Wednesday, 17 June 2015
Keynote Address: The Energy Community - Bringing the Energy Sectors under the Rule of European Law.
Dr. Dirk Buschle, Deputy Director and Head of Legal, Energy Community - Vienna
Panel: One Year Later - EU Association Agreements Signed a Year Ago:
Progress and Prospects (Harmonization of National Legal Systems with EU Legislation and Practice)
Dr. Dirk Buschle, Deputy Director and Head of Legal, Energy Community - Vienna
Mr. Nick Gvinadze, Managing Partner, Gvinadze & Partners - Tbilisi
Ms. Lana Sinichkina, Partner, Arzinger - Kiev
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Dr. Irina Paliashvili, Managing Partner, RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group - Kiev
Mr. Martin Solc, Vice President of the IBA, Partner, Kocian Solc Balastik - Prague
Panel: Regional Updates from the ECA Region Countries
Moderator: Ms. Olga Chentsova, Managing Partner, Aequitas - Almaty
Mr. Nariman Ramazanov, Managing Partner, FINA - Baku
Mr. Sergey Pepeliaev, Managing Partner, Pepeliaev Group - Moscow
Panel: Law Firm Management Session (Best Practices in Local and Foreign Law Firms Cooperating in International Investment Projects in the ECA Region)
Mr. Ilgar Mehti, Managing Partner, Ekvita - Baku
Interactive Audience Panel jointly with IBA and IBA's European Forum Leadership: ECA Forum Goes Global - Joining the IBA Family! (discussing the new life of the ECA Forum)
Dr. Irina Paliashvili, Managing Partner, RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group - Kiev
Panel: New Age Partnership between Corporate and External Counsel
Moderator: Mr. Yuri Pustovit, Managing Partner, Advocates Bureau Yug - Krasnodar
Panel: The Legal Infrastructure Industry (Professional Media, Public Relations, Consulting, Legal Directories, Human Resources, Marketing)
Moderator: Mr. Nick Eastwell, Kinstellar, London Consultant - London
Mr. Johan Lambers, Partner, IUSTICA.BE - Brussels
Ms. Olga Usenko, Editor-in-Chief, The Ukrainian Journal of Business Law - Kiev
Friday, 19 June 2015
Panel: Dispute Resolution - the most popular panel of the Forum in 10 years!
Moderator: Dr. Nikolaus Pitkowitz, Partner, Graf & Pitkowitz - Vienna
Mr. Valikhan Shaikenov, Partner, Aequitas Law Firm - Almaty
Jennifer Younan, Partner, Shearman & Sterling - Paris
BGI Legal Workshop: Legal and Governance Reforms Go Hand in Hand with Anticorruption Reforms in the ECA Region
Dr. Willibald Plesser, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer - Vienna
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