English Law Week 2015

30 November – 2 December 2015

The British Embassy, 10 Smolenskaya Naberezhnaya
Welcome to English Law Week 2015
On behalf of the Bar Council and Law Society of England and Wales, the Federal Chamber
of Lawyers of the Russian Federation, the Moscow Chamber of Advocates, the St Petersburg
Chamber of Advocates, the British Russian Law Association, the Anglo-Russian Law Association,
UK Trade and Investment and the British Embassy Moscow we welcome you to the third English
Law Week in Moscow.

We believe that, given the increasing amount of legal business transacted between Russia and
England, it is of enormous benefit for our jurisdictions to have regular bilateral events for leading
practitioners of commercial law, strengthening both legal learning as well as professional and
personal relationships. English Law Week in Moscow alternates year on year with its twin event,
Russian Law Week, which will take place in London in 2016.

We hope you enjoy this important legal event and take the opportunity to meet new colleagues
and old friends.

This programme has been accredited with 9 CPD hours by the

Bar Standards Board and the Law Society.
Tuesday 1 December 2015
Venue: The British Embassy, 10 Smolenskaya Naberzhnaya

09:00 - 10:15 Registration and refreshment

10:15 - 10:30 Opening remarks

Speakers:
John Lindfield, Head of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) Russia

Yury Pilipenko, President of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers of the Russian

Federation

Jonathan Smithers, President of the Law Society of England and Wales

10:30 - 11:30 Session 1: The relevance of English law to Russian

businesses in 2015 and beyond

• To what extent is the use of English law changing in Russia? How real is
that challenge? If so, what is changing and how?
• In what contracts or deals are changes in governing law occurring or not
occurring?
• What companies might be thinking of alternatives and what companies
are likely to continue to use English law?
• Novelties in the law of obligation introduced by the Russian CC in July
2015 – purpose and analogy with English law, and
• Great Expectations?

Moderator:
Katerina Haslam-Jones, Partner, Padva, Haslam-Jones & Partners, London

Speakers:
Yuriy Bortnikov, Partner and Head of International Projects Group, Vegas
Lex, Moscow

Belinda Mancktelow, Counsel, Freshfields, Moscow

Thomas Roe QC, Barrister, 3 Hare Court, London

11:30 - 12:00 Refresment break

12:00 - 13:15 Session 2: Corporate Governance

• Corporate governance and recent regulatory developments in the UK (EU

sanctions)
• The application of UK Corporate Governance rules to international
corporate structures, and
• Criminal liability of companies and their officers (the UK and Russia
overview).

Moderator:
Yulianna Vertinskaya, Head of the Legal Department, Alstom, Moscow

Speakers:
Edward Jenkins QC, Barrister, 5 Paper Buildings, London

Sergei Ostrovsky, Partner, Ashurst LLP, London

Konrad Rodgers, Barrister, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, London

Sergey Vladimirovich Taut, Head of Secretariat for Public Procedures,

Head of the Office of the Public Ombudsman for issues related to the illegal
criminal prosecution of businessmen, Moscow

13:15 - 14:15 Lunch break

14:15 - 15:30 Session 3a: Recovering assets through bankruptcy and

liquidation - Introduction

• Claims to recover assets of company/bankrupt estate under English law

• Focus on cross-border cases, involving Russian parties in particular:
jurisdiction of English courts, recognition of foreign insolvencies
• Assets search, investigations and other efforts in support of cross-border
bankruptcies, and
• Recent developments of Russian law on liquidation and bankruptcy,
possibility of recovering assets situated abroad.

Moderator:
Andrey Zelenin, Partner, Lidings, Moscow

Speakers:
Andrew Durant, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting, London

Kunal Gadhvi, Partner, Edwin Coe LLP, London

Andrey Gorlenko, Senior Attorney at Law, Debevoise & Plimpton, Moscow

Alexander Halban, Barrister, 3 Hare Court, London

15:30 - 16:00 Refreshment break

16:00 - 17:00 Session 3b: Recovering assets through bankruptcy and
liquidation - Case study

Moderator:
Stephen Denyer, Head of City and International, the Law Society of England
and Wales

Speakers:
Andrew Bartlett, Partner, Osborne Clarke LLP, London

Anton Maltsev, Partner, Baker & McKenzie, Moscow

Michael Leeds, Director, Grant Thornton UK LLP, London

Roger Stewart QC, Barrister, 4 New Square, London

17:00 Closing remarks by Alistair MacDonald QC, Chairman of the

Bar Council of England and Wales.

Wednesday 2 December 2015

Venue: The British Embassy, 10 Smolenskaya Naberzhnaya

09:00 - 10:20 Registration and refreshment

10:20 - 10:30 Opening remarks

Speakers:
Alistair MacDonald QC, Chairman of the Bar Council of England and Wales

Igor Polyakov, President of the Moscow Chamber of Advocates

10:30 - 11:45 Session 4: Is London still an attractive arbitral venue for
Russian businesses?

• An insight from the LCIA of current trends

• What is the current thinking of Russian businesses about using English
arbitration?
• Can Russian businesses obtain a fair hearing in English arbitrations in
the current climate?
• Can English arbitral institutions, lawyers and arbitrators be involved in
arbitrations involving sanctioned parties and, if so, what are the practical
challenges, and
• Costs.

Moderator:
Rupert D’Cruz, Barrister, Littleton Chambers, London

Speakers:
Timur Aitkulov, Partner, Clifford Chance and member of Board of the
Russian Arbitration Association, Moscow

Nadia Hubbuck, Counsel, London Court of International Arbitration, London

Tatiana Menshenina, Counsel and Head of CIS, Simmons & Simmons LLP,
London

Andrei Yakovlev, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons, London

11:45 - 12:15 Refresment break

12:15 - 13:30 Session 5.a: Enforcing debts through the English Courts -
Introduction

• Enforcement of foreign judgments in England and Wales

• Identifying, locating and preserving the debtor’s assets
• Practicalities of enforcing a debt or money judgment and arbitral awards,
and
• Methods of enforcing a money judgment (and arbitral award) in England
and Wales.

Moderator:
Anna Grishchenkova, Partner, Korelskiy Ischuk Astafiev and Partner
(KIAP), Moscow

Speakers:
Mark Brown, Partner, Bristows LLP, London

Robert Campbell, Partner, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, London

Christopher Coffin, Partner, Withersworldwide LLP, London

Maria Gritsenko, Counsel, Bryan Cave, London

13:30 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 15:30 Session 5.b: Enforcing debts through the English Courts -
Case study

Moderator:
George Z. Georgiou, Managing Partner, George Z Georgiou & Associates,
Cyprus

Speakers:
Michael Fenn, Partner, Pinsent Masons, London

Andrew Lenon QC, Barrister, One Essex Court, London

Evgeny Raschevsky, Partner, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners,

Moscow

Jams Rustambekov, Solicitor, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, London

15:30 - 16:00 Refreshment break

16:00 - 17:00 Session 6: Managing complex international disputes

• Selecting the best forum: issues for consideration

• Selecting the best partner: case management issues
• Claimant vs defendant: case tactics and perspectives
• PR, costs and IT management: what to consider and how to approach
these efficiently, and
• 3rd party funding: opportunities and limitations.

Moderator:
Vladislav Zabrodin, Managing Partner, Capital Legal Services, Moscow

Speakers:
Yuri Botiuk, Litigation Consultant, London

Artem Doudko, Counsel, White & Case LLP, London

Tatiana Minaeva, Counsel, Jones Day, London

Duncan Speller, Partner, WilmerHale, London

17:00 Closing remarks by Stephen Denyer, Head of City and

International, the Law Society of England and Wales.
Sponsors
Session sponsors

Faegre Baker Daniels is a Legal Business Global 100 law

firm dedicated to serving the legal needs of local, national and
international businesses. From offices in the United Kingdom,
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professionals provide the depth and breadth of expertise necessary
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Their CIS team, made up of highly experienced lawyers and a native
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advises them on a full range of matters, including corporate and
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Further information: www.faegreBD.com

Robert Campbell
Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution in
London
E: [email protected]
T: +44 (0) 20 7450 4550

Paul Finlan
Partner, London Office Leader
E: [email protected]
T: +44 (0) 20 7450 4530

George Z. Georgiou & Associates is an award-winning,

full-service civil law firm based in Nicosia, Cyprus. The firm is
internationally recognized as having expert knowledge in: litigation
and arbitration (including the enforcement of foreign judgments
in Cyprus and orders for interim relief); international commercial
matters (including cross-border transactions); corporate law; land;
and employment & pensions. It is ranked in Legal 500 Chambers
and Who's Who Legal.
The firm's clients consist of local and international companies,
banks, municipalities and equally valued individual clients.

Further information: www.gzg.com.cy

George Z. Georgiou & Associates LLC
1st Floor, 1 Eras Street, Nicosia,
1060 Cyprus
E: [email protected]
T: (+357) 22763340
F: (+357) 22763343
Lidings is a leading independent national law firm with a broad
base of clientele in Russia and the CIS. Since its launch in the
mid-2000s, the firm has achieved impressive growth and built
a noteworthy reputation. The firm advises its predominantly
international clients from its two offices in Moscow and
St.Petersburg.

Lidings advise market leaders, international investors,

representatives of medium and large global businesses
interested in entering the Russian and CIS market and in
actively implementing a variety of business and commercial
projects in Russia.

Further information: www.lidings.com

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Presnenskaya nab. 8 Bldg.1,
Moscow, 123317, Russia
T: +7 (495) 989-44-10
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Grant Thornton (Insolvency, asset tracing and recovery) trace

and recover funds for clients who have suffered a financial loss.

In the last two years the company has recovered over £200
million in hidden and misappropriated assets for creditors
ranging from governments and tax prosecutors, claimants in
major frauds, banks, insurers, victims of Ponzi schemes as well
as other listed and non-listed corporates.

Grant Thornton use insolvency proceedings, court appointed

receiverships and other civil procedures. They have extensive
experience of retrieving assets from multiple jurisdictions and
the offshore centres.

As well as operating under a number of fee structures, and

often working on a contingent basis or with the benefit of third
party funding.

Further information: www.grantthornton.co.uk

Michael Leeds
Director
Advisory, London
E: [email protected]
T: +44 (0) 20 7728 2368
M: +44 (0) 77 6992 8875
Associate sponsors

3 Hare Court provide advocacy and advisory services, both in the

UK and internationally at all levels. They work extensively across
Russia and the CIS on a range of legal matters, being instructed by
law firms in Russia/CIS, the UK and internationally. 3 Hare Court’s
principal practice areas include civil fraud and asset tracing,
commercial litigation, insolvency, sale of goods and international
arbitration.

Speakers from Hare Court include; Thomas Roe QC and Alex

Halban (who is fluent in Russian), previous attendees from 3 Hare
Court have included Simon Davenport QC, Paul Letman and Aidan
Casey.

Further information: www.3harecourt.com

3 Hare Court, Temple, London

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Media partners
Russian Arbitration Association

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