Profile Overview
Lilia has unique practical experience in Russian and international insurance and reinsurance companies since 1991 (Cologne Re, Germany, Renaissance Insurance Group, Russia, Ingosstrakh IJSC, Russia), and since 2000 has been leading her private practice as legal advisor and attorney at law.
Lilia participated as an advisor in projects to enter the Russian market for the biggest insurers from Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, the USA, the largest specialized insurers for export credit insurance of France, the Netherlands, Belgium, the largest reinsurers of France and Germany; in complex legal support of Russian subsidiaries of foreign investors; in international share sale and purchase transactions of insurance companies, construction industrial enterprises, IT technology and communication companies, restaurant, industrial and financial holdings; NPF restructuring; in the reorganization and foundation of international holdings with the participation of companies in the jurisdictions of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Cyprus; acted as a legal advisor in the settlement of losses of varying degrees of complexity and scope in the electricity industry, metallurgy, operation of sea vessels, aviation and aircraft industry;she is a day-to-day attorney on a wide range of competencies for companies in various fields of activity and industries.
Lilia successfully represented clients in state arbitrazh courts of all instances, including the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, i.a. in corporate disputes, tax disputes, antitrust disputes, appeal of transactions concluded under the foreign law, cross-border family disputes with an international element, recognition and enforcement of international arbitral awards, legal consulting on the arbitral awards enforcement procedure in Austria, Germany, France.
Lilia is a certified international arbitrator and focuses her practice on dispute resolution, including international and domestic arbitrations. Lilia acted both as a party representative or arbitrator, as an expert to the case or advisor to a party in dispute resolution conducted under DIS, ICC, LCIA, VIAC, ICAC, MAC, UNCITRAL Rules and pure ad-hoc proceedings as well as a mediator. Lilia has experience in successful mediation procedures in corporate, labor, family disputes, including the cross-border (Germany, Austria, France, Hong Kong) disputes.
Lilia is a native Russian and Ukrainian speaker, and also speaks English, German, French and Polish.