OLEKSII MASLOV

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Oleksii Maslov is a Partner with AVELLUM’s dispute resolution practice and Head of International Arbitration practice. Oleksii focuses on international commercial and investment arbitration, cross-border litigation, mediation, as well as complex negotiations. Oleksii has strong background in M&A transactions and corporate law.

Oleksii regularly advises and represents international and Ukrainian clients in high-profile arbitrations under the Rules of the ICC, LCIA, SCC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, FOSFA, and ICAC at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He also advises clients on complex cross-border litigations, involving such jurisdictions as Cyprus, the BVI, the UK and Ukraine. His recent experience includes representing Ukraine in two investment arbitrations with over USD 7 billion in dispute and representing major Ukrainian agricultural producer in a complex LCIA arbitration with parallel court proceedings in Cyprus and Ukraine.

Oleksii is on the Board of the Ukrainian Arbitration Association. He actively contributes to the development of arbitration in Ukraine by participating in amicus curiae briefs for Ukrainian courts, working on bills to improve arbitration climate, and giving lectures to Ukrainian law students.

  • EDUCATION AND BAR ADMISSION

      Master of International Law degree (with honors), 2016, the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University

      Admitted to the Ukrainian Bar from 2021

      Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) from 2020

      Member of the Ukrainian Bar Association

      Member of the Board of the Ukrainian Arbitration Association

      Member of the ICC Ukraine

      Delegate to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, 2024-2027

  • RECOGNITION

      Client Choice Award, International Arbitration in Ukraine: Lexology, 2024

      Ranked in Dispute Resolution: International Chambers Global 2022 – 2024

      Who’s Who Legal Future leader: International Arbitration in Ukraine 2023 – 2024

      Leading lawyer in Ukraine for Arbitration and Mediation: Best Lawyers 2021 – 2022

      Recommended lawyer for International Arbitration in Ukraine: Ukrainian Law Firms 2021 – 2022

  • RECENT EXPERIENCE

      Represented a major Ukrainian agricultural business in an LCIA arbitration arising out of a failed joint venture and advised the client with respect to Cypriot and Ukrainian injunction proceedings

      Represented Ukraine in two investment arbitration with more than USD 7 billion in dispute

      Represented a major Chinese manufacturer in a USD3.7 million arbitration under the ICC Rules arising out of a guarantee issued by a Ukrainian bank

      Represented Ukraine-based agriculture trader in a FOSFA arbitration over the alleged breach of the contract for the sale of oilseeds

      Represented an international diversified investment group in a USD2.2 million LCIA arbitration arising out of a guarantee and indemnity

      Defeated a USD20 million claim in an “exceptionally hard-fought” LCIA arbitration, being a part of a multi-hundred million US Dollars shareholders dispute with parallel litigation proceedings in 6 jurisdictions

      Represented a major Czech mining machinery producer in four parallel arbitrations before the ICAC at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry arising out of international supply of goods contracts

      Advised a high net worth individual on Ukrainian law issues in a High Court litigation for more than USD 1 billion arising out of a Ukrainian industrial joint venture

      Advised MHP, a leading Ukrainian and European food and agritech company, on potential ICC arbitrations arising out of a failed M&A transaction

      Represented a leading Ukrainian power-generating company in an LCIA arbitration regarding the quality of shipped commodities

      Successfully represented an international investment company in the LCIA arbitration against guarantors under an M&A transaction

      Advised the Respondent in a USD300 million investment arbitration over an alleged expropriation of assets

      Advised a major German industrial group with respect to an ICC arbitration over the operation of an industrial equipment

      Represented world leading investment funds as owners of majority of notes issued by Mriya Agro Holding plc in a number of insolvency proceedings of Mriya group companies before the Ukrainian courts

      Successfully acted for the trustee under two issues of Eurobonds of Mriya Agro Holding Plc in the litigation on enforcement of claims (USD573 million) against 68 Ukrainian sureties under the Eurobonds

      Represented Ferrexpo Poltava Mining, Ferrexpo Yeristovo Mining and Ferrexpo Belanovo Mining, Ukrainian subsidiaries of LSE-listed Ferrexpo plc, in a number of court proceedings arising out of insolvency of Bank “Finance and Credit

      Represented Česká exportní banka, a. s. in a set of litigations before Ukrainian commercial and administrative courts against the Ukrainian borrower and local municipal authorities aimed at reinstatement of the Bank's rights under the mortgage agreements, as well as opposing attempts by the Ukrainian borrower to dissipate the mortgaged and pledged assets

      Represented Česká exportní banka, a. s. in the bankruptcy proceedings of the Ukrainian borrower initiated by the Bank

      Represented Česká exportní banka, a. s. in a set of litigations before general, commercial and administrative courts arising out of the enforcement of the Bank's claims against the mortgaged and pledged assets of the Ukrainian borrower

      Represented National Bank “Trust” in litigation on enforcement of mortgage against commercial real estate in Kyiv belonging to the Ukrainian borrower

      Advised a high net worth individual on Ukrainian law issues in a High Court litigation for more than USD 300 million arising out of a Ukrainian joint venture

      Advised a large European commercial bank on various aspects of recovery of debt and collateral from a Ukrainian network of petrol stations

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AVELLUM promotes Oleksii Maslov to Partner, strengthening its Dispute Resolution practice

AVELLUM promotes Oleksii Maslov to Partner, strengthening its Dispute Resolution practice

Posted on January 17, 2025

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AVELLUM successful in FOSFA Arbitration

AVELLUM acted as a lead counsel to a major Ukrainian agriculture trader in FOSFA arbitration with over EUR1,2 million in dispute. The dispute concerned the buyers’ default under the contract for sale of oilseeds. The parties based their cases on various concepts of English law, such as repudiation, declaration of default, acceptance by conduct, amendment […]

Posted on July 16, 2024

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AVELLUM acted as a lead counsel in an extremely complex LCIA arbitration

Our arbitration team acted as a lead counsel in a multiparty LCIA arbitration, representing a major Ukrainian business. The dispute arose out of an extremely complex M&A transaction with the amount in dispute estimated in the region of USD70 million. The dispute involved complex issues of English, Ukrainian and Cypriot laws. Our team won a […]

Posted on May 23, 2024

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AVELLUM lawyers published in The American Review of International Arbitration

Oleksii Maslov and Mariana Antonovych set to write this piece for The American Review of International Arbitration at Columbia Law School. Russia’s full-scale aggression rocked the already strained international legal order. It accentuated the unpleasant truth about the limits of the United Nations (UN) system of conflict resolution and brought to light the lack of […]

Posted on April 17, 2024

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AVELLUM’s client defeats a challenge to a USD20 million LCIA Award with the UK High Court

In a Judgment dated 20 January 2023, the UK High Court dismissed each of the four grounds of challenge to the award made under s. 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996. The full version of the decision is available via the link. The judgment resolves the ambiguity created by P v D [2019] EWHC 1277 on applicability of the rules on […]

Posted on January 24, 2023

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AVELLUM provided full legal support to the managing partners of American University Kyiv in connection with its launch.

Posted on September 9, 2022

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MYKOLA STETSENKO

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