International Arbitration
What we can do for you:
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Acting as counsel or arbitrator / tribunal secretary in international arbitration with International Commercial Arbitration Court (MKAS) under the RF Trade and Industry Chamber and other domestic arbitral institutes
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Acting as counsel or arbitrator in international arbitration administered by foreign tribunals - of ICC International Court of Arbitration, in Hong Kong (HKIAC), London (LCIA), Germany (DIS), Switzerland (ASA), Vienna (VIAC), Stockholm (SCC), Singapore (SIAC), under Rules of Association of European Attorneys (AEA) - and ad hoc arbitration with and without institutional support, e.g., under UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules
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Acting as mediator
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Drafting an arbitration agreement - among others, for a corporate dispute
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Assistance in choice, interviewing and challenge of arbitrators, witness examination and witness written statements, expert appointment, document production
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Acting in construction arbitration
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Corporate, post-M&A and joint venture arbitration
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Investor-state arbitration
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Interim injunctions and anti-suit measures
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Execution and challenging of foreign and domestic judgements and arbitral awards
The key Russian arbitration laws:
Arbitration disputes, in which we have acted for the client, include:
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Acting as counsel for an international construction company with regard to payment of construction works and recovery of damages (EUR 180 mln. value of claim) for an African railway construction project, incl. efficient challenge of an arbitrator and one of the first consolidations of several MKAS proceedings before International Commercial Arbitration Court (MKAS) under the RF Trade and Industry Chamber.
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Successful acting as counsel for a German distribution company before MKAS for recovery of damages incurred due to contamination of German natural reserved area by defective service road elements, including cross-examination of fact witnesses (2022).
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Acting for an Italian power engineering company (EUR 11 mln. cost of claim) in a dispute against the Russian energy company regarding recovery of engineering cost and recourse claims under bank guarantee (2022).
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Acting for an international construction company with regard to advance payment recovery for an African construction project, incl. a non-competence plea based on a no claims clause set out by a UN Security Council resolution and a successful challenge of an arbitrator.
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Acting for an Italian company (EUR 20 mln. amount in dispute) in MKAS arbitration against the Russian insurance company related to recourse claim.
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Acting in international arbitration dispute for a Kenyan engineering company with regard to payment of engineering works and recovery of damages (EUR 70 mln. claim) for an African construction project.
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Acting for a German distributor in an arbitration before MKAS with regard to recovery of damages due to defective goods, including filing of expert and fact witness reports and their cross examination.
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Acting for a German machinery construction plant in an enforcement of award of the Court of Arbitration of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce with regard to recovery of advance payment before the Russian state commercial courts, obtaining of EUR 1 mln. execution writ.
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Acting for another German distributor in a MKAS arbitration with regard to recovery of purchase price for agricultural machinery.
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Acting in international arbitration dispute for a Turkish construction company with regard to payment of construction works and recovery of damages (EUR 60 mln. claim) for an African construction project, incl. challenge of an arbitrator and non-competence plea due to bankruptcy in Turkey.
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Acting for a German engineering company in EUR 5.4 mln. MKAS arbitration, incl. challenge of an arbitrator.
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Advising a Dutch insolvent publishing house on issues of arbitration before MKAS.
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Acting for a German pharmaceutical company in three successful arbitrations with regard to delivery of goods before the Arbitration Court of the Industry and Trade Chamber of the City of Moscow.
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Serving as Russian law expert witness on issues of Russian statute of limitations in a commercial arbitration dispute in Hamburg, Germany (in 2017).
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Preparation of detailed report for a Philippine company in relation to obtaining of testimony from a Moscow-based international organization for a foreign court dispute with regard to a debt from consortium credit.
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Serving as arbitrator in MKAS international commercial arbitration dispute with regard to delivery and engineering service.
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Serving as tribunal secretary in MKAS commercial arbitrations connected with international sale of goods.
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Advising a foreign construction company on issues of investment treaty arbitration against a state before Arbitration Court of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris.
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Acting for a German trade company in a commercial arbitration regarding payment of the delivered rolled steel products in MKAS.
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Acting for an Italian supplier in another commercial arbitration in MKAS.
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Successful settlement of a pre-arbitration dispute with a Dutch architect company under FIDIC White Book 2006.
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Acting for a Latvian commercial seaport in an arbitration with MKAS and in criminal proceedings before Moscow public prosecution service with regard to falsification of a loan agreement.
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Successful acting for the German company before the Arbitrazh Court of the City of Moscow in a case regarding confirmation of MKAS arbitral award (2022). The enforcement court issued a EUR 345,000 execution writ in favour of our client.
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Successful acting for a German company in obtaining of execution writ for an award of the Arbitration Court of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce before the Arbitrazh Court of the Perm Krai (2020). The court issued a EUR 1 mln. execution writ in favour of our client.
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Successful acting for the German debtor in a case regarding issue of an execution writ for MKAS arbitral award before the Arbitrazh Court of Republic Mari El, which dissatisfied the creditor's application for its issue.
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Successful acting for the German FLT Metall Handelsgesellschaft in enforcement of the Duesseldorf-seated Ad hoc arbitral award. The court in Moscow awarded USD 600.000 debt and interest payment in favour of our client.
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Successful acting for German chemical company BASF Aktiengesellschaft in enforcement of the Vienna VIAC award before the Court in Stavropol. The court awarded USD 1.1 mln. debt and interest payment in favour of our client.
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Successful acting for BASF Aktiengesellschaft in enforcement of the further VIAC award before the Court in Krasnodar. The court awarded USD 145,000 debt and interest payment in favour of our client
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Acting for a German machinery plant in enforcement of the Stockholm arbitration award in Moscow.
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Advising a metallurgical plant on settlement of disputes against the Polish insurance agency in International Commercial Chamber arbitration, Paris.
Please see our publications on international arbitration:
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Heads or Tails: Game under U.S.-American ICDR baseball arbitration rules, accompanied by the author’s first Russian translation of 2015 International Center of Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Supplementary Final Offer Rules // Commercial Arbitration, 2019, No. 2, p. 111-119.
Rustem Karimullin has served as arbitrator and tribunal secretary in commercial arbitration disputes before the International Commercial Arbitration Court under the RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICAC/MKAS).
Also, he is engaged as an arbitrator in foreign arbitration tribunals, including Vienna International Arbitration Centre, Austria (VIAC), Arbitration Court of the Association of European Attorneys (AEA), an arbitrator at the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), Russian law expert witness in foreign arbitrations (e.g., in Hamburg).
As an experienced trial litigator, Rustem Karimullin, MCIArb (London branch) concentrates on international commercial, construction, corporate and other complex arbitrations in Russia and abroad. For instance, recently he is acting for some international companies in ICAC (MKAS) arbitration cases.
Rustem has learnt from the best with training from New York University (NYU) Law School (LL.M. course), CIArb, Paris Arbitration Academy, University of Law (former College of Law of England and Wales, The Hague, Washington D.C., Duesseldorf and other arbitration specialist courses.
Rustem has held presentations on the new 2015 Russian Arbitration Acts, inter alia before German Arbitration Institute - DIS - Secretariat in Cologne, HKIAC Secretariat in Hong Kong, one-day practice seminars for legal practioners in Germany and Austria, acted as an arbitrator in moots, such as the 2017 Vienna VIS Moot.
Accomplished arbitration practice internships at HKIAC in Hong Kong and DIS Secretariat in Cologne. Published articles and posts on issues of international arbitration in English, German and Russian, among others, as an author on KluwerArbitrationBlog and in the ICCA Yearbook Commercial Arbitration.
Also, he is a member of the Editorial Board of the famous Russian specialist journals International Commercial Arbitration Review and Commercial Arbitration.