AS COUNSEL

• Represented a Cyprus holding company in a LCIA arbitration with respect to a share purchase offer by a third party. In particular, the question was whether the said purchase offer was bona fide and whether it triggered contractual provisions in the relevant shareholders agreement. The value of the claim was USD 120,000,000.
• Represented an international energy trading company in defence in a complex, high value LCIA arbitration relating to the delivery to a major international commodity trader of a purportedly contaminated parcel of crude oil. The dispute arose out of the delivery of a cargo of Russian Export Blend Crude Oil circumstances where the quality of the cargo may have been affected by a well-publicised incident of contamination of crude oil in the Druzhba pipeline in April 2019.
• Represented a Saudi individual in a Dubai seated LCIA arbitration. The arbitration concerned claims against our client’s former employer, a large provider of online payment solutions based in the Middle East. The claims related to breaches of an advisory agreement, including a claim for the wrongful termination of that agreement and the resulting losses.  The dispute involved complex matters of corporate governance in multiple jurisdictions, and related proceedings in local courts that preceded the arbitration. 
• Represented a shareholder in one of the largest Russian e-commerce companies in a high-profile London seated LCIA arbitration. The dispute concerned the management and operation of one of the largest Russian e-commerce companies and included unfair prejudice claims, which are rare in international commercial arbitration. Also advised in respect of arbitration related court proceedings in four separate jurisdictions.
• Represented Evison Holdings Limited, part of Baring Vostok private equity funds, as lead counsel in a LCIA arbitration and other proceedings conducted outside of Russia.  The arbitration concerned a high value, high profile dispute with Finvison Holdings Limited arising out of a merger of Orient Express Bank (Bank Vostochny) with Bank Uniastrum.  Advised in respect of arbitration related court proceedings in the English, Cypriot and Italian courts and in relation to a S1782 application for disclosure in the New York courts.
• Represented a group of companies in four parallel LCIA arbitrations (consolidated in one set of proceedings) in connection with put option agreements. In particular, the claimants were trying to avoid the put option agreements alleging misrepresentation.
• Represented Russia’s leading insurance company in its successful recovery of the amounts due from its reinsurers following the collapse/subsidence of a hydropower plant in Russia. The incident was Russia’s second largest insurance loss in history.
• Represented a Tajikistan enterprise in a multimillion arbitration against a Swiss company before the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
• Represented the second largest Russian Bank in two LCIA arbitrations against a Cyprus company under a guarantee issued to secure obligation of a Russian Industrial company. The arbitrations have given rise to issues concerning the effect of EU sanctions and orders on the jurisdiction of the tribunal and on the claimant’s substantive claims. Hearings, a procedural hearing and a jurisdictional hearing, were held in London in April, October, November and December 2015. The value of the claims was USD 135m and USD 145m respectively.
• Acted as counsel against the Republic of Kazakhstan in a multi-million investment arbitration before the ICSID.
• Represented a Russian entrepreneur in a LCIA arbitration. The Client was previously represented by Eversheds. The claims arose out of contractual arrangements relating to a Shopping Complex in Moscow.  The arbitration raised a number of complex jurisdictional issues including those surrounding the binding of non-signatories to an arbitration agreement.
• Represented a Cyprus company before the American Arbitration Association in a dispute concerning disclosure of information to a company’s shareholder.
• Represented a Russian oil refinery in a high-profile ad hoc arbitration which took place in London.
• Represented a Swedish company in proceedings for the enforcement of an ICC Arbitration award before the Commercial Court of first instance in Irkutsk (Eastern Siberia, Russia). The award was successfully enforced and the amount due recovered in full.

AS ARBITRATOR

• An arbitrator on a two-member panel in a case administered under the LCIA Rules. The case concerned a dispute between an English and Kazakhstan party arising out of the supply of crude oil.
• The chair on a three-member sport arbitration panel dealing with a disciplinary matter under the aegis of World Sailing.
• The chair on a three-member panel in a case administered under the LCIA Rules. The case involved allegations of fraud between the joint venture partners.
• Appointed by the SCC as the sole arbitrator in a case arising out of the oil supply contract.