EPAM Announces Appointments of Counsel in Its Moscow Office
EPAM has announced the promotion of 3 senior associates based in Moscow – Andrey Bastrakov, Dmitry Kaysin and Vyacheslav Yugay – to counsel, effective 1 January 2018.
EPAM has announced the promotion of 3 senior associates based in Moscow – Andrey Bastrakov, Dmitry Kaysin and Vyacheslav Yugay – to counsel, effective 1 January 2018.
On 01 December 2017, the Institute of Modern Arbitration presented Young IMA - its new initiative launched in the form of a forum, bringing together students and young practitioners in the field of dispute resolution.
EPAM’ Litigation Practice team defended TOTAL in a multi-billion-dollar precedent dispute with the Volgograd and Saratov regions’ administrations (Russia), considered by ad hoc arbitrators in accordance with the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.
On 6 April 2016, the International Arbitration Court at the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IAC) included Ilya Nikiforov, Managing Partner of EPAM, in its recommended list of arbitrators. The list includes just ten other arbitrators from the Russian Federation.
EPAM in collaboration with the UK law firm Macfarlanes successfully defended the interests of the Russian State Corporation Rosteс and its affiliate RT Capital in its dispute with Erste Group Bank A.G. (Erste) which lasted for about three years.
On April 23, 2015 members of Russian Arbitration Association governing bodies were elected in Moscow. As a result of the vote, Managing Partner of EPAM Ilya Nikiforov was elected as a member of the Board. Evgeny Raschevsky, Head of International Arbitration and Litigation Practice, joined the Arbitrators Nominating Committee.
Established in 1991, SIAC is one of the world's leading institutions on international arbitration. Many multinational businesses choose to arbitrate in SIAC.
Ilya Nikiforov, Managing Partner at EPAM, has been officially appointed Vice-Chair of the International Arbitration Commission for the International Chamber of Commerce Russian National Committee (ICC Russia).
On March 13 and April 3, 2014, the Moscow Office of EPAM hosted seminars on extensive litigations held in a number of jurisdictions in parallel. At the seminars the Russian and foreign experts covered the main aspects of the development and implementation of strategy and tactics for such litigations and reviewed the most interesting cases .
On 1 January 2014, Ilya Nikiforov was named Vice-Chair of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). This is the first time a practitioner from Russia or the CIS has been appointed as an officer of the Commission.
The Belarusian National Rounds of the Jessup Competition in international law were held in Minsk on February 7-8, 2014 at the Belarusian State University, Faculty of International Relations.
Litigation team of EPAM has successfully defended the interests of its client in the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation (ICAC) and in further proceedings, having managed to recover from Belorussian ODO Mostra Group about 100 million rubles in debts assigned by Nestle Russia LLC to Crobotol Investments Limited.
On May 25, 2013, the International Bar Association (IBA) adopted the Guidelines on Party Representation in International Arbitration. Ilya Nikiforov, Managing Partner of the St. Petersburg Law Office of EPAM, was part of the team in charge of drafting the Russian version of the guidelines, which was released in October 2013.
On July 6, 2013, Ilya Nikiforov, Managing Partner of the St. Petersburg Law Office of EPAM, was accepted to a global panel of energy industry arbitrators – the Energy Arbitrators List (EAL).
The Firm’s Maritime Shipping/Transport Law team defended the Client’s interests in a dispute with insurance company MAKC regarding the payment of insurance compensation in the amount of RUR 23.5 million in connection with the loss of a ship. On 15 May 2012, the Maritime Arbitration Commission at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation determined that the compensation should be recovered in full, along with interest for the inappropriate use of others’ funds in the amount of RUR 1.9 million.