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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