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
06/07/2021
Q&A about Attribution of Acts or Omissions to the State
16/07/2020
The article is available in Ukrainian
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