KIЕV ARBITRATION DAYS 2015: THINK BIG!

DAY 1

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION

8:00 – 9:00 

Registration / Coffee

9:00 – 9:10 

Welcome addresses

Oleksiy Filatov, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine

Irina Nazarova, Conference Programme Coordinator, Managing Partner at ENGARDE Attorneys at Law

9:10 – 10:25

FIRST SESSION

Cases of Corruption

Moderator: 

Joe Tirado, Partner at Winston Strawn LLP (UK)

Speakers:

Max Burger-Scheidlin, Executive Director at ICC Austria (Austria)

Erhard Boehm, Partner at Baier Attorneys at Law (Austria)

James Freeman, Counsel at Allen & Overy (UK)

Discussed topics:

• Pay to play?
• Contractor v. State/Investor
• Justifications and Excuses

10:25 – 10:55 

Coffee break

10:55 - 11:10

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Olena Yevtushenko, the Judge of the High Specialized Court of Ukraine for Civil and Criminal Cases
“Recognition of Foreign Arbitral Award in Ukraine”

11:10 – 12:55

SECOND SESSION

The Applicable Law

12:55 – 13:55 

Lunch

13:55 – 14:25

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Anton Baier, President of Vienna International Arbitral Centre (Austria)

“Protecting the future of arbitration”

14:25 – 14:55 

Coffee break

14:55 – 16:25

THIRD SESSION

The evidentiary dilemma

Moderator:

Irina Nazarova, Managing Partner at ENGARDE Attorneys at Law (Ukraine)

Speakers:

Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, Partner at Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners (Ukraine)

Oleksandr Volkov, Associate at  Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev and Partners (Ukraine)

Carol M. Welu, Partner at Squire Patton Boggs LLP (UK)

Nils Schmidt-Ahrendts, Partner at Hanefeld Rechtswalte (Germany)

Discussed topics:

• Burden of Proof
• Standard of Proof
• Struggle against Secrecy – Circumstantial evidence and presumptions
• Arbitral activism v impartiality

16:25 – 16:55 

Coffee break

16:55 – 18:25

FOURTH SESSION

Sanctions and Consequences

Moderator:

Evgen Kubko, Senior partner at Salkom law firm (Ukraine)

Speakers:

Olga Vorozhbyt, Partner at CMS Cameron McKenna (Ukraine)

Anna Tkachova, Associate at Asters (Ukraine)

Christopher Moore, Partner at  Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (UK)

Leon Kopecký, Counsel at Schoenherr, Austria

Discussed topics:

• Lack of arbitrability
• Lack of jurisdiction
• Sanctions
• Damages

19:00 - 21:30

EVENING RECEPTION
Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine (2, Velyka Zhytomyrska Str.)

DAY 2

INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT ARBITRATION

8:00 - 9:00

BUSINESS BREAKFAST

Moderator:

Eugene Blinov,  Partner and Head of International Arbitration Department of AstapovLawyers International Law Group (Ukraine)

Speaker:
Soteris Pittas, Managing Director at Soteris Pittas & Co LLC (Cyprus)

"Recognition and enforcement of Ukrainian judgments in Cyprus and the available interim relief under Cyprus law"

8:30 – 9:00 

Coffee

9:00 – 10:15

FIRST SESSION 

Investing in difficult times - yes, no, how? 

Moderator:

Discussed topics:

• What projects do they look at
• How to get financing (equity and debt)
• What problems do they face

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00 

SECOND SESSION

Getting the package right - Considerations at the start of a project

Moderator:

• International credit agreements and financial instruments explained
• Investment Insurance
• Investment structuring
• Clauses in your contract
• Tax structuring

12:00 – 12:50

Lunch

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Vladimir Khvalei, Partner at Baker & McKenzie, Vice president of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (Russia)

"Case Law Overview: corruption in arbitration"

13:10 – 14:35

THIRD SESSION

Financial aspects of investment arbitration - Third Party Financing and impecunious parties 

Moderator:
Anna Joubin-Bret, Cabinet d’Avocats Joubin-Bret (France)

Speakers:

Anna Joubin-Bret, Cabinet d’Avocats Joubin-Bret (France)

Stephen Jagusch, Partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (UK)

Zannis Mavrogordato, Barrister at 20 Essex Street (UK)

Iain McKenny, General Counsel of Disputes at Vannin Capital (UK)

Susan Dunn, Head of Litigation Funding at Harbour Litigation Funding Limited (UK)

Discussed topics:

• Third Party Financing (TPF) explained
• Consequences of TPF for arbitrator disclosure and other ethical considerations
• Security for costs
• Party renouncing from arbitration agreement and how to deal with it
• Insolvency in investment arbitration

14:35 – 15:05

Coffee break

15:05 – 16:35

FOURTH SESSION

Interest, costs and enforcement - What matters is the bottom line

Discussed topics:

• Pre- and post-award interests - the neglected children
• Cost decision
• Enforcement

16:35 – 17:00

Closing Remarks