Monday, 5 November

Venue: Law Society Reading Room, 113 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1PL

18:30-20:30

Evening Reception

VIP address by The Right Honourable Chris Grayling MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

Alexander Yakovenko, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Tuesday, 6 November

Venue: Law Society Common Room, 113 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1PL

08:30 - 09:00

Registration opens

09:00 - 09:30

Opening of the Conference

Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, President of the Law Society of England & Wales

Keynote speech by Alderman David Wootton, Lord Mayor of the City of London

Michael Todd QC, Chairman of the Bar Council of England & Wales

09:30 - 11:00

Session 1.Proposals for changes to the Russian Civil Code

Mikhail Galperin,  Director of the Department of Economic Law  at the RF Ministry of Justice

Dr Andrey Egorov, Chief Administrative Officer, Supreme Arbitrazh (Commercial) Court of the Russian Federation

Artem Zhavoronkov, Partner and Head of Corporate and M&A Practice, Salans, St Petersburg

Evgeny Zhilin, Partner, Law Firm YUST, Moscow

Moderator: Maria Starostina, Co-Chairman of International Affairs Committee of the Moscow City Bar

11:00 - 11:30

Tea and coffee

11:30 - 13:00

Session 2. Investment climate in Russia

Karen Malayan, Embassy of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Glenn Kolleeny, Partner, Salans, Moscow

Vladislav Zabrodin, Managing Partner, Capital Legal Services, St. Petersburg

Dmitri Lubomudrov, Partner, Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow

Konstantin Olefir, Head of Legal, Russian Direct Investment Fund

Moderator: Glenn Kolleeny

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 16:00

Session 3: Corporate governance and shareholder rights under Russian law

Evgeny Zhilin, Partner, Law Firm YUST, Moscow

Roman Khodykin, Partner, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, London

Yuri Bortnikov, Vegas Lex, Moscow

Victor Matchekhin, Linklaters, Moscow

Moderator: Roman Khodykin

Wednesday, 7 November

Venue: The Old Hall, Lincoln’s Inn, Newman's Row, London WC2A 3TL 

09:00 - 09:30

Registration opens

09:30 – 11:00

Session 4: Russian court practice- current trends

Agafonova Galina Alexandrovna, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Court of General Jurisdiction

Denis Kachkin, Managing Partner, Kachkin & Partners, St Petersburg

Feodor Vyacheslavov, Partner, ALRUD Law Firm, Moscow

Kirill Trukhanov, Partner, Vegas Lex, Moscow

Moderator: Denis Kachkin

11:00 - 11:30

Tea and Coffee

11:30 – 13:00

Session 5: Russia’s Membership in the WTO and its legal consequences

Pavel Volkov, Director of Legal Department, RF Ministry of Economic Development

Yuri Monastyrsky, Senior Partner, Monastyrskiy, Zuba & Partners, Moscow

Alexander Muranov, Senior Partner, Muranov, Chernyakov & Partners, Moscow

Dr Tatyana Slipachuk, Partner, Sayenko Kharenko

Moderator: Doran Doeh, Partner, SNR Denton (CIS) Limited

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session 6: Arbitrating commercial disputes in Russia

Dr Anton Asoskov, Lomonosov University, Moscow

Julia Zagonek, White & Case, Moscow

Andrey Zelenin, Partner, Lidings Law Firm

Evgeniy Ravshevsky, Partner, Egorov, Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, Moscow

Moderator: Rupert D’Cruz, Vice-Chairman of the International Committee of the Bar Council of England & Wales and Bar Council representative for Russia

15:30 - 15:35

Closing remarks

Michael Todd QC, Chairman of the Bar Council of England & Wales