Elizaveta Rachkova

Solicitor

Civil Litigation and Arbitration

+44 20 7724 4488

erachkova@gherson.co.uk

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Elizaveta Rachkova

Elizaveta is a dual-qualified lawyer in England and Wales and Russia. She joined Gherson’s Litigation and Arbitration team in January 2026. Her work focuses on international commercial and investor-state arbitration and various matters of public international law, including sanctions-related cases. Elizaveta holds an LL.M in International Dispute Resolution (MIDS). She has a strong academic interest in public international law and regularly publishes articles on her area of expertise. In 2025, she edited a textbook on international investment law. Elizaveta is an accredited tribunal secretary of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC).

Languages spoken: Russian, English, Spanish.

Notable Experience (prior to joining Gherson)

Represented a Russian developer of potassium mines in an $18 million commercial arbitration against a Central Asian state in an ICAC (Moscow)-administered arbitration.

Represented a Russian client in a $2 million supply dispute in ICC arbitration.

Assisted in preparation of expert opinions on various issues of Russian law.

Acted as tribunal secretary in an $11 million dispute administered by International Arbitration Centre at Astana International Financial Centre.

Prepared a legal opinion for an energy company on the legal consequences of its investments in a disputed territory.

Admissions & Memberships

Russia: 2023

England and Wales: 2025

Accredited Secretary of the HKIAC

Recognitions & Publications

Chapter 45: “Russia and the WTO: a time to throw stones or to gather stones?” in The Elgar Companion to the World Trade Organization, edited by Julien Chaisse and Cristián Rodríguez-Chiffelle, 2023.

“Sanctions in an international investment arbitration case”, International Justice, Issue No. 2 (42) 2022.

“International investment arbitration: decisions 2017–2018 on the merits of the dispute”, International Justice, Issue No. 4 (36) 2020.

“Crimea-Related Investment Arbitration Cases against Russia before International Investment Arbitration Tribunals”, Moscow journal of International Law, Issue No. 4, pp. 119-147 (2020).

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