Landmark engagement experience

Investment Arbitration and Investment Disputes

• Representing Client in an international arbitration against a sovereign state under the ICSID AF Rules

• Representing a Russian investor in an ad hoc arbitration against Lithuania under the UNCITRAL Rules

• Representing a Russian mining company in a $ multibillion investment arbitration against the EU member state

• Representing the Russian Federation in a US$1 billion tax dispute arising out of a production sharing agreement

• Representing a Russian investor in a US$500 million dispute related to metallurgical asset expropriation in the territory of an Eastern European state

• Representing Saint Petersburg in a dispute over the termination of a concession agreement and recovery of losses

International Commercial Arbitration

• Representing a major Russian contractor in a dispute in Vietnam arising out of an EPC contract in arbitration under the SIAC Rules

• Representing a European cruise company in an international commercial arbitration under the LMAA Terms arising out of an English law charterparty.

• Representing the world's largest natural gas exporter in arbitration under supply contracts governed by Swedish law. 

• Representing a shipping company in an international commercial arbitration under SIAC rules arising out of non-performance of shipbuilding contracts.

• Representing a major Russian airline in the High Court of England in a dispute under leasing agreements.

• Representing a major Russian airline in arbitration proceedings out of leasing agreements under LCIA rules

• Advising and representing a major Russian airline in foreign courts on the withdrawal of interim measures imposed on an aircraft.

• Representing a Cypriot company in a multijurisdictional dispute (LCIA, Switzerland, Cyprus, Russia) with BVI companies arising out of a joint venture agreement and Cypriot corporate law.

• Advising an entrepreneur on the recognition and enforcement in Belize of a judgment of the High Court of England and Wales

• Advising a client on obtaining an injunctive relief in a New York court against a governmental agency

• Representing a member of a consortium in a dispute out of performance of a contract in Chile under the SCC Rules

• Representing a Russian nuclear company in a dispute with an energy company from CIS related to a supply contract in international arbitration proceeding under ICC rules

• Representing a Hong Kong company in a dispute with a European company under the LCIA Rules arising from a loan agreement related to a mining project

• Representing a major Asian construction company in an arbitration related to construction of a large energy plant under the ICC Rules

• Representing a Russian construction company in an international arbitration under the ICC Rules in a dispute with a subcontractor arising out of a FIDIC contract for the construction of a complex linear infrastructure facility

• Representing a shipbuilding company in two international arbitrations under the SCC and the ICC Rules in the disputes arising out of a supply agreement and services agreement

• Representing a Danish agro-industrial holding in arbitration proceedings under the SCC Rules with respect to a dispute arising out of a purchase and sale agreement

Litigation

• Representing a major Russian operator of an oil and gas development project in a dispute concerning wrongful termination of an offshore charter agreement

• Representing a beneficiary of a Russian company in a litigation challenging transactions of its subsidiaries.

• Representing a nationalized Irish bank in Russian bankruptcy proceedings, corporate disputes, real estate disputes and parallel litigations and arbitrations in Ukraine, Ireland, Panama, and Belize

• Representing holders of Russian bank’s shares sold out at an auction conducted in the bankruptcy case of a large insolvent bank, including before the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation

• Representing a large construction-engineering enterprise, including before the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, in an environmental dispute resulting from the dumping of a vessel in the Caspian Sea

• Representing a Dutch bank in connection with a bankruptcy case involving its debtor and in a parallel dispute on the invalidation of loan agreements tried by a court of general jurisdiction, including before the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation

• Representing a major petrochemical holding company in a dispute with a constituent entity of the Russian Federation and municipal entity related to having the co-funding deals of a regional environmental project recognized as terminated

Education

• Executive MBA, London Business School and Columbia Business School, 2013

• LL.M., New York University School of Law (USA), 2009

• M.P.L., Russian School of Private Law, 2007

• Honours Degree in Law, Moscow State Social University, 2000

Qualification

• Advocate, 2003

• Russia, 2000

Recognitions & Awards

• Chambers and Partners Global 2020 – Band 2, Dispute Resolution: International - Russia

• Chambers and Partners Europe 2020 – Band 2, Dispute Resolution: International - Russia

• Legal 500 EMEA 2020 – Leading individuals: Restructuring and Insolvency, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and Mediation. Also featured in Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution: Litigation

• The Legal 500 EMEA 2021 – Leading Individuals: Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and Mediation

• The Legal 500 "Arbitration Powerlist: CIS and Caucasus" - recommended among the leading arbitration experts of the region in 2020

• Global Arbitration Review – listed among Russia's top arbitration practitioners

• The Best Lawyers 2009-2022- ranked among the top Arbitration and Mediation, Competition/Antitrust Law, Government Practice, International Arbitration, Investment and Litigation lawyers in Russia

• Pravo-300 – recommended lawyers in International Arbitration, International Litigation, Sanctions, Domestic Dispute Resolution (Major Commercial Disputes – High Market), Bankruptcy (Disputes - High Market)

• "Kommersant" ranking - ranked among leading individuals specializing in International Arbitration, International Disputes, Transportation and logistics, Manufacturing and Industry