08:30 – 09:00

Registration. Morning Coffee

09:00 – 09:20

Forum Opening

Session 1
09:20 – 11:00

What to expect in 2013? Which developments of the past year will influence the legal services market of Ukraine?

Moderator – Oleg Makarov, Managing Partner, Vasyl Kisil & Partners

09:20 – 09:40

Serhii Sviriba ,

Managing Partner, Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners in Ukraine

Cold waters of the legal business. When will the Gulf Stream warm us?

09:40 – 10:00

Valentyn Zagariya, Chair of the Highest Qualification and Disciplinary Bar Commission, Managing Partner at Spenser & Kauffmann

First six month of the Law of Ukriane "On the Bar and Legal Profession": status quo and quo vadis?

10:00 – 10:20

Sergiy Koziakov, Partner, Sergii Koziakov & Partners

Foreign-policy consequences of the court system reform and its market influence

10:20 – 10:40

Pavlo Sheremeta, President of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE)

Ukraine: in pursuit of the Blue Ocean

10:40 – 11:00

Q&A

11:00 – 11:20

Coffee break

Session2
11:20 – 13:00

Should you fail to take care of your clients, someone else will do your job

Moderator – Sergei Konnov, Senior Partner, Konnov & Sozanovsky

11:20 – 11:40

11:40 – 12:00

Oleksiy Didkovskiy, 

Managing Partner, Asters

To die for! Are there things beyong this borderline?

12:00 – 12:20

Viktoriya Ptashnyk,

Associated Partner, Legal Alliance

Niche law firm and sectorial conflict of interest

12:20 – 12:40

Oleksandr Khvoschynskiy,

Managing Partner, Legal Stratagency, Russia

Three conversations on price and value between a lawyer and a  client

12:40 – 13:00

Q&A

Lunch

13:00 – 14:00

Session3
14:00 – 15:40

Reliable partner is a key to business success: where to find and how to become such?

Moderator – Armen Khachaturyan, Senior Partner, Asters

14:00 - 15:40

Mykhail Safarov,

Partner, VEGAS-LEX, Russia

Topics for discussion:

• Partnership structuring in modern environment
• Peculiarities of partnership track
• Profit distribution formula, experience of international companies
• When the sky is the limit: professional development for partners

Andriy Stelmaschuk,

Partner, Vasyl Kisil & Partners

Serhiy Chorny,

Partner, Baker & McKenzie

Iryna Nikitina, Business Coach

15:40 – 16:00

Coffee break

Session4
16:00 – 18:00

Backstage of legal circus: internal ‘kitchen’ without reserve

Moderator – Тіmur Bondarev, Managing Partner, Arzinger

16:00 – 18:00

Mykola Stetsenko,

Managing Partner, Avellum Partners

Topics for discussion:

• Which business processes will be in focus in the near future;
• Effective distribution of financial flows
• Personnel motivationas one of the main keys to business success
• Role ofadministrativepersonnel in successful business operation
• Optimization of day-to-day expenditures

 Tatiana Ignatovskaya, Partner, Stepanovski,
Papakul & partners LLC, Belarus

Dmytro Sonkin, Partner, SKS Steuerberatung, Germany

Olena Maisiura, Partner, Legal Training

18:00 – 20:00

Evening Reception