Inviting you to a round table devoted to the issue of the effectiveness of the mechanisms of seizure and confiscation of assets of the Russian Federation.

Date and time: May 10, 4:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Kyiv time.

Format: online.

Organized by: ANTS – National Interests Advocacy Network, Ukrainian Bar Association.

Working languages: Ukrainian and English. Speeches of foreign experts will be provided with simultaneous translation.

Topics for discussion:

• The effectiveness of seizure and confiscation mechanisms as a key basis for economic recovery;
• Ukraine sanction mechanism: pros and cons;
• Problems of Ukraine sanctions mechanism: the challenges of equilibrium;
• Tracing and recovery of Russian assets: first-year paramount triumphs and key failures;
• Special mechanisms of Russian assets confiscation in the USA and Canada: prospects and scalability;
• The experience of 2014-2022 and its significance in the process of confiscation of Russian assets at the current stage;
• What could the new mechanisms of arrest and confiscation look like?

Participants:

Stefan Romaniw, Co-Chairman of the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organizations, First Vice-President of the World Congress of Ukrainians

Alesia Nahirny, President of the Canadia Ukrainian Bar Association 

Glen Kelley, Partner, Jacobson Burton Kelley PLLC (Boston, USA)

Andrii Pasichnyk, Head of the Department of Full Inspections of the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC)

Ivan Us, Doctor of Economics, senior expert of the National Institute of Strategic Studies

Nataliia Sichevliuk, Legal Advisor, Transparency International Ukraine

Tetiana Khutor, Head, Institute of Legislative Ideas

Markiyan Bem, Ph.D., Attorney-at-Law, Partner, Nazar Kulchytskyy and Partners

Ivan Horodyskyy, Ph.D., Attorney-at-Law, Board Member of the Ukrainian Bar Association

Yaroslav Sydorovych, Senior Expert of the project "Russian Assets As the Source to Restore the Ukrainian Economy", ANTS – National Interests Advocacy Network

Moderator: Lidia Lisovska, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Project Expert "Russian assets as a source of recovery of the Ukrainian economy" at ANTS – National Interests Advocacy Network

The event is held within the framework of the ANTS project "Russian assets as a source of recovery of the Ukrainian economy", which is implemented in cooperation with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) with the financial support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

Participation in the event is free. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

For additional questions concerning registration, please, contact: +38 (063) 792-30-99 (calls via Viber, WhatsApp) or e-mail: conference@uba.ua. Contact person - Tetiana Osaulenko.