Prague Arbitration Day 2023

CEE REFLECTIONS ON A CENTURY OF ICC ARBITRATION

Prague Arbitration Day is an annual one-day conference organised in the heart of Central & Eastern Europe that focuses on topical issues in arbitration. The event builds on previous successful conferences in 2018, the event has been again co-organized by the ICC Czech Republic and the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

Venue:

Prague Hotel Marriott, V Celnici 8, Prague 1, Czech Republic

Programme:

09:00 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 09:35 Moderator

• René Cienciala • Partner at Urban & Hejduk; Former Secretary of Arbitration Commission at ICC Czech Republic • CZ

09:35 - 09:45 Welcome remarks & Opening speech

• Jitka Haubová • Chair at ICC Czech Republic; Chief Operations Officer at Komerční banka • CZ

09:45 - 11:00 Keynote panel

• Yves Derains • Former Secretary General of ICC Court; Founding Partner of Derains & Gharavi • FR
• José Feris • Former Deputy Secretary General of ICC Court; Partner at Squire Patton Boggs • DOM & FR
• Jennifer Kirby • Former Deputy Secretary General of the ICC Court; Independent Practitioner at Kirby International Arbitration • US & UK
• Moderated by Marek Procházka • Partner at PRK Partners; Chairman of Arbitration Commission at ICC Czech Republic • CZ

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:45 Recent development and best practices in drafting arbitration agreements

• Alina Leoveanu • Counsel at the ICC Secretariat • RO & FR
• Michal Matějka • Partner at PRK Partners • CZ
• Luminita Popa • Managing Partner at Suciu Popa; ICC Court Member • RO
• Alicja Zielińska-Eisen • Of Counsel at Queritius; ICC YAAF Representative • PL

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 15:15 Sanctions and other contemporary challenges in international arbitration

• Azal Khan • Associate at Clifford Chance • IN & DE
• Eveli Lume • Partner at Squire Patton Boggs • EE & DE
• Lucia Raimanová • Partner at Allen & Overy • SK
• Jiří Urban • Director and CEE Dispute Advisory Leader at KPMG • CZ

15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 - 17:00 Interventions of courts in arbitral proceedings

• Karl-Oscar Dalin • Partner at DLA Piper • SE
• Miloš Olík • Partner at Rowan Legal • CZ
• Robert Pelikán • Partner at Wolf Theiss • CZ
• Dušan Sedláček • Partner at Havel & Partners • CZ

17:00 - 17:15 Closing remarks

• Marek Procházka • Partner at PRK Partners; Chairman of Arbitration Commission at ICC Czech Republic • CZ

17:30+ Evening cocktail

General information:

Conference will commence at 9:30 am at Hotel Marriott Prague.

Cocktail reception will commence at 5:30 pm and will be held separately at Dům u Kamenného zvonu.

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

Conference fee:

Early Bird Registration Fee (until 28 February 2023) - 6,500 CZK / 250 EUR incl. VAT per person
Regular Registration Fee (from 1 March 2023) - 7,500 CZK / 290 EUR incl. VAT per person

The price includes conference fee, two coffee breaks, lunch and conference materials.

Cocktail Reception Fee - 2,500 CZK / 100 EUR incl. VAT per person

Cocktail reception has to be ordered and paid separately.

Standard discounts for members of the ICC Czech Republic apply.

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 counsels, as well as lawyers (legal counsels), arbitrators, and representatives of national and international chambers (banking, insurance, etc.).

Sponzors:

• Allen & Overy (Czech Republic) LLP, organizační složka
• Clifford Chance Prague LLP
• DLA Piper Prague LLP, organizační složka
• HAVEL & PARTNERS s.r.o., advokátní kancelář
• KPMG Česká republika
• PRK Partners s.r.o. advokátní kancelář
• ROWAN LEGAL, advokátní kancelář s.r.o.
• Squire Patton Boggs s.r.o., advokátní kancelář
• Urban & Hejduk s.r.o., advokátní kancelář
• Wolf Theis Rechtsänwalte GmbH organizační složka