Sovereign & States Disputes and Enforcement

In-person

24th & 25th January 2023 | The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London.

Uniquely bringing the sovereign disputes and international asset recovery communities together

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Agenda

Day1- 24th January Day 2- 25th January

9:00am

Registration

9:30am

Advisory board introduction
Jon Felce - Partner - Cooke, Young & Keidan
Emmanuel Kaspereit - Partner - Archipel (France)

9:45am

Sovereign disputes and defaults- what the stats say
Karthik Balisagar - Senior Managing Director - FTI Consulting

10:15am

Keynote Speech- International Investment Law and Developing States Reimagined from a Southern Perspective
Professor Emilia Onyema - Professor of International Commercial Law - SOAS University of London

11:00am

Coffee Break

11:20am

Sovereign disputes and enforcement post-Achmea, Komstroy and PL Holdings
Jon Felce - Partner - Cooke, Young & Keidan
Alberto Fortún - Partner - Cuatrecasas (Spain)
Paolo Di Giovanni - Partner - BonelliErede (Italy)
Benjamin Siino - Founding Partner - GBS Disputes (France)
Anya George - Partner - Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd (Switzerland)

12.00pm

Part 1: Developments in ICSID, ECT and bilateral/ multilateral Investment and commercial arbitration involving sovereigns
Baiju Vasani - Arbitrator - Twenty Essex
Tomas Vail - Founder & Principal - Vail Dispute Resolution
Sylvia Tonova - Partner - Jones Day (UK)
Elizabeth Oger-Gross - Partner - White & Case (France)

12:40pm

Lunch

2:00pm

Planes, trains and automobiles - identifying sovereign assets
Emmanuel Kaspereit - Partner - Archipel (France)
Ashley Messick - Managing Director - JS Held
Daniel P. Rubel - Partner - Zeichner Ellman & Krause (US)
Arnoldo B. Lacayo - Shareholder - Sequor Law (US)
Nicolae Reutoi - Associate Director - Disputes - Alaco

2:40pm

Injunctions, attachment, receivers, disclosure and other ancillary relief – are sovereigns too protected?
Jon Felce - Partner - Cooke, Young & Keidan
Laure-Hélène Gaicio-Fievez - Partner - BSP (Luxembourg)
Warren E. Gluck - Partner - Holland & Knight (USA)
Jagdish J. Menezes - Of Counsel - Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
Dominik Milani - Doctorate in law, Lawyer, Partner Zurich - NSF (Switzerland)

3.20pm

Coffee Break

3:40pm

Tools outside of courts used by and against Foreign States
Nikos Asimakopoulos - Director - Disputes - Alaco (UK)
Benoît Mauron - Partner - LALIVE (Switzerland)
Thomas Eymond-Laritaz - Founder & CEO - Highgate
Charlene Sun - Partner - DLA Piper (US)

4.20pm

States and state-owned entities
Raphael Kaminsky - Partner - Teynier Pic
Matthew Weiniger KC - Dispute Resolution Partner, Global Chair of International Arbitration - Linklaters
Cathalijne van der Plas - Partner - JahaeRaymakers (The Netherlands)
Alexander A. Yanos - Partner, Co-chair of International Arbitration Group - Alston & Bird (US)

5.00pm

Advisory board wrap-up of day 1
Baiju Vasani - Arbitrator - Twenty Essex
Nikos Asimakopoulos - Director - Disputes - Alaco (UK)

5.15pm

Drinks

9:00am

Registration

9:30am

Advisory board introduction
Baiju Vasani - Arbitrator - Twenty Essex
Nikos Asimakopoulos - Director - Disputes - Alaco (UK)

9.45am

Tips for working for a sovereign
Emmanuel Kaspereit - Partner - Archipel (France)
Lorraine de Germiny - Partner - LALIVE
Oluwemimo Ogunde SAN - Principal Partner - Wemimo Ogunde & Co (Nigeria)
Samantha J. Rowe - Partner - Debevoise & Plimpton (UK)

10.15am

Part 2: Developments in ICSID, ECT and bilateral/ multilateral Investment and commercial arbitration involving sovereigns
Baiju Vasani - Arbitrator - Twenty Essex
Solomon Ebere - Partner - DWF Law LLP
Jiries Saadeh - Partner - Fietta LLP
Steven P. Finizio - Partner - WIlmerHale

11:00am

Coffee Breaks

11.20pm

Around the World
Noor Kadhim - Founder and Principal - Kadhims
Aïcha Brahma - Avocat - Attorney at law - BRAHMA AVOCATS (Morocco)
Dr Rishab Gupta - Arbitrator - Twenty Essex
Rajan Nazran - Senior Partner - NazranRoth

12.00pm

Tactics and strategies used by Foreign States to delay or evade enforcement
Michaël Schlesinger - Partner - Archipel (France)
Nicolas C. Herren - Partner - Pestalozzi (Switzerland)
Hakim Boularbah - Partner - Loyens & Loeff (Brussels)
Ruth Byrne KC - Barrister - King & Spalding

12:40pm

Lunch

2:00pm

Funding sovereign disputes
Nikos Asimakopoulos - Director - Disputes - Alaco (UK)
Ayse Yazir - Global Head of Origination - Bench Walk Advisors (London)
David Walker - Senior Legal Counsel - Deminor
Christiane Deniger - Senior Vice President - Burford Capital
Yasmin Mohammad - Director - Fortress Investment Group (France)

2:40pm

State corruption and public/private partnerships
Jon Felce - Partner - Cooke, Young & Keidan
Clara Poglia - Partner, Co-Head of the Dispute Resolution Group - Schellenberg Wittmer (Switzerland)
James Mather - Barrister - Serle Court
Amaechi Nsofor - Head of Africa Insolvency & Asset Recovery - Grant Thornton
Stéphane Bonifassi - Lawyer - Bonifassi Avocats (France)

3:20pm

Coffee Break

3:40pm

Corruption in sovereign disputes and enforcement
Kiran Unni - Partner - Kobre & Kim
Jef Klazen - Partner - Kobre & Kim
Nikos Asimakopoulos - Director - Disputes - Alaco (UK)
Manish Aggarwal - Partner - Three Crowns
Katrina Limond - Senior Associate - Allen & Overy

4:20pm

Sanctions, sovereigns and state-owned entities
Mikhail Vishnyakov - Partner - Cooke, Young & Keidan
Kian Meshkat - Of Counsel - Ferrari & Associates (US)
Rob Dalling - Partner - Jenner & Block
Marie Poirot - Lawyer - Bonifassi Avocats

5:00pm

Advisory board wrap-up of conference
Jon Felce - Partner - Cooke, Young & Keidan
Emmanuel Kaspereit - Partner - Archipel (France)

5:15pm

End of conference

Event Partners

Lead Partner

Alaco

Knowledge Partner

Highgate

Kobre & Kim

FTI Consulting

Archipel

JS Held

ZEK

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