Session 1. How to make Russia pay?

Kateřina Skryjova, Dispute Advisory Chief Operating Officer at PwC (Czech Republic)

Current issues of damages evaluation

Robert Capper, Senior Managing Director at Ankura (UK)

Enforcement against states: successful examples and possible routes

Panel 1. How to prepare?

Boris Kasolowsky, Partner and Co-head at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s international arbitration group (Germany)

How to choose counsel and arbitrators?

Sirshar Qureshi, EMEA Forensic Co-Leader, CEE / CIS Dispute Advisory Centre of Excellence Leader at PwC (Czech Republic)

How to determine damages?

James Searby, Partner-level Affiliate at Osborne Partners (USA, Washington)

Questions of compensation

Jurriaan Braat, Managing Director Enforcement & EMEA at Omni Bridgeway (Switzerland )

Budget and third party funding

Panel 2. Where to go?

Maria Pohjanpalo, Counselor at Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (Finland)

Special tribunal or claims commission

Panel 3. Enforcement

James Hayton, Partner at LK Law LPP (UK)

Property of sanctioned Russian oligarchs

Gene M. Burd, Partner at FisherBroyles (USA, Washington)

Еnforcement in the US

Session 1: Arbitrator’s headaches

Dr. Boris Kasolowsky, Co-Head of Arbitration at Freshfields (Germany)

Badly pleaded cases – what arbitrators should do and what they can’t do?

Dr. Markus Schifferl, Partner at bpv Hügel (Austria)

Due process paranoia or how to devalue arbitration?

 

Session 2: The role of Psychology in International Arbitration

Markian Malskyy, Partner at Arzinger (Ukraine)

The art of settlement

Kimberley Wade, Professor of Psychology at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom)

What psychological science can teach us about the (un) reliability of witness evidence?

SPECIAL PRESENTATION: DIVERSITY IN ARBITRATION – STILL A MYTH OR REALITY?

Dr. Alice Fremuth-Wolf, Secretary General of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (Austria): Diversity in arbitration – still a myth or reality?

SESSION 1: PRAGUE RULES

Thomas Williams, Partner at Sultan Al-Abdulla & Partners (Qatar): The Prague Rules: what are they?

Daniel Greineder, Partner at Peter & Partners (Switzerland):  What Is Different in the Prague Rules?

James Castello, Partner at King & Spalding (France): The Prague Rules – Much Ado About Nothing?

SESSION 2: MEDIATION IN INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES

Heidi Merikalla-Teir, Managing Partner at Merilampi and former Secretary General of the Finnish Arbitration Institute (Finland): Faster, cheaper, better?

Alexander Scard, Senior Associate at Kennedys (United Kingdom): Mediation and the enforcement of international settlements – a UK perspective

Sharon Ong, Policy Advisory Director at Ministry of Law Singapore (Singapore): And what about enforcement?

Q&A WITH ANDRIY KOBOLYEV

Andriy Kobolyev, CEO at Naftogaz (Ukraine): Naftogaz experience in Arbitration

SESSION 3: CYBER SECURITY

Nikolaus Pitkowitz, Partner at Graf & Pitkowitz (Austria): Protecting Communications and Exchanges in the Multifaceted Arbitration Environment

Veronika Korom, Assistant Professor in ESSEC Business School, Assistant Professor in “International Business Law and Arbitration” (France): Hacked evidence – now what?

Jonathan Gimblett, Partner at Covington & Burling LLP (USA): Cybersecurity

SESSION 4: ETHICS IN INVESTMENT ARBITRATION

Kristen Young, Partner at White & Case (USA): Violation by the Arbitrator

Laura Hardin, Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations (USA):  When Experts Lie: Preserving Expert Independence and Enforcing Standards of Ethics on Experts

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Oleksiy Filatov: The recent reform of Ukrainian arbitration law

SESSION 1. Anything taken for granted?

Pelin Baysal: Document production the good or the evil?

SESSION 2. Threatened effectiveness

Annet van Hooft: Enforcement of Ethics: Overeager regulators?

Florian Haugeneder: Asset Tracing – when, how?

SESSION 3. The science or fiction of legal technology — time to adjust?

Sergey Alekhin: Smart Arbitration for Smart Contracts?

Olexander Martinenko: Kasparov vs. Computer

Eva Kalnina: AI as Arbitrator – Panacea or Problematic?

SESSION 4. Amendment of ICSID’s Rules and Regulations

Sabine Konrad, Philip Dunham, Marney Cheek: Amendment of ICSID’s Rules and Regulations

FIRST SESSION. Dial 911 – I am in a hurry!

James Castello The emergency and its arbitrator – efficient or illusion?

Alexander G. Fessas Summary dismissals and expedited procedures – Will they do the trick?

Boris Kasolowsky Preliminary issue hearings: Saving or wasting time and cash?

SECOND SESSION. Where is your/my evidence?

Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi Your witness, please! How not to mess up cross-examination

Carita Wallgren-Lindholm Disclosure and how not to put your cards on the table

Pavlo Byelousov Lost in confidentiality – How much can you keep under the carpet?

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

SECOND SESSION. The client: Your best enemy?
Eliza Gluszko,  Senior Associate at Garrigues (Poland) Presentation

SPECIAL PRESENTATION. “Nightmares on the state side: a selection of disturbing trends in investor-state arbitration”
Maksym Kodunov, Head of International Disputes Bureau of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine Presentation

THIRD SESSION. The confidence complex

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

Simon Sloane, Partner at Fieldfisher (UK) Presentation

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

FOURTH SESSION. Show me the money

Zannis Mavrogordato, 20 Essex Street Chambers (UK) Presentation

Kostiantyn Likarchuk, Managing Partner at Kinstellar (Ukraine) Presentation

Tom Price, Partner at Gowling WLG (UK) Presentation

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

DAY 1. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION

FIRST SESSION. Cases of Corruption

James Freeman Presentation

SECOND SESSION. The Applicable Law

Galina Zukova Presentation

Vsevolod Volkov Presentation

Pavlo Byelousov Presentation

Scott Vesel Presentation

Simon Greenberg Adverse Inferences in International Arbitral Practice

THIRD SESSION. The evidentiary dilemma

Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi Presentation

Oleksandr Volkov Presentation

Carol Welu Presentation

Nils Schmidt-Ahrendts Presentation

FOURTH SESSION. Sanctions and Consequences

Olga Vorozhbyt Presentation

Anna Tkachova Presentation

Christopher Moore Presentation

DAY 2. INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT ARBITRATION

Soteris Pittas “Recognition and enforcement of Ukrainian judgments in Cyprus and the available interim relief under Cyprus law”

SECOND SESSION. Getting the package right – Considerations at the start of a project

Dietrich Stiller Presentation

Maria Kostytska Presentation

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Vladimir Khvalei “Case Law Overview: corruption in arbitration” Presentation

Standards of Proof for Allegations of Corruption in International Arbitration

Using Red Flags to Prevent Arbitration from Becoming a Safe Harbour for Contracts that Disguise Corruption

THIRD SESSION. Financial aspects of investment arbitration – Third Party Financing and impecunious parties 

Zannis Mavrogordato Presentation

Iain McKenny Presentation

Funding in Focus

Susan Dunn Presentation

FOURTH SESSION. Interest, costs and enforcement – What matters is the bottom line

Laura Hardin Presentation

Gene Burd Presentation

DAY 1. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION

FIRST SESSION. States and State entities in arbitration

Volodymyr Yaremko, Senior Associateat Arzinger – Sovereign immunity from suit and enforcement, waiver and limits

SECOND SESSION. Multiple Parties, Multiple Contracts and Consolidation 

Ray Werbicki, Partner at Steptoe & Johnson –  The english approach to conflicting or inconsistent arbitration or jurisdiction clauses between the same parties, Note on conflicting or inconsistent arbitration or jurisdiction clauses between the same parties

Pavlo Byelousov, Counsel at AEQUO Law Firm – Joinder and Involvement of Third Parties in International Arbitration

Dmytro Donenko, Senior Associate at ENGARDE – Consolidation of arbitration proceedings

THIRD SESSION. M&A DISPUTES

Soteris Pittas, Managing Director at Soteris Pittas & Co LLC – Waiver of a right to arbitrate under an international commercial arbitration agreement by resorting to litigation

Elke Umbeck, Partner at Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek – Deceit, avoidance of contract and restitution

FOURTH SESSION. Corruption in Arbitration

Sergiy Gryshko, Senior Associate at CMS Cameron McKenna – Corruption in Arbitration: International Approaches,
Ukrainian Perspective

Nick Neocleous, Partner at Edwin Coe LLP – Arbitrators’ investigative rights and duties (and how they relate to corruption in arbitration) 

Olga Bischof, Associate at Brown Rudnick – Enforceability of awards and corruption

DAY 2. INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT ARBITRATION

FIRST SESSION. Taking Stock of the Situation

Jim Bown, President at Vanco Prykerchenska Ltd, Vanco Ukraine Ltd – Presentation

SECOND SESSION. International Law Remedies – Possibilities and Weaknesses

Simon Olleson, Barrister at 13 Old Square Chambers – Dispute Resolution under UNCLOS

THIRD SESSION. The Way Forward – Hot Topics

Maria Kostytska, Of Counsel at Winston & Strawn – Russian Food Import Ban and Legal Remedies to Counter It

DAY 1. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION

FIRST SESSION. Arbitrator’s Power to Adjudicate: Scope and Borderlines

Galina Zukova – The sources of the power to adjudicate
Christer Söderlund – The effects of res judicata
Richard Kreindler – Lis pendens: who defers to whom?
Mark C. Hilgard – Unauthorized Amiable Compositeur?
Marc Blessing – Extending the scope and reach of an arbitration clause to non-signatories / third parties Presentation 1  Presentation 2

SECOND SESSION. The Expert in International Arbitration: Role on the Chessboard?

Vadym Belyanevych – Expert in law: duty or loyalty? Ukr Rus Eng
Laura Hardin – The Expert in International Arbitration: Role on the Chessboard?
José Ricardo Feris – Arbitrator and expert: conflict scenario

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Alex Volcic – Investigative support to arbitration – challenges and case studies

THIRD SESSION. An Award Set-Aside: Connecting the Dots

Evgen Kubko – Public Policy Considerations: Ukrainian Experience
Thomas Bevilacqua – Public Policy Implications for Arbitration: France
Yaroslav Klimov – The public policy exception in Russia: recent trends
Peter Straub – Setting Aside of Arbitral Awards: Switzerland – Presentation         Speech
Oleksiy Didkovsky – International public policy, transnational public policy: defining the concept

SPECIAL SESSION. Energy Disputes

Erhard Böhm – Revising the price or the price clause?
George von Mehren – Contracts signed under duress: meeting the burden of proof
Roman Stepanenko – Hardship Clauses: any added value?
Ana Stanic – EU Law in energy disputes

 

DAY 2. INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT ARBITRATION

SECOND SESSION. Investment Protection – Treaty Structuring and Tax Planning

Richard Winston – Tax structuring with bilateral investment treaties

Eduardo Silva Romero – Denial of benefits

THIRD SESSION. Investment Protection and Government Contracts – Chances

Anke Meier – Stabilisation clauses

FOURTH SESSION. Investment Protection and Government Contracts – Risks

Luis Gonzales Garcia – Nationality requirements
Sergiy Gryshko – Waivers in Investor-State Contracts: Bringing Certainty to Investors and States
Eva Storskrubb – Choice of national law
Darya Rigaud – Forum selection

FIFTH SESSION. Investment Protection and Political Risk Insurance

Ivan Illescas – Political Risk Insurance (PRI): Role of PRI in Protecting Foreign Investments
Dietrich Stiller – Investment Protection and Political Risk Insurance: The German Perspective

DAY 1. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION

Session 1
Tetiana Bersheda – Law applicable to arbitrability and conflict of law rules: how to opt for the right one?
Oleksandr Martinenko – Lex arbitri/the chosen law of the contract v. mandatory rules of the law of a third country
Alexey Filatov – Arbitrability of Corporate Disputed in CIS and Western Europe
Mariia Puchyna – The Impact of Arbitration on Sovereign Immunity

Session 2
Prof. Gianmaria Ajani – Interim measures & Arbitration: Italian law
Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz – Emergency Arbitrator in International Arbitration Practice
Johan Lundstedt – Emergency Arbitration – the SCC experience
Soteris Pittas – Norwich pharmacal and discovery orders in Cyprus contest
Simon Bushell – Freezing injunctions in International Arbitration
Gene M. Burd – Interim measures in the United States

Session 3
Günther J. Horvath – Arbitrator and counsel: Sitting on two chairs?

SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Jurriaan Braat – Seven decisive factors why a third party funder will accept or reject your case

SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Meg Kinnear – ICSID: overview

DAY 2. INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT ARBITRATION

Session 1
Fredrik Andersson – Effective settlement negotiations — and when to end them
Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi – Treaty Claims vs. Contract Claims: Uncertainty is Certain 

Session 2
Meg Kinnear – Commencing Arbitration at ICSID 
Veijo Heiskanen – Commencing Investment Treaty Arbitration:  ICSID v. Non-ICSID 

Session 3
Christophe Guibert de Bruet – Document production and other disclosure issues
Vojtìch Trapl – To bifurcate or not to bifurcate Presentation   Speech
Olga Boltenko – Setting the stage on procedural details at the outset

Session 4
The Battle – Cross-examination

Session 5
Oleksandr Vodyannikov – Parallel Commercial and Treaty-Based Arbitrations
Loukas Mistelis – Award as an Investment: The Value of an Award or the Cost of Non-Enforcement 
Johannes Koepp – Treaty Arbitration and National Courts – Friends or Foes