VI BRICS LEGAL FORUM

“Building Legal Capacity for New Rule Based World Economic Order”

Venue: Sheraton Grand Rio Hotel & Resort

Address: Avenida Niemeyer, 121, Rio de Janeiro

Conference rooms: Gavea A and Gavea B

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

October 14:

2.00pm – Steering Committee meeting to discuss first draft of declaration (private)

4.00pm – Opening Ceremony
– Claudio Lamachia (Brazilian Bar Association)
– Prashant Kumar (Bar Association of India)
– Alexey Klishin (Association of Lawyers of Russia)
– Zhang Mingqi (China Law Society)
– Mvuzo Notyesi (Law Society of South Africa)
– Chair: Marcus Vinicius Furtado Coelho

Speakers:
– Horacio Bernardes Neto (International Bar Association)
– Alexandre Barreto (Administrative Council for Economic Defense – CADE)
– Sergio Bermudes (Sergio Bermudes Advogados)
– Wellington Dias (Governor of the State of Piaui)
– Antonio Florencio de Queiroz Junior (Fecomercio-RJ)

– Thomas Law (Special Counsel at the Brazilian National Congress)
– Chair: Claudio Lamachia (Brazilian Bar Association)

7.00pm – Cocktail reception

October 15:

10.00am – Plenary: Establishment of BRICS-led Network for the Dispute Resolution Requirements of the Emerging World
Speakers:
– Nadia Araujo (Brazilian Bar Association)
– Samantha Mendes Longo (Wald Advogados)
– Roman Gherakov (Association of Lawyers of Russia)
– Lindi Nkosi-Thomas SC (China-Africa Joint Arbitration Centre)
– India TBD
– Yao Hongmin (Shanghai International Arbitration Center)
– Moderator – Carlos Roberto de Siqueira Castro
– Chair – Pedro Freitas (Brazilian Bar Association)

10.00am – Disputes on Sports Law
– Ricardo Miguel (Judge)
– Ksenia Mashkova (Kutafin Moscow State Law University)
– India TBD
– Du Tao (School of International Law of East China University of Political Science and Law)
– Moderator – Tarcisio Teixeira
– Chair – Plinio Lemos Jorge (Uninove)

1.00pm – Lunch

Room Gávea A
2.30pm – Resolving Tax: Disputes in International Commercial Contracts
– Eduardo Maneira (Brazilian Bar Association)
– Jan Van Rensburg (Law Society of South Africa)
– Amarjit Singh Chandhiok (Bar Association of India)
– Xu Duoqi (Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
– Chen Yundong (Yunnan University)
– Danil Vinnitsky (BRICS Law Institute)
– Moderator – Lucas Lemos Navarro (Advogado)
– Chair – TBD

Room Gávea B
2.30pm – Technology and the Future of the Legal Profession
– Bruno Barata (Brazilian Bar Association)
– Mzukisi Njotini (University of Johannesburg)
– Paurush Kumar (Trinaya Legal)
– Cheng Le (Zhejiang University)
– Dr. Michele van Eck. (University of Johannesburg).
– Moderator – Alexey Klishin (Association of Lawyers of Russia)
– Chair – Daniel Marques (AB2L)

6.00pm – Declaration meeting

October 16:

Room Gávea A
10.00 am – Panel: New Developments in Corporate Laws in BRICS
– Marcos de Campos Salgado (Brazilian Bar Association)
– Zhou Changfa (Yunnan University)
– Vladimir Komarov (GRATA International)
– Amarjit Singh Chandhiok (Bar Association of India)
– Ghandi Badela (Johannesburg Association of Advocates)
– Moderator – Walfrido Jorge Warde Junior (Brazilian Bar Association)
– Chair – Marcelo Fontes (Brazilian Bar Association)

12.30 pm – Closing Ceremony

Room Gávea B
10.00am – Panel: “Intellectual Property Rights Law Developments in BRICS
– Dai Lin (Yunnan University)
– SS Naganand (Bar Association of India)
– Mabaeng Denise Lenyai (Law Society of South Africa)
– Moderator / Speaker Felipe Dannemann Lundgren (Brazilian Bar Association)

Room Gávea A
12.30pm – Closing Ceremony