31 May 2018
The Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Center, 29 Stryyska Street, Lviv.

13:30
14:00

Registration. Morning Coffee

14:00
14:20

Welcoming remarks

14:20
15:55

Session 1. Panel Discussion
Realities and Perspectives of the Legal Education

Moderator TBC

Participants:

Roksolana Kostur, Head of the UBA Branch in Lviv Region, Advocate, Partner at Matviyiv & Partners

Ivan Horodyskyy, UBA Commission Coordinator for Legal Education Improvement, Director of the School of Law of the Ukrainian Catholic University

Serhiy Verlanov, Partner t Sayenko Kharenko, member of the Public Council of Integrity

Topics for Discussion

TBC

15:55
16:25

Coffee Break

16:25
18:00

Session 2. Panel Discussion

Performance Results of the New Supreme Court

Moderator TBC

 Participants:

Dmitro Gudyma, Judge of the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court

Volodymyr Kravchuk, Judge of the Administrative Court of Cassation in the Supreme Court

Reda Moliène, Head of the National Judicial Administration of Lithuania, an international expert of the EU Project "Support to Justice Sectors Reforms in Ukraine" 

Topics for Discussion TBC

 1 June 2018
Arena Lviv, 199 Striyska Street,  Lviv

08:30
09:00

Registration. Morning Coffee

09:00
09:20

Welcoming remarks

Session 1.
Novelties of the Procedural Codes

Moderator: Serhiy Matviyiv, Managing Partner at Matviyiv & Partners

09:20
09:40

Speaker TBC

09:40
10:00

Tetyana Ignatenko, Advocate, Council at LCF

Topic TBC

10:00
10:20

Andriy Savchuk, Partner at MORIS GROUP

Topic TBC

10:20
10:35

Q&A Session

10:35
11:05

Coffee Break

Session 2.
Corporate Law Novelties: Assessing Recent Changes and Considering Next Steps

Moderator: Denys Myrgorodsky, Managing Partner at Dynasty

11:05
11:25

Anna Babich, Chair of the UBA Corporate Law and Stock Market Committee, Partner at AEQUO

Topic TBC

11:25
11:45

Maksym Libanov, Member of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission

Topic TBC

11:45
12:05

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

Corporate reform of professional market participants

12:05
12:20

Q&A Session

12:20
12:50

Coffee Break

Session 3. Panel Discussion
Burning Issues of the Legal Profession

Moderator TBC

12:50
13:10

Special Presentation

Denys Bugay, Advocate, Partner at VB PARTNERS, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association (2013-2017)
Topic TBC

13:10
14:15

Participants TBC

Topics for Discussion TBC

14:15
15:15

Lunch

Session 4. Panel Discussion
International Legal Aspects of Doing Business

15:15
16:25

Moderator: Mariana Lutsyshyn, Manager of the Western Ukrainian Office of the European Business Association

 Participants:

Markian Malskiy, cand.jud., Advocate, Partner, Head of the Western Ukrainian Branch of Arzinger, Honorary Consul of the Austrian Republic in Lviv

Nataliya Holovata, Authorized Representative of the Audit Chamber of Ukraine in Lviv (2012-2017), Head of IP Interbilanz Lviv

Andriy Kostyuk, Partner at Pavlenko & Partners

Topics for Discussion:

• Standards for conducting fair business in Ukraine
• Financial and legal features of the activities of companies in the region
• Novelties of legislation in the area of resolving international disputes
• Improvement of investment attractiveness

16:25
16:55

Coffee Break

Session 5. Panel Discussion
Judicial and extra-judicial anti-raiding activities. Anti-Raiding Commission of the Ministry of Justice

Moderator: Yulian Khorunzhiy, Senior Partner at Ario Law Firm

16:55
18:00

 Participants:

Ivan Trofimenko, Deputy Director of the Department of State Registration and Notary Service, Secretary of the State Commission on Complaints Regarding the State Registration of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine

Igor Zavalnyuk, cand.jud., Judge-Speaker of the Odessa Regional Administrative Court

Other participants TBC

18:30
21:00

Evening Reception