QMUL and CBAr Arbitration Days

3 April 2017 - 5 April 2017

Time: 3:00pm - 11:00am
Venue: Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB

CBAr opening remarks /Arbitration in Brazil

Date: 3 April 2017 17:30-19:30

Location: 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB

This event is hosted by QMUL and is open to students and other participants.

This event is free but prior booking is required. Register via the E-shop.

Speakers

• Flávia Bittar, CBAr President
• Rafael Alves, CBAr Director
• Silvia Pachikoski
• José Ricardo Feris, ICC
• Professoressor Loukas Mistelis, QMUL (Moderator).

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The State as a Party to Arbitration Proceedings

Date: 4 April 2017 09:00-17:30

Location: 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB

This is hosted by QMUL.

Programme

9:00 – 9:30: Registration

9:30 – 11:00: Panel 1 - Arbitration with the State and SOE in Brazil

Topics for discussion:

• Should States and State-Owned-Entities be treated the same way?
• State as Claimant
• State as Respondent
• Dynamics and Positioning
• Challenges for Tribunals
• Arbitrators and State Courts.

Speakers

• Moderator: Professor Loukas Mistelis, QMUL
• Speaker 1: Justice Luis Felipe Salomão
• Speaker 2: Rafael Alves, CBAr Director
• Speaker 3: Yves Derains, Derains & Gharavi
• Speaker 4: Mahnaz Malik, 20 Essex Street.

11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00: Panel 2 - Issues of Arbitrability

Topics for discussion:

• Traditional approaches to Arbitrability
• Public interest v public policy
• Excluded topics  / no-go areas
• Need for transparency.

Speakers

• Moderator: Professor Stavros Brekoulakis, QMUL
• Speaker 1: Felipe Sperandio, Clyde & Co
• Speaker 2: Domenico Di Pietro, Bryan Cave
• Speaker 3: Professor Daniel Levy
• Speaker 4: Clare Connellan, White & Case.

13:00 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 15:30: Panel 3 - Procedural and Jurisdictional Challenges

• Topics for discussion
• Representing a state and procedural challenges
• Confidentiality v transparency
• Evidence gathering
• State lawyers or outside counsel?
• Attribution and third parties

Speakers

• Moderator:  Peter Hirst, Clyde & Co
• Speaker 1: Maria Cláudia Procopiak, Dechert
• Speaker 2: Andre Luis Monteiro, Andrade & Fichtner Advogados
• Speaker 3: Monty Taylor, Arnold & Porter
• Speaker 4: Christophe Bondy, Volterra Fietta

15:30 – 15:50: Tea Break

15:50 – 17:20: Panel 4 - Sovereign Immunity: jurisdiction / Enforcement  
Topics for discussion

• Brazilian approaches to sovereign immunity
• European approaches to sovereign immunity
• Immunity from Execution / Immunity from Jurisdiction
• Is there time for further harmonization

Speakers

• Moderator: Christian Leathley, Herbert Smith Freehills
• Speaker 1: Clávio Valença, CBAr Director
• Speaker 2:  Monica Feria-Tinto, 20 Essex Street
• Speaker 3: Khawar Qureshi QC, Serle Court Chambers  
• Speaker 4: Norah Gallagher, QMUL (TBC).

17:20 – 17:30: Closing Remarks – Professor Loukas Mistelis