Kiev Arbitration Days. Kiev, Ukraine

DAY 1

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION

8:00 – 9:00 

Registration / Coffee

9:00 – 9:10 

Welcome addresses

Oleksiy Filatov, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine

9:10 – 10:25

FIRST SESSION

Cases of Corruption

Moderator: 

Joe Tirado, Partner at Winston Strawn LLP (UK)

Speakers:

Max Burger-Scheidlin, Executive Director at ICC Austria (Austria)

Erhard Boehm, Partner at Baier Attorneys at Law (Austria)

Michael Young, Partner at Allen & Overy (France)

Discussed topics:

• Pay to play?
• Contractor v. State/Investor
• Justifications and Excuses

10:25 – 10:55 

Coffee break

10:55 - 11:10

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Olena Yevtushenko, the Judge of the High Specialized Court of Ukraine for Civil and Criminal Cases
“Recognition of Foreign Arbitral Award in Ukraine”

11:10 – 12:55

SECOND SESSION

The Applicable Law

12:55 – 13:55 

Lunch

13:55 – 14:25

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Anton Baier, President of Vienna International Arbitral Centre (Austria)

14:25 – 14:55 

Coffee break

14:55 – 16:25

THIRD SESSION

The evidentiary dilemma

Moderator:

Ilya Nikiforov, Managing partner at Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev and Partners (Russia)

Speakers:

Iain Sheridan, Barrister at Big Ben Chambers (UK / Austria)

Oleksandr Volkov, Associate at  Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev and Partners (Ukraine)

Carol M. Welu, Partner at Squire Patton Boggs LLP (UK)

Nils Schmidt-Ahrendts, Partner at Hanefeld Rechtswalte (Germany)

Discussed topics:

• Burden of Proof
• Standard of Proof
• Struggle against Secrecy – Circumstantial evidence and presumptions
• Arbitral activism v impartiality

16:25 – 16:55 

Coffee break

16:55 – 18:25

FOURTH SESSION

Sanctions and Consequences

Moderator:

Evgen Kubko, Senior partner at Salkom law firm (Ukraine)

Speakers:

Olga Vorozhbyt, Partner at CMS Cameron McKenna (Ukraine)

Anna Tkachova, Associate at Asters (Ukraine)

Christopher Moore, Partner at  Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (UK)

Leon Kopecký, Counsel at Schoenherr, Austria

Discussed topics:

• Lack of arbitrability
• Lack of jurisdiction
• Sanctions
• Damages

DAY 2

INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT ARBITRATION

8:30 – 9:00 

Coffee

9:00 – 10:15 

FIRST SESSION 

Investing in difficult times - yes, no, how? 

Discussed topics:

• What projects do they look at
• How to get financing (equity and debt)
• What problems do they face

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00 

SECOND SESSION

Getting the package right - Considerations at the start of a project

Discussed topics:

• International credit agreements and financial instruments explained
• Investment Insurance
• Investment structuring
• Clauses in your contract
• Tax structuring

12:00 – 12:50

Lunch

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Vladimir Khvalei, Partner at Baker & McKenzie, Vice president of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (Russia)

"Case Law Overview"

13:10 – 14:35

THIRD SESSION

Financial aspects of investment arbitration - Third Party Financing and impecunious parties 

Discussed topics:

• Third Party Financing (TPF) explained
• Consequences of TPF for arbitrator disclosure and other ethical considerations
• Security for costs
• Party renouncing from arbitration agreement and how to deal with it
• Insolvency in investment arbitration

14:35 – 15:05

Coffee break

15:05 – 16:35

FOURTH SESSION

Interest, costs and enforcement - What matters is the bottom line

Discussed topics:

• Pre- and post-award interests - the neglected children
• Cost decision
• Enforcement

16:35 – 17:00

Closing Remarks