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ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FORUM

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ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FORUM

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MISSION OF THE FORUM

The Forum was initiated by Russian government institutions …

... with reaching its mission based on communication and dialogue

M I S S I O N

Making business contacts with the world best experts, providing transparence and openness of regulatory decisions, eliminating legal barriers of economic development

PROMOTING IDEAS OF MODERNIZATION OF LAW IN THE CONTEXT OF CURRENT GLOBAL CHANGES

Russia is a center of legal dialogue between the East and the West

Promoting Russian legal profession and Russian legal system

Improving cooperation of legal systems and driving common approaches to solving problems of law development in context of globalization

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

Modernizing Russian legal system in light of best practices of international lawmaking

The Presidential Executive Office

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HISTORY OF THE FORUM

One of the most beautiful cities in Europe became the largest platform for discussions of the best lawyers from all over the world

Dates and venue:

May 19-21 2011, Mikhailovsky Castle

Participants:

Over 750 professionals from 35 countries• 19 official delegations, 15 Ministers of Justice

Dates and venue:

May 16-19 2012, Palace Square

Participants:

Over 2000 professionals from 51 countries• 25 official delegations, 13 Ministers of Justice

Dates and venue:

May 15-18 2013, Palace Square

Participants:

Over 2500 professionals from 63 countries• 21 official delegations, 11 Ministers of Justice and 28 Deputy Ministers

Dates and venue:

June 18-21 2014, Palace Square

Participants:

Over 3000 professionals from 79 countries• 55 official delegations, 21 Ministers of Justice and Deputy Ministers, Presiding judges, Heads of international organizations and professional legal associations

2011 2012 2013 2014Dates and venue:

May 27-30 2015, Palace Square

Participants:

Over 3500 professionals from 84 countries•61 official delegations, 20 Ministers of Justice and Deputy Ministers, Presiding judges, Heads of international organizations and professional legal associations

2015

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3578423 20000 1500430REPRESENTATIVES OF 118 LEADING RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN LEGAL AND BUSINESS MASS MEDIA RESOURCES

SPEAKERS FROM 44 COUNTRIES

PARTICIPANTS FROM 84 COUNTRIES

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NEWS ITEMSVIEWS OF BUSINESS PROGRAMME BROADCAST FROM 60 COUNTRIES

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27% LAWYERS AND LEGAL COUNSELS

REPRESENTATIVES OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

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28%IN-HOUSE LAWYERS FROM MAJOR COMPANIES

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2011–2015: MAIN ASPECTS

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2011–2015: PARTICIPANTS

The number of delegates increased from 757 to 3578

The number of countries increased from 35 to 84

The number of foreign counsels and foreign ventures’ representatives increased twelvefold

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NEW FORMATS

Guest conferences under the auspices of the forum

London

“National and supranational legal regulation: challenges and opportunities for development of International Financial Centers”;

“Investment Arbitration”

The Hague

“Mediation in transnational disputes”;

“Legal frameworks for better dispute resolution”

Rome

“Justice and Economics: the reformation of business medium in the Russian Federation”;

“Protection of cultural heritage: legal regulation in Russia and Italy”

Paris

“Presentation of the key novels in the legislation of the Russian Federation regulating civil transactions and investments”;

“Presentation of the key novels in the legislation of the French Republic regulating civil transactions and investments”

Budapest

“Legal Protection of Investments in Central Europe”

DEVELOPMENT OF BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP IN LEGAL AREA

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FORUM 2015: PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY

Delegates – experts from around the world

• 84 countries • 3 578 participants • 61 official delegations

In-house lawyers from major companies

Judges

Notaries

Representatives of law school

Representatives of government agencies

Lawyers and legal counsels

International organisations and associations

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The very idea to make the Forum a must for quite a number of lawyers has been brought to life. I am pleased to see a lot of my colleagues, leading experts from many different countries who represent a variety of law and legal science fields. I can see many new faces here — this wonderful auditorium allows me to see them. Many participants came here last year and the year before. This testifies to the popularity of the Forum.

Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

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FORUM 2015: PLENARY SESSION

MISSION OF LAW IN AN ERA OF CHANGE

PARTISIPANTS

Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Veniamin Yakovlev, Moderator, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation

Wolfgang Brandstetter, Federal Minister of Justice of the Republic of Austria

Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel

Alberto Mazzoni, President, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law

Renaud Sorieul, Secretary, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)

Andrea Orlando, Minister of Justice of the Italian Republic

John Finnis, Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy Emeritus, University of Oxford

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FORUM 2015: DISCUSSION SESSIONS

Business programmeon May 27–29: Tracks

1. International Law / Rule of Law

2. Private Law

3. Corporate Practice / International Trade / Protection of Competition

4. Litigation and Arbitration Practice

5. Smart Society

6. Cultural Heritage / Public Interest / Environment

7. Investments / Finance

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FORUM 2015: CULTURAL PROGRAMME

Guests were invited to take part in more than 10 excursions promoting the image of St. Petersburg as the world cultural center

“Legal Drink” Evening: а series of unique themed receptions

prepared by legal consultants — Forum partners on the most

famous dining street in St. Petersburg

Gala dinner “Forum in Petrograd” inspired by the 1920s in one of the oldest factories in Russia,

“Arsenal”

Opening concert of Denis Matsuev and Hibla Gerzmava in The

Bolshoi Zal (Grand Hall) of the D.D. Shostakovich St. Petersburg Academic Philarmonia; Welcome reception in Grand Hotel Europe

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FORUM 2015: AWARD

“CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGAL INTEGRATION IN THE EURASIAN SPACE”

Nominees — practicing lawyers and legal experts who have made a significant positive contribution to the consolidation and development of interstate relations and the formation

of Common Economic Space in the Eurasian region.

Award holders 2015:

Svetlana Smirnova, Director of Russian Federal Center of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation

Berik Imashev, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Alexei Mordashov, Chairman of the Committee on Integration, Trade and Customs Policy and WTO of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Chairman of the Board, PAO Severstal

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FORUM 2015: MASS AND SOCIAL MEDIA

• 430 representatives from 118 leading Russian and foreign legal and business mass media resources

• 60 media partners

• Over 1500 publications in Russian and foreign media

Total reach in the Internet — 2 763 121 people

Internet portal

Other Information agency

Photo- press

TV company

Broadcast company

Printed press

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20 000 people from 51 countries and 191 cities (including 67 Russian cities) followed the round tables online on May 27–29

FORUM 2015 ONLINE

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PARTICIPANTS ABOUT THE FORUM

Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

About 3,000 of our colleagues — professional lawyers — are attending the Forum. This shows that the Forum has become a generally accepted platform for meetings, interaction and discussion of various issues.

St. Petersburg International Legal Forum is a historic event for the development of law in the world.

The St. Petersburg Forum shows that Russia is still at the heart of international legal development. It offers a unique opportunity to a wide circle of international jurists to come and discuss many types of legal issues. This gives us an opportunity to work together for a better future given how numerous and diverse the topics on our agenda are. I must say that we have been very pleased to take an active part in this Forum just as we did in the previous Forums, and we thank the organisers for that.

I enjoy participation in the Forum; it is stimulating, informing and most interesting. And, it is certainly international in character and content. Your statistics reflect the broad and encompassing participation in the forum and all observers, certainly including myself, find it a positive and refreshing experience.

Julio Cesar Alak, Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Argentine Republic

Christophe Bernasconi, Secretary General, the Hague Conference on Private International Law

Sidney Brooks, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court

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PARTICIPANTS ABOUT THE FORUM

Charles Ogletree,Professor, Harvard University

I am glad to take part in St. Petersburg International Legal Forum. The business programme is perfect; discussion sessions are very promising and their quality is on the highest level as well!

Each year the Forum sparks a great interest. The best evidence is geography of countries, members of the SPBILF. Globalization requires integration of national legal systems. Therefore both government authorities and lawyers of public sectors have a great interest to this event.

The Forum has become even more representative. The idea of the Russian party was that the Forum is attended not only by judges, but also by business and government representatives. I need to say that establishing contacts with various organizations is important, but personal contacts are no less important.

It is important that legislators, judges, academics and practitioners get together regularly to confront their experience. I am aware of — and have participated in — a number of regional forums that boast the same ambition; none matches the ambition and quality venue of St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.

Berik Imashev, Minister of Justice of the Republiс of Kazakhstan

Susan Braden,Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims

Georges Affaki,Vice Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce Banking Commission

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PARTICIPANTS ABOUT THE FORUM

Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel

The St. Petersburg International Legal Forum is a very prestigious event, well known across the world. I feel very honored and pleased to participate in the Forum and to have the opportunity of addressing this distinguished audience. Thank you!

The Forum is very impressive. I was happy to meet so many colleagues here. I think it is very important that this Forum is a chance to meet, is a chance to keep the dialogs between all the countries. Let’s build bridges and keep the dialogue. I am deeply impressed by this wonderful city of St. Petersburg, and it is a great pleasure and honor for me to participate in this legal forum as representative of Austria.

I am really honored, as a President of the Governing Council of UNIDROIT and personally as a law professor who closely follows the interaction between the institutions, the economy and the law, to have been given the chance to attend and to speak on a prestigious and important event such as the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum. My hope and my wishes are the Forum will continue to be a crossroad for exchange of ideas and increase of the awareness that peace can only be safely built on cultural understanding economic cooperation.

I have a very positive impression. I think that this was fruitful exchange of opinions, which can foster the progress in relations between the countries, a strong impulse for creation of supranational law, which will allow to resolve main global problems in a peaceful manner. The main issues are the role of law and how the law is legally designed on international level, how the conditions for the global law are created, and what are the main political ties of this process.

Wolfgang Brandstetter, Federal Minister of Justice of the Republic of Austria

Alberto Mazzoni, President, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law

Andrea Orlando, Minister of Justice of the Italian Republic

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PARTNERS OF THE FORUM 2015

GENERAL PARTNER:

EVENT PARTNERS: BUSINESS PROGRAMME PARTNERS :

STRATEGIC PARTNER:

INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PARTNERS:

GENERAL INFORMATION PARTNER:

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THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION

See you on the VI Petersburg International Legal Forum!

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