Landmark engagement experience

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

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

• Advising a Russian businessman in a dispute arising out of a shareholders agreement in arbitration proceedings under the ICC Rules

• Assisting in preparation of Russian law expert opinions for an LCIA arbitration between a major Middle Eastern investor in the Russian real estate market seeking to recover US$200 million in damages and its Russian joint-venture partner

• Representing a major European agribusiness company in a dispute with a BVI subsidiary of a Russian agribusiness company under the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Rules with regard to implementation of a share exchange agreement stipulating sweep of shares of Russian and Cypriot subsidiary companies worth over €10 million
  
  

CROSS-BORDER AND DOMESTIC LITIGATION

• Advising a Russian state-owned company in a dispute against its former employee with parallel proceedings underway in Guernsey, the British Virgin Islands and in Luxembourg, the overall amount in dispute being around €50 million

• Advising a Luxembourg-incorporated company on litigation proceedings for the recovery of US$45 million against the directors and management company of a Cypriot investment fund, in which it holds investor shares, before the District Court of Nicosia, Cyprus, as well as representing the company in a parallel criminal investigation in Russia

• Representing an Irish state-owned bank in a US$4 billion complex multi-jurisdictional litigation dispute over landmark assets in Russia, in particular, defending the client before the Supreme Arbitration Court of Russia; this involved numerous proceedings before the Russian commercial courts on claims:

  
  

  - To set aside arbitral awards seated in Moscow
  - To restore the shareholders’ rights of Swedish and Cypriot shareholders over the Russian companies, with the Cypriot and Swedish law applied by the Russian courts
  - To be admitted to the lists of creditors on the basis of guarantee and indemnity agreements governed by Irish law and mortgage agreements governed by Russian law

• Representing major pharmaceutical and car-dealing companies in disputes against the State Labour Inspection for the City of Moscow, which imposed significant fines on them

• Representing a major pharmaceutical company before FAS in connection with competitor’s complain regarding unfair advertising by our client

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

• LL.M. (Comparative and International Dispute Resolution), Queen Mary University of London, 2019. Chevening Scholarship for 2018–2019 from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office

• LL.B. (with distinction), Bashkir State University, 2010

Qualification

• Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, 2021

• Advocate, 2015

• Russia, 2010

Recognitions & Awards

• Pravo.ru-300 – recommended lawyers in International Arbitration

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