Gennady Yurin

Gennady Yurin is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution team in Dubai. His primary practice area is Arbitration and Mediation, and he works on international and high-risk sanction-related disputes mainly in the field of banking, finance and aviation.

Prior to joining Al Tamimi & Company, he worked at a Magic Circle law firm in the DIFC, Dubai and in Moscow, Russia.

He is a Russian-qualified advocate handling complex and high-value dispute resolution projects involving parties from the CIS countries. He has extensive experience representing clients in various disputes focusing on cross-border litigation and commercial arbitration, and has participated in a wide range of disputes and advised clients on various matters of Russian law. He also has notable experience handling insolvency proceedings.

He works on disputes at all stages, from formulating the strategy and supervising its implementation until enforcement of a judgment or award, including against sanction-affected assets.

His recent experience includes advising a UAE state-owned investment company on cross-border litigation in Sweden, England and Georgia; acting for a major US investment bank as lender, facility and security agent under a USD 73 million syndicated loan agreement in LCIA arbitration against a Cypriot company as borrower and several insolvency cases against Russian oil companies as guarantors; and acting for a German bank in sanction-triggered court cases involving various Russian banks with an overall value of claims exceeding EUR 0.5 billion.

He has also acted for a German bank in a EUR 93 million dispute with a Russian LNG company over a bank guarantee, involving various Russian court proceedings, ICC arbitration and anti-suit injunction proceedings before the High Court of England and Wales; acted as a senior member of the Russian law expert team in multibillion High Court litigation initiated by an international leasing company against several international insurers and reinsurers, advising on Russian law including insurance, aviation, sanctions and customs regulations; and acted for a European jewellery company in ICC arbitration against a Russian state-owned bank, advising on enforcement of the award against frozen assets in Europe.

Other matters include acting for a major Austrian bank and its Russian subsidiary, as well as a major Italian bank as facility agent and co-lenders, under a USD 100 million syndicated loan agreement in the bankruptcy proceedings of the borrower's guarantor, a large dairy company; acting for several aircraft lessors as insolvency creditors with claims amounting to USD 600 million in the bankruptcy proceedings of Russia's biggest private airline; and acting for a Polish bank as a creditor in several insolvency proceedings of borrowers, tracing and managing debtors' assets, arranging for marketing the insolvency estates in cooperation with bankruptcy trustees, and pursuing claims against borrowers' management and UBOs.

He holds a Law Degree from the National Research University Higher School of Economics. He was admitted as an Advocate in Russia in 2016 and is an associated member of CIArb (2020). He speaks English and Russian.