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CIS Local Counsel Forum
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SECOND CIS LOCAL COUNSEL FORUM
20 – 22 June 2007
Baku, Azerbaijan
Fina Fina
Local Host Firm
RULG
www.rulg.com
Organizing Committee:

Co-Chairs:

Dr. Irina Paliashvili
President and Senior Counsel
RULG - 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 & Pitkowitz Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Ms. Natalia Podolskaya
Senior Legal Counsel, 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
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 LLC
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 Baku:

Mr. Elmir Eminov
Fina LLP, Azerbaijan

 

Selected Bios and Presentations of Moderators and Panelists



Opening remarks: CIS Forum Legal Network

Dr. Irina Paliashvili, RULG - Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A.

Presentation: Mr. Johan Lambers, Advocaat, Brussels Residentie IUSTICA.BE (Virtual Office presentation) — Brussels

Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Dr. Irina Paliashvili, RULG - Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A.

The Local Host Firm: Mr. Nariman Ramazanov, Fina LLP

Panel: Local Counsel from Russia and Belarus

Moderator: Mr. Maxim Kulkov, Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners — Moscow

Mr. Dimitry Afanasiev, Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners, LLC — Moscow

Mr. Alexander Stepanovski, Stepanovski, Papakul & Partners — Minsk

Mr. Sergey Karpekin, Siberian Juridical Company — Novosibirsk

Mr. Vladimir Sakovich, Collegium of Advocates "Yakovlev & Partners" — Moscow


Panel: Local Counsel from the Caucasus region, Moldova, and Ukraine

Moderator: Mr. Alexander Turcan, Turcan & Turcan — Chisinau

Dr. Irina Paliashvili, Ukrainian Legal Group  LLC — Kiev and Washington, D.C.

Mr. Alexandr Bolkvadze, BLC Professional Legal Services - Tbilisi


Panel: Local Counsel from the Central Asia

Moderator: Mr. Zafar Malikov, GRATA Law Firm — Tashkent

Mr. Ulan Tilenbaev, Kalikova & Associates — Bishkek


Panel: Showcase of the Host Country: Azerbaijan

Moderator: Mr. Nariman Ramazanov, Fina LLP

Mr. James Hogan, Managing Partner, Salans Limited — Baku and Paris


Panel: International Law Firms

Moderator: Dr. Willibald Plesser, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer — Vienna

Dr. Gabriel Lansky, Lansky Ganzger & Partner Rechtsanwälte GmbH - Vienna

Mr. David Greene, Edwin Coe LLP — London


Panel: Oil & Gas

Moderator: Ms. Olga Chentsova, Aequitas Law Firm — Almaty

Mr. Robert Małecki, Karniol Małecki i Wspólnicy Sp.k. — Warsaw


Panel: Commercial Dispute Resolution

Moderator:Bruce Marks, Marks & Sokolov, LLC - Philadelphia

Mr. Maxim Kulkov, Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners — Moscow

Dr. Thomas Rihm, Thouvenin Rechtsanwälte — Zurich

Mr. David Franklin, Franklin & Franklin — Montreal


Panel: Investment Risks and Disputes

Mr. Tomasz Dobrowolski, Hogan & Hartson Jamka Galos sp.K. — Warsaw

Dr. Nikolaus Pitkowitz, Graf & Pitkowitz Rechtsanwälte GmbH - Vienna


Panel: Banking, finance, capital markets

Dr. Olena Kibenko, Inyurpolis, CJSC — Kharkiv


Panel: Business Development of Law Practice

Moderator: Mr. Mauro Rubino-Sammartano, Federation of European Bars — Milan


Presentations of the candidates for the next Forum venue

Ms. Anna Zeitlinger, Lansky Ganzger & Partner Rechtsanwälte GmbH - Vienna

Mr. Arkady Krasnikhin, Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev and Partners


Alternative Seminar I: Mergers and Acquisitions, organized by Clifford Chance CIS Limited

Chair: Mr. Andrei Dontsov, Clifford Chance CIS Limited — Moscow


Alternative Seminar II: INTA Commercial Mediation, organized by RULG - Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A. and Fina LLP

Chair: Mr. Jeremy Ferguson, Solicitor, Civil Mediator, Chairman of Devon & Exeter Law Society Mediation Committee, Vice President of Federation of European Bars Access to Justice Commission — Exeter, Devon

Handout FCPA (The Stealthy Foreign Corrupt Practices Act): Prof. Bruce W. Bean, Lecturer in Global Corporate Law, Michigan State University College of Law, Co-Chair ABA Russian-Eurasian Law Committee

 

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