Rubinina Evgeniya

Enyo Law LLP

evgeniya.rubinina@enyolaw.com

Address: 1 Tudor Street, London EC4Y 0AH

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General information

Citizenship:

Russian Federation

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

City:

London

Languages:

Russian - fluent

English - fluent

French - fluent

Spanish - can read documents without translation

Career

2019 - 2022

Enyo Law LLP , London

partner

Qualified to practice law in:

Russia

United Kingdom

United States (State of New York)

Experience as arbitrator

Served as arbitrator in 1-3 cases in international arbitrations

Arbitration Rules:

ICC Rules

Examples of cases

Sat as sole arbitrator:

Yes

Sat as chair:

Experience as the tribunal’s secretary / assistant to the president of the tribunal

Secretary to the Tribunal in Gemplus S.A., SLP S.A., Gemplus Industrial S.A. de C.V. v. The United Mexican States, ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/04/3 (ICSID Additional Facility Rules, Washington DC seat, investment treaty claim under the France - Mexico and Argentina - Mexico BITs) and Alpha Projektholding GmbH v. Ukraine, ICSID Case No. ARB/07/16 (ICSID Rules, investment treaty claim under the Austria - Ukraine BIT).

Experience as counsel

Acted as counsel for 11-15 years in international arbitrations

Arbitration Rules:

LCIA Rules

ICC Rules

SCC Rules

UNCITRAL Rules

ICSID Convention

Examples of cases

• Representing a state-owned oil company in an ICC arbitration with a Brazilian party in relation to the termination of a farm-out agreement, with a value of over US$1 bn (English law, Rio de Janeiro seat). • Representing a Russian banker in a London-seated ICC arbitration arising from a dispute with another Russian individual concerning the acquisition of a shareholding in an eastern European bank, as well as in related English court proceedings (English law, London seat). • Representing a consortium of regional and international energy companies in an LCIA arbitration against a regional government in the Middle East in relation to the ownership and commercial operation of two petroleum fields, with a value of over US$ 39 billion (English law, London seat). • Representing a Ukrainian businessman in an LCIA arbitration with another Ukrainian businessman arising out of a joint venture in the metals sector, with a value of over US$1 billion (English law, London seat). • Representing two Russian-owned businesses in LCIA arbitrations arising from a dispute under commercial loan agreements (English law, London seat). • Representing the government of Romania in the Micula v Romania ICSID arbitration concerning Romania’s repeal of customs duty exemptions in order to join the European Union.

In 2 or more cases had direct responsibility for instructing and liaison with

quantum (damages) experts

petroleum engineering experts; local law experts; commodities pricing experts

General arbitration experience

Has been involved as counsel in arbitration seated in:

London

Stockholm

Has been involved in arbitrations where the applicable substantive law was:

Russian law

English law

international law

Has been involved as counsel in:

investment arbitration

commercial arbitration

Has been involved as tribunal’s secretary in:

investment arbitration

Arbitration specific trainings/qualifications:

MJur (Oxon) with courses on international dispute settlement; MPhil (Oxon) with a focus on investment treaty arbitration

Listed as arbitrator with the following institutions:

Russian Arbitration Centre database, International Arbitration Court "Chamber of Arbitrators at the Union of Lawyers", Minsk, Belarus; GIAC, Georgia; VIAC

Education, qualifications, awards

Professional education:

Harvard Law School, LLM, 2009

University of Oxford, MPhil in Law, 2007

University of Oxford, MJur, 2006

MGIMO-University, specialist, Honors: highest honours, 2005

MGIMO-University, bachelor in law, Honors: highest honours, 2004

Awards and ratings:

Included in the Legal 500’s London International Arbitration Powerlist (2019) Next Generation Lawyer for international arbitration in the UK, Legal 500 (2018 – 2020) Arbitration Future Leader by Who’s Who Legal (2020, 2021) Top Young Arbitration Practitioner, RAA40 (below-40 chapter of the Russian Arbitration Association) (2016 – 2018)

Positions (current and former) in arbitration community bodies / working groups / as law professor

Member of the LCIA European Users’ Council Member of the Executive Committee of the Russia and CIS Commercial Arbitration Network (RCAN) Member of the working group on third-party funding in Russia-related disputes

Preferences as an arbitrator

Pre-appointment interview

available

Conflicts of interest: scope of disclosure

IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration

A preferable fee rate or structure / willingness to waive travel and other costs

Willing to waive travel costs in relation to arbitrations with a venue in Paris or Moscow

Written submissions style

no general preference

Production of documents (general approach):

IBA Rules

Written submissions and bundles:

fully electronic

Allocation of time during an oral hearing:

Bockstiegel method (allocating an equal amount of time to each party with their freedom to use it as they wish between opening, examinations and closing)

Using PowerPoint in oral presentations:

no general preference

Party's right to present its case

Maximum deference to the right to present the party’s case

Rigorous control of the process by the tribunal

To what extent should arbitrators raise issues that have not been directly addressed by the relevant party but have been identified by the arbitrators

If it is a legal issue or an important factual issue

Approach to encouraging parties to amicably resolving dispute

It is only for parties to decide and arbitrators should focus on resolution of the dispute

Personal preferences

Favorite work of fiction

War and Peace

Favorite movie(s) about lawyers

To Kill a Mockingbird

Hobby

hiking

Favorite Russian dish

blinis with caviar