Gennady Yurin

Biography

Gennady Yurin is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team in Dubai. He is working on international and high-risk sanction-related disputes mainly in the field of banking, finance and aviation.

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Recent Experience

• Advising the UAE state-owned investment company on the cross-border litigation in Sweden, England and Georgia.
• Acting for a major US investment bank as a lender, facility and security agent under the USD 73mln syndicated loan agreement in the LCIA arbitration against the Cypriot company as a borrower and several insolvency cases against the Russian oil companies as guarantors.
• Acting for a German bank in the sanction-triggered court cases involving various Russian banks with an overall value of claims exceeding EUR 0.5bln.
• Acting for a German bank in a EUR 93mln dispute with a Russian LNG company over the bank guarantee involving various Russian court proceedings, the ICC arbitration and the anti-suit injunction proceedings before the High Court of England and Wales.
• Acting as a senior member of the Russian law expert team in the multibillion High Court litigation initiated by the international leasing company against several international insurers and reinsurers. Advising on various matters of the Russian law, including insurance, aviation, sanctions and customs regulations.
• Acting for a European jewelry company in the ICC arbitration against the Russian state-owned bank and advising on enforcement of the award against the frozen assets in Europe.
• Acting for a major Austrian bank and its Russian subsidiary as well as a major Italian bank as the facility agent and co-lenders under the USD 100mln syndicated loan agreement in the bankruptcy proceedings of the borrower’s guarantor being a large dairy company.
• Acting for several aircraft lessors as insolvency creditors with the claim amounting to USD 600mln in the bankruptcy proceedings of Russia’s biggest private airline.
• Acting for a Polish bank as a creditor in several insolvency proceedings of the borrowers, tracing and managing the debtors’ assets, arranging for marketing the insolvency estates in cooperation with bankruptcy trustees, pursing claims against the borrowers’ management and UBOs, etc.