Anastasia Simonova
Senior Associate, Attorney, LL.M.
Anastasia specializes in working on complex commercial, corporate and investment disputes in international commercial and investment arbitrations, as well as projects where arbitration and judicial proceedings have to be carried out in parallel in several jurisdictions.
Anastasia has represented clients involved in disputes governed by the rules of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICAC), the Russian Arbitration Center (RAC), the Arbitration Center at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, ICC, LCIA, SCC, SIAC, HKIAC, DIAC, UNCITRAL, ICSID AF, etc., supporting the recognition and enforcement of arbitration awards in foreign countries.
She is included in the list of arbitrators of the International Arbitration Court “Chamber of Arbitrators under the Union of Lawyers” and is also a member of the ICC Russia Arbitration Commission.
Anastasia has represented clients involved in disputes governed by the rules of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICAC), the Russian Arbitration Center (RAC), the Arbitration Center at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, ICC, LCIA, SCC, SIAC, HKIAC, DIAC, UNCITRAL, ICSID AF, etc., supporting the recognition and enforcement of arbitration awards in foreign countries.
She is included in the list of arbitrators of the International Arbitration Court “Chamber of Arbitrators under the Union of Lawyers” and is also a member of the ICC Russia Arbitration Commission.
Education
Anastasia graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a Bachelor's degree with honours, obtained an LL.M with merit in International Dispute Resolution at Queen Mary University of London, and completed postgraduate studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
She is also a graduate of the course ‘Negotiations in Action: A Practical Approach to Negotiations’ Davis Centre at Harvard University, Moscow School of Management, Skolkovo.
She is also a graduate of the course ‘Negotiations in Action: A Practical Approach to Negotiations’ Davis Centre at Harvard University, Moscow School of Management, Skolkovo.
Academic activities
Anastasia is a lecturer at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, supervisor of a number of research papers and author of scientific publications.
For two years in a row, students of the Corporate and Private International Law programme at the National Research University Higher School of Economics recognised Anastasia's course International Intellectual Property Law as the best in the category ‘Usefulness of the course for broadening of horizons and diversified development’
Anastasia is also an arbitrator and coach of teams participating in mootcourts. In 2024 this year, the final of the VII national V.P. Mozolin Corporate Dispute Arbitration Competition was won by a team from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, coached by Anastasia.
For two years in a row, students of the Corporate and Private International Law programme at the National Research University Higher School of Economics recognised Anastasia's course International Intellectual Property Law as the best in the category ‘Usefulness of the course for broadening of horizons and diversified development’
Anastasia is also an arbitrator and coach of teams participating in mootcourts. In 2024 this year, the final of the VII national V.P. Mozolin Corporate Dispute Arbitration Competition was won by a team from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, coached by Anastasia.
Selected project experience
Corporate Law. Anastasia has advised:
a Russian oil company on structuring a holding company to consolidate control over its assets located in the Middle East and South America;
a family office on corporate and tax aspects of establishing a fund at the Astana International Financial Centre and the Abu Dhabi Global Market;
a major Russian agricultural company on setting up a company in the Middle East to build a strategically important grain hub as part of Grain + Program;
a major Russian agricultural company on a number of corporate and legal issues related to the functioning of an Iranian law-governed joint venture including drafting its constituent documents and a shareholders’ agreement;
a fund set up at the Astana International Financial Centre on regulatory aspects of its activities in the Republic of Kazakhstan;
a Russian transport and logistics company on corporate governance matters under the laws of the Abu Dhabi Global Market.
International Commercial Arbitration and Sanctions. Anastasia represented:
a chemical company in a SCC-governed dispute arising from non-performance of an EPC contract for engineering and construction of a full-scale chemical production facility (including advising on sanctions-related matters);
a large chemical engineering company in a dispute under the ICC Rules arising from a contract for delivery of formaldehyde production equipment (including advising on sanctions-related matters);
a leading pharmaceutical company in an LCIA-governed dispute over a technological transfer agreement relating to medicines manufacturing;
an investor in a dispute governed by the ICSID AF Rules;
a steel producer challenging an award rendered on an investment dispute over the expropriation of metallurgical assets under the UNCITRAL Rules;
a steel producer challenging an award rendered on an investment dispute over the expropriation of metallurgical assets under the UNCITRAL Rules;
a private entrepreneur targeted by the blocking sanctions imposed by the USA, the Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia as part of a sanctions-related audit.
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