Dmitry Dyakin

Address Entrance C, 5th Floor, 2, Tsvetnoy Boulevard, Moscow, 127051, Russia
Phone +74951396500
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Email DDyakin@rgp.legal
Website https://www.rgp.legal/en
Nationality Russian
Education – Master of Laws degree from New York University School of Law (USA);
– Executive MBA from London Business School and Columbia Business School;
– Honours Degree in Law from Moscow State Social University;
– Master’s degree in Private Law from the Russian School of Private Law.
Bar Admission – Admitted to the Moscow Bar Association and a member of its International Relationships Committee;
– A member of the Eurasia / Russia Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA);
– A member of the International Bar Association.
Work Experience – Over 20 years of experience in litigation and international arbitration;
– Specializing in large, complex and multinational disputes involving various jurisdictions;
– Arbitration experience including 30 cases as a party’s counsel, 3 cases as a chair and 2 cases as a co-arbitrator;
– Represented the Russian Federation in several large-scale international cases;
– Considerable expertise in international arbitration (both commercial and investment cases) with extensive experience of arbitrating under ICC, SCC, LCIA, ICDR, UNCITRAL, ICSID (Additional Facility), GAFTA and ICAC (MKAS) rules.
Present Position – Partner, Head of Arbitration practice at Rybalkin, Gortsunyan & Partners;
– Chairman of the ICC Russia Commission on International Arbitration and Russian Arbitration Association Working Group on Investment Arbitration;
– Member of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law; and the SIAC Users Council.
Past positions – General counsel at a Russian holding company and managing partner roles at two law firms;
– Listed among Russia’s top arbitration practitioners by Global Arbitration Review;
– first place in individual International Arbitration ranking in 2017 by Kommersant;
– Co-author of The Dispute Resolution Review (UK, 2010);
– Appointed as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Arbitration Centre at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE) in 2017;
– Elected to the RUIE Management Board in 2018
Recognition – Chambers and Partners Global 2020 – Band 2, Dispute Resolution: International – Russia;
– Chambers and Partners Europe 2020 – Band 2, Dispute Resolution: International – Russia;
– Legal 500 EMEA 2020 – Leading individuals: Restructuring and Insolvency, Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and Mediation. Also featured in Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution: Litigation;
– Global Arbitration Review – listed among Russia’s top arbitration practitioners;
– Pravo-300 – Recommended lawyers: Group 1, Arbitration (High-end), International litigation, International arbitration;
– “Kommersant” business daily – TOP-10 experts specializing in international arbitration;
– The Best Lawyers 2013 Lawyer of the Year in International Arbitration – Moscow;
– The Best Lawyers 2014-2015 Lawyer of the Year in Investment – Moscow;
– Honorary lawyer of Russia badge by the Guild of Russian lawyers.
Publications A number of articles published in international and Russian journals.
Languages Russian and English