Date: 16th May 2022, Monday
Time: 9:00 鈥� 14:00
Venue: 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 office, 1134, Budapest, V谩ci 煤t 31.
(The event will be available to watch online as well.)
The language of the event will be in English, translation will not be provided.
Make sure you mark your calendars for 16th May, so you don't miss our guest speakers and roundtable discussions about "Economic sanctions: challenges in dispute resolution and compliance".
Agenda:
- 9:00 鈥� 9:30: Registration
- 9:30&苍产蝉辫;鈥�&苍产蝉辫;9:35: Welcome speech - B谩lint T贸谩s贸, 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Legal T贸谩s贸 Law Firm
- 9:35 鈥� 10:20: Conflict of laws issues of the application of economic sanctions - Tam谩s Szabados, E枚tv枚s Lor谩nd University
- 10:20&苍产蝉辫;鈥�&苍产蝉辫;10:50: How to navigate through the stormy ocean of sanctions - J谩nos Rinfel, 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Legal T贸谩s贸 Law Firm
- 10:50 鈥� 11:10: Coffee break
- 11:10 鈥� 11:45: Extraordinary situations in ordinary cases: commercial arbitration in the shadow of armed conflicts - Csongor Istv谩n Nagy, University of Szeged
- 11:45 鈥� 12:15: The effect of Russian sanctions on enforcement in the context of international commercial arbitration - Manuela Grosu, 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Legal T贸谩s贸 Law Firm
- 12:15&苍产蝉辫;鈥�&苍产蝉辫;13:00: Interactive Panel discussion, Q&A
- 13:00&苍产蝉辫;鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Closing speech - B谩lint T贸谩s贸, 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Legal T贸谩s贸 Law Firm
- 13:00 鈥� 14:00: Lunch
Speakers:
Dr. Habil Tam谩s Szabados Ph.D., LL.M.
Associate professor at ELTE E枚tv枚s Lor谩nd University
Prof. Dr. Csongor Istv谩n Nagy Ph.D., LL.M., S.J.D
Professor of law at and the head of the Department of Private International Law at the University of Szeged
Tam谩s Szabados is an associate professor at ELTE E枚tv枚s Lor谩nd University. He obtained an LL.M. degree at the University College London. He completed research stays at renowned universities and research institutions, such as the University of Cambridge, Oxford and Heidelberg, the Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. His main areas of interest include private international law and EU economic law. He is the author of the book 鈥楨conomic Sanctions in EU Private International Law鈥� that was published in 2019 by Hart.
Csongor Istv谩n Nagy is professor of law at and the head of the Department of Private International Law at the University of Szeged and research chair at the ELKH Center for Social Sciences in Budapest. He is recurrent visiting professor at the Central European University (Vienna) and the Sapientia University of Transylvania (Romania) and associate member at the Center for Private International Law at the University of Aberdeen. He is admitted to the Budapest Bar and listed at various arbitral institutions. He has more than 230 publications in English, French, German, Hungarian, Romanian and (in translation) in Croatian and Spanish.
dr. B谩lint T贸谩s贸 MSc LL.M (Vienna)
Managing Partner, Head of Legal Services, Attorney-at-Law - 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Legal T贸谩s贸 Law Firm
dr. Manuela Grosu LL.M. PhD
Managing Associate, Attorney-at-law - 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Legal T贸谩s贸 Law Firm
B谩lint is the head of legal services at 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Hungary since 2016. He is qualified in Hungary as an Attorney-at-Law since 2009, he equally holds a degree in economics and management and also obtained a business law LLM degree at the University of Vienna. His main focus areas are M&A, dispute resolution, privacy and regulatory. B谩lint has overseen a great number of M&A and restructuring transactions and directed big ticket compliance and regulatory projects. He is regularly advising clients on full-scale GDPR preparation and compliance projects. He has strong exposure to Legal Tech and AI regulatory issues as well.
Manuela joined 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Legal T贸谩s贸 Law Firm as an attorney-at-law in 2017. Her practice focuses on corporate, commercial law and commercial arbitration. She is a visiting lecturer at ELTE University, Faculty of Law at the Department of International Private Law and European Economic Law. She has a PhD in law, her doctoral thesis focused on combination of arbitration with mediation in resolving commercial disputes. She was a visiting researcher at Cardozo School of Law (New York), Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution. She has also obtained an LL.M. degree in US and Global Business Law for International Business Lawyers from Suffolk University (Boston).
dr. J谩nos Rinfel
Senior Associate, 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Legal T贸谩s贸 Law Firm
J谩nos joined 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Legal T贸谩s贸 Law Firm鈥檚 team in 2017. He took part in the Hungarian National Bank鈥檚 and the University of P茅cs鈥檚 Geopolitical Doctorate Program between 2017 and 2019. His thesis focused on the geopolitical risks of cryptocurrencies. He gained corporate, tax and sanctions-related legal experience in the Middle East between 2019 and 2021, before re-joining 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Legal T贸谩s贸 Law Firm鈥檚 team in 2021, where he is currently the head of the sanction legal team. He has been a member of the Pest County Legal Chambers since 2022.
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