4 Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference 2014 Settlement of Investment Disputes:

Date:
Venue:
4th Investment Treaty Arbitration
Conference 2014
Settlement of Investment Disputes:
Practical Steps
Ministry of Finance
of the Czech Republic
The Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic cordially invites you to the fourth
investment treaty arbitration conference aimed at sharing opinions on, and experience
with, Treaty Arbitration between senior officials of governments and top legal
practitioners in the field. The event is organised under the auspices of the Ministry of
Finance of the Czech Republic and hosted by the consulting firm PwC Czech Republic.
30 October 2014
City Green Court
Hvězdova1734/2c
140 00 Prague 4
Czech Republic
Language: English
Fee:
Free of charge, by invitation only
RSVP:
www.pwc.cz/treatyarbitration
Contact for your questions:
treatyarbitration@cz.pwc.com
The event is organised by the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic. The event
is hosted by PwC Czech Republic.
About the 3rd Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference in October 2013
The conference was well attended by government representatives from CEE and Western
Europe as well as by nearly 100 lawyers specialised in international investment arbitration.
“The Third Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference confirmed its unique role
as an international forum where state representatives share their knowledge
and experience, and benefit from the presence of well-respected and experienced
professionals”
Marie Talašová, Head of International Arbitration Department, Ministry of Finance
of the Czech Republic
Programme
9:00 am
to 9:15 am
Marie Talašová (Head of International Arbitration
Department, Ministry of Finance, Czech Republic)
Introduction
The Future of Investment Treaties
9:15 am
to 10:45 am
• Emerging trends of countries denouncing the ICSID Convention
• Links between the existence of BITs and inbound investment flows
(including the continued proliferation of South-South treaties)
• The viability and potential of a multilateral appellate mechanism
• The EU’s approach to investment obligations in a post-Lisbon world
10:45 am
to 11:15 am
Cofee break
Moderator:
Jonathan S. Kallmer (Counsel, Crowell & Moring,
Panelists:
Anna Joubin-Bret (Arbitrator and Mediator, Paris)
Nikolaos Korogiannakis (Chairman of the TPC Group
Permanent Representation of Greece to the E.U., Brussels)
Christoph Schreuer (Arbitrator, Vienna)
Paolo Di Rosa (Partner, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C.)
Pro-active Management of Disputes:
Before the Notice of Arbitration
Moderator:
11:15 am
to 12:45 pm
• Best practice in treaty drafting: the new generation of investment treaties
• The nuclear option: termination of BITs and withdrawal from
multilateral treaties
• Reigning in tribunals: use of interpretations to clarify and confine
the interpretation of existing treaties
Panelists:
12:45 pm
to 1:45 pm
Lunch break
1:45 pm
to 2:00 pm
Keynote speaker – challenges to arbitrators
Threshold Steps in the Investment Treaty Arbitral Process
2:00 pm
to 3:30 pm
3:30 pm
to 4:00 pm
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Setting up the team
Fact development and developing the case strategy
Filing in court and/or in arbitration?
The request (notice of) arbitration
Arbitrator appointments
Managing costs
Washington, D.C.)
Matthew Hodgson (Senior Associate, Allen & Overy, Prague)
Miriam Harwood (Partner, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, New York)
Karolína Horáková (Partner, Weil Gotshal, Prague)
David A. Pawlak (Counsel, David A. Pawlak LLC, New York)
Peter Turner (Partner, Freshfields, Paris)
Meg Kinnear (Secretary General of ICSID, Washington, D.C.)
Moderator:
Stephen Anway (Partner, Squire Patton Boggs, New York)
Panelists:
Charles Claypoole (Partner, Latham & Watkins, London)
Zachary Douglas (Counsel, Matrix Chambers, London)
Ali R. Gursel (Partner, Curtis, Istanbul/Ashgabat/New York)
Gerold Zeiler (Partner, zeiler.partners Rechtsanwälte
GmbH, Vienna)
Coffee break
Mitigating the Damage:
Effective Strategies for Challenging Quantum
4:00 pm
to 5:30 pm
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6:30 pm
Cocktail party hosted by White & Case
Recent trends in quantum decisions by BIT tribunals
The importance of causation/external factors in determining compensation
To bifurcate or not to bifurcate: the Respondent’s conundrum
The role of the quantum expert in presenting a successful defence
Moderator:
John Willems (Partner, White & Case, Paris)
Panelists:
Mark Kantor (Arbitrator and Mediator, Washington, D.C.)
Craig Miles (Partner, King & Spalding, Houston)
Sirshar Qureshi (Partner, PwC, Prague)
Rostislav Pekař (Partner, Squire Patton Boggs, Prague)
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