Senior Associate

Ivan
Yavnych

Experience

Ivan represents clients in international commercial and investment arbitration, as well as cross-border disputes. His experience includes representation in arbitrations under the LCIA, UNCITRAL, and the ICAC at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 

Received his LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Ivan is licensed to practice as an attorney in the State of New York, USA.

He worked as a lawyer in the international arbitration practice of a global law firm based in Paris.

Participated in Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in 2015 and 2016, and acted as a coach of a students' team participating in Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.

Lifestyle

Mountain hiking

Life credo

«Hard things are hard»

Publications

14/06/2022

Q&A about Attribution of Acts or Omissions to the State

Ivan Yavnych , Oleg Alyoshin

06/07/2021

Q&A about Attribution of Acts or Omissions to the State

Ivan Yavnych , Oleg Alyoshin

16/07/2020

The article is available in Ukrainian

Ivan Yavnych , Vsevolod Mazurenko, Oleg Alyoshin

24/04/2020

On 28 January 2020, the arbitration panel has been formed in the dispute between the EU and Ukraine regarding Ukraine’s export prohibition of unprocessed timber. Notably, this is the first dispute between the EU and Ukraine under the Association Agreement (“EU-Ukraine AA”), and here, the EU invokes the dispute settlement mechanism provided by the free-trade agreement instead of the usual WTO dispute settlement mechanism

Ivan Yavnych