Moderator:

• Mr. Ilya Nikiforov, managing partner Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners Law Offices, St. Petersburg

Invited to speak:

• Mr. Dmitry Dyakin, managing partner Magisters, Moscow, Russia

• Mr. Alexander Muranov, Managing partner,  Muranov, Chernyakov & Partners, Moscow, Russia

•  Mr. Gennadiy Pampukha, President of the European Arbitration Chamber and the ICAC under the EACh, Ukraine

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Business would not develop any special taste for the most efficient and comfortable dispute resolution, if this was not for the lawyers advising on the preferable forum. Indeed, no one likes disputes or seeks any ‘comfort’ in it, but, probably, heads of litigation groups in law firms. So, we want to encourage the tigers of international arbitration and the lions of domestic litigation to finally disclose their preferences:
• Why would you advise your clients to choose this or that jurisdiction or arbitration, while this choice is still possible, i.e. while defining a dispute resolution clause in the international contracts?
• Where are the judges or arbiters more sensitive and open to the best arguments?
• Where and when the access to the court and the proceedings would better serve the goals of the clients?
• Once having the ruling secured – how better to enforce it?
By soliciting ‘your favorite’ forum, we expect the litigating lawyers to be as opportunistic as possible: promote your jurisdiction, argue, trade figures, negotiate preferences, point at – the forum shop is open.

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