SHANGHAI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Business and government leaders from Asia, the United States, Latin America and Europe will be attending the LexisNexis® 4th Annual Conference on Dispute Avoidance and Resolution sponsored for the third consecutive year by Diaz Reus & Targ, LLP, on 24-25 September, 2009 at the Swissotel Grand Shanghai.

The two-day conference will focus on topics critical to international business success, including managing disputes effectively, achieving better risk control and finding creative solutions to cross-border dispute resolution.

Conference Chair Carlos F. Gonzalez., a Partner at Diaz Reus & Targ, LLP, – the exclusive Platinum Sponsor of the event – will focus his presentations on drafting effective arbitration agreements and managing international legal disputes. The firm will also be hosting a cocktail party at the conference in celebration of the opening of its new Shanghai office located in the Kerry Centre at 1515 West Nanjing Road.

Other speakers at the conference will be Ulf Franke, Secretary General of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce; Minn Naing Oo, CEO & registrar of Singapore International Arbitration Centre; and senior officials from the Supreme Court of PRC, adviser panel of China Anti-Monopoly Legislation Committee and the International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission.

LexisNexis is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis^® and Nexis^® services. A member of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with 18,000 employees worldwide.

Miami-based Diaz Reus & Targ, LLP is a full-service international law firm with offices in Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The firm’s lawyers focus on international trade and business transactions and complex commercial, civil, and criminal litigation and arbitration matters.

For more information about the conference, contact Carlos Gonzalez at (305) 375-9220, (cgonzalez@diazreus.com), or Samantha Hu at shu@diazreus.com.