Victoria Ivasechko is a Counsel in the firm’s International Arbitration and Litigation practices and Head of Dispute Resolution at Redcliffe Partners.
She focuses on international investment arbitration, international commercial arbitration, cross-border and domestic litigation, as well as enforcement proceedings.
Victoria has been involved in arbitration proceedings under VIAC, ICC, LCIA, SCC, CAM, NAI, ICAC at the Ukrainian CCI, ICSID, and UNCITRAL arbitration rules. She has also represented clients in complex cross-border litigations and high-profile domestic litigations. Victoria acts for clients before Ukrainian courts of all levels and specialisations, including commercial, corporate, administrative and labour disputes, insolvency proceedings, criminal proceedings, as well as cases on setting aside, recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign court decisions.
Victoria is a VIAC Ambassador for Ukraine, a board member of the International Law Committee at the Ukrainian Bar Association, and a regional representative of the Moot Alumni Association. She also coaches the Vis Moot teams of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and arbitrates various moot court competitions.
Victoria’s experience includes advising:
Investment treaty arbitration
- An investor in a UNCITRAL arbitration under the Ukraine-Russia BIT over the alleged taking of shares in a Ukrainian company
- Investors in an ICSID arbitration over the alleged expropriation of the majority stake in the plant
- The State of Ukraine in SCC Case No. V 2015/092 of Littop and others v. Ukraine under the Energy Charter Treaty
International commercial arbitration
- A Czech manufacturer in an arbitration under the VIAC Rules of Arbitration and Conciliation (Vienna Rules) against a major Ukrainian nuclear power generation company
- A major international electronics producer in a series of ICAC at the Ukrainian CCI arbitrations against a Turkish guarantor under a complex equipment supply contract
- A Czech manufacturer in an arbitration under ICAC at the Ukrainian CCI Arbitration Rules against a major Ukrainian nuclear power generation company
- A Ukrainian ammonia transportation enterprise in an arbitration under ICAC at the Ukrainian CCI Arbitration Rules against a foreign customer
- An English gas equipment supplier in an arbitration under LCIA Arbitration Rules against a Ukrainian company engaged in gas field and petroleum product exploration, development, processing, and production
- A large international agricultural company in an arbitration under ICC Arbitration Rules against a corporation designing and manufacturing grain storage and processing systems
- The UBOs of a large international group of companies in an arbitration under NAI Arbitration Rules
Commercial litigation
- A foreign big oil company on Ukrainian law issues before the Commercial Court of the High Court of Justice (England and Wales)
- The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in the USD 80 million enforcement of a secured syndicated loan against one of Ukraine’s largest private rail operators
- Raiffeisen Bank International in cross-border enforcement of Ukrainian mortgages and pledges securing a USD 100 million loan against the Milkiland group, a major Ukrainian dairy producer
- RHI Glas GmbH, a global leading supplier of high-grade refractory materials, in proceedings for leave to enforce the VIAC award in Ukraine and having it actually enforced in three parallel enforcement proceedings
- A major international electronics producer in court proceedings initiated by a Turkish surety aiming at setting aside the arbitral awards rendered in favour of the electronics producer
Administrative litigation
- Members of Parliament and NGOs in a series of administrative cases challenging resolutions of the state energy regulator fixing wholesale off-take energy prices for thermal power generation companies
- An international shipping company in an administrative claim challenging the blocking of its vessel in a Ukrainian seaport
ECHR proceedings
- A major international electronics producer in a case brought over violations of Article 6 of the ECHR and Article 1 of the First Protocol
- A major energy-producing company in a case brought over violations of Article 13 of the ECHR and Article 1 of the First Protocol
