Date and time: May 24, 4:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Kyiv time.

Format: online (Zoom).

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.

Subjects for discussion:

• Confiscation of Russian assets: the necessity to find new solutions and mechanisms;
• Compensation at the expense of Russian assets: how to protect the rights of victims?
• High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine (HACC) case law: main tendencies and problems in the light of legislation;
• The problem of confiscated assets management: how to deal with Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA)?
• Supreme Court of Ukraine case law on sovereign immunities: how durable is the basis of the decisions?
• Case law on sanctions: could it undermine confiscation decisions in the future?
• USA and Canada case law on sovereign immunities: is it possible to break the closed circle?
• What should be the Ukraine legal strategy to ensure the irreversibility of decisions on the confiscation of Russian assets?

Participants:

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

Natalia Vasylechko, Ph.D. in Economics, Attorney-at-Law, Partner, Dexis Partners

Oleksandr Lemenov, Chairman of the Board, StateWatch

Pavlo Demchuk, Legal Advisor, Transparency International Ukraine

Charles Szymanski, professor of the international law (USA)

Victoria Kerr, Legal Advisor, Redress (UK)

Serhiy Verlanov, lawyer, candidate of legal sciences, head of the State Tax Service (2019-2020)

Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament

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

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