Our partner Shinji Kusakabe participated in "Evidence Procedures and Ethics in International Arbitration" organized by the IBA Arbitration Committee and China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) on November 24, 2008 in Beijing. This symposium, where many legal scholars and practitioners attended, Mr. Kusakabe participated as a speaker in a session entitled "Introduction to the IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest and Report on recent decisions (by national courts and international arbitration bodies) relating to the application of the Guidelines".