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EVGENY SAMOYLOV
Partner
Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution

office +7 495 540 47 12, mob. +7 916 504 72 09
esamoylov@samoylov.legal
Education:
- Universität Regensburg, 2004 (DSG German Law)
- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Law, 2006
- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Law, 2010 (PhD)
- Arbitration Academy (Paris), 2012
Languages: Russian, English, German
- head of the Firm's Dispute Resolution Practice Group
- 20 years in an advisory role, including eight years as head of the dispute resolution practice at the Moscow office of Debevoise & Plimpton
- represents clients in litigation, arbitration and international arbitration on financial issues, real estate, construction, infrastructure projects, the protection of business assets and investments, corporate disputes
- is included in the list of arbitrators of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation
- has been recommended as a leading lawyer in arbitration and mediation, international arbitration and litigation in Russia according to Best Lawyers and in international arbitration according to Pravo-300
- more than 10 years as Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Law, Faculty of Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he delivered lectures and seminars
Selected experiences (significant projects)
Evgeny has advised and represented:
- one of Russia’s leading state-owned companies at the London Court of International Arbitration in a multi-billion dollar dispute in connection with the termination of the financing of a major infrastructure project owing to foreign sanctions
- Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company (subsidiary of PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel) in litigation regarding claims brought by the competent authorities for the indemnification of damages caused to the environment as a result of the accidental spill of petroleum products, with the aggregate value of the claims exceeding USD 3 billion
- major Russian metallurgical holding in disputes with a foreign supplier at the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation and state commercial courts in connection with the refusal of the foreign supplier to supply graphite electrodes to Russia owing to foreign sanctions
- major industrial company in connection with claims brought by the state authorities in Russian state courts for the recovery of a number of transport infrastructure facilities (sea and river ports, rail transport assets) worth tens of billions of roubles which had been privatised in the 1990s
- Russian investment holding against claims brought in Russian state courts on the recognition of title and recovery of majority shareholdings in two major Russian companies with an aggregate value of over USD 20 billion
- Sberbank of Russia in a successful challenge of the jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice in England to hear a conspiracy claim brought by a subsidiary of the Russian bank VTB
- Sberbank of Russia in proceedings brought in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in connection with contested foreclosures on pledged property
- PJSC Tatneft in the Court of Appeal (England and Wales) in the case of Tatneft v Gennadiy Bogolyubov and others
- major Russian investment company in the London Court of International Arbitration further to a claim brought by a Russian entrepreneur regarding a corporate dispute with respect to a Russian manufacturing group
- PJSC Novolipetsk Steel in the High Court of England and Wales against the attempted recognition and enforcement of a Russian arbitral award that had previously been set aside by the Russian courts
- subsidiary of major Russian steel company at the SCC Arbitration Institute further to a claim brought against an Austrian engineering company in connection with numerous breaches of obligations regarding supplies of production equipment
- international consulting and investment firm AT Kearney GmbH as the claimant at Gazprom Arbitration Court in a dispute against a Russian energy consulting company further to a claim for the recovery of debt under a service contract
- German manufacturer of systems for the fibre and polymer industries as defendant at Rosatom Arbitration Court in a dispute against a Russian carbon fibre manufacturer in connection with a breach of obligations under a supply contract
- major Turkish construction and property developer against a claim brought in Russian commercial courts in connection with a mandatory share buyback offer
- largest private generator of electricity and heat in Russia against claims brought by its shareholders in Russian state courts regarding the share buyback price
- Russian airline against the claim brought by an international airport for the indemnification of losses related to the protracted stay of an aircraft at the airport due to an accident
- major investment company in a Russian court against a claim brought by a state authority for the recovery of losses in connection with the financing of the import of agricultural products within the framework of state procurements
- major European supplier and rights holder of television content further to a claim brought in a Russian state commercial court against the largest Russian TV channel on copyright infringement with respect to the original format of a popular TV show
- Pernod Ricard in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against a claim brought by a Russian state institution with respect to ownership of the Stolichnaya trademark
- major Austrian engineering company in a dispute on appealing the decision of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia on the cancellation of the results of an auction for the conclusion of a state contract