Х Annual Corporate Law Forum

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When
28.10.2016
09:00 – 18:00
Where
Radisson Blu Hotel

On 28 October 2016 the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) holds Х Annual Corporate Law Forum in Kyiv, Radisson Blu Hotel.

The Annual UBA Corporate Law Forum, marking its 10th anniversary, will be primarily focused on the recent changes and developments in the legal field that determine the business activities in Ukraine, analysis of the current litigation and court practice as well as fostering communication between legislators, judges and legal practitioners.

The Forum program offers an expert discussion of changes in regulatory policy, novels in legal regulation of the activities of joint stock and limited liability companies. The program also includes a session where every participant will be invited to put questions to judges of different courts.

For nine years in a row Forum joined together leading lawyers, scholars, state officials in the relevant field, bankers, insurers, businessmen and everyone interested in the corporate law of Ukraine.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

08:30 – 09:00

Registration. Morning Coffee

09:00 – 09:40

Forum Opening. Welcoming Remarks.

Denys Bugay, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association

Tymur Khromayev, Head of the National Commission on Securities and  Stock Market

Mykola Stetsenko, Managing Partner at AVELLUM

Session 1. Regulators and Reformers: Supporters or Rivals?

Moderator - Olyana Gordiyenko, Member of the National Commission on Securities and Stock Market, Committee Chairman on Corporate Governance and the Development of Capital Market Instruments

09:40 – 10:00

Yevgen Kravtsov, First Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine

Corporate restructuring of large state monopolists (examples of Ukrzaliznitsya (Ukrainian Railway) and Ukrposhta (Ukrainian Post))

10:00 – 10:20

Olena Dyachenko, Director of the State Property Management of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine

Corporate governance reform in public secor

10:20 – 10:40

Pavlo Moroz, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine on State Registration

Outcomes of the business registration reform: who benefits – owner or raider?

10:40 – 11:00

Q&A Session

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

Session 2. Joint-Stock Companies: in Pursuit of the Lost Investor

Moderator - Galyna Zagorodnyuk, Partner at DLA Piper Ukraine

11:30 – 11:50

Maksym Libanov, Director of Stock Market Development Strategy of the National Commission on Securities and Stock Market

Protection of investors’ rights under the new law: first results and perspectives

11:50 – 12:10

Ulyana Shtybel, Executive Director of the Warsaw Stock Exchange in Ukraine

Stock market development and corporate management in Ukraine

12:10 – 12:30

Mykola Stetsenko, Managing Partner at AVELLUM

Corporate agreements: practical look at the changes 

12:30 – 12:50

Roman Kuzyuk, Director of the Corporate Governance Department at Nova Poshta LLC

Investment attractiveness of the company starts from the inside

12:50 – 13:10

Q&A Session

13:10 – 14:00

Lunch

Session 3. Interactive Discussion

New Draft Law “On LLC”: Breaking the Pattern or Old Approaches Under Cover?

Moderator – Anna Babych, Head of the UBA Committee on Corporate Law and Stock Market, Partner at Aequo

14:00 – 15:40

Session Format: discussion and interactive voting.

Session Mission: to receive feedback from the professional community regarding the Draft Law.

Experts will answer the questions and ask for the participants’ opinion on the key provisions of the Draft Law.

Participants will have the opportunity to express their opinion via interactive voting.

Session Experts: 

Valentyna Danishevska, Director of Commercial Law Center
Olena Kibenko, Managing Partner at Kibenko Onika & Partners
Oksana Paraskeyeva, Partner at Investor Relations Agency
Mariya Orlyk, Partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz
Oleksiy Rogachov, Manager of Corporate Governance Department at DTEK LLC

Leonid Antonenko, Expert on Corporate Law and Governance

15:40 – 16:10

Coffee break

Session 4. Court Practice and Burning Issues of Law Enforcement: Judges Take Questions from Lawyers

Moderator – Andriy Popko, Senior Partner at PLP Law Group

16:10 – 17:45

Issues for Discussion:

  • Derivative suit. Current procedural trends and further perspectives.
  • Collective suit and its applicability in a derivative suit.
  • LLC shares. Burning judicial practice on the exit of a shareholder, problems of evaluation of share price, inheritance of shares etc.
  • Perspectives of court processes with a view to the novelties of the Draft Law “On LLC and DLC”.
  • Corporate raid prevention novelties. Act #5067 and its procedural peculiarities.

Participants of Discussion:
Olesya Lukomska, Head of Support to the Secretary of First Judicial Chamber of the High Commercial Court of Ukraine
Valeriy Kartere, Judge-Secretary of the Judicial Chamber of the High Commercial Court of Ukraine
Oleksiy Evsikov, Judge at the High Commercial Court of Ukraine

17:45 – 17:55

Presentation of BUSINESS-DETECTIVE NOVEL “ULTIMATE BENEFICIARY OWNER" by author Roman Kuzyuk

17:55 – 18:00

Forum

Anna Babych, Head of the UBA Committee on Corporate Law and Stock Market,  Partner at Aequo

18:00 – 20:00

Gala reception on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Forum

“Whether you are a student or a master, let’s come together for the anniversary party!"

For more information about the event and partnership opportunities, please contact the Ukrainian Bar Association Secretariat by phone: +380 (44) 492-88-48 or e-mail: events@uba.ua. Contact person – Viktoriya Krasnova.

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Х Annual Corporate Law Forum

When
28.10.2016
09:00 – 18:00
Where
Radisson Blu Hotel