Andrei Yakovlev Email & Phone Number

Andrei is an international arbitration and litigation partner with 30 years of experience in disputes arising out of foreign investment, sovereign and corporate finance, M&A/joint ventures and fraud. He acts largely for sovereign states, large corporates and ultra-high net worth individuals. Andrei’s practice covers both investor-state and commercial arbitration. He concentrates on energy, metals & mining, telecoms, financial services and real estate development disputes. Chambers has described him as “very strategic,” stating, “he deftly handles disputes under ICSID and UNCITRAL rules” and “fights for his client and is also a very fair opponent.” Legal 500 U.K. has called him as a “top notch professional.” By way of example, he has acted for:• China in ICSID proceedings in respect of a claim by a Japanese investor under the China-Japan BIT, in relation to an alleged expropriation of a large-scale property development project ;• Ukraine in respect of US $270mln ICSID, SCC and UNCITRAL claims brought by JKX Oil & Gas Plc in connection with Ukraine increasing taxes for hydrocarbon production from 5% to 65%, imposing gas market restrictions and restrictions on dividend repatriation. Tribunal dismissed over 97% of claims.• Kyrgyz Republic in a trio of UNCITRAL proceedings relating to nationalization of AsiaUniversalBank, with investor claims ranging between US $17 mln and US $500 mln; All claims dismissed with $2.5mln costs ordered against investors;• Nafrogaz Ukrayiny, national petroleum company of Ukraine in a dispute with companies controlled by Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoyski, in relation to control over Ukrnafta (Ukraine’s largest petroleum production company) and mutual claims and counterclaims concerning mismanagement and scheme of fraud at Ukrnafta for the aggregate amount of US $8 bln; • Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation, in parallel ICC and LCIA proceedings against the Government of Armenia involving a US $500 mln claim for breach of investment obligations;• Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen S.A., Poland’s largest oil refinery, against Russian oil major Yukos in UNCITRAL proceedings involving US $4.5 billion in claims and counterclaims; • a respondent in the LCIA proceedings among Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs: Pinchuk v Kolomoyski, Bogolyubov and Spektor in a dispute arising out of a US $2 bln international ferromanganese consortium;• French banking group Credit Agricole Indosuez in a series of UNCITRAL proceedings relating to a US $500 mln of defaults by Russian banks on ISDA-based derivatives.

Listed skills include Corporate Finance, Sovereign Debt, Derivatives, Cross Border M&A, and 1 others.