2022 – Arbitration and Corporate Law – 21st International Arbitration Congress

Salvador, September 28-30, 2022

Schedule

09/28

Young Event

3:00 p.m. | Panel I:New entrepreneurship, middle market and arbitration: startups, accelerators, investors and other players

Moderator: Vitor Silveira Vieira

Speakers: Clarissa Luz, Hafez Virjee, Giovani Ravagnani

4:30 p.m. | Panel II:Arbitration and ESG: the impacts of climate litigation, human rights and new corporate governance on arbitration

Moderator: Zora Lyra

Speakers: Lucas Diniz, Elis Wendpap, Clara Serva

Main Event

6:00 p.m. | Opening remarks by the President of CBAr: André Abbud

6:20 p.m. | Opening Lecture:The role and importance of arbitration in resolving corporate disputes

Speaker:Nelson Eizirik

7:00 p.m. | Book Launch: ‘Brazilian Arbitration Committee and Arbitration in Brazil: A work commemorating the 20th anniversary of CBAr

Organizers:Giovanni Nanni, Karina Riccio and Lucas Diniz (Editora Almedina)

09/29

Side Event

07:15 AM | Breakfast on the “different diversities” in practice: current initiatives and challenges in the arbitration market 

9:00 AM | Panel I: Corporate arbitration: between substantive law and procedural law

Moderator: Valeria Galindez

Topic: Judicial protections prior to corporate arbitration

Speaker: Eduardo Pellegrinelli

Topic: Dissolution of companies and determination of assets in arbitration

Speaker: Paula Andrea Forgioni

Topic: The problem of indivisible legal relationships: third-party intervention, joining of proceedings, appointment of arbitrators, effectiveness and authority of the award

Speaker: Karina Goldberg

10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break
11:00 AM | Panel II: Disputes involving M&A contracts

Moderator: Julian Chediak

Topic: Grounds for liability: breach of R&W, error, intent, fault in contrahendo, redhibitory defect etc..

Speaker: Gabriel Buschinelli

Topic: Duty to inform and burden of self-reporting: due diligence and sandbagging

Speaker: Rodrigo Octávio Broglia Mendes

Topic: Disputes involving price adjustments and earn-outs

Speaker: Jennifer Permesly

12:30 p.m. | Lunch
3:00 p.m. | In-person and simultaneous workshops (roundtables)
Room 1: Arbitration and capital marketsRoom 2: Negotiation bindingness in M&A disputes

General Rapporteurs: Lie Uema do Carmo and Pablo Renteria

 

Subtopics:

1.       Third-party intervention and tribunal formation (Pedro Martini)

2.       The cost of arbitration and access to justice (Guilherme Setoguti)

3.       Arbitration and public civil action for liability for damages to the market (Ana Carolina Weber)

4.       The new CVM resolution on the disclosure of corporate demands (Gustavo Gonzalez)

5.       The binding of ADR holders to the arbitration clause (Renato Coutinho)

General Rapporteurs: Jorge Cesa and Aline Terra

Subtopics:

1.       Pre-negotiation documents, progressive formation and bindingness (Renata Steiner)

2.       Pre-contractual liability and arbitration (Fábio Floriano Melo Martins)

3.       Between the preliminary contract and the main contract: degrees of bindingness, formation of the negotiating discipline and the resolution of antagonisms (Fabio Alem)

4.       Arbitration agreement, negotiation phase and subjective extension to the non-signatory party (Guilherme Recena)

 

 

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Coffee break

 

17h00 | In-person and simultaneous workshops (roundtables)
 
Room 1: Arbitration and investment fundsRoom 2: Corporate arbitration and liability

General Rapporteurs:Alexandre Rangel and Luciana Dias

Subtopics:

1.       The statutory arbitration clause and its effects on FIP unitholders (Gabriela Codorniz)

2.       Liability of the fund manager and administrator (Milena Donato Oliva)

3.       The limitation of liability of investment fund shareholders (Felipe Hanzmann)

4.       The extent of the arbitrators’ duty of disclosure (Juliana Botini)

General Rapporteurs:Sheila Neder Cerezetti, Ivo Waisberg and Fernando Kuyven.

Subtopics:

1.       Disregard of legal personality (Márcio Guimarães)

2.       Conflicts of interest (Mariana Conti Craveiro)

3.       Quantification of damages (Carlos D. Albuquerque Braga)

4.       Subjective extent of the arbitration agreement between controlled and controlling companies (Henrique Barbosa)

09/30

Parallel Event

07:15| CEAAP Meeting – Center for Studies on Arbitration with Public Administration”

9:00 am | Special Panel: Economic Scenario and Corporate Law

Marcos Lisboa

Discussor: Paulo Cezar Aragão

 

10:00 am | Panel III: The Liability of Shareholders and Administrators in Arbitration

Moderator: José Alexandre Tavares Guerreiro

Topic: Abuse of Minority

Speaker: Ana Frazão

Topic: The Controlling Shareholder’s Liability Action

Speaker: Eduardo Secchi Munhoz

Topic: The action of the directors’ liability

Speaker: Marcelo Vieira von Adamek

11:30 | Panel IV: Confidentiality versus publicity in corporate arbitration

Moderator: Marcelo Barbosa

Topic: The importance of confidentiality in arbitration in business disputes

Speaker: Olivier Caprasse

Topic: Publicly-held companies: duty to inform vs. confidentiality

Speaker: Otavio Yazbek

Topic: Publicity of arbitration awards: arbitration jurisprudence?

Speaker: Viviane Muller Prado

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