Dear Members and Friends,
Christmas is just around the corner and 2020 is waiting in the wings. Time to look back:
The past YAAP-year, which marked YAAP’s 15th anniversary, saw an amazing 18 (!) inspiring YAAP-events in Vienna, Neusiedl, Switzerland, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic and Latvia. Thanks to everyone for coming, discussing, speaking, moderating – and having fun, at that.
2019 also marks the end of an era (or, rather: two eras): Long-standing YAAP-Advisory Board members
Eliane Fischer and
Philipp Peters will move on to the “grown-up league”. We thank both of them whole-heartedly for all the personal life-time they invested in turning YAAP into what it is today. Eliane and Philipp, we will miss you sorely. Philipp, by the way, will be our strong voice in the ArbAUT-board starting next months.
Niamh Leinwater and
Anna Förstl will do a great job at taking their places and we are very much looking forward to working with Niamh and Anna in the YAAP Advisory Board – welcome on board! Also, after two intensive years of moving YAAP forward as co-chair, Filip Boras will hand-over to Christian Koller, who will co-chair YAAP together with Lisa Beisteiner in 2020.
On a different note, in 2020 our traditional YAAP-Round Tables will move from Gustl kocht, which unfortunately closed this autumn, to the
Art Lounge of Café Korb – we are very excited about this new venue and are looking forward to seeing you there for our first Round Table in 2020 on 17 March on the must-knows of “GDPR and arbitration” (see below for more details).
Thanks for bearing with us in 2019 and – for some of you – in the last 15 years! We wish you all a Merry Christmas!
Yours,
Filip & Lisa
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LAST CALL: Winter School of Austrian Arbitration Academy 2020
For those who have not registered yet: The 4th edition of the Winter School will again precede (and include) the VAD 2020 taking place from 18 – 22 February. The
application deadline lapses on 23 December 2019. Register quick as places are limited!
For more information please take a look at the
official website.
Date: 18 - 22 February 2020
Place: Campus of the University of Vienna,
Alser Strasse 4, court 1, entrance 1.16, 1090 Vienna
Costs: € 600,00
For registration please send your application documents to sommerhochschule@univie.ac.at
UPCOMING: Joint YOUNG ITA-YAAP Conference – Publication of Arbitral Awards, 20 February 2020
Is the publication of arbitral awards a promising future standard or an unfortunate transparency hype? Come and discuss with pre-eminent international practitioners from private practice, academia, inhouse as well as arbitral institutions. Details to follow soon.
Date: 20 February 2020, 15:30 – 19:00, followed by networking cocktails
Venue: Hotel de France, Schottenring 3, 1010 Vienna
Costs: The event is free of charge. Do not miss the cocktail reception!
UPCOMING: Vienna Arbitration Days 21 – 22 February 2020
The Vienna Arbitration Days are the leading arbitration conference in Austria, co-organized by YAAP. Following our successful 2019 event we will follow up this year with the general topic of „Arbitration and Public Law”. Participants from around the globe will engage two days of lively discussions on leading topics in international arbitration. Use this opportunity to be updated by renowned experts and to network, discuss problems and exchange ideas on possible solutions. The social program will include a gala dinner on Friday and a (dancing) visit to a Viennese ball on Saturday.
For more information please visit the
conference website. Please register here.
Date: 21 - 22 February 2020
Venue: Palais Niederösterreich
Herrengasse 13,1010 Vienna
Costs: Reduced rate for YAAP members
Registration: Registration form can be found here.
UPCOMING: YAAP Round Table 17 March 2020: GDPR and Arbitration – What you really need to know!
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has put data protection in the EU on a new footing and introduced considerable financial sanctions for the processing and transferring of personal data without a lawful basis. An all-Freshfields line-up – Gernot Fritz, Niamh Leinwather, Matthias Hofer and Désirée Prantl – will discuss the GDPR’s impact on international arbitration and highlight compliance requirements as well as suggest measures to be implemented at the different stages of an arbitration proceeding. Spoiler alert: The GDPR does not impose obligations on the arbitration itself but rather on the individual arbitral participants – this may be any one of us!
Date: 17 March 2020
! NEW ! Venue: Café Korb, Brandstätte 9, 1010 Vienna
As always, no need to register, we look forward to seeing you there!
UPCOMING: YAAP Round Table 20 April 2020 – White-Collar Crime & Arbitration
Oliver Loksa (Hausmaninger Kletter) and Laura Nienaber (White & Case) will analyse several aspects of how white-collar crime impacts our arbitration practice. How should parties and arbitrators react in view of criminal accusations, parallel criminal proceedings or criminal judgements? And: What is the purpose of internal investigations? Will any findings obtained in the course of an internal investigation be admissible as evidence in an ensuing arbitration?
Date: 20 April 2020
! NEW ! Venue: Café Korb, Brandstätte 9, 1010 Vienna
As always, no need to register, we look forward to seeing you there!
SAVE THE DATE: ICC YAF-YAAP- Conference – Young Approaches to Arbitration, 4 April 2020
Mark your calendars for the traditional YAAP-Vis Moot event: Building on the success of their partnership, the Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners (YAAP) and the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (ICC YAF) are organizing their 12th joint annual conference to take place just after the kick-off of the moot competition in Vienna. More details to follow soon.
REVIEW: YOUNG CROATIAN ARBITRATION PRACTITIONERS (YCAP) JOINT EVENT: "BEHIND THE SCENES - NAVIGATING THROUGH THE ARBITRATION LANDSCAPE IN CEE" – 4 December 2019
Our last event of the year took place in the Faculty of Law in the very festive Zagreb. The event was opened by co-chair Filip Boras who expressed his nostalgia at hosting his last event as co-chair in his “home” country of Croatia.
In an exquisite room lined with paintings of the previous deans, the panel of five; Petar Ceronja (UniCredit), Antun Bilić (Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb), Zrinka Mustafa Prelić (Divjak Topić & Bahtijarević), Niamh Leinwather (Freshfields) and Emmanuel Kaufmann (Knoetzl) discussed how to navigate the arbitration landscape in the CEE. In this context they offered a variety of perspectives from in-house counsel to professor to arbitration practitioner. The panel was expertly moderated by Dalibor Valinčić (Wolf Theiss).
The young audience received tips and tricks on how to break into the arbitration scene in CEE, which also involved a discussion on gender parity and the ERA Pledge. The panellists also addressed procedural issues such as how to deal with preliminary opinions given by the arbitral tribunal at the outset of the proceedings and due process paranoia. Almost all of the participants joined in the festive drinks that followed the event. All in all a wonderful end to an eventful year!
REVIEW: YAAP Anniversary Conference
The event was kicked off by an inspiring key-note by the unique Anne-Catherine Kunz, designated partner at Lalive, who discussed the shift in expectations of arbitration users over the last decades. Anne-Catherine skilfully reminded us of our generation’s responsibility to meet these expectations, so as not to drive arbitration users into the arms of ever more competitive court litigation. The key-note was followed by an Oxford style debate on the motion “The ideal arbitrator strictly enforces procedural rules.”, moderated by Michael Nueber (Gasser Partner). Whilst Selma Tirić (Knoetzl), Nenad Kovačević (CMS), Heidrun Walsh (Mishcon de Reya) and Florian Stefan (Vavrovsky Heine Marth) all did an excellent job in arguing their positions, each displaying their own, individual style of advocacy, the prevailing view in the room remained unchanged: strict enforcement is to be preferred.
Last Stephanie Rohmann (University of Innsbruck) concluded the event with a highly informative – yet entertaining – flashback on the “past” arbitration year of 2019. Many thanks to all our excellent speakers and for everyone who joined the event! We were particularly happy to see a mixed audience of young practitioners and YAAP-veterans jointly celebrating 15 successful years of YAAP. The well-attended YAAP Conference was preceded by the YAAP and Arb|Aut Annual Meetings.
