Konstantin Kasyan

Konstantin Kasyan is a special legal consultant qualified to practice law in both Russia and New York. Konstantin focuses on cross-border disputes and has experience in handling litigation and arbitration involving parties from the United States, Europe, Russia/CIS and Asia.

• Engagements

  International Arbitration

  • Representing a Balkan state in an investment arbitration initiated by alleged investors seeking damages based on allegations of expropriation (UNCITRAL).
  • Representing one of the world's largest providers of mobile communications services in a multibillion-dollar shareholder dispute and working together with a New York-based arbitration team in a series of international arbitrations arising from this shareholder dispute (UNCITRAL).
  • Advising a major natural resources company in a case against a Russian state-owned entity regarding contractual rights in an offshore drilling platform (UNCITRAL).
  • Representing an American investment fund in a shareholder dispute regarding its Russian oil and gas assets and working together with a London-based arbitration team in an international arbitration arising from this dispute (LCIA).
  • Advising a major Eastern European retail chain on a potential international arbitration regarding purchase of the number of retail stores from another retail chain (LCIA).
  • Representing one of the world's largest providers of mobile communications services in an arbitration governed by Delaware law with a seat in New York City (UNCITRAL).
  • Representing a leading European producer of metallurgical equipment in an international arbitration arising from a service agreement (ICAC).
  • Representing one of the largest Eastern European engineering companies in a series of arbitration proceedings arising from construction agreements and in a case regarding invalidation of an arbitral award (RSPP).
  • Advising an African construction company on invalidation of an arbitral award (ICAC).

  U.S. and Cross-Border Litigation

  • Representing major financial institutions in connection with several lawsuits brought by investors and trustees of residential mortgage-backed securitizations.
  • Representing a leading Eastern European bank in debt litigation against one of its borrowers in the U.S. courts (D.Conn. and 2d Cir.).
  • Representing one of the largest Eastern European companies in a civil case arising out of the alleged fraud that deprived plaintiffs of their indirect shareholding interest in the chemical plant (N.D.Cal.).  
  • Representing the shareholders of one of the largest Eastern European publishers in a corporate dispute in the Cyprus courts regarding control over its assets.
  • Representing one of the largest Eastern European online stores of the household appliances in a case under Section 1782 initiated to obtain documents from Google (N.D.Cal.).
  • Representing a leading Latin American producer of menadione and its derivatives in a contract dispute in the Italian court.
  • Advising one of the largest Eastern European oil and gas companies on a multibillion settlement regarding oil field development project.

  White-Collar and Cyber Crimes

  • Representing a Russian individual, a former high-ranking employee of a leading state-controlled energy company, in a corruption case brought against him by the U.S. authorities (D.Md.) and advising him on a civil RICO case filed against him by a person involved in the criminal case (D.Md.)
  • Representing one of the leading global software producers in a series of cybercrime litigations in the U.S. courts (E.D.N.Y. and E.D.Va.).
  • Serving as investigative counsel to major global companies, conducting FCPA internal investigations in Europe and Asia.