Anton has over 20 years of experience in cross-border dispute resolution, asset tracing and recovery. He represented clients and advised on disputes in Russian and foreign courts and international arbitration, in the areas of civil fraud, compensation of damages, shareholder and joint venture disputes, insurance disputes, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, insolvency-related disputes. Anton also has significant experience in conducting internal investigations in Russia and a number of CIS countries in the area of anti-corruption and antitrust offences.

Education, qualification

Moscow State University, Faculty of Law

Experience

• Advising a sponsor of construction of the largest LNG project in CIS on various contractual, sanctions and regulatory matters;
• Representing Trust Bank in resolving disputes with entrepreneurs from the Forbes Russia Top 50 list (transactions included claims for over RUB 100 billion - the largest out-of-court settlement in the Russian market);
• Representing Trust Bank in the High Court of England and Wales in a USD 900 million case against former beneficiaries and subsequent enforcement in the UK, Cyprus and Switzerland;
• Representing PJSC IC Rosgosstrakh in the High Court of England and Wales on the issue of recognition and enforcement of the Russian court judgement from the reinsurance policy in connection with the crash of the Sukhoi Superjet aircraft in Indonesia in 2012;
• Representing a Russian property development group in a dispute under the LCIA Rules with its joint venture partner, a Middle Eastern property development group, in connection with a joint venture agreement in respect of management of a development project in the Moscow region;
• Representing BNY Mellon in the recognition of LPN trustee's claims for USD 207 million in the bankruptcy case of OJSC Finance Leasing Company under a trust deed governed by English law;
• Representing BTA Bank in connection with the enforcement in Russia of an English court judgement against Mukhtar Ablyazov, former Chairman of the Bank's Management Board;
• Seizure of assets in France and Monaco against the heirs of a deceased debtor of the Bank and related exequatur proceedings;
• Recognition of Russian insolvency proceedings in the United States under Chapter 15 of the United States Code, exequatur and fraudulent transfer claims;
• Representing Swiss banks in the recognition of a USD 117 million claim in the bankruptcy case of a Russian agricultural holding company on the basis of PXF documentation governed by Swiss law and Russian collateral;
• Representing a Russian private business group in LCIA arbitration proceedings against its counterparty for breach of warranties under a share purchase agreement of a company owning Russian land;
• Representing a Russian private industrial group in a number of foreign court (Cyprus, BVI) and arbitration (LCIA) proceedings concerning a shareholders' dispute with the client's joint venture partner, including lifting injunctions and obtaining counter injunctions.