Arbitration in Spotlight: Enforcement of Arbitral Awards and Interaction with State Courts after Arbitration Reform

Conference “Arbitration in Spotlight: Enforcement of Arbitral Awards and Interaction with State Courts after Arbitration Reform

On 23 October 2017, the Arbitration Center at the Institute of Modern Arbitration, in partnership with the educational project LF Academy, held its traditional annual arbitration conference. This year, the Conference focused on the first interim results of the recent Russian arbitration reform and interplay between arbitration and state courts.

The Conference worked in three sessions. During the Session 1, its moderator Prof. Anton Asoskov (ICAC), Andrey Gorlenko (Arbitration Center at the Institute of Modern Arbitration) and Fedor Vyacheslavov (VLawyers) discussed the first outcomes of the arbitration reform. Prof. Tatyana Neshataeva (Court of the Eurasian Economic Union) and Evgeniya Goriatcheva (Permanent Court of Arbitration), as representatives of international arbitral and judicial institutions, shared the experience of regulation of several procedural aspects that are topical in light of the recent arbitration reform.

Session 2 was dedicated to the annulment, as well as recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards in Russia and abroad. Several Russian and international legal practitioners spoke during the Session: Ilya Rachkov (Nektorov, Savelyev and partners), Yuri Babichev (Goltsblat BLP), Artem Doudko (White & Case LLP, London), Andrey Panov (Norton Rose Fulbright), Chiann Bao (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Hong Kong), Klaus Reichert (Brick Court Chambers, London). The moderator of the Session 2 was Aleksey Doudko (Hogan Lovells).

Session 3 worked as an interactive workshop, with the support of the firms KPMG, Kulkov, Kolotilov and partners, Lidings. The leading arbitration practitioners shared their experience on how to efficiently enforce an arbitral award: how to draft an arbitration agreement, considering further annulment and enforcement proceedings in state courts, how to trace the debtor’s assets in several jurisdictions worldwide and how to counter abusive and dilatory technics while enforcing an arbitral award. The panel comprised: Evgeniy Raschevsky (EPAM), Anna Grishchenkova (KIAP), Andrey Zelenin (Lidings), Maxim Kulkov (Kulkov, Kolotilov and partners), Ashley Messik (GPW, London), Egor Misyura (KPMG). The workshop was moderated by Aleksey Abramov (KPMG).

The agenda and details of the Conference are available on its website: http://arbitr.lfacademy.ru/en/

The photos from the Conference are available here.