IVAN S. ZYKIN | | Areas of practice:
International Arbitration,
International Business Transactions,
Litigation,
Corporate.
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Education: Doctor of Science (Law) (a Russian equivalent of SJD), Institute of Legislation and Comparative Legal Studies, 1992
Doctor of Legal Science, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) (MGIMO), 1980
Diploma in Jurisprudence, MGIMO, 1974 |
Mr. Ivan Zykin is a partner in charge of the firm’s international arbitration practice and Vice President of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICAC). He has thirty years of experience in handling complex cases before international arbitration courts and provides day-to-day counseling on various issues relating to international arbitration and litigation. Recently, Mr. Zykin has successfully represented:
- a major Russian company as defendant before arbitration court in Stockholm in a $10 million dispute over rescission of a construction agreement;
- a well-known Russian manufacturer as defendant before arbitration court in Stockholm in a breach of exclusive purchase agreement dispute;
- a company from western Europe as plaintiff in arbitration proceedings in Moscow in a dispute over breach of contract of sale.
As an arbitrator Mr. Zykin decided more than one hundred and fifty cases, including arbitrations under the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, ICC and UNCITRAL Rules, and investment disputes under international treaties. He is listed among arbitrators of the ICAC, Commercial Arbitration Court at the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Arbitration Commission at the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange, the Arbitration Court at the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Vilnius International Commercial Arbitration Court (Lithuania), and of some other arbitral institutions.
Mr. Zykin was actively involved in drafting various Russian commercial laws, including the Law on Foreign Trade, Civil Code (international private law provisions), draft of the State Immunities Act.
He represented Russia in several UN Conferences on the International Code of Conduct on Transfer of Technology (1979-1981) elaborated under the auspices of the UNCTAD. Mr. Zykin participated in negotiating several bilateral international tax treaties (1978-1981), and was involved in elaboration of legal rules on electronic fund transfers within the UNCITRAL (1988-1989). He also took part in the Diplomatic Conference on factoring and leasing transactions (1988) organized by the UNIDROIT.
During the past two decades Mr. Zykin has lectured in the Russian Academy of Foreign Trade. He is an author of more than forty publications on business law matters and international commercial arbitration, including:
International Trade Customs and Usages., Moscow, 1983, in Russian (a book);
Foreign Economic Contracts., Moscow, 1990, in Russian (a book);
International Commercial Transactions. Law and Practice., Moscow, 1994, in Russian (a book);
The UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration - the Russian Experience, published in The Hague Yearbook of International Law, 1996, in English (an article);
The Russian Arbitration Procedure, published in the Yearbook of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, 1996, in English (an article);
A Guide to Conducting Commercial Arbitrations in the CIS, published in the International Arbitration Law Review, 1997, Vol. I, Issue I, in English (an article);
Commentary on the Rules of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, published in Carswell's Handbook of International Dispute Resolution Rules, Canada, 1999, in English (an article).
Comments on Arbitration Awards, published in the Sweden Arbitration Report, 1999, Vol. 2, 2000, Vol. 2, and 2004, Vol. 1, in English (case-notes);
Interaction between Institutional Arbitration and Ad Hoc Arbitration, published in the collection of articles Private International Law. Modern Practice, Moscow, 2000, in Russian (an article);
Comments on a number of articles in the division "Private International Law" of the RF Civil Code, published in the Comments on Part Three of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 2002, in Russian;
Amicable Settlement of Disputes under the Auspices of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry, published in the collection of articles Current Issues of the International Commercial Arbitration, Moscow, 2002, in Russian (an article);
Development of Private International Law in the Light of Adoption of the Third Part of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, published in the academic journal State and Law, 2002, No. 12, in Russian (an article);
Status of Arbitrator in International Commercial Arbitration, published in the journal Treteiskiy Sud, 2003, No.1, in Russian (an article);
Comments on a number of provisions of the division " Private International Law" of the RF Civil Code, published in the Comments on the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Part Three, Moscow, 2004, in Russian;
Alternative Dispute Resolution and Commercial Arbitration, published in the collection of articles Russia in the Context of International Development: Private International Law, Protection of Cultural Values, Intellectual Property, Unification of Law, Berlin, 2004, in Russian (an article);
Fundamental Procedural Aspects of Consideration of Disputes by Commercial Arbitration in the Russian Federation, published in the journal International Commercial Arbitration, 2004, No. 4, in Russian (an article);
Commentary to the Russian Law on International Commercial Arbitration (Chapter III "Composition of Arbitral Tribunal"), published in the journal Treteiskiy Sud, 2005, No. 2, in Russian.
Affiliations and membership
Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences, Head Research Officer;
Russian Academy of Foreign Trade, Professor;
Member of the Russian Association of International Law;
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Arbitration Law Review
(published in London);
Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (United Kingdom)
Mr. Zykin speaks English, French, German and Russian (native).
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