Landmark engagement experience

INVESTMENT ARBITRATION AND INVESTMENT DISPUTES

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

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

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

• Advising a Russian investor in a dispute related to petrochemical asset expropriation in the territory of a CIS member state

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION

• Representing a British company in ad hoc arbitration to recover a debt under a consulting services agreement concluded with an authority of the Republic of Kazakhstan

• Representing a petrochemical company in arbitration proceedings under the SCC Rules in a dispute arising out of a transhipment contract

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

• Representing a Russian producer in arbitration proceedings under the ICC Rules arising out of a contract related to sales of equipment to Cuba

• Giving an expert opinion on Russian bankruptcy law matters for an LCIA arbitration

• Representing a consortium’s member in arbitration proceedings under the SCC rules arising out of a contract related to construction in Chile

• Representing an aviation distributor in arbitration proceedings under the SCIA rules in a dispute on termination of a sales contract

LITIGATION

• 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 shareholder in a bankruptcy case of an insolvent petrochemical enterprise complicated by a longstanding corporate conflict

• Representing a Dutch bank in connection with a bankruptcy case involving its debtor and in a parallel dispute on invalidation of loan agreements tried by a court of general jurisdiction, 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 nationalized Irish bank in Russian bankruptcy proceedings, corporate disputes, real estate disputes and parallel litigations and arbitrations in Ukraine, Ireland, Panama and Belize

• Representing members of a bank’s board of directors in a bankruptcy matter regarding directors’ subsidiary liability

• Representing a large alcohol company in connection with bankruptcy proceedings of an alcohol producer, including before the Supreme Commercial Court of the Russian Federation

• Representing a foreign state in the courts of general jurisdiction in connection with a dispute arising out of a real estate purchase and sale agreement complicated by jurisdictional immunity of a foreign state

• Representing a Lithuanian leasing company in connection with enforcement of an international arbitral award against an air carrier domiciled in a CIS member state

Education

• LLM (International Business Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration), NYU School of Law, 2012

• Ph.D. (Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminal Enforcement), Moscow State Academy of Law, 2005

• JD (with honours), Moscow State Academy of Law, 2002

  
  

Qualification

• Advocate, 2007

• Russia, 2002

Recognitions & Awards

• The Best Lawyers 2020-2022 - recognized among the top Arbitration and Mediation, International Arbitration and Litigation lawyers in Russia

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

• Pravo.ru-300 - recommended lawyers in Bankruptcy (including Disputes) (High Market), International Arbitration