Tuesday, 21 September

19:30 – 21:00

Welcome Cocktail (Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel)

Wednesday, 22 September

08:30 – 15:00

Registration

08:30 – 09:00

Welcome Coffee / Tea

09:00 – 09:35

Welcome addresses

Charilaos Stavrakis, Minister of Finance of Cyprus

Oleksandr Demyanyuk, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Cyprus

Tony Antoniou, Vice-President of the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Sergei Konnov, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association

Marios Eliades, Partner, Eliades & Partners Law Firm

09:35 – 09:45

Opening of the Conference

Elena Balbekova, Chair of International Law Committee, UBA 

09:45 – 10:15

Attractive European Union jurisdictions for setting up a holding structure - the case of Cyprus

Speaker:

Marios Eliades, Partner, Eliades & Partners Law Firm (Cyprus)

10:15 – 10:45

Cyprus tax laws and Cyprus-Ukraine tax treaties issues: peculiarities of application, optimization in taxation

Speaker:

Theo Parperis, Partner, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (Cyprus) 

10:45 – 11:15

Q & A

11:15 – 11:45

Coffee Break

11:45 – 12:15

Strategic Malta - an EU base to integrate multi-jurisdictional business & investments

Speaker:

Dr. Robert D’Alessandro LL.D., LL.M.(IMO), M.St.(Oxon.), TEP (Malta) 

12:15 – 12:45

Netherlands – vast opportunities to structure international business

Speaker:

Ruurd van Wolfswinkel, Partner, FTC Trust B.V. (Netherlands) 

12:45 – 13:15

Q & A

13:15 – 14:15

Lunch

14:15 – 14:45

EC Anti-monopoly / antitrust regulations re cross-border mergers and acquisitions

Speaker:

Riccardo Croce, Partner, Hammonds LLP (Belgium)

14:45 – 15:00

Cyprus Economy – banking system and short presentation of Marfin Laiki Group

Speaker:

Andreas Stavrou, Marfin Popular Bank Public Co Ltd (Cyprus)

15:00 – 15:30

Q & A

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:30

Shareholders Agreements: Ukrainian legislation versus сommon law. What you need to know to make your structure successful

Speaker:

Elena Balbekova, Attorney-at-law, Voropaev & Partners Law Firm (Ukraine) 

16:30 – 17:00

Litigating and Arbitrating Disputes Involving Ukrainian Enterprises within a Cypriot Legal Framework – Opportunities and Problems

Speaker:

Andrew Demetriou, Ioannides Demetriou L.L.C. (Cyprus) 

17:00 – 17:30

Q & A

19:30 – 21:00

Dinner

Thursday, 23 September

09:30 – 10:00

Welcome Coffee / Tea

10:00 – 10:10

Welcome addresses

Christos Rotsas, President of Cyprus-Ukrainian Business Association

10:10 - 11:00

Ukraine-Cyprus: present opportunities/future perspectives

Panel Discussion –Part 1

Moderators:

Marios Eliades, Partner, Eliades & Partners Law Firm (Cyprus)

Elena Balbekova, Chair of International Law Committee, UBA (Ukraine)

Topics for discussion:

The system of the state institutions on Cyprus, their interaction with investors

Experts:

Christos Rotsas, President of Cyprus-Ukrainian Business Association

Natalia Kardash, Editor-in-Chief, Vestnik Kipra Publishing House (Cyprus)

All Speakers of the Conference are engaged in the discussion  

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30

Ukraine-Cyprus: present opportunities/future perspectives

Panel Discussion – Part 2

Moderators:

Marios Eliades, Partner, Eliades & Partners Law Firm (Cyprus)

Elena Balbekova, Chair of International Law Committee, UBA (Ukraine)

Topics for discussion:

Taxation and business financing in Cyprus and other countries 

Practical real estate issues

Experts:

Angelos Theodorou, Euroglobal S.E.E. Audit Limited (Cyprus)

Irakliy Kotya, Viriko Developers Ltd. (Cyprus)

All Speakers of the Conference are engaged in the discussion 

12:30 – 12:45

Closing Remarks