Towards a Reform
in Arbitration
A Particular View
on Construction Disputes
Keynote speaker
BUCHAREST ARBITRATION DAYS 2021
Ms. Anna Joubin-Bret
Secretary of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and Director ITLD/OLA
Theme:
ISDS Reform
⏹ Panels ⏹ Speakers ⏹ Topics
Panel 1
MODERATOR:
Florian Nitu
Managing Partner
Popovici Nitu Stoica & Asociatii (Bucharest)
PANELISTS:
Sarah Vasani
Partner, International Arbitration and Head of Investor State Disputes
Addleshaw Goddard (London)
Mercy McBrayer
Research and Academic Affairs Manager
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London)
Emilie Gonin
Barrister
Doughty Street Chambers (London)
Thomas Kendra
Partner, International Arbitration Practice
Hogan Lovells (Paris)
Infrastructure projects and investment arbitration
June 3 - 12:30 CET
Panel 2
MODERATOR:
Cornel Popa
Partner
Tuca Zbarcea & Asociatii (Bucharest)
PANELISTS:
Julie Bedard
Partner, International Litigation and Arbitration Latin America
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates (New York, Sao Paolo)
Prof. Dragos Sitaru
Attorney at Law and Arbitrator
Dragos Sitaru & Asociatii (Bucharest)
Cristiana Irinel Stoica
Founding Partner
Stoica & Asociatii (Bucharest)
Sami Tannous
Partner, Disputes, litigation and arbitration, Global investigations
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Dubai)
Arbitrability – whereto?
June 3 - 14:00 CET
Panel 3
MODERATOR:
Sorina Olaru
Partner
NNDKP (Bucharest)
PANELISTS:
Evgeniya Rubinina
Partner
Enyo Law (London)
Marily Paralika
Partner
International Arbitration, Fieldfisher (Paris)
Hugh Carlson
Managing Director
Three Crowns LLP (Washington)
Prof. Ioan Schiau
Managing Partner and Arbitrator
Schiau, Prescure, Teodorescu, Crisan SCA (Brasov)
IBA Rules on taking of evidence 2020 revised version – Anything missing?
June 3 - 15:30 CET
Panel 4
PANELISTS:
Jalal El Ahdab
Partner Dispute Resolution Group
Bird & Bird (Paris)
Aisha Nadar
Senior Consultant
Advokatfirman Runeland AB (Stockholm)
Michael Mcilwrath
Former In-house litigation counsel
General Electric and Vice President of Litigation at former GE subsidiary Baker Hughes (Florence)
Simon Greenberg
Partner, International Arbitration Group
Clifford Chance (Paris)
MODERATORS:
Cosmin Vasile
Managing Partner Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners (Bucharest)
June 4 - 11:00 CET
Disclosure and conflict of interest
– next level
Crina Baltag
Senior Lecturer in International Arbitration, Stockholm University (Stockholm)
Launch Event
Supported by
For many years, statistics have indicated that approximately 50% of the commercial arbitrations from Romania have derived from construction contracts, and a similar share exists also in other jurisdictions from Eastern Europe.
The keynote speech is an exceptional and highly topical one, as it will approach the much-talked-about and long-awaited ISDS reform. Further, an investment arbitration panel and 4 dedicated commercial arbitration panels will analyze hot issues, trends, news, reform and directions concerning infrastructure investment disputes, arbitrability, IBA 2020 revised rules on taking of evidence, as well as disclosure and conflict of interests.
The second BARD edition should have taken place in 2020, but it was, like many other similar events, cancelled. Very much like international arbitration, we have adapted to the unfriendly sanitary context, and this edition takes place as possible, namely fully online. Perhaps for this reason, but, certainly, also because we are hoping, like everybody, to go back, as quick as possible, to the good old times, that BARD 2021 will not focus on the issues of immediate impact of the pandemics on international arbitration. If it were not fully online, BARD 2021 would almost ignore the pandemics, because we are looking forward with hope, to the future of arbitration.
Last but not least, a panel will analyze with endorsed speakers, from all possible angles, the specific problems of building
a career in investment arbitration, with a special focus on job opportunities in this field.
Introductory note
Stefan Deaconu
President, The Court of International Commercial Arbitration Attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania
Panel 5
PANELISTS:
Elena Gutierrez Garcia de Cortazar
Independent Arbitrator
Professor of Law, Former Secretary General of the Madrid Court of Arbitration (Paris)
Vincent Boca
Senior Counsel
Profile Investment (Paris)
Cornel Marian
Attorney-at-Law
Bombardier Transportation (Stockholm)
Jean-Rémi de Maistre
CEO & Co-founder
Jus Mundi (Paris)
Ewelina Wetrys
Counsel
DWF (Warsaw)
MODERATORS:
Alina Leoveanu
Senior Legal Consultant, Mayer Brown (Paris)
Ioana Knoll-Tudor
Partner,
Jeantet (Budapest, Paris)
If you can see it, you can be it: exploring 7 professional paths
within international arbitration
June 4 - 12:30 CET
June 3 - 11:00 CET
June 3 - 11:00 CET
Young Romanian Arbitration Practitioners (YRAP)
Hit the Ground Running!
How to Start Your Arbitration:
The Case Management Conference
Media Partners:
From another perspective, 2020 and the pandemic context could not but affect also international arbitration, which has switched to the online almost instantaneously, has digitalized and virtualized with astonishing speed.
June 4th, 15:00 CET
Workshop
June 2nd, 8:30 CET to 13:00 CET
Elements of (Construction) Contract Management and Importance of Early DB
Set Up
Organised by
Partner
June 3rd-4th 2021 - 2nd edition
Thus, the keyword of BARD 2021 is reform. The general topic suggests that we are focusing on reforms, but it also gives the due importance to the construction area.
Towards a Reform
in Arbitration
BUCHAREST ARBITRATION DAYS 2021
A Particular View
on Construction Disputes
⏹ Panels
⏹ Speakers ⏹ Topics
June 3rd - 11:00 CET
Theme: ISDS Reform
Panel 1: 12:30 CET – 13:45 CET
Theme: Infrastructure projects and investment arbitration
Panel 2: 14:00 CET – 15:15 CET
Theme: Arbitrability – whereto?
Panel 3: 15:30 CET – 16:45 CET
Theme: IBA Rules on taking of evidence 2020 revised version – Anything missing?
June 4th - 11:00 CET
Panel 4: 11:00 CET – 12:15 CET
Theme: Disclosure and conflict of interest – next level
Panel 5: 12:30 CET – 13:45 CET
Theme: If you can see it, you can be it: exploring 7 professional paths within international arbitration