Anna Tkachova

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Anna Tkachova

Counsel

practice areas

International Arbitration and Cross-Border Litigation

Anna's practice focuses on complex cross-border business litigations and international arbitration, including commercial and investor-state disputes.

Anna has experience of arbitrations under LCIA, ICSID, ICC and UNCITRAL Rules. She has also assisted in the cross-border litigation before the English High Court and the Appellate Court, and in other foreign proceedings including in the US, Israel, Cyprus, Switzerland and Germany. Anna has also represented interests of the Ukrainian government and state-owned companies in investor-state arbitrations.

Anna has more than ten years of professional experience, including almost four years in the London office of the world top ranked dispute resolution powerhouse.

Education:

Institute of International Relations, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, Master’s Degree, 2014
Admitted to the bar in Ukraine, 2019
Admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, 2020 (non-practicing status)

Languages:

English, Ukrainian, Russian

Membership and activities:

Ukrainian Bar Association
Ukrainian Arbitration Association

Representative experience:

Anna has advised and represented among others:

JSC Oschadbank in a landmark bilateral investment treaty arbitration claim against the Russian Federation arising out of the loss of the bank's assets and investments in Crimea following the illegal annexation of that territory. Asters was acting as the local Ukrainian counsel in this matter.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP, lead counsel acting for the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, in connection with its landmark dispute in the High Court of Justice in London commenced by the Trustee, The Law Debenture Trust Corporation, against Ukraine regarding its alleged debt under 3 billion USD bonds purportedly issued by Ukraine in 2013 and 100% taken up by the Russian Federation, and assisting in Ukraine's appeal against the summary judgment of the High Court in these proceedings. Asters is acting as the local Ukrainian counsel in this matter.
JSC CB "PrivatBank" at a quantum stage of a bilateral investment treaty arbitration claim against the Russian Federation with respect to the bank's investments in Crimea. Asters is acting as the local Ukrainian counsel in this matter.