A conference supported by the IBA European Regional Forum IBA ECA Forum 2016

15–19 June 2016 Fairmont Grand Hotel Kiev, (15–17 June) Arena , Lviv, Ukraine (18–19 June)

This year, a new regional convention joins forces with the IBA to become – the IBA Europe-Caucasus-Asia Forum (the IBA ECA Forum 2016). Many IBA members will be very familiar with its predecessor, the CIS Local Counsel Forum. This integration will provide IBA members with an opportunity to explore emerging legal markets, their opportunities, as well as extending the reach of the old CIS event to a wider international audience.

Topics will include: • Panel: showcase of the host country – Ukraine • The latest developments in legal business in the ECA region • Law firm management: talent engagement and motivation • Lobbying services of law firms • Increasing demand for international dispute resolution in the ECA region • Corporate counsel panel • Women in the legal profession Follow us • Regional infrastructure and business migration @IBAevents • Impact of the development of outsourcing services on legal practice #IBAECA

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Conference Co-Chairs Hosting Law firms Jörg Menzer Partner, Noerr, Bucharest; Co-Chair, IBA Regional Arzinger Fora Coordination Committee Sayenko Kharenko Yuriy Pustovit Partner, Advocates Bureau Yug, Krasnodar Valikhan Shaikenov Partner, AEQUITAS, Almaty City Local Host Committee Lana Sinichkina Partner, Arzinger, Kiev; Head of the IBA ECA Averlex Forum 2016 Host Committee Illyashev & Partners Integrites Programme Coordinators Kinstellar Lana Sinichkina Partner, Arzinger, Kiev; Head of the IBA ECA Solodko & Partners Forum 2016 Host Committee Spenser & Kauffmann Oleksandr Padalka Partner, Sayenko Kharenko, Kiev Vasil Kisil & Partners

This year, a new regional convention joins forces with the IBA Wednesday 15 June 2016 to become the IBA Europe-Caucasus-Asia Forum (the IBA ECA Forum 2016). Many IBA members will be very familiar with its Fairmont Grand Hotel, Kiev predecessor, the CIS Local Counsel Forum. The growth of professional interest in this major event 1400 – 1830 Registration at the conference venue encouraged its organisers to involve the wider legal community through the IBA. This integration will provide IBA members 1600 – 1730 Complimentary workshop with an opportunity to explore emerging legal markets and the opportunities they provide, as well as extending the reach of Disclosure of ultimate beneficial owners of legal the event to a wider international audience. entities: trends and experience Eugene Cherniak Senior analyst, Transparency International Conference format Oleksandr Lemenov Anticorruption Group Manager, Reanimation Package of Reforms The IBA ECA Forum can demonstrate a ten-year track Anastasia Krasnosylska Advocacy Officer, Anticorruption Action record of successfully providing the key gathering of leading Center professionals, officials and other participants interested in development of legal practice in the CIS region. The formal part 1745 – 1900 Complimentary workshop of the Forum will focus on the hottest topics of professional interest including: new legal practices evolving in the world, Become a trusted adviser: learn how to turn your women in the legal profession, best marketing and recruiting relationships into results for your firm practices and other burning issues. As well as a high-level Itzik Amiel Bestselling Author and Attorney-at-Law, International professional discussion, the Forum has always offered a Professional Speaker, Global Leading Authority on Networking & fantastic informal cultural programme with a number of Relations Capital networking and entertainment events with a local flavour. Those who visit will have the opportunity to see two of the 1930 – 2300 Gala dinner most beautiful Ukrainian cities and experience both traditional Restaurant Coin Ukrainian culture and contemporary entertainment. A taste of 15A, Bolsunovska Street, IQ Business Center the best that Ukraine has to offer. With special music band Bloom Twins. Dress code: black tie.

Kindly supported by Thursday 16 June 2016 Fairmont Grand Hotel, Kiev

0900 Registration at the conference venue 1130 – 1330 Session two A look ahead for the legal profession 0900 Coffee/tea Panel 1: The latest developments in legal business 0930 Welcome and introductory remarks from the ECA region Lana Sinichkina Partner, Arzinger, Kiev; Head of the IBA ECA Moderator Forum 2016 Host Committee Oleksandr Padalka Partner, Sayenko Kharenko, Kiev Oleksandr Padalka Partner, Sayenko Kharenko, Kiev Panellists Jörg Menzer Partner, Noerr, Bucharest; Co-Chair, IBA Regional Alexander Bolkvadze Partner, BLC Law Office, Tbilisi, Georgia Fora Coordination Committee Oleg Efrim Partner, Efrim, Roşca şi Asociaţii, Chisinau Martin Šolc Managing Partner, Kocián Šolc Balaštík, Prague; IBA Konstantin Mikhel Partner, Vlasova, Mikhel & Partners, Minsk Vice President Olga Prosyanyuk Partner, Averlex, Kiev Almudena Arpón de Mendívil Partner, Gomez-Acebo & Pombo, Leonid Tolstov Partner, Tark Grunte Sutkiene/VARUL, Tallinn Madrid; IBA LPD Chair Dr Irina Paliashvili Managing Partner, RULG-Ukrainian Legal Panel 2: Law firm management: talents engagement Group, Kiev and motivation – the new generation, new challenges, leadership in law firms, knowledge management 1000 – 1110 Session one Panel: Showcase of the host country – Ukraine Moderator Topics will include: Iryna Nikitina Strategy and growth consultant, IOCONS, Sofia • Three years of reform – how far has Ukraine progressed? Panellists • The country’s booming industries (food and agriculture, energy Tatiana Ignatovskaya Partner, Stepanovsky Papakul & Partners, resources, IT and telecommunications) Minsk • Following the rule of law Svetlana Musienko Partner, DLA Piper, Kiev Moderator Yuriy Pustovit Partner, ABY Advocates Bureau Yug, Krasnodar Lana Sinichkina Partner, Arzinger, Kiev; Head of the IBA ECA Sergey Saveliev Partner, Nektorov Saveliev and Partners; Higher Forum 2016 Host Committee School of Economics, Moscow Ulan Tilenbaev Managing Partner, Kalikova & Associates, Bishkek Panellists Irina Tymczyszyn Partner, Chadbourne & Parke, London Ex legal practitioners in a new government: Alexey Filatov Deputy Chairman of the Administration of 1330 – 1430 Lunch President of Ukraine, Kiev Kozyakov Sergey Chairman of the High Qualification 1430 – 1540 Session three Commission of Justice of Ukraine, Kiev Lobbying services of law firms Pavlo Moroz Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine, Kiev Topics will include: Vitaliy Kasko Ex General Prosecutor of the Ukraine, board • The history of success member of Transparency International Ukraine, Kiev • Lobbying and compliance Denys Bugay President, Ukrainian Bar Association, Kiev • State regulation of lobbying activities Lyubov Akulenko Coordinator of Stronger Together information campaign, Executive Director of Ukrainian Centre of European Moderator Politics, Kiev Michal Czarnuch Partner, Domański Zakrzewski Palinka, Panellists 1110 – 1130 Coffee/tea break Dr Andrea Mogni Senior Consultant, Alber & Geiger, Brussels Claire Harris Senior Advisor, FTI Consulting, Brussels Olga Prokopovych Corporate External and Legal Affairs Director, Microsoft Ukraine and Kazakhstan, Kiev Brian Mefford Business and political consultant, Kiev Vitaliy Gordienko Co-Chair of Health Care Committee, American Chamber of Commerce; Board of Directors Member, US-Ukraine Business Council

1540 – 1600 Coffee/tea break  Thursday 16 June 2016 continued

1600 – 1730 Session four Duncan Speller Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Increasing demand for international dispute London resolution in the ECA region Baiju Vasani Partner, Jones Day, London Topics will include: • How to make investment treaty arbitration available to small 1830 Buses leave the conference venue to selected venues claim investors, including those in emerging markets • Investment treaty arbitration as an instrument to promote the 1900 Football or fashion? rule of law in emerging markets A choice of events • Criminal law elements in investment treaty arbitration in Either watch the EURO 2016 Ukraine v Northern Ireland football emerging markets match broadcast at the newly renovated Olympyisky Hall Moderator Or catch a glimpse of the Ukraine’s burgeoning fashion industry Valikhan Shaikenov Partner, AEQUITAS, Almaty City and participate in a fashion show at the famous art and historical centre – Mystetskyi Arsenal (The Art Arsenal). Panellists Emmanuel Jacomy Partner, Shearman & Sterling, Hong Kong SAR Dress code for fashion event: cocktail attire. Maria Gritsenko Counsel, Brayan Cave, London Christer Söderlund Partner, Magnusson, Stockholm, ICSID Panel of Arbitrators (appointed by Sweden)

Friday 17 June 2016 Fairmont Grand Hotel, Kiev

0900 Coffee/tea Moderator Dr Irina Paliashvili RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group, Kiev 0930 – 1100 Session one Panellists Corporate counsel panel Almudena Arpón De Mendívil Partner, Gomez-Acebo & Topics will include: Pombo, Madrid; IBA LPD Chair • The latest trends of corporate legal function activity. Any Sharaf Asgarova Senior Associate, Ekvita Tax and Legal Services, changes, new demands regarding external advisers, areas of the Baku required expertise Olena Sotnyk Member of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of • The hot legal topics the corporations are concerned with Ukraine, Kiev • Effective communication and fruitful cooperation with external Julia Shmydko Legal Director, Johnson & Johnson, Moscow lawyers – practical cases and recommendations Oksana Voynarovska Partner, Vasil Kisil & Partners, Kiev Moderator Open microphone Iryna Nikolayevska Kinstellar, Kiev Vadim Novikov antitrust economist, Senior Research Fellow at Panellists The Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Nadiya Bilous Head of Legal, British American Tobacco, Kiev Moscow – short presentation of the research results regarding the Zhanna Ihnatyuk Legal Counsel CIS, Abbott, Kiev role of gender in Russian litigation practice. Andriy Slabinskiy Legal, Public affairs and GSR Manager, Pernod Ricard, Kiev 1300 Lunch Alena Zolotarevskaya HPE Legal Counsel, Hewlett Packard 1600 Transfers to railway station 1100 – 1130 Coffee/tea break 1720 – 2220 Train Kiev – Lviv 1130 – 1300 Session two (Ukrainian traditional food is available on board) Women in the legal profession Topics will include: 2300 Check-in in Lviv • Gender diversity within a law firm – practical measures to recruit, promote and retain women • Hiring a law firm – does gender diversity play any role? • Do the quotas work in corporate boards, political parties, professional organisations? • Advice to employers who want to create a successful workplace for women in legal profession Saturday 18 June 2016 Arena Lviv, Lviv

0900 Coffee/tea 1200 – 1330 Session two Impact of the development of outsourcing 0930 Welcome and introductory remarks from the a new services (such as IT, telecom) on legal practice type of regional leader Topics will include: Andriy Sadovyy Mayor of Lviv • New assignments before legal counsel from the outsourcing Michael Saakashvili Governor of Odessa region, former area President of Georgia • Is there enough legal content for lawyers to specialise in the outsourcing industry? 1030 – 1140 Session one • Data protection, intellectual property rights, fraud, taxes – Regional infrastructure and business migration anything else? Topics will include: • How well is outsourcing currently functioning and what will • Business tourism as a new trend for regions change in five to ten years? • What should a regional infrastructure offer to be lucrative for business? Moderator • What are the current trends of business migration and David Arakhamia CEO, Ukrainian branch of Template Monster, reallocation? Kiev • How, where and when shall a business migrate? Panellists Moderator Olga Dzhochka Head of Legal Department, N-ix, Lviv Taras Yurynts General Director Guldmann Ukraine, Chairman of András Gurovits Partner, Niederer Kraft & Frey, Zurich EBA West Ukrainian Office, Lviv Friedrich Jergitsch Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Vienna Panellists Szymon Kubiak Partner, Wardynskiy & Partners, Warsaw; Nick Gvinadze Managing Partner, Gvinadze & Partners, Tbilisi Co-Chair, IBA European Regional Forum Theis Klauberg Partner, BNT Attorneys-at-law, Riga Bernhard C Lauterburg Counsel, Prager Dreifuss, Bern 1330 – 1430 Lunch Julian Ries Partner, Integrites, Kiev Kamil Zawicki Partner, Kubas Kos Gałkowski, Warsaw 1430 City tour Dress code: comfortable, sporty. 1140 – 1200 Coffee/tea break 1930 Closing party and dinner Dress code: cocktail attire. Information

Date Venues 15–18 June 2016 Fairmont Grand Hotel Kiev (15–17 June)

Optional tour 1 Naberezhno-Khreshchatytska Street 19 June Kiev 04070, Ukraine Tel: + 380 44 322 8888 How to register Register online at http://uba.ua/eng/events/1909/registration/ Arena Lviv (18–19 June) Stryiska Street, 199, Lviv , Ukraine 79000 Tel: +380 32 253 0335

Fees 19 June Online registrations received: 0630 – 1930 Optional all-day tour to Carpathian Mountains On or before 26 May At the Tour includes visiting famous mineral water springs and exciting outdoor 25 May – 10 June Conference activities like paintball, rope park, nature walk, as well as traditional Carpathian lunch. Dress code: comfortable, sporty. IBA member e1,150 e1,260 e1,390

IBA members Fees include academics/ judges • Attendance at all working sessions (full-time) e860 e950 e1,040 • Conference materials, including any available speakers’ papers • Gala dinner on 15 June Senior lawyers* e860 e950 e1,040 • Football or fashion event on 16 June Young lawyers • Transfers to railway station on 17 June (under 35 years) - • Train Kiev – Lviv on 17 June IBA members e860 e950 e1,040 • Lunch on Thursday, Friday and Saturday • City tour on 18 June IBA corporate • Closing party and dinner on 18 June group member** e860 e950 e1,040 • Tea and coffee during breaks Non-members*** e1,380 e1,520 e1,660 • Opportunity to book optional all-day tour to the Carpathian Mountains on 19 June for e65 Accompanying persons**** e200 e200 e200 Guest fees include: • Gala dinner on 15 June *Reduced rate is offered to lawyers who are over the age of 65, have been • Football or fashion event on 16 June an IBA member for more than 10 years and are no longer practising law. • Transfers to railway station on 17 June **The IBA corporate group member is a reduced rate offered to the • Train Kiev – Lviv on 17 June in-house legal department of international corporations. This rate is only • Lunch on Thursday, Friday and Saturday applicable if your company has a corporate group membership with the IBA. • City tour on 18 June ***Non-members can register at the IBA rate if the IBA membership form • Closing party and dinner on 18 June is submitted at the same time as their conference registration. • Opportunity to book optional all-day tour to the Carpathian Mountains ****Accompanying person(s) must NOT be a member of the legal on 19 June for e65 profession or use the conference as a business networking opportunity. Checks are made to ensure this is adhered to. If the IBA believes the accompanying person is attending in a professional or business capacity, the IBA reserves the right to refuse or to cancel the registration of the accompanying person and request they register as a full delegate for the conference. Accompanying persons are not permitted to attend, under any circumstance, working sessions.

The organisers may at any time, with or without giving notice, in their absolute discretion and without giving any reason, cancel or postpone the conference, change its venue or any of the other published particulars, or withdraw any invitation to attend. In any case, neither the organisers nor any of their officers, employees, agents, members or representatives shall be liable for any loss, liability, damage or expense suffered or incurred by any person, nor will they return any money paid to them in connection with the conference unless they are satisfied not only that the money in question remains under their control but also that the person who paid it has been unfairly prejudiced (as to which, decision shall be in their sole and unfettered discretion and, when announced, final and conclusive). Accommodation Accommodation in Lviv Participants are responsible for all travel arrangements and hotel booking. The IBA has reserved a limited number of guestrooms with a special rate offer for the nights 17–19 of June 2016 inclusive at Leopolis Hotel in Lviv. Rooms with preferential rates are reserved for conference participants and their guests. These will become available upon notifying the respective Leopolis Hotel hotel about your participation in IBA ECA Forum. This is a limited block of 16 Teatralna Street, Lviv, Ukraine, 79008 rooms so please book early as rates and availability cannot be guaranteed Tel: +380 32 295 9500, Fax: +380 32 295 95 99 once the room block is full. Email: [email protected] www.leopolishotel.com Accommodation in Kiev The IBA has reserved a limited number of guestrooms with a special rate Room type Single room per night Double room per night offer for the nights of 15–16 June 2016 inclusive at Fairmont Grand Hotel in Kiev. Standard e70 e90 Superior e85 e105 Fairmont Grand Hotel Kiev Deluxe e105 e125 1 Naberezhno-Khreshchatytska Street, Kiev 04070, Ukraine Tel: + 380 44 322 8888, Fax: + 380 44 322 8899 The above room rates include: www.fairmont.com • breakfast, spa, taxes (VAT), and do not include 1 per cent city tourist tax • these rates are only applicable for the above room block and within the Room type Single room per night Double room per night mentioned period of time Fairmont room e100 e130 To make a reservation please send the email to [email protected] The above room rates include: mentioning IBA ECA Forum. • breakfast, health club, spa, 20 per cent VAT and 1 per cent city tax • these rates are only applicable for the above room block and within the mentioned period

To make a reservation please send the email to @fairmont.com or call 800 0441 1414 mentioning IBA ECA Forum.

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