International Conference “Russia as a Place for Dispute Resolution” – Moscow, December 2012

On 7 December 2012 Russian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce – the World Business Organization (ICC Russia) in cooperation with the ICC International Court of Arbitration organize an annual arbitration conference  “Russia as a Place for Dispute Resolution”.  CIS Arbitration Forum is the event’s information sponsor.

The conference will take place at Radisson Royal Hotel Moscow (Ukraine), Kutuzovsky avenue, 21, bldg.1. CIS Arbitration Forum is an information partner of this conference.

Why do we witness the “flight” of Russian disputes abroad? Why are foreign jurisdictions so attractive to Russian companies? What are the first priority steps  for making  Russian legal system attractive and efficient for domestic and foreign businessmen? These  issues and problems will be discussed in the course of the dialogue between state and arbitration institutes.

Anton Ivanov, Chairman of the Supreme Commercial (Arbitrazh) Court of the Russian Federation, is expected  as a Russian headliner. Andrea Carlevaris, Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, will also take part in the event.

The discussion will focus on the following issues:

Conflict of jurisdictions and parallel proceedings

· Interaction among different jurisdictions in the course of recognition and enforcement  of the international commercial arbitration awards

· Why are the English courts attractive for the Russian parties?

· Parallel proceedings in state courts and arbitral tribunals: the problem of the negative impact of the “competence-competence” principle or who should be the first to settle the issue of its jurisdiction – an arbitral tribunal or a state court?

· Invalidating asymmetrical alternative arbitration clauses – is the approach of Russian state commercial courts justified?

· Can the anti-suit injunctions be considered as interference in jurisdiction of other state?

Arbitrability of corporate disputes: does it need a state regulation?

· Why is the disputes’ arbitrability issue so pressing in Russia nowadays?

· What are corporate disputes?

· Approaches to arbitrability in the most developed countries.  Arbitrability of financial disputes.

· Does the decision  to consider corporate disputes non-arbitrable contradict the Constitution of the Russian Federation?

Moscow International Financial Centre – a chance to create the international dispute resolution centre – opportunities, problems, risks

· Moscow  International Financial Centre: myth or reality?

· Does Russia need one more international arbitration court?

The target audience of the event: general counsels, corporate lawyers, legal consultants, representatives of law and consulting firms, arbitrators, experts specializing in regulation of international disputes.

The conference is sponsored by the law firms Debevoise Plimpton LLP, Goltsblat BLP, Clifford Chance, Muranov, Chernyakov & Partners, Norton Rose.

Those wishing to participate in the event need to fill in the registration form and send it to the office of ICC Russia (Yury Popov), yp@iccwbo.ru,  fax +7 (495) 720-5081.

The preliminary conference program may be found here.

Source: cisarbitration