The UBA International Law Committee invites you to join the event on the topic «Two Years of Russia’s Full Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Future of Russia’s Frozen Assets».

Speaker:

Yuliya Ziskina, Policy and advocacy attorney specializing in information policy and public international law.

Yuliya Ziskina is a Senior Legal Fellow at the nonprofit Razom for Ukraine, and an attorney at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. She specializes in financial enforcement, public international law, and open access information policy. Yuliya previously worked at the World Bank and the U.S. Department of Justice, and was a former prosecutor at the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board and the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. She has authored amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, Second Circuit and D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Southern District of New York. She is the principal author of the New Lines Institute report, the first and one of the most comprehensive analyses of seizing Russian state assets to benefit Ukraine, that has informed the legal basis for legislation in the U.S. and Canada. She testified in the U.S. Helsinki Commission hearing, «Making Russia Pay: Sovereign Asset Confiscation for Ukrainian Victory,» and published articles on asset seizure in  and . In addition to her advocacy in the U.S., Yuliya co-drafted  to the Canadian Special Economic Measures Act to authorize the Canadian government to seize Russian state assets. Yuliya is originally from Kyiv and is based in Washington, D.C..

Moderator:

Nataliia Tuzheliak, member of the Board of the UBA International Law Committee, White & Case LLP, Associate, Solicitor.

Date & Time: 28 February 2024, 17.00 Kyiv time

Event format: online (Zoom) 

We look forward to seeing you there.

The PGA is the information partner of the event.

You can make a charitable contribution and support the activities of the Ukrainian Bar Association at the following link.

For all questions regarding the event and the possibility to partner, please contact the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Bar Association by phone at +380664953014 or write to komitet@uba.ua. Contact person – Viktoriia Motia.