Areas of expertise:
foreign investment, protection of intellectual property rights, corporate law, international contracts, civil and arbitration procedure, international private law, international civil procedure, international commercial arbitration.

• Senior partner of the Law firm “YUST”.
• Member of the Moscow Regional Bar Association «Law firm “YUST”».
• Graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
• Awarded the degree of Master of Law by the Columbia University (New York, USA).
• Doctor of law, professor.
• Associate member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Director of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Chair of the Academic Council of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Arbitrator of the International Court of Commercial Arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation. Elected arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.
• Member of the Bureau of the Board of Directors of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Member of the Intellectual Property and Nanotechnologies Commissions of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the State Governance and Problem Analysis Centre.
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Russian Association of International Law.
• Author of more than 80 publications.
• Awarded the Order of Friendship (Russian Federation), the Order of Leopold II (Belgium) and the Order of Sergiy Radonezhskiy of the Russian Orthodox Church.