Ilya Nikiforov
22/24 Nevsky pr., Suite 132
St. Petersburg 191186
Russia
Lecturer, Department of Civil Law, St.Petersburg State University, 1996-2020; Foreign legal consultant, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, 1997; Lawyer, Gide Loyrette Nouel, 1995-1997; International Monetary Fund, 1996.
Current
•Executive Committee Member at Swedish Arbitration Association (SAA)
•Board Member at Russian Arbitration Association (RAA)
•Listed as an arbitrator by ICDR (including Energy Arbitrators List), SIAC (first panel member from Russia), HKIAC, SHIAC, BIAC, VIAC and other institutions.
Previous
•Vice-Chair of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
•Councillor at London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) European Users’ Council
•Vice-Chair at International Bar Association (IBA) Arbitration Committee
•Vice-Chair of the International Arbitration Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce Russian National Committee (ICC Russia)
ICDR; VIAC; SIAC; GIAC, AAA Energy Arbitrators List; Corte de Arbitraje de Madrid (Madrid Court of Arbitration); SHIAC; Beijing Arbitration Commission; Belarusian CCI Arbitration Court; the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration; Dubai International Arbitration Center; the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board; the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Confederation of Private Employers Lewiatan; Vilnius Court of commercial Arbitration; the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.
Handled more than 50 arbitration cases on behalf of Russian and foreign parties and government instrumentalities relating to commercial disputes, lending, sales of goods, building and construction matters, IP/IT matters, services matters etc. Acted as sole arbitrator or tribunal member under the rules of the ICC, Moscow Intl. Arb. Court (ICAC), Stockholm Arb. Inst. Ilya Nikiforov is consistently commended as Tier 1 Dispute Resolution practitioner by leading directories.
Ilya Nikiforov co-authored one of the leading Commentaries to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (vol. I-IV, 2006-2018). Published treatises on UNCITRAL rules and FIDIC contracts. His portfolio counts 100+ publications on commercial laws and international private law & dispute resolution.
Select works:
* Russian Law Deskbook (RLD). Russia Corporate, Financial, and Commercial Law, ed. Scott Alexander Shostak, 2018
* “Panorama of World Case Law – Russia”, in: The Paris Journal of International Arbitration, 2010-2018
* “Arbitration in the Russian Federation”, in: International Arbitration Practice in the 21st Century, eds. Paul Mason & Horacio Grigera-Naón, Lexis-Nexis, 2010
* “International Commercial Arbitration Practice in the Russian Federation”, in: International Arbitration Practice, Lexis-Nexis Publishers 2nd ed., 2012
* “Interpretation of Article V of the New York Convention by Russian Courts – Due Process, Arbitrability, and Public Policy Grounds for non-Enforcement”, in: Journal of International Arbitration, Vol. 25, № 6, December 2008
* International Commercial Arbitration: Textbook / O. Skvortsov, M. Savranskiy, G. Sevastianov (eds.). St.Petersburg, Moscow, (2018)
* Civil law: Textbook / ed. A. Sergeev. Moscow (2018)
* Contracts for construction under the FIDIC rules: practical use and interpretation co-author with Lukas Klee (2016)
* The UNCITRAL arbitration rules 2010 (with the new paragraph 4 of article 1 adopted in 2013): Workbook (2015)
* Commentary to the Arbitration Rules of the Leading Arbitral Institutions / ed. R.Chlup (ed.) (2012)