Arbitration Seminar

SEMINAR ON INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

Tuesday 25 August

Seminar on International Arbitration
Arbitral Institutions: What Does Really Count for Users?

Taking of Evidence: New Rules, New Practice?

Programme

09:00    Registration

09:30   
Welcome Address and Introduction to the Seminar
Dieter Hofmann, Walder Wyss & Partners Ltd., Zurich and
Thomas Rohner, Pestalozzi, Zurich
Co-Chairs of the Seminar

09:40

Arbitral Institutions: What Does Really Count for Users?
This session focuses on institutions and the respective rules, taking a fresh and critical look at the ICC, LCIA, VIAC and Swiss Rules, in particular from the users’ perspective.

09:40
Introduction to Institutional Arbitration, to the ICC, LCIA, VIAC and Swiss Rules and
to the Panellists
Pascale Gola, Ruoss Vögele Partner, Zurich
Claudia Götz, Nater Dallafior Rechtsanwälte, Zurich
Karin Graf, Vischer Ltd., Zurich

10:00   
Users’ Critical Perspective
Volker Mahnken, Siemens AG, Corporate Legal and Compliance

10:30    Coffee Break

11:00
Panel Discussion
Simon Greenberg, Deputy Secretary General, ICC, Paris
James Clanchy, Registrar, Deputy Director General, LCIA, London
Christoph Liebscher, Wolf Theiss, Vienna
Paolo Patocchi, Lenz & Staehelin, Geneva
Volker Mahnken, Siemens AG, Corporate Legal and Compliance, CL LIT

Moderator: Daniel Marugg, Gloor & Sieger, Zurich

12:30    Lunch

14:00

Taking of Evidence: New Rules, New Practice?
This session is on taking of evidence issues, with an emphasis on the upcom-ing revision of the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Com-mercial Arbitration and best practice and trends in taking of evidence, also tak-ing a look at Eastern European features and particularities.

14:00
Best Practice and Current Trends in Taking of Evidence
Franz T. Schwarz, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, London
The Revision of the IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Commercial
Arbitration:

What the new Rules will bring and when

Amy F. Cohen, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Frankfurt, Secretary to the IBA Subcommittee tasked with
considering revisions to the IBA Evidence Rules

15:10    Coffee Break

15:40

Panel Discussion
Amy F. Cohen, Shearman & Sterling LLP, Frankfurt,
[Secretary to the IBA Subcommittee tasked with considering revisions to the IBA Evidence Rules]
Dushyant Dave, Senior Advocate, New Delhi
Franz T. Schwarz, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, London
Laurent Niddam, Szecskay, Budapest

Moderator: Paolo Patocchi, Lenz & Staehelin, Geneva (tbc)

16:55
Closing Address
Dieter Hofmann, Walder Wyss & Partners Ltd., Zurich and
Thomas Rohner, Pestalozzi, Zurich
Co-Chairs of the Seminar

17:00    End of the Seminar

17:00    Reception

The format of the seminar is tailored to provide for a lively debate among top practitioners and representatives of important institutions and users, with representatives both from a common law and a civil law background.

Organising Committee of the Seminar:
Pascale Gola, Ruoss Vögele Partner, Zurich; Claudia Götz, Nater Dallafior Rechtsan-wälte, Zurich; Karin Graf, Vischer Ltd., Zurich; Dieter Hofmann, Walder Wyss & Partners Ltd., Zurich, (Co-Chair); Christian Oetiker, Vischer Ltd., Basel; Thomas Rohner, Pestalozzi, Zurich, (Co-Chair) and Tobias Zuberbühler, Lustenberger Glaus & Partner, Zurich.