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2 Conferences

27 Speakers

10 Sponsors and Media Partners

150+ Attendees

Jurisdiction and Evidence

in Sp rts Arbitrati n Friday, 21 February 2020

Hôtel de la Poste (Tour & Taxis), Avenue du Port, 86c/88

1000 Brussels, Belgium

REGISTER AT : administracion@clubarbitraje.com

8.45 – 9.15: Registration

9.15 – 9.20: Welcome from the Organisers

9.20 – 9.40: Keynote Speech by Wouter Lambrecht (Attorney-at-Law, FC Barcelona)

9.40 – 10.40: First Panel – Jurisdictional Issues in Sports Arbitration

• José Carlos Páez (Partner, Nebot & Páez Abogados)

• Hannes D’Hoop (Chief Legal Officer, Club Brugge)

• Maarten Draye (Partner, Hanotiau & van den Berg)

• Tomás Navarro Blakemore (Associate, Froriep)

• Moderator: Carmen Núñez-Lagos (Independent Arbitrator and Counsel, Núñez-Lagos

Arbitration)

10.40-11.00: Coffee break

11.00-12.00: Second Panel – Evidentiary Issues in Sports Arbitration

• Olga Hamama (Partner, V29 Legal)

• Annabelle Möckesch (Senior Associate, Schellenberg Wittmer)

• Alexander Vantyghem (Associate, Altius Lawyers)

• Moderator: Giulio Palermo (Partner, Archipel)

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CLE Credits have been requested to the Ordre des Barreaux Francophones et Germanophone de Bruxelles as well as

to the Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten bij de Balie te Brussel

V Annual Conference

A new landscape for EU law and arbitration

Challenges and opportunities

Friday 21st of February 2020 – 14:00 to 19:30

Van Bael & Bellis’ offices - Glaverbel Building - Chaussée de la Hulpe 166 -Brussels

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CLE Credits have been requested to the Ordre des Barreaux Francophones et Germanophone de Bruxelles as

well as to the Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten bij de Balie te Brussel

Registrations on a “First come – First Served” basis at:

administracion@clubarbitraje.com

13:30 Registration of participants

14:00 Welcome remarks

Paul Lefebvre, Capítulo Belga del Club Español del Arbitraje, Brussels

Philippe De Baere, Van Bael & Bellis, Brussels

Dirk De Meulemeester, President of CEPANI (TBC)

Urquiola De Palacio, President of the Corte de Arbitraje de Madrid and of the CEA Mujeres

14:20 Keynote speech

Patricia Shaughnessy, Stockholm University, Stockholm

14:45 Dispute resolution at the time of EU Bilateral FTAs

Moderator: Erica Stein, Dechert LLP, Brussels

Special discussant: Nikos Lavranos, Secretary General of EFILA, Amsterdam

▪ Shifting from WTO to bilateral FTAs: current landscape and future developments

Isabelle Van Damme, Van Bael & Bellis, Brussels

▪ Is there still space for the “traditional” ISDS mechanism? Yes indeed!

Gisèle Stephens-Chu, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, London

▪ From ISDS to a Bilateral investment court system to the Multilateral Investment Court: Why? When? How?

Colin Brown, EU Commission - DG Trade, Brussels

▪ Commercial arbitration and dispute resolution mechanisms in the new Free Trade and Investment

Protection Agreements: allies or enemies?

Urquiola De Palacio, President of the Corte de Arbitraje de Madrid and of the CEA Mujeres, Madrid

16:30 Coffee break

17:00 Competition law damages claims in arbitration

Moderator: Edurne Navarro Varona, Uría Menéndez, Brussels

Special discussant: Françoise Lefèvre, Linklaters, Brussels

▪ Leniency programme and follow-on actions: how it works?

Carlo Edoardo Cazzato, Lipani Catricalà & Partners, Rome

▪ The Private enforcement Directive’s tools in arbitration: the need for a creative approach

Elena Gutiérrez García de Cortázar, EGGC Arbitration, Madrid-Paris

▪ Financing litigation in cartel damages claims

Gian Marco Solas, Omni Bridgeway, Amsterdam

▪ The quantification of damages: how you do it?

Enrique Andreu, Compass Lexecon Europe, Brussels

18:45 Closing Remarks

Philippe Pinsolle, Quinn Emanuel Urqhart & Sullivan, Geneva

19:15 Cocktail reception