Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Law Faculty – Specialist in Russian law (2005)
Qualified Russian lawyer

• Asset Recovery
• Banking and Finance Disputes
• Expert Evidence on Issues of Foreign Law (evidence in chief, rebuttal, cross-examination)
• Interim Relief
• Insolvency
• Insurance Disputes
• Joint Venture Disputes
• Multi-Jurisdictional Disputes and Enforcement
• Out of court settlement
• Regulatory Investigations
• Russian law expertise
• Sanctions and Countersanctions

• Multi-jurisdictional settlement with a Forbes Russia Top-100 family (one of the largest out of court settlement in the Russian market)
• English High Court proceedings on the US$ 900m case of National Bank Trust v Yurov et. al (CL-2016-000095) and subsequent enforcement in UK, Cyprus, USA and Switzerland. A 570-page judgment issued in favour of Bank Trust contains the most detailed analysis of Russian corporate law on directors’ and controlling persons’ liability, departing from the prior English court findings on issues of Russian law in an earlier Fiona Trust v Privalov case
• English High Court proceedings on the enforcement of the Russian court judgments issued against UK and EU-based reinsurers (CL-2018-000102, case settled before trial following a mediation)
• Several cases concerning obtaining and removal of interim relief in Cyprus, US and the BVI (asset freeze, Norwich Pharmacal order, s.1782 discovery)
• Russian court proceedings involving English and Panamanian law under an English law-governed insurance policy concerning non-payment of insurance due to material non-disclosure under Maritime Insurance Act 1906
• Advising on US, UK, EU and Switzerland sanctions and Russian counter-sanctions
• Acting for a Russian party in a SHA dispute in LCIA and ancillary proceedings in Cyprus in relation to a Russian – Middle Eastern construction joint venture
• Acting for BTA Bank on the enforcement in Russia of the English court judgment against the former bank’s chairman Mr Mukhtar Ablyazov. A decision considered the segregation of competence between Russian courts of general jurisdiction and commercial (arbitrazh) courts on borderline cases (enforcement of an English judgment on corporate claims against an individual rendered under Kazakh law)
• Acting for BNY Mellon’s trustee services arm in a US$207m LPN trustee’s claim recognition proceedings in the bankruptcy of OJSC Finance Leasing Company under an English law-governed Trust Deed. Case considered issues of English law governed security assignment, trustee’s authority, limitation of action
• Acting for Swiss banks in a US$117m claim recognition proceedings in the bankruptcy of a Russian agricultural holding under the Swiss law-governed PXF documentation and Russian security
• Acting for a Swiss bank in the claim recognition proceedings in the insolvency of a Russian steel plant under the Swiss law-governed PXF documentation
• Acting for Société Générale in a set of litigations related to recovery of the US$60m debt from LLC Grain Company Nastyusha and guarantors from its group under English law-governed loan agreement and deed of guarantee
• Acting for US producer of livestock breeding equipment on defending a claim brought by its counterparty in breach of the contract’s arbitration clause and subsequent recovery of legal fees from the losing party
• Seizure of assets in France and Monaco against the inheritors of the decedent debtor of the Bank and the related exequatur proceedings
• Recognition of Russian insolvency proceedings in US under USC Chapter 15, related exequatur and fraudulent conveyance claims
• Acting for Russian private industry group in a series of foreign litigations (Cyprus, BVI) and arbitrations (LCIA) on a shareholder dispute with the client’s joint venture partner, including removal of injunctions and obtaining counter injunctions
• Acting for Russian major oil and gas services companies in relation to the protection of assets and removal of the injunction in Cypriot litigation
• Conducting an internal investigation in the Russian and Central Asia subsidiaries of a global pharmaceutical company on allegations of improper payments to healthcare officials responsible for state procurement