Event announcement: X Annual Legal Forum “Development of the legal services market in Ukraine 2014”

March 28, 2014 the X Annual Legal Forum “Development of the legal services market in Ukraine – 2014” will take place at the Hotel InterContinental Kyiv, Ukraine. The event is organized by Ukrainian Bar Association. Mikhail Ilyashev will make a report on the topic: Is there a happy medium: balance of competences as a development factor for a law firm.

Forum – one of the most strategic and important event of the year in the legal market and regularly gathers owners and top managers of the leading law firms in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Georgia. Of course, the legal community and society as a whole would undergo major changes – and this is worth discussing to be able to jointly influence the future of the legal market and current legal tendencies in Ukraine.

The Forum program is traditionally extensive and covers a full range of corporate management issues on the legal market.

• Recent trends in market development: forecasts, prospects and expectations in the near future;
• Nuances of relations with clients: how to attract clients in the current market conditions, build trustworthy and mutually beneficial relations and also organize effective projects performance;
• Rational and successful partnership scheme: delineation of roles within the partnership scheme, creation of effective system of profits distribution and remuneration;
• Effective internal work within the firm: how to create a team that will work most effectively, accurately and consistently with everyone aimed at achieving a common result.

Pavlo Petrenko, The Minister of Justice of Ukraine will open the forum. Forum speakers include the most authoritative and successful representatives of the legal business whose professional activity has been numerously observed by different international ratings: Oleg Makarov, Managing Partner, Vasil Kisil & Partners, Armen Khachaturyan, Senior Partner, Asters, Oksana Voinarovska, Partner, Vasil Kisil & Partners, Alexey Kot, Managing Partner, Antika, Mikhail Ilyashev, Managing Partner, Ilyashev & Partners, Sergiy Svyryba, Managing Partner, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners in Ukraine, Sergiy Koziakov, Senior Partner, Sergiy Koziakov & Partners, Valentyn Gvozdiy, Managing Partner, Gvozdiy & Oberkovych.

More detailed information can be found on the UBA website.

To participate in the event, please contact the UBA Secretariat by phone: +380 (44) 492-88-48, or e-mail at: conference@uba.ua. Contact person – Iya Savchenko.