Co-Chairs:
Dr. Irina Paliashvili
President and Senior Counsel
Russian-Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A.

Mr. John Whittaker
Partner
Clyde & Co.

International Law Firms and Corporate Counsel:

Mr. Joseph L. 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
Residentie LEXBRON

Mr. Constantine Partasides
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Dr. Nikolaus Pitkowitz
Graf, Maxl & Pitkowitz

Ms. Natalia Podolskaya
Johnson & Johnson, LLC (Russia)

Ms. Irina Sidorova
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

Mr. Patrick Vovan
Vovan & Associes

CIS Local Counsel Country Coordinators:

Mr. Alex Bolkvadze
Business & Legal Consulting (BLC)
Ms. Ketevan Betaneli
Georgia, Armenia

Ms. Olga Chentsova
Aequitas
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan

Mr. Andrey Goltsblat
Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners
Russia

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

Mr. Vakhtang Mikadze
Ukrainian Legal Group, LLC
Ukraine and Moldova

Mr. Nariman Ramazanov
Fina LLP
Azerbaijan

Ms. Liliya Vlasova
Vlasova & Partners LLC
Belarus

Ukrainian Local Counsel Initiative Group:

Mr. Alex Frishberg
Frishberg & Partners

Mr. Sergiy Y. Koziakov
Sergiy Koziakov & Partners

Mr. Oleksiy Levenets
Levenets Maciw & Partners

Mr. Vasyl Marmazov
Yuris

Forum Executive Editor:

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

Forum Coordinator:

Mr. Vakhtang Mikadze
Ukrainian Legal Group, LLC

Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Forum's Co-Chair: Dr. Irina Paliashvili, Russian-Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A. (Kiev and Washington, DC)

• Bio
• Opening remarks
• Closing remarks

Panel: Local Counsel from Russia, Belarus and Moldova Moderator: Mr. Anton Sitnikov, Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners Bio Presentation Ms. Liliya Vlasova, Vlasova & Partners LLC (Belarus) Bio Presentation Mr. Alexander Turcan, Turcan & Turcan (Moldova) Bio Mr. Sergey Karpekin, Siberian Juridical Company (Russia, Siberian Region) Bio Mr. Alexei Sidorov, Sidorov Khokhlov Uskov (Russia, Moscow) Bio Panel: Local Counsel from Central Asia Mr. Zafar Malikov, Partner, GRATA (Uzbekistan) Bio Mr. Valerie Zhakenov, Zhakenov & Partners (Kazakhstan) Bio Mr. Matin Mirzoev, Orien-Sipar (Tajikistan) Bio Panel: Local Counsel from the Caucasus Region Mr. David Sargsyan, Partner, Ameria CJSC (Armenia) Bio Mr. Alexander Bolkvadze, Business & Legal Consulting (BLC)(Georgia) Presentation Mr. Nariman Ramazanov, FINA LLP Law Firm Bio Presentation Panel: International Law Firms Moderator: Mr. Johan Lambers, Advocaat, Brussels Residentie LEXBRON Bio Mr. Francis Kucera, Linklaters Bio Ms. Ulla Weinberg, Head of Research, PLCWhich lawyer? Practical Law Company Bio Panel: Mergers and Acquisitions Ms. Nellie Alexandrova, Denton Wilde Sapte (CIS) Limited Bio Mr. Alex Frishberg, Frishberg & Partners Bio Presentation Panel: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Moderator: Mr. Joseph Brand, Patton Boggs, LLP Bio Presentation Mr. Bruce Marks, Marks & Sokolov, LLC Presentation Panel: Dispute Resolution Mr. Mauro Rubino-Sammartano, President, European Court of Arbitration Bio Presentation Panel: Commercial Mediation in IP Sector Moderator: Mr. Sergiy Y. Koziakov, Sergiy Koziakov & Partners Bio Panel: Natural Resources Moderator: Mr. Nariman Ramazanov, Fina LLP Law firm Bio Presentation Mr. Tomasz Dobrowolski, Hogan & Hartson Jamka Galos SP.K. Bio Mr. Dmytro Syrota, Ukrainian Legal Group, LLC Bio Presentation Mr. Anton Malginov, Muranov, Chernyakov & Partners Bio

* Bios and Presentations are listed according to the Forum Program as received from selected Moderators and Panelists.