Landmark engagement experience

INVESTMENT ARBITRATION

• Representing the Russian Federation in ad hoc arbitration proceedings with an energy major under the UNCITRAL Rules

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

• Advising a major Russian company in a dispute against a foreign country in an investment arbitration under SCC Rules

• Representing a Russian investor in a US$500 million dispute related to metallurgical asset expropriation in the territory of an Eastern European state (as per regulations of the UNCITRAL)

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

INTERNATIONAL Commercial ARBITRATION

• 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

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

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

• Representing a Russian management company in commercial arbitration proceedings under the ICAC Rules against a CIS country to recover damages caused by improper performance under the sovereign guarantee

• Representing Limitless, a UAE real estate developer, in a dispute over a JV with a Russian developer before LCIA

• Advising a major Russian contractor on its lawsuit to recover debt under a construction contract under the SIAC Rules

• 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

• 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

DOMESTIC AND CROSS-BORDER LITIGATION

• 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 Saint Petersburg in parallel disputes related to annulment of the award and enforcement of international awards of the Arbitrazh court of Moscow and the Arbitrazh court of Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast

• Representing a Lithuanian leasing company on enforcement of a Lithuanian arbitration award in Russia

• Representing SAFMAR, a TOP-3 Russian pension fund, and its asset management companies in multiple disputes against state-owned banks before Russian commercial courts

• Representing Limitless, a UAE real estate developer, in a dispute over a JV with a Russian developer before Russian arbitration courts and LCIA

• Representing a large foreign bank in the matter on invalidity of loan agreements and security transactions for the amount over 1 billion RUR

  
  

PRO BONO

• Representing the International Chamber of Commerce before the Russian Ministry of Justice in the process of obtaining of the license of the permanent arbitral institution in Russia

Education

• DL (with honours), National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Department of Civil Law, 2015

• Investment Arbitration Programme, SIAC Academy, 2024

  
  

Qualification

• Advocate, 2018

• Russia, 2015

Recognitions & Awards

• The Oxford Russia Fund scholarship, 2013–2015

• Certificate of Achievement for involvement in the organisation and holding of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, awarded by V. L. Mutko, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia

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