We safeguard the interests of significant Russian and international businesses in both Russian and international commercial arbitrations. Our team manages disputes governed by the rules of all principal arbitration centers, including SIAC, HKIAC, LCIA, ICC, SCC, among others.
International Commercial Arbitration
We safeguard the interests of significant Russian and international businesses in both Russian and international commercial arbitrations. Our team manages disputes governed by the rules of all principal arbitration centers, including SIAC, HKIAC, LCIA, ICC, SCC, among others.
Currently, the primary focus of our practice is representing clients in the rapidly developing arbitration centers of Asia.
With many years of expertise and deep immersion in the business context of each case, coupled with a broad network of international partners, we are positioned to protect our clients' interests in the most intricate cross-border disputes.
Tatyana Neveeva, the head of our practice, has been distinguished by Legal 500, Best Lawyers, Pravo-300, among others, and is recognized in the Russian Arbitrators Guide: Next Generation (2021) and ICC Russia. She is on the arbitrators' lists for HKIAC and RUIE, and she frequently serves both as counsel and as an arbitrator.
SERVICES
Representation of Russian and foreign companies in domestic and international commercial arbitration.
Advice on disputes resolved under the Rules of ICAC at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, the Russian Arbitration Centre, the Arbitration Centre of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, ICC, LCIA, SCC, SIAC, HKIAC, DIAC, UNCITRAL, etc.
Arbiter functions, practice partner included in the list of arbiters in several large arbitration centres.
Recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards in Russia.
Advice on recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards in foreign states.
Forensic (assets search).
Preparation of expert opinions on the Russian law for foreign litigation and arbitration.
Project Experience
Represented Rosatom Overseas in an ICC arbitration arising from a supply and construction contract pertaining to the building of a nuclear power plant.
Acted in defense of a state-involved Russian geological exploration firm in an LCIA arbitration related to a dispute with an equipment supplier, with attempts to involve the Russian Federation as a dispute part.
Represented a Russian contractor in an ICC arbitration dispute with an international party concerning the construction of a segment of the Nord Stream pipeline.
Represented a Russian client in SCC arbitration, as well as coordinating parallel actions in BVI and Cypriot courts for provisional measures to support the arbitration.
Represented a Russian communications equipment developer and producer in SCC arbitration deriving from an export contract and associated bank guarantee.
Represented a Russian client in SCC arbitration related to the enforcement of a bank guarantee from a prominent Kazakhstan bank.
Provided counsel to a Russian heavy machinery company regarding a British engineering firm failing to enforce an International Commercial Arbitration Court (Geneva) award, due to sanctions imposed on the client. The dispute was submitted for consideration to the Russian arbitration court under Article 248.1 of the Russian Federation Civil Procedure Code despite the contract terms stipulating the International Chamber of Commerce in Geneva as the jurisdiction.