The BA Europe-Caucasus-Asia Forum 2018 | International Bar Association | 5 September 2018 | InterContinental Almaty, Zheltoksan St 181, Almaty 050013, Kazakhstan

The IBA Europe-Caucasus-Asia Forum, the successor of the famous CIS Local Counsel Forum, is returning to Kazakhstan with a slightly new look, but the same soul and values we have cherished over a decade.

The Forum will gather managing partners, heads of practice, in-house lawyers, and other senior practitioners coming from, or interested in, the ECA region.

Apart from discussion of cutting-edge issues of the legal market and profession, the event will offer a wonderful cultural and social programme.

2018 Speakers

Dr Irina Paliashvili
Managing Partner, RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group

Sergey Pepeliaev
Partner, Pepeliaev Group, Moscow

Maria Appak
General Counsel, Nike Russia, Moscow

Dr Andrey Gorodissky
Managing Partner, Andrey Gorodissky & Partners, Moscow; Attorney, arbitrator of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Aliya Jumabayeva
Director of the Department for Competition and Public Procurement Policy, Eurasian Economic Commission, Astana

Anastasiya Malakhova
Partner, Sysouev, Bondar, Khrapoutski, Minsk

Jörg Menzer Noerr
Bucharest; Council Member, IBA Section on Public and Professional Interest

Denys Bugay
President of the Ukrainian Bar Association

Péter Köves
Vice President, Budapest Bar Association, Budapest; Vice-Chair, IBA Bar Issues Commission

Anuar Tugel
Chairman of the Republican Collegium of Advocates of Kazakhstan, Almaty

Yelena Pestereva
Partner, AEQUITAS, Almaty

Christopher Campbell-Holt
Registrar and Chief Executive, AIFC Court & International Arbitration Centre, Astana

André Gelinas
Managing Director/Chief Legal Officer, Astana Financial Services Authority

Lana Sinichkina
Partner, Arzinger, Kiev; ECA Liaison Officer, IBA European Regional Forum

Gabriel Avigdor
Partner, NTIC Law & New Technologies, Lausanne area

Clarissa Coleman
Partner, K&L Gates, London

Julia Shmydko
Legal Director Russia, Ukraine and CIS, Johnson & Johnson, Moscow

Natalya Totahevage
Legal Director for Russia and CIS, Abbott Laboratories, Moscow

Iryna Khymchak
BeCentric, Kiev

Sarah Kogan
Editor, Chambers Asia-Pacific, London

Christer Söderlund
Senior Counsel, Morssing & Nycander, Stockholm

Dr Bernhard F Meyer
Vice-President of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA) and Past-President of the ICC Arbitration Commission, Zurich

Datuk Professor Sundra Rajoo
Director of the Asian, International Arbitration Centre (formerly known as the KLRCA),, Kuala Lumpur

Denis Kachkin Managing
Partner, Kachkin & Partners, Moscow;

Jon Hines
Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Moscow

Dr Irina Paliashvili
Managing Partner, RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group, Kiev; Co-Chair, IBA Senior Lawyers’ Committee

Kanatbek Safinov
Executive Secretary, the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana

Maria Ostashenko
Partner, ALRUD, Moscow

Samat Azhenov
General Manager of Negotiations and Legal Department, Tengizchevroil, Atyrau

Joel Benjamin
Managing Partner, Kinstellar, Almaty

Dr Anna Kozmenko
Senior Associate, Schellenberg Wittmer, Zurich

2018 Sponsors

CONFERENCE SUPPORTERS
• International Law Office
• Kazbar
• Lexology
• KPLA
• RALA Russian Asian Legal Association
• Petroleum
• National Business
• Expert Kazakhstan
• Legal Insight
• Lawtek

LANYARD
• K2 Intelligence