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Russian Arbitration

Association

Management Bodies of the Russian Arbitration Association

Board:

1. Aitkulov Timur (Clifford Chance)

2. Astapov Andrey (AstapovLawyers ILG)

3. Goldberg David (White & Case)

4. Kamelkova Alevtina (Alcatel Lucent)

5. Konkov Alex (Khrenov & Partners)

6. Loboda Andrei (Injurservice LLP)

7. Monastyrsky Yury (Monastyrsky, Zyuba, Stepanov & Partners)

8. Nikiforov Ilya (EPAM)

9. Rubins Noah (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer)

10.Rudomino Vasily (ALRUD)

11.Slipachuk Tatiana (Sayenko, Kharenko)

12.Tai Yuly (AB «Bartolius»)

13.Khvalei Vladimir (Baker & McKenzie)

14.Khrapoutsky Alexander (Law Firm Sysouev, Bondar, Khrapoutski )

15.Chernyy Dmitry (Muranov, Chernyakov and Partners)

16.Yukov Andrey (Yukov and Partners)

17.Jamka Maciej (K&L Gates)

Management Bodies of the Russian Arbitration Association

Arbitrators Nominating Committee:

1. Abova Tamara Evgenievna

2. Albert Francesca (Dechert LLP)

3. Vasilyev Vasily (Khrenov & Partners)

4. Zukova Galina (White & Case)

5. Dudko Alexei (Hogan Lovells)

6. Kobrin Ekaterina (Baker&McKenzie)

7. Lebedev Sergei Nikolaevich

8. Nazarova Irina (Engarde)

9. Sevastyanov Gleb (“Treteysky Sud” journal, editor-in-chief)

10.Topornina Alina (Yukov and Partners)

11.Jamka Maciej (K&L Gates)

Board

Experience

Partner of the Moscow office of Clifford Chance since 2007

Joined the Moscow office of Clifford Chance in 2004

Associate, Blishchenko and Partners, 1996-2000

Partner, Blishchenko and Partners, 2000-2004

Specialist area

International arbitration, cross-border and domestic litigation, regulatory.

Acted as counsel in Stockholm, London, Moscow and Zurich in a significant number of

international arbitrations in relation to nuclear energy, oil and gas, mining and general

commercial matters.

• Represented Tekhsnabexport in international arbitration proceedings in Stockholm in a

dispute for approx. USD 1 billion in connnection with nuclear materials deliveries to the

US (the final award in this case was issued in favour of Tekhsnabexport) and in the

course of challenging the award by the other party in the Svea Court of Appeal in

Stockholm.

• Represnting Sberbank in negotiations with General Motors and its affiliated parties for

compensation of damages caused to Sberbank by the acquisition of Opel that did not

come through.

• Representing Sevmash in arbitration proceedings at the Arbitration Institute of the

Stockholm Chamber of Commerce in connection with claims in excess of USD 300

million, filed by a Norwegian shipowner due to cancellation of ship-builiding contracts.

• Representing several major international investment organisations in arbitration

proceedings related to investments into shares of a Russian energy company. The

disputes are pending at Russian state courts, the amount in dispute exceeds USD 500

million.

Timour Aitkulov

Partner

Сlifford Chance

(Russia)

Education:

University of Mississippi (USA), University of Nottingham (UK), Zaporizhzhya National University (Ukraine)

Experience & Expertise:

Mr Astapov specializes in international arbitration, international litigation, international commercial law, investments, international trade, emissions trading, energy, oil & gas and mineral resources law. He has represented numerous clients in a wide range of antitrust and antidumping issues, provided legal opinions on matters of Ukrainian foreign and international law, and represented clients in international arbitration forums: International Court of Arbitration at ICC (Paris), LCIA, in GAFTA and FOSFA arbitrations, before the International Commercial Arbitration Courts at the CCI of Ukraine and the Russian Federation and others.

Awards & Recognition:

Mr Astapov is recognized by Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal CIS as a leading Dispute Resolution lawyer in Ukraine and is identified among TOP-3 International Arbitration lawyers in Ukraine by Handbook for Foreign Clients. He has also been recognized as Commercial Arbitration Expert by 2013 Guide to the World’s Leading Experts.

Membership:

Mr Astapov is a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of American Bar Association, International Bar Association, European Business Association and Association of Independent European Lawyers and is recommended as an arbitrator by a number of international arbitration institutions.

Recent articles:

Mr Astapov is an author of numerous articles on the issues of international commercial arbitration published in various professional legal and business magazines:

•Disputes arising from finance arrangements: post-crisis phenomenon in Ukraine (Ukrainian Law Firms 2013: А Handbook for Foreign Clients)

•Так ли широко открыты двери в Англию для споров из СНГ? (Legal Insight, 2013)

•Proper notices in arbitration – watch the details! (International Law Office, 2013)

•Украина может лишиться статуса зернового хаба на Черном море (Forbes Украина, 2012)

•Obtaining security measures in support of arbitral awards (International Law Office, 2012)

Andrey Astapov Managing Partner, AstapovLawyers ILG Kyiv/Moscow/Almaty

Education

BPP Law School, London, 2005.

Keble College, Oxford University, Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration, 2001.

Experience

David Goldberg is a solicitor-advocate who specialises in international commercial and

investment arbitration and has represented clients and acted as arbitrator in various

jurisdictions. David has a significant Eastern European and CIS practice. He is a member of the

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the LCIA, the Swiss Arbitration Association and is on the panel

of recommended arbitrators of a number of arbitration institutions including the International

Commercial Arbitration Court (ICAC) at the Chamber of Commerce of the Russian Federation.

• Acting for the respondents in a high-value shareholders dispute conducted under the rules

of the LCIA concerning a major Russian company;

• Representing Russian telecommunications company MTS in ICC arbitrations against state

entities and the state of Turkmenistan in connection with breaches of contractual

obligations;

• Representing a major Russian bank in a USD multi-million fraud claim involving

proceedings and ancillary measures in a number of jurisdictions;

• Advising a bank on breaches of financial obligations by its customer, including interim

measures and enforcement of foreign judgments;

• Advising a major Russian corporation in connection with an investment arbitration claim

against an ex-Soviet state.

Acknowledgement

David is recognised in Legal 500 and Chambers as a "leading individual" in the field of

Arbitration and is recommended for Arbitration by PLC Which Lawyer?

David Goldberg

Partner

White & Case

(UK, Russia)

Education

In 1998 Alevtina graduated with honors from the European Humanities University (Minsk, Belarus/

Bordeaux, France) in International Law. In 1998 Alevtina studied law at the Montesquieu-

Bordeaux IV University, Faculty of Law and Political Science, France.

Specialist area, professional interests

International Commercial Law, Compliance, IPR, cross regional legal risks management, legal

management of complex cross-country infrastructure projects, management of multicultural

regional legal teams.

Experience

• In 1999 and 2000 Alevtina worked as a Research Fellow for the TMC Asser Instituut, The

Hague, Netherlands focusing on Foreign Direct Investment guaranteeing and protection.

• 1998 - 2002 she was a Lecturer on International Commercial Law at the Faculty of

International Law, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus.

• In 2000 - 2002 she worked as a in-house counsel for the International Trade and Investment

Bank.

• In 2002 - 2003 she received LL.M. degree in European Business Law from the Pallas LL.M.

(The Netherlands) being a joint program of six European Universities and the International

Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD, Amsterdam) . Her dissertation was rewarded with

the Lord Slynn of Hadley Award.

• In 2004 – 2006 Alevtina worked as an in-house counsel for the telecom provider Mobile

Digital Communications (“Velcom”).

• In 2006 Alevtina joined Russian office of “Alcatel” as an in-house lawyer. In 2007 she was

appointed the General Counsel for Russia and CIS of the merged “Alcatel-Lucent” group of

companies.

• Since 2011 Alevtina is the Member of the Board for the Russian Corporate Counsels

Association (RCCA).

Alevtina

Kamelkova

General Counsel

Alcatel-Lucent

(Russia & CIS)

Education:

Emory University Goizuetta Business School (MBA degree, 2007)

University of Chicago Law School (LL.M. degree, 2002)

Moscow State University of International Relations (J.D. degree with honors, 1997)

Experience:

Mr. Konkov's professional experience consists of more than 15 years of general legal, corporate strategy and M&A practice in the U.S., Latin America, Central & South Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS. He worked as the Director of the Legal Department of The Coca-Cola Company in Latin America (based in Atlanta) and Central & South-Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS (based in Budapest); Director of the Legal & Corporate Development Departments at En+ Group Ltd. (Energy Division of the Basic Element Group); Director of M&A at Rusal (the largest aluminium producer); Deputy CEO and Director of the Legal Department at “NeftegasIndustria” LLC. (the largest independent oil refinery in Russia). Mr. Konkov has a unique combination of international legal and commercial experience with practical knowledge and understanding of the differences between the various legal systems.

Mr. Konkov deals with all corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate finance transactions, corporate reorganizations, international contract law and compliance matters.

Mr. Konkov has extensive experience in dealing with complex, high-profile corporate and commercial disputes, involving shareholder litigation, breach of contract disputes, bankruptcy litigation, trademark/copyright infringement and intellectual property rights.

Mr. Konkov has a dual U.S. – Russian citizenship. He is fluent in Russian, Spanish and English.

Alex Konkov Partner Khrenov & Partners (Russia)

Education

Graduated from MGIMO. Completed post-graduate studies at International Private and

Civil Law Department in 1999.

Experience

Arbitrator of the Maritime Arbitration Commission (MAK) at the Chamber of Commerce

and Industry of the Russian Federation and Chambre arbitrale internationale de Paris.

Honorary Member of the International Arbitration Commission of ICC Russia (a Russian

National Committee of the ICC).

Partner of Injurservice LLP.

Teaching experience

Lecturing and giving seminars at International Private and Civil Law Department since

2000. Delivering lectures on private maritime law (within Transport Law course),

International Private Law, Current Problems of International Private Law.

Andrey Loboda

Partner

INJURSERVICE

LLP

(Russia)

Education:

Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of

Russia, Department of Private International and Civil Law, 1990 (dissertation subject: “Dominating

choice of law doctrine in the USA”);

Candidate of legal sciences in the Institute of State and Law of The Russian Academy of Sciences,

1999.

Professional background:

• One of the founders of “Monastyrsky, Zyuba, Stepanov & Partners” law firm, 1991

• Arbitrator of NAUFOR arbitration tribunal, 1994

• Member of International Law Association

• Member of Moscow Bar

Ratings and Awards:

• Since 2004 till the present time distinguished by European Legal Business guide (it the areas

of litigation and arbitration).

• According to the ratings of Chambers Global (The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business. The

Client’s Guide for 2012) (www.chambersandpartners.com) MZS is “a leading firm in the areas

of litigation and arbitration in Russia”, and the firm’s partners are recognized as “the most

recommended” experts by Russia Leading Individuals / Litigation & Arbitration Guide.

• Included in the annuals of Best Lawyers and European Legal Experts in 2012.

• Since 2003, “MZS & Partners” law firm has been listed by PLC (Practical Law Company) as

“highly recommended” in the sphere of dispute resolution (PLC Cross-Border Handbook

“Dispute Resolution” and has been “recommended” in the sphere of intellectual property rights

protection (PLC Cross-Border Handbook “Intellectual Property”. The law and leading lawyers

worldwide). Besides, the firm’s partners were included in PLC Which Lawyer Yearbook since

2007 till 2012.

• Since 2004, MZS has been highly rated in The Legal 500 (www.legal500.com) and has been

recommended in banking and finance, corporate, commercial and M&A as well as in dispute

resolution.

• Included in ratings of the Vedomosti newspaper as a leading expert in the areas of litigation

and arbitration.

Yuri

Monastyrsky

Partner

Monastyrsky,

Zyuba,

Stepanov &

Partners

(Russia)

Experience

Teaching experience

Mr. Nikiforov has invaluable experience in international arbitration and litigation, construction,

intellectual property law and development projects. A visible figure in the Russian arbitration

world, Nikiforov is considered a first tier dispute resolution specialist. The Arbitration team of the

firm is consistently regarded as the top dispute resolution crew in Russia.

An active member of a professional community, he was appointed an officer of the Arbitration

Committee of International Bar Association and of Eurasia committee of American Bar

Association.

Ilya Nikiforov is well-known in the international arbitration community as a seasoned practitioner.

Listed as an arbitrator by the ICDR, WIPO, the Vienna International Arbitral Centre, the

Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and national institutions throughout

Russian & Eastern Europe. He appeared as a counsel at higher domestic courts at all levels, the

International Commercial Arbitration Court in Moscow and international arbitration institutions,

such as the ICC, LCIA and SCC. He is often engaged to serve as a Russian law counsel/expert

in connection with commercial litigation and international arbitration proceedings worldwide.

Qualified in computer engineering prior to obtaining his law degree, Ilya is a thoughtful leader of

the firm's IT/IP practice. Clients appreciate business minded and sophisticated service tailored to

protect their IT/IP assets. This team has handled a wide variety of projects including design of

general IP strategy for industrial clients, fighting counterfeit products, IP ownership disputes and

litigation involving licensing contracts; it is particularly strong in matters relating to information

technologies.

Mr. Nikiforov's expert opinions have been accepted by US, English, German, Dutch and French

courts.

Teaching experience

Since 1997, Ilya Nikiforov teaches at St. Petersburg State University Law School. He frequently

speaks on issues of law and legal practice at professional legal conventions and has published a

substantial number of works on Russian business laws.

Ilya Nikiforov

Managing Partner

Egorov,

Puginskiy,

Afanasiev and

Partnters

(Russia)

Education

MALD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Dispute resolution and public international law).

JD, Harvard Law School.

AB, Brown University (International relations).

Experience

Noah worked for the US State Department in Moscow, in the NGO sector in Kyrgyzstan, and for

law firms in the US and Turkey before joining Freshfields in Paris in 2004. He became a partner in

2010.

Noah is highly regarded for complex, cross-border disputes and has an impressive track record in

both international commercial and investment treaty arbitration.

He is one of a handful of non-Russian international arbitration specialists who speaks Russian

fluently, and he has an in-depth knowledge of the cultures and business practices in the countries

of the former Soviet Union.

As head of our CIS/Russia dispute resolution group, Noah has represented clients in relation to

disputes in Georgia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and many other countries of the former

Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. His work in the region has equipped him with a unique

perspective on the local market and an in-depth knowledge of the regional considerations in

commercial and investment disputes. He has represented both private and public entities in a

variety of high profile investment and commercial disputes across the region, particularly in the

energy, infrastructure and machinery sectors.

He advises and represents clients in arbitrations under the International Centre for Settlement of

Investment Disputes (ICSID), ICSID Additional Facility, London Court of International Arbitration

(LCIA), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), American Arbitration Association, Stockholm

Arbitration Institute, and the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) rules.

Teaching experience

Noah is global professor of law at the University of Dundee.

Noah Rubins

Partner

Freshfields

(France)

Education

Vassily Rudomino graduated from the International Commercial Law Department of the

International Law Faculty, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of

Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Experience

Vassily Rudomino leads projects dealing both with Russian and foreign parties in the territory of

Russia and abroad. He is experienced in investment projects at all stages of their

implementation, expert in corporate law, has unique experience in M&A transactions, antitrust

legislation and dispute resolution. Vassily Rudomino is the Head of ALRUD Competition /

Antitrust, Restructuring & Insolvency and Capital Markets practice areas.

Vassily Rudomino is an advocate, Chairman of ALRUD college of advocates, member of the

Moscow Advocates’ Chamber, member of the Council of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers of the

Russian Federation.

Vassily Rudomino is a member of The International Bar Association's (the IBA) Legal Practice

Division Council. Vassily Rudomino takes active participation in preparation of the latest

amendments to the Competition Law within the framework of the Non-Commercial Partnership

“Competition Support Association” activity in Russia. He also holds the position of the Chairman

of the Board Committee of the Non-Commercial Partnership “Competition Support Association

in the CIS Countries”.

As the foremost recognised expert, Vassily Rudomino leads Russian and international

professional conferences and workshops devoted to crucial issues of antitrust regulation,

corporate / M&A issues, dispute resolution and law firm management. He is the author of

articles on acute issues in legal practice published in the leading Russian and foreign media.

Vasily

Rudomino

Senior Partner

ALRUD

(Russia)

Education

LL.D. in Business Law and Arbitration from Kiev Taras Shevchenko University Law School.

Experience

Mrs. Slipachuk has market-leading experience of handling the most sophisticated

arbitration cases in various capacities including serving as party appointed arbitrator, sole

arbitrator, the chairman of the arbitral tribunal, and a legal advisor to a party. Mrs.

Slipachuk handled over 60 arbitrations in over 10 jurisdictions. Mrs. Slipachuk is a

Chartered Arbitrator, an AAA neutral, listed as an arbitrator in major international arbitral

institutions, which gives Dr. Slipachuk an unprecedented insight into the proceedings of

national arbitration institutions of foreign jurisdictions.

Dr. Slipachuk’s extensive experience in international trade law includes developing and

negotiating trade contracts, handling complex trade finance transactions, advising on the

applications of WTO laws, and acting for parties to trade investigations.

Dr. Tatyana Slipachuk is named No. 1 Foreign Trade and International Arbitration lawyer

for Ukraine according to Ukrainian Law Firms 2013 compilation by Yuridicheskaya

Practika, the leading legal publishing house in Ukraine; is recommended as one of

Ukraine’s leading lawyers by all major local and international directories (Chambers

Global; The Legal 500; Best Lawyers International; The International Who's Who

Commercial Arbitration; Euromoney Expert Guides; The International Who's Who of Trade

& Customs Lawyers 2012 and The International Who's Who Legal: CIS 2011 in Trade &

Customs).

President of the Ukrainian Arbitration Association; Vice Chair of the International Bar

Association's Arbitration Committee for 2012; Member of the Ukrainian Association of

International Law; National expert for Ukraine of the International Distribution Institute;

Member of the European Arbitration Group at the International Chamber of Commerce;

Vice Chairman of the Arbitration Chamber of Ukraine.

Tatiana Slipachuk

Partner

Sayenko Kharenko

(Ukraine)

Education

Graduated from Law Faculty of the Moscow Lomonosov State University, obtained Ph.D. at Civil Law Department of the MSU in 2005.

From 2006 - Assistant Professor at Civil and Administrative Procedure Department of the Russian Academy of Justice.

Has been practicing law since 1997. From 1998 until 2001 - Edas Advocates Bureau; from 2001 until present - Bartolius Advocates Bureau.

Experience

Advocate Practice: representing clients in over 1 000 court proceedings at all levels of general jurisdiction courts and arbitrazh courts, including Presidium meetings of the Supreme Arbitrazh Court and Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

Areas of specialisation: antimonopoly laws, issues of defending the rights of legal entities and individuals, insolvency, corporate law, settlement procedures, arbitration courts, judicial discretion, recovery of court expenses, issues of the review of court acts based on newly discovered circumstances проблемы института пересмотра судебных актов по вновь открывшимся обстоятельствам. Over 20 law publications, co-author of 4 studies

Teaching Activities and Research

Six years of teaching, acting as expert in the course of legislative activities, and case law briefing; working at Qualification Department for Judges; drafting research papers and commentaries to procedural codes, lecturing at M-LOGOS Law Institute.

•Member of Non-Commercial Partnership «Assisting Competition Development».

•Member of the Board of International Union (Community) of Advocates.

•Chairman of the Young Advocates’ Council of the Advocates’ Chamber of Moscow.

•Arbitrator of the Arbitration Court at Gazprom OJSC.

Yuliy Tai Managing Partner AB Bartolius

Education

Mr. Khvalei graduated with a degree in law from the Belarusian State University in Minsk in 1992.

Practice description

Vladimir Khvalei is a partner in the Moscow office of Baker & McKenzie and heads the firm’s CIS

Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Mr. Khvalei has wide experience participating in litigation in

Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine, as well as in international arbitration cases in

accordance with the arbitration rules of the ICAC, UNCITRAL, ICC, SCC and other arbitration

institutions.

Mr. Khvalei is a Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. Mr. Khvalei is also

included on the list of arbitrators of the arbitration institutions in Austria, Russia, Belarus,

Kazakhstan and Dubai; he is a Chairman of the Arbitration Commission of the Russian National

Committee of the ICC, a Vice-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee and a Member of the Board of

the International Arbitration Court at the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is also

a member the Polish Arbitration Association, the Austrian Arbitration Association and the Member

of a Board of the Ukrainian Arbitration Association. Mr. Khvalei is included on the list of tutors,

examiners and assessors of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Awards and rankings

PLC Which lawyer? 2009 ranks Mr. Khvalei as the only leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution in

Russia; PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2009 and Legal 500 EMEA 2009 and 2010 recommend Mr.

Khvalei as a recognized and “hugely respected” specialist in Dispute Resolution in Russia. He is

also included into The International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration 2009 Yearbook.

Chambers Global 2009, 2010 and 2011 rank Mr. Khvalei in band 1 and stresses that he is “an

outstanding litigator” who has extensive experience in litigation and international commercial

arbitration”; Chambers Europe 2011 says that Mr. Khvalei “is universally respected as one of the

best international arbitration specialists”.

Vladimir Khvalei

Partner

Baker&McKenzie

(Russia)

Education

Belarusian State University, Law Faculty.

Central European University (Budapest, Hungary, 1999). Course «Review of International Disputes in the

WTO and international commercial arbitration»

Experience

Chambers Global about Alexandre Khrapoutski: “a practitioner who is very well known for his corporate

work,” according to interviewees. Clients speak of him as “a lawyer you know you can turn to with delicate

and confidential issues.”

«He's a good lawyer: very experienced, very flexible, very friendly» - International rating IFLR.

Practicing since 1995.

Among the most valuable projects are the following:

• consulting on the investment project in the field of natural resources on a sum of more than 6 billion

Euro;

• consulting and legal support of the investment project on organization manufacturing of furniture

products in the Republic of Belarus under the conditions of funding by European banks on a total

sum of more than 70 million Euro;

• consulting an international financial organization during implementation of the project on funding the

building of woodworking company in the Republic of Belarus on a total sum of 50 million Euro;

• consulting and legal support of acquisition of a controlling stake of Belarusian bank (including a

complex due diligence), including shares owned by the Republic of Belarus;

• consulting a major Belarusian lease operator on accessing to foreign market to offer leasing services

under the international financial leasing contracts;

Teaching experience

Senior Lecturer of Civil Law department of Law Faculty on "Civil Law", "Civil and trade law of foreign

countries" courses.

Acknowledgement

Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers;

International Financial Law Review’s Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law firms (IFLR);

The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa;

The International Who's Who Legal.

Alexander

Khraputsky

Parther

Sysuev,

Bondar,

Khraputsky

(Belarus)

Education

Dmitry is a member of the Moscow Bar, member of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). He

graduated from the Department of History, Political Science and Law of the Russian State University

for the Humanities (RGGU) in 2002.

Experience

• Dmitry Chernyy heads the firm’s Corporate practice department. He has considerable experience

in advising on matters related to mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and internal

control procedures, corporate restructuring and on anti-monopoly law, etc.

• Dmitry is an expert in the issues of the representation of interests of clients in courts and in

international commercial arbitration, enforcement proceedings, confession and the execution of

judgments of foreign courts on the territory of the Russian Federation.

His industry focus is real estate, construction, financial and the oil and gas sector.

• Advising one of the largest Cyprus banks on a EURO 50 million acquisition of a Russian bank.

• Advising National Bank TRUST in relation to the issues of implementation of state guarantees of

the Samara region.

• Representing interests of Farimex Products Inc, a minority shareholder of CJSC VympelCom, in

a USD 1.7 billion dispute against Telenor and Altimo.

• Representing interests of NK Stroitransgaz-oil in its disputes against contractors.

• Advising Euroins Insurance Group in relation to a proposed acquisition of assets in Russia.

• Advising CJSC Tial in relation to the measures of protection against hostile takeover.

• Advising GSR Energy Investments Ltd. in relation to the issues of international arbitration.

• Advising Marussia Motors in relation to the general legal issues concerning its international

activities.

• Representing the interests of the Moscow City Golf Club in arbitration proceedings against

Nordea Bank AB.

• Advising Capital Partners on the issues of international commercial arbitration.

Dmitry Chernyy Partner Muranov, Chernyakov and Partners (Russia)

Education:

Graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy (MGYuA) in 1995, specialized in law,

qualified as “lawyer”.

Professional background

Has an extensive experience working as a lawyer since 1992 (Law office «Yuring»),

prosecutor –since 1995 (General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation), has a legal

practice since 1996, is an attorney-at-law in the law office for international affairs and then in

Inter-Republican Advocacy Collegium.

Nowadays Andrey Yukov is a lawyer of the Law Office "Yukov and Partners". He represents

clients in judicial, administrative and other areas. Conducts major negotiations and

supervises current projects of the law office. Represents clients in judicial, administrative and

other areas. Conducts major negotiations and supervises current projects of the law office.

Andrey Yukov was mentioned in the BEST LAWYERS top list in "Arbitration and Mediation"

in 2012.

In 2011 Andrey Yukov was recognized as a top-ranked specialist by CHAMBERS EUROPE

Andrey Yukov was named as a respected judicial specialist and got an individual reference

in the sphere of dispute resolutions by the leading analytic law offices guide PLC Which

Lawyer.

Yukov Andrey

Partner

“Yukov and Partners”

Education

M.A. in Law from Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland.

Experience

Mr. Maciej Jamka has more than 20 years of experience in legal practice in international law firms, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and litigation. He is the head of the litigation and arbitration practice of the K&L Gates Warsaw office and has represented clients in some of the largest litigation cases in Poland. He has acted for the Republic of Poland in several investment arbitration proceedings (BIT) and major international companies in respect of investment disputes. A significant portion of Mr. Jamka's practice relates to construction disputes. He has advised clients on the acquisition of companies and assets in many industries, including on large mergers. He has also advised clients on greenfield investments in Poland. Mr. Jamka's practice also concentrates on the acquisition of commercial centers, office buildings, undeveloped plots, and agricultural land and includes counseling on administrative issues related to construction projects in Poland. Maciej Jamka is often appointed as an arbitrator in commercial matters.

International legal market research institutions have recommended Maciej Jamka for many years as a dispute resolution expert. He has been recommended in Litigation and Dispute Resolution by Chambers Global for (Band 2), Chambers Europe (Band 2), The Legal 500 (Tier 2); European Legal Experts, and PLC which Lawyer.

Maciej Jamka is author of numerous publications on dispute resolution and arbitration issues. He is also co-author of the blog „Dispute Resolution in Poland” (http://www.disputeresolutionpoland.com/).

Maciej Jamka is the President of the Board of the Polish National Committee of the ICC; Arbitrator at The Polish Lewiatan Court of Arbitration; Member of the Polish Arbitration Association.

Maciej Jamka Administrative Partner K&L Gates (Poland)

Arbitrators Nominating Committee

Education

In 1949 graduated from Law Institute. In 1952 defended Ph.D. thesis on “Joint Participation in

Civil Procedure”, in 1986 obtained Doctor Ph.D. at the USSR Institute of State and Law of the

Russian Academy of Sciences.

Experience

Mrs.Abova’s research insterests include problems of civil, transport and entrepreneurial law, civil and

arbitrazh procedure. Mrs.Abova has drafted more than 150 articles.

Mrs.Abova takes part in legislative work, being member of Expert Council for Civil Legislation and

Related Industries , existing by the State Duma Chairperson. As part of State Duma panels

participated in drafting RF Code of Arbitrazh Procedure and RF Code of Civil Procedure (2002).

Mrs.Abova is actively involved in practical legal work:: member of Scientific and Advisory Council at

the Supreme Arbitrazh Court of the RF; member of Scientific and Advisory Council at the Federal

Arbitrazh Court of the Moscow Circuit, arbitrator of the International Commercial Arbitration Court a

the RF CCI, Maritime Arbitration Commission at the RF CCI (as from 2008 – Deputy Chairperson of

MAK at the RF CCI), arbitrator of the Arbitration Court for Resolving Commercial Disputes at the RF

CCI. Acted as Russian law expert in international commercial arbitrations abroad and in foreign court

proceedings.

Т.Е. Abova is one of editors and co-author of a fundamental treatise- Commentary to Civil Code of the

RF (1st, 2nd Parts) (in 6 editions 2003 –2011 ); part three (4 editions 2005 – 2011); part four (2

ediitons2009 -2011). Т.Е. Abova – author of commentaries to the following chapters: «Exercising of

and Protection of Civil-law Righs», «Terms». «Limitation Statute», «Shipping», «Shipping and

Forwarding Activities» etc.

Teaching experience

For over 30 years Prof. Abova has been giving lectures at MGIMO (RF (formerly USSR) and Foreign

Transport Law”.

T.E.Abova has been teaching at the Academic Law Institute at the Institute of State and Law of the

Russian Academy of Sciences.

Abova Tamara

Evgenievna

Education

Francesca is an English-qualified lawyer of Italian and US nationality specialising in international

arbitration. Working from the Moscow office, Francesca has developed a particular expertise in

advising Ukrainian, Russian and international clients in relation to commercial and shareholder

disputes in various industry sectors including the construction, property development, hospitality

sectors. Francesca has also spent a year and a half in Tokyo where she advised in particular on

the applicability of international treaties to structuring investments in emerging markets. In addition

to native English, she is fluent Russian, Italian, Spanish and French.

Experience

Francesca has acted on behalf of:

• a Russian container company in a potential UNCITRAL arbitration under the UK/Ukraine

bilateral investment treaty against the Government of the Ukraine

• acting for a US owned company against an East European Government in an LCIA arbitration

in relation to a state-sponsored industrial restructuring programme

• a Russian real estate company in an LCIA arbitration in relation to the enforcement of a call

option agreement

• a Russian design and construction company for large scale industrial projects in an LCIA

arbitration against a Kazakh company in a breach of warranty claim.

• Russian shareholders of Lenta supermarkets chain in a shareholders dispute in connection

with obtaining injunctions in the BVI courts

• Independence car dealership in connection with a shareholders dispute related to the

construction and financing of a dealer centre in Moscow and potential LCIA arbitration

• a Russian mobile operator in an LCIA arbitration under the Russian law against a US

investment fund relating to an alleged breach of a preliminary lending services agreement

• a Russian shareholder in respect of a fraud claim relating to the acquisition of a majority stake

in a JV intended to create a wireless telecoms network in Russia

Acknowledgement

Francesca is viewed as one to watch in the international arbitration community, admired for her

“great promise” and “professionalism” by clients (Chambers Global).

Francesca Albert

Dechert LLP

(Russia)

Vasily Vasilyev Senior Lawyer Khrenov & Partners (Russia)

Education:

MGIMO (Moscow State Institution of International Relations), qualification: international lawyer,

areas of practice: civil law, commercial law.

ICC School of International Arbitration «Advanced Arbitration Academy» («ICC International Court

of Arbitration», Paris, «ICC Russia», Moscow, in concert with «Chartered Institute of Arbitrators»,

London).

Work experience:

Conducting cases, related to foreign constituent, consulting and drawing findings of Russian law for

foreign companies, as well as of International law – for Russian ones, ensuring cooperation with

exterior law firms.

Vasily Vasilyev’s experience includes implementation of the bankruptcy procedure of the BVI

company, due to nonperformance of ICAC judgment, hold for the Client delivered about recovery of

$80m debt. Vasily appeared for a Lithuanian bank at Arbitration Courts of Russia with set if issues,

related to the requirement of Russian firm on voidance of the deposit contracts, set up between

Lithuanian citizen and the bank. He gave legal advice to a Russian airline company due to the

possible imposition of sanctions by Inspection Department of external assets of the US Department of

the Treasury and the US Department of Commerce, because of US export control law violation.

As Deputy Manager of a Development Department – leading international law management of one

big Russian financial group Vasily conducted its international cases. Leading legal department of one

oil company in Venezuela he arranged its full legal backing.

Some of Mr.Vasilyev’s publications are listed below:

Закон (august, 2011) – «The UK Bribery Act 2010», World Finance Review (May 2011) – «Legal

Restrictions on Foreign Investment in Russian Mining Sector», Корпоративный юрист (№3, 2011) –

«Международный коммерческий арбитраж: арбитражная практика 2010 года», Акционерный

Вестник (№10 (78) октябрь 2010) – «Подача заявления о банкротстве: новый законный

порядок».

Education: • Law degree, Moscow State University, with honours, 1998; Ph.D. in Commercial Law (thesis

"Legal adaptation of long-term contracts to changed circumstances" Moscow State University, 2002

• Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Business Law, University of Leiden (Lugd. Batav.), with honours, 2000

Representative experience: Alexei Dudko is a Head of Dispute Resolution Practice at Hogan Lovells (CIS).

Alexei's experience includes advising and representing Russian and foreign companies in high-profile and complex disputes in all major Russian courts, including Supreme Commercial Court, international arbitration and ADR.

He is experienced in all international arbitration rules and has successfully represented clients in various international ad-hoc and institutional arbitrations including: ad hoc arbitrations, arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Rules, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Moscow (ICAC).

Alexei is one of the authors of the ICAC's Conciliation Rules. He is an accredited arbitrator of the Kazakhstan International Arbitrage (KIA).

Recent major cases include:

• Representing Société Générale and Banque Société Générale Vostok in the LCIA in the US$120mln Russian litigation to recover the funds due under the international loan and in the satellite Russian court disputes against a Russian company;

• Representing the interests of the leading construction group in Russia in LCIA in relation to breach of sale and purchase agreement of land plots;

• Acting in a US$ 21mln international arbitration under UNCITRAL rules against the Administration of the Kaliningrad Oblast to recover the funds under the loan agreement and the international litigation to resulting in the enforcement of the claim against the Oblast’s property;

• Representing the interests of major international development and construction company in the US$200m arbitration on real estate disputes in relation to construction of large shopping malls in a number of Russian regions under SCC rules;

• Advising the joint global coordinators ABN AMRO, Commerzbank, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan on contentious matters in connection with the US$10.6bln IPO of Rosneft;

• Representing the interests of TNK-BP in a dispute to recover the funds abroad in relation to the enforcement of international arbitral award against an offshore company.

Recognition: Alexei is a leading expert in Russia in the field of dispute resolution in major legal directories, such as Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and The Legal 500. He is ranked among “The Best Lawyers” in Russia ("Vedomosti") for the years 2010-2013 in the categories “Arbitration and Mediation” and “Litigation”.

Dudko Alexei Partner Hogan Lovells (CIS)

Education

PhD, European University Institute, Florence, 2003

LLM, University of Exeter, 1999

Bachelor of Laws and Lawyer’s Diploma, Latvian State University, 1996

Experience

Galina Zukova concentrates on international commercial and investment arbitration. Before

joining White & Case, Galina was counsel to the ICC International Court of Arbitration,

where she was in charge of the case management team that handles matters involving

parties from Central and Eastern Europe, CIS countries, Turkey and Greece. In that role,

she oversaw hundreds of arbitrations in the fields of construction, public procurement

(including military procurement), state appropriation of assets, telecoms, infrastructure,

technology, and general commercial disputes, both under civil and common law.

Teaching experience

Associate Professor, Riga Graduate School of Law; Guest Professor at the International

Economic Law and Policy (IELPO) programme at the University of Barcelona; Maître de

conférence at SciencesPo, Paris.

Galina Zukova

Education and admission

Ms. Kobrin graduated from the Law School of the Moscow State University in 2005 and was admitted to the

Russian practice in the same year. In 1998 Ms. Kobrin received her Diploma from Minsk State Linguistics

University.

Ms. Kobrin is a member of the Regional Coordinating Committee for Europe & Russia of the Young

Arbitrators’ Forum of the International Chamber of Commerce (Paris) – ICC YAF.

Experince

Ms. Kobrin specializes in litigation, international commercial arbitration and compliance investigations. She

has advised on various legal issues relating to data privacy matters.

Ms. Kobrin’s recent experience includes:

• Representation of a major Russian oil company in multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration cases;

• Representing westerns companies in disputes about supplies to distributors;

• Representing clients in disputes (arbitration and state courts litigation) out of works and services

contracts;

• Representing clients in connection with enforcement of arbitral awards;

• Acting for a Russian chemicals producer in litigation cases against private companies and

governmental structures;

• Advising an international pharma manufacturer on global compliance investigation and several internal

investigations, document collection;

• On-going advice for a major diversified multinational corporation, a G200 client on anti-corruption

compliance related to post-investigative activities;

• Extensive involvement into telecom practice work (privacy and telecom projects);

• Coordination of multi-jurisdictional advice projects for clients, liaison with outside counsels worldwide.

Ekaterina Kobrin

Senior Lawyer

Baker&McKenzie

(Russia)

Education

Graduated from Foreign Trade Institute (now part of MGIMO),Faculty of Law in 1957.

In 1959 started post-graduate studies at MGIMO. In 1961-1962 became the first Soviet lawyer, who

studied at a law faculty of Michigan University in the US (on an exchange program).

In 1962 defended Ph.D. thesis on “Main Issues of Execution of foreign arbitral awards". In the

same year he started to teach at MGIMO.

Experience :

Honoured Lawyer of the RF, Professor, Ph.D. in Law, director of Information Centre of the Hague

International Private Law Conference in Moscow.

The author of over 150 research papers, including ones published abroad. The papers include

several books on arbitration (1965, 1978, 1988), the Russian translation of the Uniform Trade Code of

the US (1994), co-author of foreign countries’ civil law textbooks and textbooks on regulation of

economic relations, a study of the Vienna Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods

(2002).

Member of Council at the RF President for improving justice (as from 1996); Advisor of I Grade;

chairperson of the Maritime Arbitration Commission and Member of the Presidum of International

Commercial Arbitration Court; member of over 10 foreign arbitration courts; Vice-President of the

Commercial Arbitration Council; Vice-President of the Russian International Law Association and

Russian Association of Maritime Arbitration; for over 30 years has been participating as the USSR and

RF delegate in the work of the UN Commission on international trade law; delegate of diplomatic and

other inter-governmental conferences for drafting private-law conventions on international sale of

goods (NY 1974, Vienna 1980, the Hague 1985); carriage of goods by sea (Hamburg 1978), transport

terminals (Vienna1990), arbitration (Moscow 1972, NY 1976, Vienna 1985); bills of exchange, bank

guarantees etc.

Teaching Experience:

Honorary Professor of MGIMO at the RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Sergey

Nikolaevich

Lebedev

Irina Nazarova is recognised as one of the leading lawyers in the areas of international arbitration

and litigation in Ukraine. She has a significant record of experience having appeared before

numerous arbitration tribunals in Ukraine and abroad. Irina represents both foreign and domestic

companies on a large number of disputes in the LCIA, ICSID, International Commercial Arbitration

Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and other arbitration forums. She also

acts as an arbitrator appointed by International Court of Arbitration at ICC and is listed as a

recommended arbitrator in the Vienna International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic

Chamber.

Irina is a Member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and Ukraine’s representative to the

ICC Commission on Arbitration (Paris), where she participates in the development and improvement

of arbitration rules. She is also a Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of Ukrainian

Bar Association and a Member of Arbitration Committee of the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration

(Poland).

Experience in international arbitration:

• Acted as Counsel in a multi-million arbitration before the LCIA;

• Acted as Counsel in a multi-million dispute against the State of Ukraine before the ICSID;

• Appeared as Counsel in various commercial disputes resolved at the International Commercial

Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry;

• Acted as Arbitrator in the International Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of

Commerce;

• Appeared as an Expert on Ukrainian law in numerous major arbitrations before the LCIA;

• Permanent Arbitrator at Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna.

Recognition:

Irina is regarded as one of the leading practitioners in international arbitration and litigation by

numerous reputable international legal directories, such as Chambers Global, Chambers Europe,

The Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer?, and Best Lawyers International. Irina is praised as a leading

lawyer in dispute resolution in Ukraine (Band 1) by Chambers Global 2013, 2012 and Chambers

Europe 2012.

Irina Nazarova

Managing Partner

ENGARDE

Attorneys at Law

(Ukraine)

Education:

Law Faculty of St.Petersburg State University.

Experience:

1994-1998 – Head of Legal Entities Registration Department of “Baronov“ Law Firm;

As from 1999 until present – editor-in-chief of Treteisky Sud Journal;

Has acted as arbitrator of disputes submitted to the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the

RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry; to the Arbitration Court for Resolving Commercial Disputes at

the RF Chamber of Commercie and Industry; to the Commercial Arbitration Court at the Moscow

Chamber of Commerce and other arbitration courts of Russia.

Teaching Experience:

As from 2007 has been lecturing on “Alternative Dispute Resolution" and “Law Techniques of Resolving

Conflicts " at the St.Petersburg State University.

Gleb

Sevastianov

Education:

Graduated from Law Faculty of Lomonosov MSU, specialisation area – entrepreneurial law.

Experience:

From 1999 to 2004 head of legal department of a commercial bank, member of the Board, agreed

by Central Bank of Russia.

Became expert in the sphere of regulating and support of banking, with special attention to bank

transactions, interests of banks during credit organizations bankruptcy procedures.

From 2004 to 2005 –legal adviser at Federal Unitary State Enterprise «Russia Channel», «Eco-

Press» publishing house, on general law issues and IP-related issues.

Was invited as expert to meeetings of the Human Rights Commission of the Association of Lawyers

of Russia.

From 2006 to 2012 – advocate, project leader at Yukov, Khrenov and Partners, head of IP disputes

practice, leading specialist of Industrial Construction Disputes practice and Oil&Gas and Energy

Disputes practice.

As from 2012 – advocate, project leader at Yukov and Partners, head of IP disputes practice, head

of banking practice, leading specialist of Industrial Construction Disputes practice and Oil&Gas and

Energy Disputes practice.

Is competent in general law issues, legal support issues and comprehensive legal support of

commercial organizations. Represents clients in courts of general jurisdiction and arbitrazh courts

of the Russian Federation.

Recognition:

In 2012 Ms. Topornina Топорнина was named among 20 best lawyers in the international rating

agency Best Lawyers in “Arbitration and Mediation” category.

Alina Topornina

Yukov and

Partners

(Russia)

Education

M.A. in Law from Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland.

Experience

Mr. Maciej Jamka has more than 20 years of experience in legal practice in international law firms, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and litigation. He is the head of the litigation and arbitration practice of the K&L Gates Warsaw office and has represented clients in some of the largest litigation cases in Poland. He has acted for the Republic of Poland in several investment arbitration proceedings (BIT) and major international companies in respect of investment disputes. A significant portion of Mr. Jamka's practice relates to construction disputes. He has advised clients on the acquisition of companies and assets in many industries, including on large mergers. He has also advised clients on greenfield investments in Poland. Mr. Jamka's practice also concentrates on the acquisition of commercial centers, office buildings, undeveloped plots, and agricultural land and includes counseling on administrative issues related to construction projects in Poland. Maciej Jamka is often appointed as an arbitrator in commercial matters.

International legal market research institutions have recommended Maciej Jamka for many years as a dispute resolution expert. He has been recommended in Litigation and Dispute Resolution by Chambers Global for (Band 2), Chambers Europe (Band 2), The Legal 500 (Tier 2); European Legal Experts, and PLC which Lawyer.

Maciej Jamka is author of numerous publications on dispute resolution and arbitration issues. He is also co-author of the blog „Dispute Resolution in Poland” (http://www.disputeresolutionpoland.com/).

Maciej Jamka is the President of the Board of the Polish National Committee of the ICC; Arbitrator at The Polish Lewiatan Court of Arbitration; Member of the Polish Arbitration Association.

Maciej Jamka Administrative Partner K&L Gates (Poland)