Representing and advising:

• a Belarusian general contractor in proceedings under the rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) against the state of Turkmenistan and a Turkmen state concern;

• an Uzbek potash plant in a series of cross-border disputes with a Russian contractor (in the process of bankruptcy) relating to a construction project in Uzbekistan with a value of over US$100 million, including arbitration in the ICAC at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation;

• a Russian energy company in arbitration under the UNCITRAL rules in a joint venture dispute;

• a Russian mining company in parallel proceedings in Russian commercial courts, ICAC at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation and the LCIA in a joint venture dispute;

• a company incorporated in Luxembourg in a multi-million dollar international commercial arbitration (ICC, Israel) arising out of a breach of a JV agreement and several other contractual breaches;

• a private EU citizen in defending a claim brought in arbitration under the LCIA rules;

• a large Russian investment company in defending a claim brought by a Russian citizen in a corporate dispute regarding a manufacturing group in arbitration proceedings under the LCIA rules.

Representing and advising:

• the Russian Federation:

  • in arbitration under the UNCITRAL rules arising out of the claim of S.V. Pugachev in an amount of over US$14.5 billion;

  • in Spanish state courts on S.V. Pugachev's application to set aside an arbitral award unfavourable to him;

  • in connection with its defence against the enforcement of arbitration awards made under the ECT in favour of former Yukos shareholders in an amount of over 50 billion US dollars;

• an enterprise from a CIS country regarding potential investment arbitration against a Baltic state.

Representing and advising:

• an insolvency administrator appointed by a Russian court in relation to a wealthy entrepreneur in connection with a landmark case in which a decision was successfully obtained from the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York to recognise the powers of the bankruptcy manager and the Russian bankruptcy proceedings in the United States. The amount of the dispute exceeded 500 million US dollars;

• a major Russian entrepreneur in a dispute with another Russian entrepreneur in the High Court of England and Wales regarding an (alleged) joint venture.

Representing and advising:

• a Russian IT company in the Russian courts in a dispute over representations and compensation of losses amounting to over 700 million rubles arising out of an acquisition of a network of data centres;

• Belaruskali, one of the world's largest producers and exporters of potash mineral fertilisers, in a number of cross-border disputes with a large Russian manufacturer of equipment for the chemical industry in connection with the supply of substandard equipment and the manufacturer's bankruptcy;

• the largest owner of commercial real estate in Russia in a dispute concerning the enforcement of a preliminary agreement (compulsory conclusion of a co-investment agreement) in an amount of over 1 billion rubles in Russian state courts;

• over two hundred Uzbek employees of a bankrupt Russian enterprise in disputes concerning unpaid wages and interest accrued under Uzbek law, as well as the ranking of claims in the bankruptcy (pro bono);

• the former CEO of a Russian energy company in the company's bankruptcy in his defence of claims of subsidiary liability in an amount of approximately US$27 million.