Victoria Ivasechko

Victoria’s experience includes advising:

Investment treaty arbitration 

• An investor in a UNCITRAL arbitration under a bilateral investment treaty (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