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Second Forum Baku, Azerbaijan: 20 – 22 June 2007  |   First Forum Kiev, Ukraine: 28-30 June 2006
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Organizing Committee:

Co-Chairs:

Dr. Irina Paliashvili
President and Senior Counsel
RULG - Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A.

Mr. John Whittaker
Partner
Clyde & Co LLP

International Law Firms and Corporate Counsel:

Mr. Joseph Brand
Patton Boggs, LLP

Mr. Tomasz Dobrowolski
Hogan & Hartson Jamka Galos sp.K.

Mr. Andrei Dontsov
Clifford Chance CIS Limited

Mr. Johan Lambers
Advocaat, Brussels
Iustica.Be

Mr. Constantine Partasides
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Dr. Nikolaus Pitkowitz
Graf & Pitkowitz

Dr. Willibald Plesser
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Ms. Natalia Podolskaya
Senior Legal Counsel, Johnson & Johnson LLC (Russia)

Ms. Irina Sidorova
Mayer Brown LLP

Mr. Patrick Vovan
Vovan & Associes

CIS Local Counsel Country Coordinators:

Mr. Dimitry Afanasiev
Mr. Ilya Nikiforov
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners
Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia

Mr. Alex Bolkvadze
BLC (Professional Legal Services)
Ms. Ketevan Betaneli
Georgia, Armenia

Ms. Olga Chentsova
Aequitas Law Firm
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan

Mr. Andrey Goltsblat
Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners
Russia

Ms. Gulnara Kalikova
Kalikova & Associates
Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan

Ms. Lilia Gokieli
Ukrainian Legal Group, LLC
Ukraine and Moldova

Mr. Nariman Ramazanov
Fina LLP, Azerbaijan

Ms. Liliya Vlasova
Vlasova Mikhel and Partners LLP
Belarus

Forum Executive Editor:

Mr. Richard Smith
RULG - Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A.

Forum Global Coordinator:

Ms. Nonna Paliachvili
RULG - Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A.

Forum Local Coordinator in St. Petersburg:

Ms. Olga Van Biervliet
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners

 
COMMENTS, PLEASE…

On this page you will find comments made by delegates about the Forum. We are very grateful to those who have already expressed their views, and invite you to send us more comments, which we will be happy to post on this page.



“ I wouldn't miss it for the world! ”
Peter F. Lindborg
Partner
Lindborg & Drill LLP

“ Форум – это не просто хорошая, а отличнейшая инвестиция. Я не знаю ни одного мероприятия, которое было бы хотя бы в десятой части столь же практичным и полезным. ”
Татьяна Васильева
Руководитель практики по России и СНГ
KempHoogstad & Partners CIS B.V.

“Мы благодарим Вас за возможность полезного общения, информация и опыт, полученные от коллег, безусловно, эффективно повлияли на стратегию развития нашей Компании. Одним из самых важных отличий Форума от многих других, на наш взгляд является создание среды, позволяющей конкурентам по-настоящему ощутить себя партнерами; создание комфортной атмосферы профессиональной искренности, обеспечивающей желание и условия для сотрудничества.  Позвольте пожелать Вам, Вашей компании, а также форуму процветания и успешного будущего.”
Татьяна Гавриш
Президент – Председатель Правления
Юридическая компания "Инюрполис"


“Форум прошел на самом высоком уровне. Самая главная задача подобного рода форумов – знакомить людей, и эта задача была блестяще выполнена организаторами, за что Вам огромное спасибо! Общение в кулуарах Форума было дружественным и веселым!”
Александр Степановский
Управляющий партнер, директор
Юридическая компания ООО "Степановский, Папакуль и партнёры"


“A heartfelt thanks to your team for another excellently-organized event in Baku! We found the second forum in Baku to be equally useful and enjoyable.”
— Zaza Bibilashvili
Partner, BGI Legal
BGI Advisory Services Georgia


“I thoroughly enjoyed my time in Baku, I thought the organisation of the event and the presentations were all first class.

I regard the contacts I was able to make through the meeting as very valuable and that I very much hope to receive an invitation to next year's Forum and to have an opportunity to make a presentation at that event.

Devon & Exeter Law Society will be hosting a conference for the Federation of European Bars in our county in October 2008 and I'm on the organizing committee and I will be taking your conference to them as a model of how such a conference should be organised!”
— Jeremy Ferguson
Consultant and Mediator
Devon & Exeter Law Society


“I want to congratulate you on the outstanding Conference. Having been a Chairman of various international law conferences, I realize how much work is required to organize a successful conference. This Forum attracted lawyers from many countries and the speakers were very knowledgeable and of great interest. What I was particularly appreciative of was that the seminars ran smoothly and punctually, which is extraordinary for any conference. I look forward to participating in the next Forum and to meeting again my colleagues with whom I have established a professional relationship.”
— David Franklin
Franklin & Franklin


“Indeed, this is one of the most considered necessary events for me. I really enjoyed the company of my esteemed colleagues and I hope to attend next year event too.”
— Zafar Malikov
Managing Partner
GRATA Law Firm


“I agree that Baku is a terrific venue. I have every confidence in Fina LLP to host a glittering occasion. I found last year's Forum to be most useful, and I have benefited from some of the contacts that I have made, particularly in Kyrgyzstan, Armenia and Russia. ”
— John Abramson
Regional Counsel AIG Central Europe & CIS
6 June 2007

“As I found myself thinking so frequently during the two days of the Forum, it seemed in many ways so very surprising that, as far as I am aware (having practiced in the CIS region on and off for the last ten years or so), nobody had organized such a similar event before. But this Forum could not have been put together more smoothly and more efficiently and more impressively, with such a great balance of pure networking opportunities and the excellent formal panel sessions on very well chosen topics, and then the fun part in the evenings. And all in such an excellent venue. In terms of the new enquiries and instructions that we at Harneys have had since June, this is already proving to have been an extremely useful event for us to have attended.”
— Tim Slater
Harney Westwood & Riegels
British Virgin Islands


“It was a very good conference, and I can only imagine how much effort and time it took to organize it on such a high level. I rarely attend conferences but this one looked promising even from the agenda and it turned out to be a useful event.”
— Tatiana Efremtseva
Baker Hughes B.V.
Moscow


“It was tremendously useful for our research, and I really enjoyed the presentations, and meeting lawyers from so many different jurisdictions. Everybody agreed that the conference was a great success, and I hope your plan of forming an association of local firms will meet with success.”
— Ulla Weinberg
PLC Which Lawyer?
Practical Law Company Limited
London


“Everything was fantastic! Really, just fantastic!”
— Alexei Sidorov
Sidorov Khokhlov Uskov
Moscow


“It was the most interesting international meeting between lawyers from different countries that I have ever had. Both the forum program, the speakers and the entertainment part of the meeting was fantastic and I personally came to meet with many interesting personalities, both from the CIS region and elsewhere in the world.”
— Advokat Björn-Anders Feijen
SOLON Advokatbyrå AB
Executive Director, Lawyers Associated Worldwide
Stockholm


“One could sense from a distance that the conference would be very good, since there was obviously great care in the preparation, delegates information, guidelines for moderators and panelists and so on. But it turned out to be even better than anticipated. The attendance was spectacular, both in number and in geographical coverage. The panels were extremely interesting and disciplined and it’s very obvious that the CIS countries are becoming more and more important in business terms.”
— Bernardo Diniz de Ayala
Servulo Correia & Associados, Chairman of Legalink
Lisbon


“The forum was indeed the great success. I have not been to such an excellently organized and set conference for a number of years now.”
— Anton Sitnikov
Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners
Moscow


“These kinds of initiatives, which bring lawyers from around the globe together, have always created the possibility of successful, long, sincere and fruitful co-operations. Excellently organized initiatives like yours are a guarantee and not just a mere possibility of such a success.”
— George Charalambides
GEORGE CHARALAMBIDES & CO
Limassol


“Let me thank you again for the great work you and your dedicated team with RULG have performed in organizing the first CIS Local Counsel Forum in Kiev which I enjoyed in each and every respect: very informative panel presentations, good personal acquaintances, excellent food and a lot of cheer, the city tour you organized for Saturday morning was also a highlight, in other words: the conference was worth the time and money spend. I would strongly encourage you to seek for a second conference next year.”
— Dr. Thomas Rihm
THOUVENIN rechtsanwälte
Zürich


“Для нас Форум оказался хорошим стимулом дальнейшего развития. За два дня мы получили столько много интересной и полезной информации, что всю дорогу домой обсуждали с партнером новые маркетинговые и иные проекты. [На Форуме] …удалось собрать открытых и дружественных людей, что создало особое настроение удовлетворенности у всех участников.”
— Лилия Власова,
Татьяна Емельянова
"Власова и партнеры"
Минск


“Many congratulations again on organising a great Forum. I think everyone enjoyed the opportunity to get together and swap stories as well as useful information about their firms and their practices. I am sure next year's will be even more successful now people have seen how useful this Forum was.”
— Francis Kucera
Linklaters
London


“I hope that this forum will become efficient network of CIS local lawyers and transfer into well established and operating organization.”
— David Sargsyan
Ameria CJSC
Yerevan


“I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed the event in Kiev and found it very useful. The organization was superb, and I know everyone including myself appreciated your efforts.”
— Zaza Bibilashvili
BGI Legal / Advisory Services Georgia
Tbilisi
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