The Ukrainian Bar Association invites you to the Inaugural Reception dedicated to the Opening of the Year of Law 2024, which will take place on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, from 1:15 PM to 3:15 PM at the Kyiv History Museum (Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, 7, Kyiv).

You are invited to attend the traditional Opening Сeremony of the Year of Law and the awarding of the Ukrainian Bar Association’s Distinguished Award "For Honor and Professional Dignity", which is presented annually to a prominent lawyer for their significant contribution to the development of the legal profession in Ukraine.

AGENDA

12:30 PM. Participants' Registration. Welcome coffee 

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM. Optional guided visit to the museum's exhibition “On Guard of Hagia Sophia”

1:15 PM. Opening of the Reception. Welcome speeches. Ceremony for the Opening of the Year of Law 2024

Mykola Stetsenko, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Managing Partner at AVELLUM 

Andriy Stelmashchuk, Managing Partner of Vasil Kisil & Partners

Tetiana Lysovets, Vice President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Senior Partner at Sokolovskyi and Partners Law Firm

Ksenia Ukolova, Head of the UBA Students League

Roman Chumak, Managing Partner at ARES Law Firm

1:40 PM. Keynote Speaker — Anton Korynevych, Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Plenipotentiary Representative of Ukraine to the International Court of Justice of the United Nations

2:00 PM. Awarding the Ukrainian Bar Association’s Distinguished Award "For Honor and Professional Dignity"

2:30 PM. Awarding of young lawyers - winners of the UBA Best Young Lawyer Award:

Veronika Godlevska, Asters associate, attorney at law, secretary of the Ukrainian Football Association Dispute Resolution Chamber, Head of the UBA Students League 2019-2020

Anastasia Marushchak, paralegal, junior associate at Sayenko Kharenko

Alla Chaika, leading intellectual property professional at the Mediation and Mediation Center of the IP Office 

2:45 PM. Open microphone. Speeches and greetings from the guests of the Reception (Supreme Court judges, Members of Parliament of Ukraine, legal professionals)

3:15 PM. Closing of the Reception

The Reception is an opportunity to meet leading lawyers of our country, judges, Members of Parliament, government officials, and distinguished personalities of our time who drive our country toward victory on the legal front.

Dress Code: Business attire

We thank our event partners, whose support made the reception possible: AVELLUM, ARES Law Firm, Sokolovskyi and Partners Law Firm

LAUREATES OF THE UKRAINIAN BAR ASSOCIATION'S DISTINGUISHED AWARD "FOR HONOR AND PROFESSIONAL DIGNITY"

2023 - Anton Oleksandrovych Korynevych

2021 - Mykola Borysovych Husak

2019 - Vsevolod Volodymyrovych Rechytskyi

2018 - Yosyp Lvovych Bronz

2017 - Viktor Lavrentiyovych Musiyaka

2016 - Danylo Markovych Kurdelchuk

2015 - Volodymyr Mykolayovych Sushchenko

2014 - Nataliia Semenivna Kuznetsova

2013 - Vasyl Ivanovych Kisil

2012 - Volodymyr Andriyovych Vasylenko

2011 - Mykola Ivanovych Kozyubra

2010 - Tetiana Viktorivna Varfolomeyeva

2009 - Valentyn Karlovych Mamutov

2008 - Petro Fedorovych Martynenko

2007 - Volodymyr Hryhorovych Butkevych

2006 - Klara Hryhorivna Margulian

2005 - Vitalii Fedorovych Boyko

For additional information about the event, please contact us at: +38 (044) 492-88-48, +38 (063) 792-30-99 (calls via WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber), or email: tosaulenko@uba.ua. Contact person: Tetiana Osaulenko.