Investment arbitration
Representing a Ukrainian company in a post-M&A ICSID claim against a European state.
Assisting in an Estonian investor’s ICSID claim against a Central Asian state relating to a construction project.
Representing a Central Asian state in an ICSID claim concerning property rights to a recreational complex.
Assisting a group of Central Asian state investors with an investor-state claim against another Central Asian state.
Participating in the creation of ground-breaking jurisprudence in connection with the operation of Canada’s BIT with the USSR and its applicability to a Central Asia state.
Assisting two Canadian mining companies in two separate investor-state claims against a Central Asian state.
Successfully representing an investor in the ECT case Remington Worldwide Limited v Ukraine, the only ECT case conducted entirely in Russian.
Commercial arbitration
Defending a major Russian financial company in an LCIA arbitration against a financial services misrepresentation claim.
Representing a Central Asian state in an LCIA arbitration against a claim under a procurement contract.
Litigation and regulatory
Defending a major multinational company in an English High Court claim arising from a Russian bankruptcy proceeding.
Successfully representing a Russian businessman defending a High Court fraud claim related to a $1.2 billion Telegram initial coin offering.
Representing the minority shareholders of a major Russian company (liquidated) in a Dutch court claim for fair distribution of the liquidation surplus.
Representing the shareholders and top managers of a major Central Asian state bank against criminal investigation and possible fraud claims in other jurisdictions relating to an alleged fraud of over $1 billion.
Advising on various aspects of sanctions imposed either by Western countries on Russian entities and individuals or by Russia on Western entities and individuals.
Assisting with the withdrawal of one of the biggest western corporations from Russia in May-July 2022.
Successfully representing two defendants in the High Court and Court of Appeal in the $350 million banking fraud case VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corp and others.
Assisting in a case of resisting the enforcement of an LCIA award in Nomihold Securities Inc. v MTS.
Assisting in an early neutral evaluation proceeding concerning complex financial arrangements between several Russian groups of companies.
