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IBA Europe-Caucasus-Asia Forum
One of the most important events for the Central Asian professional legal community will take place in Almaty, 5-7 September 2018.
The 13th annual IBA ECA Forum (previously the CIS Local Counsel Forum) comes to Kazakhstan again. The Forum will discuss many new topics and issues while keeping the values, spirit, and atmosphere inherent to this popular event. The Forum attendees are primarily managing partners, heads of practices, in-house lawyers, and other leading experts practicing or interested in the ECA region. The Forum will discuss cutting-edge issues of the legal market and profession, emerging trends, and new challenges faced by regional legal professionals and societies.
Remaining consistent with tradition, the Forum will also offer a wonderful program of cultural and social events, providing you many opportunities for mingling and making new friends and business contacts.
Topics include:
- Cross-border projects in the ECA region: avoiding mismatches
- What standards of professional regulation investors/clients expect from their lawyers in the emerging markets: a gap between expectations and reality
- Astana International Financial Center: new opportunities for investors in the ECA region
- Mineral resource development: trends across the region
- Data privacy regulations: local vs exterritorial laws – General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – the art of risk-management
- How to become an arbitrator
- Key pitfalls of Public-private partnership (PPP) projects in the emerging markets: why do you need a strong legal team
- Procurement of legal services: quality, loyalty and conflict of interests
We look forward to seeing you at the Conference!
Conference Co-Chairs
Jörg MenzerNoerr, Bucharest; Council Member, IBA Section on Public and Professional Interest
Maria OstashenkoALRUD, Moscow
Valikhan ShaikenovAEQUITAS, Almaty
Lana SinichkinaArzinger, Kiev; ECA Liaison Officer, IBA European Regional Forum
To receive details of all advertising, exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities for the IBA ECA Forum in Almaty, email at the IBA Sponsorship Department andrew.webster-dunn@int-bar.org.
Should you have any questions and suggestions on the ECA Forum programme, please contact Co-Chairman and Programme Coordinator, Mr Valikhan Shaikenov, at v.shaikenov@aequitas.kz