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Igor Kirillov

Associate

Email

igor.kirillov@aoshearman.com

Phone

33140065453

Offices

Paris

V-CARD
Igor advises and represents States and major corporate clients across the world on issues of public international law and in a wide range of international commercial and investment-treaty arbitration proceedings.
Igor’s experience includes arbitrations conducted under various ad hoc and institutional rules (including ICC, UNCITRAL/PCA and ICSID) in multiple sectors including energy, telecommunications, banking and insurance. He has also assisted clients in post-arbitration enforcement and annulment proceedings.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • A North African State, defending multiple treaty claims at ICSID, related to a participation in the privatisation and operation of an oil refinery by an investor from Northern Europe; urban infrastructure projects by an investor from Southern Europe; and several waste management projects by investors from Western and Central Europe.
  • A Middle Eastern State, in a treaty claim at ICSID in relation to a major construction project.
  • A Southeast Asian State, in defending over USD 200 million investment treaty claim brought at ICSID in relation to the termination of telecommunication licences.
  • An international bank and a private equity fund, in a Paris-seated ICC arbitration against their majority shareholder in a West-African bank and insurance company. Our clients obtained a favourable award, allowing them to exit the investment.
  • The lenders, a State-owned financial institution and an international organisation, on the financing of the power plants in North African Country.
  • An Asian energy company, on several oil product-sharing agreements in various Western African States.

Pro bono

  • Assisted the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice with legal research and information gathering relating to protections against sexual harassment in African countries.

Published Work

 

Qualifications

Admissions

Paris Bar, France, 2021 (Avocat) 

Academic

Paris Bar Law School (EFB), 2021

Master 2 General Private Law, Paris II Panthéon-Assas University, 2019

Master’s degree Private Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2019

Master 1 French Law, French University College of Moscow, 2018

Bachelor Private Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2017

Languages

French, English, Russian
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.