09:00

Session 1

Corporate law - what have we earned in 25 years?

Participants:

Yulia Kovaliv, Head of the Office of the National Investment Council under the President of Ukraine

Natalia Kuznetsova, professor of the Department of Civil Law, Faculty of Law, Kyiv National University. T. Shevchenko

Leonid Antonenko, expert on corporate law and management

Olena Kibenko, managing partner of Kibenko, Onika & Partners

Valentina Danishevska, Director of the Center for Commercial Law

Questions for discussion:

• Revolution or evolution - on the road to effective regulation;
• Civil Code of Ukraine and Commercial Code of Ukraine - local discussion on global issues of the evolution of legislation;
• Who should write laws? How to avoid the "Pechvark" style? Lawyers and their role in this process. Do we need a special institution for these purposes?
• Implementation of EU legislation - the path of Ukraine and the first lessons learned;
• Private and public companies - a new coordination system.

Session 2

Stock Market - Reboot

10:20

Participants:

Dmytro Tarabakin, Member of the National Commission on Securities and Stock Market

Oleg Tkachenko, Chairman of the Board "Ukrainian Exchange"

Questions for discussion:

• How to start off the Ukrainian stock market? And do we need this at all?
• New role of the regulator (draft law on the extension of the powers of the NCSSM);
• How many stock exchanges do we need and what is their mode of operation? A separate legal regime for disputes over the example of the UAE.
• Pension reform;
• Double listing;
• Draft Law No. 5592.

11:20

Session 3

Corporate governance is a movement vector in Ukraine and in the world

11:40

Participants:

Oksana Paraskeva, Project manager of the Project Office "Support for Financial Reforms"

Andriy Boytsun, PhD, Privatisation and SOE Reform Advisor, SAGSUR (the Mikloš-Balcerowicz Group), Vice-President, Ukrainian Corporate Governance Academy (UCGA)

Roman Syvyy, managing partner of LawWhales

Volodymyr Igonin, Counsel of Vasil Kisil & Partners

Questions for discussion:

• Culture of corporate governance. Code vs. Law.
• Draft Law No. 6428 as an example for state-owned companies: causes and goals;
• Principle comply or explain - how does it work in the world?
• Who does the Corporate Governance Code really need - only public companies? Does it need state-owned, private companies? Examples of different countries.
• Is it possible to implement short stories without changes to the responsibilities of directors?
• Stewardship Code - What is it and is it necessary for Ukraine?
• Education in corporate governance - maybe the problem is this?

13:00

Session 4

Legislation novels - first experience available and pending draft laws

Participants:

Maxim Libanov, Director of the Strategy for the Development of the Stock Market of the NCSSM

Mariya Orlyk, Partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz

Evgen Krut, Manager of the Department of corporate governance of DTEK

Tamara Savoschenko, Chairman of the Board "Ukrsotsbank"

Questions for discussion:

I. Laws - experience of application:

• Law on Forced Redemption: first results;
• The Law on Corporate Contracts - Has it Been Conceived?
• The Law on LLC - Is there anything new?

II. What's in the future:

• Work on a draft law on JSC in a new version;
• The MERT Law on the Activities of Separated Subdivisions of Foreign Legal Entities;
• Law on groups of companies.

16:00

Session 5

Disputes in the field of corporate law

16:30

Participants:

Anna Vronska, public figure, candidate for the post of judge of the Supreme Court

Larysa Rogach, judge of the Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine, Secretary of the Plenum

Julia Atamanova, advisor to LCF

Sergiy Gryshko, Partner of Redcliffe Partners

Artem Saprykin, partners of ESQUIRES

Questions for discussion:

• Overview of Top 5 Corporate Disputes 2016/2017 in Ukraine
• Arbitrability of corporate disputes under the new legislation - step forward or status quo?
• Important changes in the new CPC concerning the consideration of corporate disputes
• The practice of seizing a share in the authorized capital of LLC
• Protecting Corporate Rights: Quo Vadis? Relevance of changes in legal positions set forth in the Resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Economic Council No 4 dated February 25, 2016.

Open discussion between practicing lawyers and judges on controversial issues of court practice in corporate disputes, as well as interactive voting on controversial and ambiguous issues of judicial practice.

18:00