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Valeriya Grebenkova

Arbitration Counsel

Valeriya Grebenkova is an arbitration counsel at Gherson LLP. She is a Russian-qualified lawyer who specialises in investor-state dispute settlement and has represented both investors and sovereign states in investment arbitration proceedings administered by the PCA as well as under the auspices of ICSID. She is actively involved as counsel in commercial arbitrations under major institutional rules including LCIA, ICC, SCC and ICAC (Moscow). Email: vgrebenkova@gherson.co.uk

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Financial sanctions and investment treaty arbitration

Financial institutions may be the subject of sanctions unilaterally imposed by individual states. While sanctions can be challenged through domestic means, foreign investors affected by sanctions have the right to bring proceedings against the sanction-imposing host state before international arbitral tribunals, provided investment treaty protection exists. Final awards, in particular monetary remedies against the host state, can be enforced globally.

31 JUL 2024