Events                     

Russian Law Week

November 5, 2012

RUSSIAN LAW WEEK

5 – 7 November 2012

organised by The Law Society of England and Wales, The Bar Council, BRLA and ARLA

 

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

 

 

RLW 2012 has received 9 Hours CPD accreditation from the Law Society and Bar Council of England & Wales