The 6th CIS Local Counsel Forum was held in Almaty (Kazakhstan) on 22-24 June 2011.

The Forum was attended by the representatives of national law firms from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and international law firms from Austria, Great Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, as well as corporate lawyers of big companies.

The participants discussed issues of developments in such spheres of legal practice as competitive law, compliance and corporate social responsibility, natural resources and commercial disputes resolution. Special Forum’s panels were focused on the peculiarities of development of different regions of the CIS , including Eurasia emerging markets as well as on doing legal business, new trends in the partnership between corporate and external counsels , competition on the legal services markets, etc.

Alexey Kot headed the panel CIS Competition Support Partnership: latest developments.