3th CIS LOCAL COUNSEL FORUM
SELECTED BIOS AND PRESENTATIONS OF MODERATORS AND PANELISTS*
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Opening remarks: CIS Forum Legal Network
Dr. Irina Paliashvili, Co-Chair of the CIS Forum, President and Senior Counsel, RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A. - Kiev, Ukraine and Washington D.C., USA
- Bio
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Welcome and Introductory Remarks: the Forum Co-Chairs:
Dr. Irina Paliashvili, President and Senior Counsel, RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A. - Kiev, Ukraine and Washington D.C., USA
The Host Firm: Mr. Dimitry Afanasiev, Chairman, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners - Moscow, Russia
Panel: Showcase of the Host Country – Russia
Moderator: Mr. Dimitry Afanasiev, Chairman, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners - Moscow, Russia
Mr. Alexander Muranov, Partner, President, Attorneys’ Collegium Muranov, Chernyakov and Partners - Moscow, Russia
Ms. Elena Artyukh, General Director, Group of Companies Lion & Lion-Audit - Yekaterinburg, Russia
Panel: Regional Update - Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine
Moderator: Mr. Alexander Turcan, Managing Partner, Turcan & Turcan – Chisinau, Moldova
Dr. Irina Paliashvili, President and Senior Counsel, RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A. – Kiev, Ukraine and Washington, D.C., USA
Ms. Liliya Vlasova, Deputy Director, Senior Partner, Vlasova Mikhel and Partners LLP – Minsk, Belarus
Panel: Regional Update - Central Asia and Caucasus Region
Moderator: Ms. Olga Chentsova, Managing Partner, Aequitas Law Firm —Almaty, Kazakhstan
Mr. Nariman Ramazanov, Managing Partner, FINA LLP — Baku, Azerbaijan
Mr. David Sargsyan, Partner, Head of Legal Practice Ameria CJSC – Yerevan, Armenia
Panel: International Law Firms v. Local Counsel
(discussion focus: how to become priority local counsel to a global firm; two-way traffic, finally!)
Moderator: Mr. Ilya Nikiforov, Managing Partner, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners - St. Petersburg, Russia
Mr. Jüri Raidla, Partner, Raidla Lejins & Norcous – Tallinn, Estonia
Mr. Peter Hoffmann, Partner, Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati (CHSH) - Vienna, Austria
Mr. Zafar Malikov, Managing Partner, GRATA Law Firm — Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Panel: Best-Friends Networks v. Mega Firms (discussion focus: best+best – new magic!)
Moderator: Oleg Riabokon, Managing Partner, Magisters –Moscow, Russia
Mr. Dimitry Afanasiev, Chairman, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners – Moscow, Russia
Dr. Cord-Georg Hasselmann, Partner, Hengeler Mueller – Berlin, Germany
Mr. Nickolas W. Eastwell, Regional Managing Partner - Emerging Europe, Middle East and North Africa ("EEMENA"), Linklaters – London, United Kingdom
Panel: Corporate Counsel v. External Counsel
(discussion focus: entering new markets, stories from the battlefield)
Mr. Doran Doeh, Managing Partner – Russia, Denton Wilde Sapte (CIS) Ltd. – Moscow, Russia
Panel: Legal Market Industry v. Practitioners (discussion focus: are we on speaking terms?)
Mr. Steven Naifeh, President, Best Lawyers – Aiken, USA
Mr. Sergey Karpekin, General Director, Siberian Juridical Company — Novosibirsk, Russia
Friday, 27 June 2008
Panel: Oil & Gas
Moderator: Dr. Willibald Plesser, Partner and Co-Head Central and Eastern Europe, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP — Vienna, Austria
Mr. Sebastian Lawson, Senior Associate, Freshfields Bruckhause Deringer LLP – London, United Kingdom and Vienna, Austria
Mr. Sergei Lomako, Partner, Haynes and Boone International – Moscow, Russia
Panel: Real Estate and Tax
Mrs. Marina Fox, Founder/Lawyer, Marina Fox Legal Consultancy – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Ms. Tatiana Vasilieva, Head of Practice, Russia & CIS, KempHoogstad & Partners CIS B.V. - Moscow, Russia
Mr. Jan Kohout, Partner, Procházka Randl Kubr – Prague, Czech Republic
Panel: Commercial Dispute Resolution
Dr. Nikolaus Pitkowitz, Partner, Graf & Pitkowitz – Vienna, Austria
Mr. Tomasz Wardynski, Founding Partner, Wardynski & Partners – Warsaw, Poland
Mr. David Greene, Partner, Edwin Coe LLP - London, United Kingdom
Panel: Enforcement of Arbitral Awards and Foreign Court Decisions
Moderator: Mr. Glenn P. Hendrix, Managing Partner, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP – Atlanta, USA, Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Section of International Law.
Dr. Olena Kibenko, Senior Partner, INYURPOLIS CJSC — Kharkiv, Ukraine
Mr. Bruce Marks, Managing Director, Marks & Sokolov, LLC - Philadelphia, USA
Panel: Doing Business with the State – Public Procurement
(discussion focus: cooperation between the private and the public sector in the form of PPP, concessions, PSA)
Moderator: Dr. Markus Jakoby, Managing Partner, Jakoby Rechtsanwälte – Berlin, Germany
Ms. Natalya Podolskaya, Senior Legal Counsel, Johnson&Johnson LLC - Moscow, Russia
Mr. Wolfram Rehbock, Partner, Arzinger & Partners Law Firm – Kiev, Ukraine
* Bios and Presentations are listed according to the Forum Program as received from selected Moderators and Panelists.
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