Program

16:00 – 16:30
Doors open & welcome coffee

16:30 – 16:35
Opening remarks

• Velislava Hristova
  Co-Founder of Young Bulgarian Arbitration Practitioners
  Translator of the SCC Rules into Bulgarian

16:35 – 16:45
Welcome remarks

• H.E. Ms. Katarina Rangnitt
  Sweden’s Ambassador to Bulgaria
• Zhana Kisyova
  President of the Sofia Bar Association
  Managing partner at Kisyova, Stamenova, Stoilov

16:45 – 16:55
Launch of the Bulgarian translation of the SCC Rules

• Jake Lowther
  Specialist Counsel at the SCC Arbitration Institute

16:55 – 17:50
Discussion on expedited dispute resolution proceedings
(with perspectives from in-house counsel, external counsel, the arbitrator, and the institution)

• Dr. hab. Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz
  Founding and Senior Partner at GESSEL law firm
  Member of the SCC Arbitrators’ Council
• Dr. Crina Baltag
  Associate Professor at Stockholm University
  Independent Arbitrator
  Member of the SCC Board
• Jake Lowther
  Specialist Counsel at the SCC Arbitration Institute
• Stanislav Cherkezov
  Legal counsel at Huvepharma
  CEO of Advance Green Energy
  Co-Founder of Young Bulgarian Arbitration Practitioners

17:50 – 18:00
Q&A and closing remarks

• Velislava Hristova
  Co-Founder of Young Bulgarian Arbitration Practitioners
  Translator of the SCC Rules into Bulgarian

18:00 – 21:00
Networking & Cocktail