Law firm Pepeliaev Group is proud to announce the formation of a new International Litigation and Arbitration Practice.
Ekaterina Lebedeva has been appointed to head the practice. Until now, Ekaterina has been handling international litigation projects in Pepeliaev Group's Dispute Resolution and Mediation Practice.
The key areas that the new Practice will cover include the following:
- representing clients in disputes considered by Russian arbitration tribunals and international commercial arbitration courts both in Russia and abroad (institutional arbitration and ad hoc arbitration);
- providing legal support in Russian and foreign state courts, in which rules of Russian and foreign substantive law are being applied; and
- having awards of Russian state courts and arbitral awards made in Russia recognised and enforced in foreign jurisdictions, as well as having foreign court decisions and arbitral awards recognised and enforced in Russia.
Lawyers of the Practice advise our clients on agreeing on dispute resolution procedures and the choice of governing law in contractual relationships.
The team has solid experience in litigation in such arbitration centres as Moscow's International Commercial Arbitration Court at the International Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the London Court of International Arbitration, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, and the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, as well as major arbitral tribunals, specifically the Arbitral Tribunal at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Lawyers of the Practice represent clients in ad hoc arbitration, applying both Russian and foreign substantive law.
“The team in this practice group has gained sound experience in dispute settlement both in Russia and abroad, sometimes working in conjunction with foreign partner firms," comments Yuri Vorobiev, Partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution and Mediation Practice. "This has enabled us to significantly expand our geographical imprint of late. We see considerable potential in this new practice, especially in the current global economic situation.”
Ekaterina Lebedeva, Head of the International Litigation and Arbitration Practice is also excited. “ADR, including arbitration, is increasingly popular," she says, "with the parties to cross-border relationships becoming ever more inclined to choose a foreign law as applicable law and a foreign jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise. These factors allow us to point to this area of legal services as one that offers genuine promise.”
