Digest 126

International Insolvency Forum: what’s new?

Fresh off the press! The tentative business programme for IIF 2020 is now available online.

The discussions will evolve around such topical issues as:

Auctions in Insolvency Proceedings
Good Faith in Insolvency Cases
Secondary Liability
Subordination of Claims of a Debtor’s Members in Insolvency
Mass of Succession Insolvency
Challenging Deals During Insolvency
Developers’ Insolvency: Shareholders’ Protection Mechanisms

The IIF 2020 delegates will also get insider knowledge about Insolvency Law development strategy from the decision makers. Two discussion panels, under the auspices of the Russian Federal Tax Service and the State Duma (Parliament) Committee for Natural Resources, Property and Land Matters, have been announced.

Bankruptcy trustees and official receivers may benefit from a discounted delegate fee.

Learn the conditions and register for IIF 2020 ►

More hotels to offer special rates to SPBILF Delegates

Official and recommended hotels of the X St. Petersburg International Legal Forum offer attractive rates on accommodation for SPBILF participants. Official SPBILF hotels also provide accreditation desks on their premises, where one can collect a delegate badge, and shuttle transfers to SPBILF venues. Hotel reservation is available via your Personal office.

Three new recommended hotels have been recently added to the list: Solo Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge, Grand Hotel Emerald and Radisson Sonya Hotel.

Reveal the full list of official and recommended SPBILF hotels ►

Registration for Russian Arbitration Day 2020 is now open

Russian Arbitration Day, one of the most successful arbitration conferences in Central and Eastern Europe, will take place on March 17, 2020 in Moscow as a core event of the inaugural Russian Arbitration Week.

Among the Conference speakers there are both rising arbitration stars and senior experts respected worldwide. Careful selection and thorough preparation of speeches will once again provide for the highest level of the Conference.

Three RAD discussion panels are supervised by Anton Asoskov, law professor at the Moscow State University, Roman Khodykin, partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (London) and Alexei Zhiltsov, Honoured Lawyer and Member of the Presidium of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

RAD agenda highlights:

Dysfunctional Deliberations and Effective Advocacy.
Future of Trust Arbitration in Russia.
Toolkit for Arbitrators: Guidelines on Corruption and Money Laundering in International Arbitration.
English Loopholes and Russian Bankruptcies.
Arbitrating with insolvent parties within the EU different perspectives on the conflict of laws questions?!.
Pathological Arbitration Clauses: Correcting the Mythology.

See the entire RAD 2020 programme ►

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP are Organisation Partners of Russian Arbitration Day.

The X St. Petersburg International Legal Forum to welcome UNCITRAL CISG@40 celebrations on 20 May, 2020

As a part of the X St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPBILF), UNCITRAL together with the International and Comparative Law Research Center (Moscow, Russian Federation) will hold a Conference to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, 1980 (CISG); on 20 May 2020.

CISG is a fundamental treaty of the international trade framework and one of the most successful instruments of UNCITRAL. It has already been adopted by 93 States and is among the most influential sources for domestic and regional contract law reform globally. Learn more about the CISG at https://uncitral.un.org/en/cisg40.

UNCITRAL is celebrating the 40^th anniversary of the adoption of the CISG with a series of events across the globe to promote further accessions, and to encourage the use and uniform interpretation of the CISG, building on a significant and constantly increasing volume of case law.

It is anticipated that the Conference agenda at SPBILF 2020 will cover a number of topics on the present status and possible future developments of the CISG such as:

The use and uniform interpretation of the CISG;
The CISG and the digital economy;
The CISG as a source for regional and domestic law reform.

“The St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPBILF) provides an excellent platform to engage on a regional and global discussion on the CISG. A joint event during the SPBILF 2020 will further improve the visibility of the CISG and its State parties and enable discussions on the Convention, namely its application in all regions and its interpretation through case law”, - commented UNCITRAL Secretariat.

Digest 126

International Insolvency Forum: what’s new?

More hotels to offer special rates to SPBILF Delegates

Registration for Russian Arbitration Day 2020 is now open

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