EVENTS
23 November 2010

Ilya Nikiforov to Chair Practical Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in Disputes Involving Ukraine, Russia and CIS Parties Session on the 1st Ukrainian International Сonference

On November 23, 2010 Kiev will host the 1st Ukrainian International Сonference “International Dispute Resolution: Ukraine, Russia and CIS countries”, organized by the Arbitration Committee and the European Forum of the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA). Ilya Nikiforov, managing partner of EPAM, will chair the session entitled Practical Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in Disputes Involving Ukraine, Russia and CIS Parties.

The Conference will become the first event of the IBA in Ukraine, providing the unique opportunity for dispute resolution lawyers and in-house counsel from Western countries and CIS to discuss practical issues of cross-border litigation and international arbitration. The important feature of the Conference is in addressing peculiarities of different jurisdictions and exchange of experience of how to deal with them.

Leading European experts will share their experience on the following issues:

  • Multi-jurisdictional proceedings involving European regulations
  • Bankruptcy and international arbitration: how to manage both
  • Multi-party and parallel proceedings
  • Enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards
  • Rules of evidence in international arbitration

Such topics as enforcement in CIS, enforcement of interim measures, public policy notion, annulment of the arbitral award and its enforcement: Russian experience; enforcement in CIS countries against non-resident entities, enforcement within the framework of Minsk and Kiev convention, non-arbitrability in the enforcement country of the subject matter of arbitration as a bar to recognition and enforcement will be discussed during the session chaired by Ilya Nikiforov.

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