Kseniya Elfimova
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Kseniya is an experienced disputes resolutions attorney, representing a wide-range of clients in complex international commercial and investment arbitrations, as well as English and off-shore litigation, having received her first individual Legal 500 ranking in as a “key advisor” for Winston & Strawn in 2018. Her practice focuses on complex cross-border financial and shareholding structures, disputes on joint ventures and foreign investments, as well as large infrastructure projects, including oil and gas pipelines.
Key Matters
- Representing Dominion Minerals Corp., a listed U.S. junior mining company, in an ICSID bilingual English-Spanish arbitration concerning Dominion’s claims arising under the treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of Panama concerning the treatment and protection of investments arising out of Dominion’s investment in a copper and gold concession in western Panama.
- Representing two scions of a very well-known private bank in Geneva, Switzerland, in an arbitration proceeding ad hoc in Switzerland in a bilingual French and English arbitration against the former partners of the private bank for having concealed and misappropriated the claimants’ rights to participate as partners in the bank, capital that had been set aside for their entry into the partnership, and their family’s good will dating back to Napoleonic times.
- Representing a major oil and gas company and its holding company in two arbitrations arising out of alleged breaches of a Shareholders Agreement and Sale and Purchase Agreement between a major English oil and gas company and its joint venture partner, which formed one of the largest oil and gas production companies in the world.
- Representing a private equity company in an HKIAC dispute with its Chinese joint venture partners over a mixed-use property development.
- Representing an oil and gas consortium in a multi-billion-dollar SCC arbitration (Stockholm seat, English governing law) arising out of an alleged breach of a shareholders agreement with a global energy major
- Acting for a large Nigerian financial services institution in a US$50M ICC arbitration against a private equity investor.