Yaraslau Kryvoi

Experience

Yaraslau "Yarik" Kryvoi focuses his practice on investor-state and commercial arbitration, particularly on disputes involving Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

His recent experience in the area of investor-state disputes includes advising:

• an Eastern European government in an investment dispute under a bilateral investment treaty, before the World Bank's International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID);
• a United States investor in a dispute against Islamic Republic of Iran, a case involving the jurisdiction of U.S. courts to decide a claim against an expropriating state arising under customary international law and a bilateral treaty with investment protection provisions; 
• a consortium of international energy companies in a dispute against the Republic of Kazakhstan;
• a major United States oil company in a dispute under UNCITRAL Rules against an Eastern European country arising out of a product sharing agreement. 

Prior to joining Freshfields, Dr Kryvoi worked for a major international law firm in Washington, DC.  He also served as an extern law clerk for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, where he focused on cases involving foreign sovereigns and application of international law in domestic proceedings.  In 2003-2005, he was a lecturer at the Belarusian State University.  During the same period, he also served as a counsel at the Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Minsk, Belarus.

Dr Kryvoi has law degrees from Harvard Law School, Moscow and Saint Petersburg.  He also studied law in Oxford and Nottingham in England.  He is a corresponding editor of International Legal Materials (ILM) and a member of International Advisory Board of International Encyclopaedia of Laws published by Kluwer Law International. 

Contact details

yaraslau.kryvoi
@freshfields.com

• London office
• 65 Fleet Street
  London EC4Y 1HS
  United Kingdom

• Telephone
• +44 20 7716 4589

• Fax
• +44 20 7108 4589

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