2-3 October 2017 - GIAC Arbitration Days in Tbilisi
Brief Info
Georgian International Arbitration Centre, with financial support of EU and UNDP, hosted the fourth annual GIAC Arbitration Days in Tbilisi.
The fourth annual conference brought together the leading experts and practitioners from Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, USA and Georgia. Some of the leading experts invited to the conference were: Dominique Hasher, Dr. Hamid Gharavi, Sébastien Besson, Ioannis Alexopoulos and etc.
The main topic of the conference was Friends and Enemies of Arbitration. During the two-day conference, panels of leading advocates, counsel, experts and arbitrators in the arbitration field discussed the hot topics of international arbitration which were followed by the Q&A sessions in an interactive and interesting format.
Over the course of the main conference several side events were organized by the generous support of the GIAC Arbitration Days partners and sponsors, including the round table on the recognition and enforcement of the arbitration awards with participation of local and foreign judges.
The conference was followed up by the ICDR Y&I - ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) Session on Cross Examination.
SPEAKERS
Dr. Johannes Koepp
Partner at Baker Botts, London
Franz T. Schwarz
Partner at Wilmerhale, Vice Chair, International Arbitration Practice Group
Maria Gritsenko
Counsel at Bryan Cave London Office
Ioannis Alexopoulos
Partner at Signature Litigation, London
Dr. Hamid Gharavi
John Adam
Council in the Paris office of Latham & Watkins
Sébastien Besson
Partner at Levy Kaufmann-Kohler
Ketevan Betaneli
Knowledge Management Lawyer, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Paris
Helene Gogadze
Lawyer at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Dominique Hasher
Judge of the French Supreme Judicial Court ( Cour de cassation)
Beka Injia
Secretary General of the Georgian International Arbitration Centre
Irakli Kordzakhia
Inga Kačevska
Attorney at Law
Nicola Mariani
Karl Pörnbacher
Partner at Hogan Lovells, Munich
Levent Sabanogullari
Legal Consel, Permanent Court of Arbitration, Hague
James Shaerf
Senior Associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
George Svanadze
Head of EY Law Practice in Georgia
Sophie Tkemaladze
Member of GIAC Arbitration Council
Sarah Vasani
Partner at Addleshaw Goddard
Reinmar Wolff
Attorney at Law, Assistant professor
LOGISTICS
The GIAC has negotiated preferential rates in the following hotels, please contact us for details at giacarbitrationdays@giac.ge:
CONFERENCE VENUE HOTEL: Radisson Blu Iveria
Other recommended hotels:
Vinotel | Betsy Hotel | Hotel River Side | Hotel Vere Palace | Hotel Kopala | The Hotel Citadel Narikala
For more information please contact GIAC Arbitration Days organizing team at: giacarbitrationdays@giac.ge
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