UBA

PROGRAMME

Programme Coordinator - Irina Nazarova, ENGARDE Attorneys at Law

8:00 – 9:00 Registration / Coffee

9:00 – 9:10 Welcome addresses

Oleksiy Filatov, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Irina Nazarova, Conference Programme Coordinator, Managing Partner at ENGARDE Attorneys at Law Erhard Böhm, Member of the Organizing Committee, Partner at Baier Rechtsanwälte

FIRST SESSION

Regulation frenzy: Is arbitration regulated to death?

9:10 – 10:30 Moderator:

Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz, Managing Partner, founder at GESSEL Attorneys at Law (Poland)

Speakers:

Nata Ghibradze, Associate at (Germany)

Anton Baier, President at the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (Austria)

Volodymyr Yaremko, Counsel at Spenser & Kauffmann (Ukraine)

Discussed topics:

• A jungle of soft law? • Overregulation: a source of dissatisfaction? • The corset of regulation: Escaping from freedom?

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

SECOND SESSION

The client: Your best enemy?

11:00 – 12:20 Moderator: UBA

Thomas Bevilacqua, Partner at Foley Hoag LLP (France)

Speakers:

Alexander Milner, Arbitrator at Fountain Court Chambers (UK)

Eliza Gluszko, Senior Associate at Garrigues (Poland)

Olena Perepelynska, Partner at Integrites (Ukraine)

Discussed topics:

• How to outsmart yourself and lose your case? • How to be smart enough to win your case? • How to circumnavigate the cliffs?

12:20 – 13:20 Lunch

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

"Nightmares on the state side: a selection of disturbing trends in investor-state arbitration"

13:20 – 13:50 Maksym Kodunov, Head of Department of representation of state interests in foreign jurisdictional bodies of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine

KEYNOTE SPEAKER "Are we seeing converging trends in international arbitration?"

13:50 – 14:20 Kaj Hober, Chair of the Arbitration Institute of the SCC Board (Sweden)

14:20 – 14:50 Coffee break

THIRD SESSION

The confidence complex

14:50 – 16:10 Moderator:

Oleksandr Volkov, Associate at EPAP Ukraine

Speakers: UBA

James Freeman, Counsel at Allen & Overy LLP (UK)

Simon Sloane, Partner at (UK)

Alexandre Khrapoutski, Partner at Sysouev, Bondar, Khrapoutski LLC (Belarus)

Discussed topics:

• Arbitrators: the “old hand”, the star and the newcomer • Institutional appointments, close lists, freedom of choice • What and whom can you trust and why?

16:10 – 16:40 Coffee break

FOURTH SESSION

Show me the money

16:40 – 18:00 Moderator:

Tom Price, Partner at Gowling WLG (UK)

Speakers:

Zannis Mavrogordato, 20 Essex Street Chambers (UK)

Kostiantyn Likarchuk, Managing Partner at Kinstellar (Ukraine) Tom Price, Partner at Gowling WLG (UK) Laura Hardin, Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal (USA) Joachim Knoll, Partner at Lalive (Switzerland)

Stephen Jagusch, Partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (UK)

Discussed topics:

• Issues relating to third-party funding and security for costs • Collection and enforcement options • How to help the decision-maker reach the “right” decision (and strategies in the context of tribunal-appointed experts)

18:00 - 18:10 Closing Remarks Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, Member of the Organizing Committee, Partner at EPAP Ukraine

18:30 – 21:00 EVENING RECEPTION

Sofiya Kyivska Museum, The Metropolitan's Residence