9:00 Registration of Participants

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Program

Sunday, June 29, 2008

· 20:30Welcome

Monday, June 30, 2008

· 9:00 Registration of participants

· 10:00 OPENING CEREMONY

· 11:00 - 12:30 FIRST ROUND TABLE: APPLICATION OF THE NEW YORK CONVENTION IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
Analysis of case law in Spain and Portugal regarding the exequatur of foreign arbitral awards set aside on grounds of public substantive law, public procedural law and arbitrability.

o Moderator:

§ Mr. Antonio Hierro. Managing Partner of Cuatrecasas - Madrid

o Speakers:

§ Mr. Vicente Montés, Judge of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court

§ Mr. Miguel Virgós, Professor of International Law and Partner of Uría Menéndez - Madrid

§ Mr. Manuel Cavaleiro Brandão, Partner of Cavaleiro Brandão Pinheiro Torres Cabral,Sousa e Silva e Asociados – Porto

· 12:30 Break

· 12:45 - 14:15 SECOND ROUND TABLE. APPLICATION OF THE NEW YORK CONVENTION IN AMERICA.
Analysis of case law in Latin American countries regarding the exequatur of foreign arbitral awards set aside on grounds of public substantive law, public procedural law and arbitrability.

o Moderator:

§ Mr. Julio González Soria, Arbitrator, Honorary Chairman of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission. Chairman of the International Law Association – Spanish Section.

o Speakers:

§ Mr. Luis M. Martínez. Chairman of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission.
Deputy Chairman of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, The International Division of the American Arbitration Association.

§ Mr. Andrés Mezgravis, Partner of Travieso Evans Arria Rengel & Paz - Caracas

§ Mr. Juan Guillermo Lohmann, Partner of Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados - Lima

· 14:15 Lunch

· 16:15 - 17:45 THIRD ROUND TABLE. RELATION BETWEEN THE NEW YORK CONVENTION, THE UNCITRAL MODEL LAW AND DOMESTIC RIGHTS (I)
• The principle of application of the more favorable right provision and its impact on the development of international arbitration.
• Requirements of the Arbitral Agreement.

o Moderator:

§ Mr. Antonio Hernández-Gil. Dean of the Madrid Bar Association

o Speakers:

§ Mr. Yves Derains, Partner at Derains et Associés - Paris, Chairman of the French Arbitration Committee

§ Ms. Sally Harpole. Partner at Sally Harpole & Co – Hong Kong

§ Mr. C. Ryan Reetz, Partner at Squire Sanders - Miami

· 17:45 - 19:15 FOURTH ROUND TABLE. RELATION BETWEEN THE NEW YORK CONVENTION, THE UNCITRAL MODEL LAW AND DOMESTIC RIGHTS (II)
• Compliance with and enforceability of arbitral agreements.
• Relation between judicial and arbitral jurisdiction. Parallel processes and their remedies.

o Moderator:

§ Mr. Jesús Sainz, Chairman of Promomadrid

o Speakers:

§ Mr. Antonio García Paredes, Chairman of the Eighth Panel of the Madrid Provincial Appellate Court

§ Mr. Jean-Marie Vulliemin, Partner of Froriep Renggli – Madrid

§ Mr. Juan Carlos Calvo, State lawyer on leave of absence. Assistant manager to the Chairman of Grupo Urbaser

§ Mr. Jason Fry, Secretary General, ICC International Court of Arbitration

· 21:30 Gala Dinner

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

· 09:30 - 11:00 FIFTH ROUND TABLE. RELATION BETWEEN THE NEW YORK CONVENTION, THE UNCITRAL MODEL LAW AND DOMESTIC RIGHTS (III)
• Definition of arbitral award and classes of award
• The enforcement of set aside, challenged, provisional and settlement arbitral awards

o Moderator:

§ Mr. Alfonso Cuenca. Deputy Minister of Justice and Public Administration of Madrid Autonomous Community Government

o Speakers:

§ Mr. Juán Antonio Xiol, Chairman of the First Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court

§ Mr. Fernando Mantilla-Serrano, Partner of Shearman & Sterling – Paris

§ Mr. José Luis Meseguer, Manager of the Legal Department at Isolux-Corsán

· 11:00 Break

· 11:45 - 12:45 SIXTH ROUND TABLE. FUTURE OF THE NEW YORK CONVENTION
Are the proposals circulating on the amendment of the Convention, related, for example, to the elimination of the concept of the seat of arbitration, desirable and necessary? What should the evolution of the concept of public policy be?

o Moderator:

§ Mr. José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, Founding Partner of Pérez-Llorca Abogados - Madrid

o Speakers:

§ Mr. Fernando Pombo. Chairman of the International Bar Association, Founding Partner of Gomez-Acebó & Pombo - Madrid

§ Mr. Alexis Mourre, Partner of Castaldi, Mourre & Partners - Paris

§ Mr. Ramón Mullerat, ex-Chairman of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), KPMG Abogados - Barcelona

· CLOSING CEREMONY

· 14:30 Lunch

NOTE. To promote the exchange of ideas and experiences, at each Round Table the speakers will give an address of approximately 15 minutes each in order to present a summary of his Paper, which will have been delivered to the attendees in advance, and will be followed by an open discussion chaired by the moderator.

The appropriate instructions to receive the full texts of the Papers will be sent by the Congress Secretariat directly to those registered to attend the Congress.