October, 28
9-00 Registration, coffee/tea
9-00 Exhibition.
The participants of an exhibition
9-30 Welcoming Remarks by Conference co-chairs Per Berglof, Senior Vice-chair, IBA Corporate and M&A Law Committee and Vassily Rudomino, Co-chair, IBA European Regional forum

9-40  Session 1   Main trends of the Russian and CIS M&A-market development. Macroeconomic elements and internal reserves

Description of the session:
Structured and detailed analysis of trends of post-crisis development of the Russian and CIS M&A-market will be showed at the session. The main topics:
–  Investment attractiveness of the Russian ready-made business in the world market;
– Privatization: escape of the state from the assets purchased during the most difficult crisis phase, the new step of selling state assets;
– Improvement of transparency and civility under the influence of legislative innovations in Russia;
– Public offerings of large Russian emitters in the leading foreign stock exchange markets.
Moderators: Konstantin Olefir, Head of Legal & Compliance departments, Deutsche Bank Ltd. (Russia) and Vassily Rudomino, Senior Partner, Law Firm ALRUD (Russia)
Speakers:  
Anton Smirnov, General Director, Mergers&Acquisitions Journal (Russia)
Irakly Mtibelishvily, Managing Director Chairman of Banking Russia, Citi (Russia)
Yuri Golovanov, Head of Legal Department, Morgan Stanley (Russia)
Maria Yarmarkova, Partner, Third Rome (Russia)
Mikhail Noussinov, Head of Industrials Investment Banking, Sberbank (Russia)

Description of the session:
- Recent Russian corporate law developments aimed at improving M&A procedures in Russia;
-    Bankruptcy and Pledge Initiatives of the Russian Ministry of the Economy;
-    Legal remedies for breach of obligations in M&A transactions;
-    First experience with SPAs and Shareholders Agreements governed by Russian law in cross boarder M&A;
- Combined elements of Russian and English law in telecommunications М&А transactions in2010;
- Application of Belarusin laws to M&A transactions - based on an analysis of the Belarusian transactions.
Moderators:Andrey Goltsblat, Managing Partner, Goltsblat BLP (Russia) 
and Ian Ivory, Partner, English Law, Corporate, Goltsblat BLP (Russia)
Speakers:
Ivan Oskolkov, Head of Corporate Governance department, Ministry of Economic Development of Russian Federation
Dmitry Skripichnikov, Deputy to Head of Corporate Governance department, Ministry of Economic Development of Russian Federation
Alexander Zharskiy, Partner, ALRUD Law Firm (Russia)
Vasily Yermolin, Partner,Beiten Burkhardt (Russia)
Kirill Ratnikov, Partner, Magisters (Russia)
Toomas Prangli, Partner, Sorainen (Belarus)
Valery Papakul, Managing Partner, Stepanovski, Papakul & partners (Belarus)
Dennis Turovets, Managing Partner, Magisters, (Belarus)

13-30 Lunch

14-30 Session 3 Antitrust regulation of transborder M&A transactions in Russian and CIS. Investments into strategic industries

Description of the session:
Control over economic concentration in Russia and CIS:
- Timeframes for control over economic concentration in different jurisdictions;
- Requirements for provided documents and list of documents that need to be submitted to the antitrust authorities;
- Possibility of prior discussion of transactions with the antitrust authorities and possibility to influence the process of examining applications;
- Influence of political interest on the process of examination of applications;
- Approval of a transaction under a condition: meaning and type of conditions (structural, behavioral), timeframes for performance;
- The role of third parties in the process.
Control over investments into strategic industries in Russia and CIS
- Powers of the antitrust authorities in this process;
- Timeframes for approving transactions connected with investments into strategic companies and the correlation with the control process of economic concentration;
- Stages of approval for transactions and particulars of the process;
- Planned changes in legislation on control over investments into strategic industries.
Moderators:Vladislav Zabrodin, Managing Partner, Capital Legal Services (Russia) and Tom McQuail, Partner, Howrey LLP (Belgium)
Speakers:
Andrey Tsyganov, Deputy Head of Federal antimonopoly service of Russian Federation
ClaireJeffs, Partner, Slaughter&May
Alexey Kot, Senior Partner, ANTIKA Law Firm (Ukraine)
Aidyn Bikebaev, Senior Partner, Sayat Zholshy & Partners (Kazakhstan)
Alexey Nikiforov, Chief expert of legal department, SIBUR (Russia)

16-00 Coffee / Tea Break

 16-30 Session 4 Trends in international M&A deals and their impact on Russian and CIS transactions

Description of the session:
The 4^thsession in the form of discussion/round table will be aimed at analyzing M&A market in 2010 in the most important jurisdictions. At first the last important trends in M&A market of the USA will be discussed. Further we’ll discuss if these trends are seen in Europe, including Russia and countries of CIS, what changes are there. We are also planning to discuss conditions of M&A-transactions for strategic investors and investment funds, changes in auction procedures and influence of the financial crisis on M&A structure.
Moderators: Oleg de Lousanoff, Partner, Hengeler Mueller (Germany)
Speakers:
Adam Green, Partner, Mannheimer Swartling (Sweden)
Dimitry Afanasiev, Chairman, Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev and Partners (Russia)
Andrew J. Nussbaum, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (USA)

18-00 Conference reception at the Ritz Carlton

October, 29

9-30 Session 5 Private equity issues

Description of the session:
-  The Russian and CIS private equity landscape – an overview;
- Structure of private equity funds in Russia and CIS;
- Financing solutions, and
- Exit strategies.
Moderators: Andrey Dontsov (Partner, White & Case LLP) and Per Berglof (Partner, Advokatfirman Delphi & Co)
Speakers:
Yuri Kachuro, Partner, Executive Director, Head of Legal Department, United Capital Partners Martin Schaffer, Executive Director, PPF Russia Ltd. (Russia)
Grigory Zhdanov, Legal Department Director, Head of Russian Legal Practice, Baring Vostok Capital Partners (Russia)
Dmitry Piskulov, Director, Russia Partners Advisers (Russia)

11-00 Coffee / Tea Break

11-20 Session 6 M&A dispute resolution

Description of the session:
Protecting business interests in M&A disputes:  can justice be fast, fair and cheap?  This panel will feature a debate with corporate users and litigators about client expectations from dispute settlement in M&A transactions and whether these expectations are met.  The speakers will take a critical look at the various means of dispute resolution, including domestic litigation, expert determination, mediation, and arbitration.  They will discuss the various techniques of saving costs and time, and business relationship in the contentious context.  Dilatory tactics and defenses against them will also be addressed.
Moderator: Alan Kartashkin, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, (Russia)
Speakers:
Stephen Polakoff, General Counsel, Integra Management/Corporate Secretary, Integra Group  (Russia)
Evgeny Raschevsky, Partner, Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners (Russia)
Igor Tsibelman, CEO, Sibir Energy Plc (Russia)
Konstantin Kryazhevskikh, Head of the Legal Department, ARMZ Uranium Holding Co. (Russia)

12-40Coffee / Tea Break

13-00 Session 7 Tax implications for M&A in Russia and CIS

Description of the session:
This panel will discuss tax and legal implications of cross-border M&A transactions in their jurisdictions. The discussion will focus on recent trends and development in the market, in the approach of tax authorities, as well as recent jurisprudence including Vodafone case (India). Exchange of views by experts from several jurisdictions will result in panel discussion. Issues of anti-avoidance and managing tax risks will be also addressed.  
Moderator: Sergey Pepeliaev, Managing Partner, Pepeliaev Group Company (Russia)
Speakers:
Ioannis Demetriades,  Founding Partner and Managing Director, Horwath DSP Limited (Cyprus)
Oleg Marchenko, Managing Partner, Ulysses (Ukraine)
Andrey Tereschenko, Partner, Pepeliaev Group (Russia)
Jean-Michel Chamonard, Partner, Atoz (Luxembourg)
Almat Daumov, Partner, Law Firm Grata (Kazakhstan)
Alexander Simonov, Senior Tax Manager, Vympelkom (Russia)

14-30 Closing remarks

List of Participants

List of Organizing Committee