Prague Arbitration Day 2019 (15 March 2019)

Different Perspectives on Arbitration: In-House Counsel, Attorneys, Arbitrators and Experts.

ICC Prague Arbitration Day 2019 is a unique one-day conference focusing on the different perspectives of in-house counsel, lawyers and arbitrators.

The successful ICC PAD 2018 participated 100 attendees from 19 countries. Following ICC PAD 2019 participated more than 100 attendees, one third of the participants of last year's conference.

The event is again being co-organized by the ICC Czech Republic and the ICC International Court of Arbitration, with as guest speaker, a representative of the ICC International Court of Arbitration’s management.

Target Group: An audience not only from the CEE region but from the rest of Europe as well, with a special focus on in-house counsel, as well as lawyers (legal counsel), arbitrators, and representatives of national and international chambers (banking, insurance, etc.).

Benefit for you: great opportunity to share experience and trends in international commercial arbitration among professionals from the CEE region and to establish a wide platform for networking.

Four panels:

1. The good, the bad, and the ugly. What has arbitration done for you?
2. Foreign Substantive Law in Arbitration: How to Ascertain, How to Apply
3. Price Adjustment Evaluation in Post-M&A Disputes
4. Taking Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration: CEE Specifics

Programme:

Registration / small breakfast 9:00 - 9:30
Opening words by organizers 9:30 - 9:45
Keynote speech 9:45 - 10:00

4 panels (each comprising 4 to 5 international panellists) – 4 main topics

Panel 1 10:00 - 11:15 The good, the bad, and the ugly. What has arbitration done for you?

Coffee break 11:15 - 11:45

Panel 2 11:45 - 13:00 Foreign Substantive Law in Arbitration: How to Ascertain, How to Apply

Lunch break 13:00 - 14:30

Panel 3 14:30 - 15:45 Price Adjustment Evaluation in Post-M&A Disputes

Coffee break 15:45 - 16:15

Panel 4 16:15 - 17:30 Taking Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration: CEE Specifics

Evening cocktail from 18:00 (Held at the venue - hotel Ambassador Zlatá Husa, Prague).

Moderator / host of the day: Mr. Michal Čáp - Senior Associate at ROWAN LEGAL, Member of the Commission on International Arbitration of the ICC Czech Republic.

The Chairman of the National Committee of the ICC Czech Republic, Dr. Miloš Olík, will give brief opening speech.

Speakers:

Panel 1 10:00 - 11:15 The good, the bad, and the ugly. What has arbitration done for you?

Michal Čáp - Senior Associate at ROWAN LEGAL, Czech Republic (chair)
Metodi Baykushev - Secretary General / Partner at ICC Bulgaria / Dimitrov, Petrov & Co., Bulgaria
Jörn Schmidt - Head of Commercial Litigation at NOKIA, Germany
Michelle Sindler - Alternate Court Member / Independent Arbitrator at ICC Court of Arbitration, Australia
Petr Skalský - Headquarters Lawyer at Metrostav, Czech Republic

Panel 2 11:45 - 13:00 Foreign Substantive Law in Arbitration: How to Ascertain, How to Apply

Jan Brodec - Partner at BRODEC & PARTNERS, Czech Republic (chair)
Živa Filipič - Managing Counsel at ICC International Court of Arbitration, Paris
Catherine Anne Kunz - Counsel at LALIVE, Switzerland
Rostislav Pekař – Partner at Squire Patton Boggs, Czech Republic
Justyna Szpara - Vice President / Partner at ICC Poland / Łaszczuk & Partners, Poland

Panel 3 14:30 - 15:45 Price Adjustment Evaluation in Post-M&A Disputes

Sirshar Qureshi - Partner at PWC, CEE / CIS (chair), Czech Republic / Slovakia
Karolína Horáková – Partner at Skils, Czech Republic
Amanda Neil - Principal Associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Austria
Robert Němec - Partner at PRK Partners, Czech Republic
Ioana Knoll-Tudor - Partner at Jeantet, France / Hungary

Panel 4 16:15 - 17:30 Taking Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration: CEE Specifics

René Cienciala - Associate at Havel & Partners, Czech Republic (chair)
Richard Baček - General Counsel (CZ, SK, RO) at Siemens, Czech Republic
Lisa Beisteiner - Partner at zeiler.partners, Austria
Moritz Keller - Partner at Clifford Chance, Germany
Lucia Raimanová - Counsel at Allen & Overy, Slovakia

Logistics notes:

Hotel Ambassador Zlatá Husa, Václavské náměstí 840/5, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic - map

Hotel offers for conference participants special price for accommodation.

Price for single room - EUR 90 incl. VAT (normal price is EUR 290)

Price for double room - EUR 100 incl. VAT (normal price is EUR 310)

Organization information:

ICC PAD 2019 will commence at 9:30 and conclude with a cocktail reception from 18:00 onwards.

Language: English (no interpretation will be provided by organizers)

Video from the conference:

For conference streaming use this link.

Registration fee:

Conference fee: 7.600 CZK / EUR 290 (incl. VAT 21localhost) per person

The price includes: conference fee, two coffee breaks, lunch and entrance to the evening cocktail reception.

Please note that the conference has been live-streamed and recorded.

ICC YAF

Another conference to be held 1 day before Prague Arbitration Day 2019 in Prague.

ICC YAF Conference (Prague, 14 March 2019)

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