The Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) together with the International Bar Association (IBA) invite you to the Business Breakfast: “ReOpen Ukraine 2023”.

As the satellite event for the IBA Annual Conference 2023, the breakfast aims at drawing the attention of the world’s legal community, governments, international organizations, and civil society to the measures aimed at restoring the rule of law in Ukraine.

Time: 07:45 A.M. - 09:15 A.M Central European Time (CET)

Date: Wednesday, 1 November

Registration of participants: 07:15 A.M. - 07:45 A.M.

Venue: Palais des Congrès de Paris (address: 2 Place de la Porte Maillot, 75017 Paris, France)

Draft agenda

07:45 - 08:00. Welcome remarks. 

Vadym Omelchenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to France (tbc)

Anna Ogrenchuk, Immediate Past President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Managing Partner, LCF Law Group

Mark Ellis, Executive Director of the IBA

08:00 - 08:20. Keynote speaker. 

Current human rights challenges in Ukraine. Violation of the Rights of Ukrainians in the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine and in Russia. Efforts towards establishing a rehabilitation mechanism for the victims of torture and ill-treatment.

Q & A session

08:20 - 09:15. Compensation for damages caused by the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine

Moderator: Mykola Stetsenko, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Managing Partner, AVELLUM Law Firm

• Policy developed by Ukrainian authorities
• Experience of the Ukrainian private sector in collecting damages
• Challenges before the international legal community

Speakers:

Anton Korynevych, Ambassador-at-large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Ukraine’s chief representative on issues related to the international legal prosecution of the Russian Federation 

Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, Executive Director of the International Register of Damage Caused by the Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine

Svitlana Romanova, Chief Legal Officer of Metinvest Group

Jean-Marc Thouvenin, academic advisor, Secretary General of the Hague Academy of International Law, professor of law at the University of Paris-Nanterre, member of the working group on the development and implementation of international legal mechanisms for compensation for damage caused to Ukraine as a result of armed aggression of the Russian Federation

Q & A session

The working language is English.

Only delegates of the IBA Annual Conference 2023 can participate in the event.

REGISTRATION

Please note that participation in the event is free, but you can support the institutional activities of the UBA in the form of a DONATION, the amount of which is determined at your discretion.

CO-SPONSORS OF THE EVENT

AGA Partners (Ukraine), ASTERS (Ukraine), AVELLUM (Ukraine), LCF Law Group (Україна), Magnusson (Nordic-Baltic countries), Sayenko Kharenko (Ukraine)

For additional information about the event, please contact Kateryna Pyshchyk at: +38 (096) 742-71-07 (WhatsApp, Telegram) or kpyshchyk@uba.ua.