Igor advises and represents States and major corporate clients across the world on issues of public international law and in a wide range of international commercial and investment-treaty arbitration proceedings.
Expertise
Experience
Pro bono
Published Work
A North African State, defending multiple treaty claims at ICSID, related to a participation in the privatisation and operation of an oil refinery by an investor from Northern Europe; urban infrastructure projects by an investor from Southern Europe; and several waste management projects by investors from Western and Central Europe.
A Middle Eastern State, in a treaty claim at ICSID in relation to a major construction project.
A Southeast Asian State, in defending over USD 200 million investment treaty claim brought at ICSID in relation to the termination of telecommunication licences.
An international bank and a private equity fund, in a Paris-seated ICC arbitration against their majority shareholder in a West-African bank and insurance company. Our clients obtained a favourable award, allowing them to exit the investment.
The lenders, a State-owned financial institution and an international organisation, on the financing of the power plants in North African Country.
An Asian energy company, on several oil product-sharing agreements in various Western African States.
Qualifications
Admissions
Academic
Paris Bar Law School (EFB), 2021
Master 2 General Private Law, Paris II Panthéon-Assas University, 2019
Master’s degree Private Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2019
Master 1 French Law, French University College of Moscow, 2018
Bachelor Private Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2017
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