Sergei Voitovich:

 
 

Partner

Areas of Practice

Investment, financial transactions, corporate law, contracts, international law and international arbitration

Experience

Sergei Voitovich has been a partner at Grischenko & Partners since 1993. In 1996, he was a legal intern at the London law firm of Dickson Minto W.S.  Prior thereto, he participated in the Annual Session of American and International Law in Dallas, Texas, in 1995. He has been an Associate Professor at the Kyiv University School of International Law for a number of years, specializing in international economic law. Mr. Voitovich was an advisor to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from 1993 to 1994 in the field of the investment laws of selected member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Voitovich was a member of the Chamber of Independent Experts on Foreign Investment at the President of Ukraine, where he participated in four panels as a panel member. Over a number of years Mr. Voitovich has been included in many international and domestic ratings of the best lawyers in various practices. In 2010 the international rating Best Lawyers named Sergei Voitovich as the Lawyer of the Year in Arbitration and Mediation in Ukraine.

Selected Representations

Mr. Voitovich has represented Ukraine as a counsel in several multi-million investment arbitration cases before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and in an investment dispute within the Energy Charter Treaty before the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. In particular, he participated in the teams of legal counsels of the Government of Ukraine which won the ICSID cases Generation Ukraine Inc. v. Ukraine (2000-2003) and Tokios Tokeles v. Ukraine (2003-2007), as well as the arbitration case AMTO v. Ukraine before the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (2006-2008). Furthermore, Sergei Voitovich headed the teams of legal counsel of Ukraine in the ICSID cases of J. Lemire (1998-2000) and of the Western NIS Enterprise Fund (2004-2006), which were settled by the agreements of the parties.

Publications

Mr. Voitovich is the author of a monograph entitled “International Economic Organizations in the International Legal Process” (Martinus Nijhoff, 1994). He also co-authored a legal treatise entitled “The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID): Several Issues of Jurisdiction and Arbitration Procedure” (2005, in Russian). In all, he has contributed literary works to more than 60 professional publications.

Bar Admissions

Kyiv Regional Bar

Education

Faculty of International Relations and International Law of Kyiv University named after T.H.Shevchenko, 1981

Faculty of International Relations and International Law of Kyiv University named after T.H.Shevchenko, Candidate of Science in International Law, 1984

European University Institute (Florence, Italy), LL.M. 1990

European University Institute, Ph.D. in International and Comparative Law, 1993

Awards

In 2003, Mr. Voitovich was awarded by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for his considerable contribution to Ukraine’s victory in the arbitration case initiated by the U.S. company Generation Ukraine Ltd. at ICSID. In 2008, by the Edict of the President of Ukraine Mr. Voitovich was conferred the title of honour “The Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine”.

Languages

Mr. Voitovich is fluent in Ukrainian, Russian and English.

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