Personal bio

Vitaliy is an arbitration practitioner specialising mainly in commercial disputes in the areas of commodity trading and shipping. Recent cases include:

- representing owners of a grain terminal in Odesa in a USD200 million dispute with foreign creditors;

- representing a Swiss oil trader in an LCIA dispute with an Emirati state-owned company concerning the shipment of several million tons of crude oil per year;

- representing a Ukrainian coal trader in an LCIA dispute with Russian counterparts concerning three delivery contracts and assignment agreements;

- representing a telecom company in a shareholders dispute concerning one of Georgia's largest mobile operators