
Partner
Areas of Practice
Investment, international arbitration, financial
transactions, corporate law, contracts, international law
Experience
Sergei Voitovich has been a
partner at Grischenko & Partners since 1993. He is the head of the arbitration practice of the firm. For a number of years, he has been an Associate Proffesor at the Kyiv University School of International Law, specializing in international economic law. In 1993-1994 Mr. Voitovich advised the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on the investment laws of selected member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States. In 1996, he was a
legal intern at the London
law firm of Dickson Minto W.S. 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 the investment disputes within the Energy Charter Treaty before the
Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, and in the invesments dispute under the UNCITRAL rules. In particular, he participated as a leading counsel in the teams of legal counsel 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, as well as Alpha Projektholding (2007-2010 in ICSID) and Remington (2009-2011 in Stockholm Arbitration Institute), in which the awarded amounts of claimed damages were substantially reduced.
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 70 professional publications.
Bar Admissions
Kyiv Regional Bar
Education
Faculty of International Relations and International Law of Kyiv University, 1981
Faculty of International Relations and International Law of Kyiv University, 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
In 1995, he participated in the Annual Session of Academy of American and International Law in Dallas, Texas.
Awards
In 2003, Mr. Voitovich was
awarded by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for his contribution to Ukraine’s
victory in the arbitration case Generation Ukraine at ICSID. In 2008, by the Edict of the President of Ukraine Mr. Voitovich was conferred the title of “The Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine”.
Languages
Mr. Voitovich is fluent in
Ukrainian, Russian and English.
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