Elizaveta Belotserkovskaya

About

Elizaveta focuses on commercial litigation, international arbitration, and mediation.

She specializes in cross-border disputes and has acted as lead counsel in numerous proceedings for clients from the US, EU, UK, Switzerland, Canada, Israel, and Russia. Elizaveta has managed multi-jurisdictional legal teams in cases governed by the substantive laws of England and Wales, New York, Switzerland, and Russia, as well as by key private international law instruments and treaties.

She has acted as counsel and advised clients in arbitration proceedings under the ICC, SCC, LCIA, FAI, and ICAC Rules, and has served as an expert on Russian law in both judicial and arbitral proceedings.

Elizaveta is an external examiner at St Petersburg State University where she assesses final examinations for Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Jurisprudence and Public International Law. She also shares her expertise as a speaker in masterclasses for students and participates as an arbitrator in international arbitration moot courts.

Experience

• representing a Russian diamond mining company in SCC arbitration seated in Stockholm against an Austrian counterparty arising from a supply contract governed by the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)
• serving as expert on Russian law for an ICC arbitration seated in London between a Russian oil company and a US engineering company. Opining on freedom of contract, good faith, contractual interpretation, unjust enrichment, exemption from liability, allocation of risks between contracting parties, and termination of obligations under Russian civil law. Preparing written reports, giving testimony under direct and cross-examination, and participating in “hot-tubbing” with the opposing expert
• representing a European bank in nine Russian litigatory proceedings brought by Russian and foreign entities with claims totaling EUR 100m focusing on sanctions’ impact on the bank’s obligations
• advising a listed Finnish company (marine sector) in eleven Russian court proceedings whose amounts in controversy total EUR 27m on the impact of sanctions on obligations under supply contracts and guarantees, as well as jurisdictional issues
• representing a Canadian engineering company in ICAC arbitration against a Russian counterparty in relation to a scoping study for potash production
• representing a European company in seven Russian court proceedings and mediation administered by the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry to resolve a EUR 30m construction dispute

Education

Languages

• English
• Russian

Career