investigations
  • Managing conflicts of interest
11.20am
Networking & Refreshment Break
11.50am
Workshop Sessions

Build your own agenda! Choose one of the following themed streams:

Workshop A -
Practitioners of the Future
Workshop B -
101 on Asset Recovery
Workshop C -
Navigate the International World

What Tools Are Out There for FIRE Practitioners

Protecting Your Assets - Applying for Interim Relief

A Transatlantic Conversation
  • Tracing assets through corporate insolvency and liquidation
  • Appointment of receivers and liquidators in multi-jurisdictional contexts
  • Disclosure orders with third parties
  • Using international cooperation mechanisms to assist you
  • The opportunity and limitations of applying for relief in aid of arbitration
  • Strategies for urgent court orders
  • Effectively ensure a freezing order once granted
  • Efforts toward transatlantic standard-setting or best-practice models
  • How insolvency, fraud enforcement, and recovery laws differ across the EU, UK, and US
  • Practical challenges in coordinating with foreign courts and regulators
12.40pm
Networking & Lunch Break
1.40pm
Workshop Sessions

Build your own agenda! Choose one of the following themed streams:

Workshop A -
Practitioners of the Future
Workshop B -
101 on Asset Recovery
Workshop C -
Navigate the International World

Women in FIRE

(allies are welcome!)

Mastering Asset Freezing Strategies

  

Enhancing Your Cross-Border Enforcement Strategy
  • Career progression without compromise
  • Finding the right people to champion your growth
  • Dealing with difficult cases, emotional toll, and work-life boundaries
  • Criminal vs. civil freezing mechanisms
  • Steps to protect assets in the run up to insolvency
  • Evidential requirements for obtaining freezing orders

     
  • Effectively enforce judgements and arbitral awards across borders
  • Updates on the Hague Judgments Convention 2019
  • Using key multilateral conventions and their impact on enforcement
  • Distinguish between civil law common law approaches
2.30pm
Workshop Sessions

Build your own agenda! Choose one of the following themed streams:

Workshop A -
Practitioners of the Future
Workshop B -
101 on Asset Recovery
Workshop C -
Navigate the International World

Your day-to-day life using AI

Leveraging Technology in Asset Recovery

 Working Towards International Cooperation
  • Practical experiences with everyday use cases
  • The most efficient way to use AI
  • The future impacts of using AI in the legal industry
  • How technologies can be used for asset tracing
  • Managing large volumes of evidence
  • Gathering intelligence and finding publicly available information
  • Understanding the varying approach in civil and common law jurisdiction
  • The complexities of cross-border judgements
  • Using mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs) effectively
  • Navigating conflicting international laws and asset tracing hurdles

 

 

 
3:20pm
Networking & Refreshment Break
3:50pm
All about Sovereign & States Dispute and Enforcement
  • Practical considerations with enforcing judgments and awards against states
  • Legal examples of going against sovereigns and states
  • Recovering assets linked to sovereign states
4:40pm
Committee Summation of Day 2 & Time to Change
6:00pm
FIRE up in RED Drinks Reception

Wear your best RED outfit!

7:30pm
Conference Dinner
9:30pm
After-Party Drinks Reception
10.00am
Hair of the Dog Morning Refreshments
10.30am
FIRE Starters Committee Welcome Back
10.35am
Keynote Session
11.15am
The Commercial Aspects of Asset Recovery
  • Understanding the legal costs and creating a strategy
  • Asset repatriation and the impacts of moving assets cross-border
  • Dealing with high-value complex asset recovery cases
  • Using insurance to mitigate risk
11.55am
Networking & Refreshment Break
12:10pm
The Differing Perspectives of Disclosure
  • Assisting US and UK disclosure from a continental perspective
  • Differences in disclosure obligations in common vs. civil law jurisdictions
  • The evolving threshold for disclosing documents in civil fraud claims
  • Disclosure from the Defendant’s Perspective
12.50pm
Insolvent Crypto Exchanges
  • Insights from IPs and Insolvency lawyers
  • Understand the legal classification of crypto assets in insolvency proceedings
  • Applying traditional insolvency laws to crypto assets
  • Investigative techniques for tracing crypto assets
1.30pm
Lunch & FIRE Starters Committee Summary
2.30pm
Networking Activity: Guinness Storehouse Tour

Meet at the Hotel Lobby at 2:30pm for transport

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