Vasil Kisil & Partners and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) are pleased to announce the Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF): “Third Parties in International Arbitration”. This event will be held in Matisse Restaurant, CITYHOTEL (15th floor, 56 A, Bogdana Khmelnytskogo St., Kyiv, Ukraine) on the eve of the Kyiv Arbitration Days 2013 on November 13, 2013 at 7 pm.

The seminar will be an ideal forum for young practitioners to exchange thoughts on international arbitration, and to enrich their network in the region. The event is hosted by Vasil Kisil & Partners and is free of charge.

The conference will start with the keynote speech “Arbitration Agreement and Third Parties” by the special guest, Dr. Marc Blessing, Bär & Karrer AG (Switzerland), Chartered Arbitrator (CIArb), Honorary President Swiss Arbitration Association, regular lecturer LL.M. and MBL-Programs at Universities of Zürich and St.Gallen. Dr. Marc Blessing is an internationally renowned expert in the field and has more than thirty years of experience serving as arbitrator, mediator, counsel and legal expert on Swiss law and on the practice of international arbitration.

The panel discussion will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Richard Kreindler, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (Germany). The panel members include José Ricardo Feris, ICC International Court of Arbitration (France), Maria Gritsenko, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (UK), Oleksiy Filatov, Vasil Kisil & Partners (Ukraine), and Irina Nazarova, ENGARDE Attorneys at Law (Ukraine).

The panel will focus on discussing the following topics: 

• Joining Additional Parties to Arbitration Proceedings 

• ICC Insight 

• Non Signatories in Arbitration in Ukraine and Other CIS Countries 

• Experiences with Enforcement of Awards against Non Signatories

The programme will be followed by a networking reception.

To register please contact Yulia Chervonooka: pr@vkp.kiev.ua, Т  +38 044 581 7777