OKSANA TYUSINA
Senior associate
Oksana Tyusina specializes in domestic litigation and international arbitration, including disputes related to insolvency (bankruptcy), restructuring and asset tracing, contractual and corporate disputes.
She is advising clients on administrative and criminal law issues, as well as on anti-corruption compliance and internal investigations.

  • EDUCATION
Master of Laws degree (with honors), Master's program "Private International Law", National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2020
Bachelor of Law degree, National Research University Higher School of Economics (GPA 9.3), 2018
LANGUAGES
  • Russian, English.
projects
  • Represented a major Lebanese Group mainly engaged in the worldwide steel manufacturing, trade and logistics in disputes concerning recovery of debt, costs and interest under a supply contract and an independent guarantee under the LCIA Rules;
  • Represented Gazprom Export in a Stockholm seated ad hoc arbitration initiated against it by the Finnish buyer, Gasum Oy. The arbitration tribunal ordered Gasum to pay Gazprom Export a debt of over EUR 300 million and recognized that the client should be exempted from liability due to force majeure circumstances;
  • Represented a Swedish engineering group in a construction dispute under the Arbitration Rules of the ICAC at the CCI of the Russian Federation;
  • Represented major Turkish companies in ICC arbitration proceedings initiated under the provisions of FIDIC construction contracts against their customer;
  • Represented an international agrochemical company in a dispute over recovery of damages for failure to comply with the terms of a distribution agreement. The dispute was considered under the ICC Arbitration Rules and concerned complex legal issues of applicable substantive law, quality of goods, obligations to repurchase minimum quantities of goods, etc;
  • Represented a leading national gas supplier in an ad hoc UNCITRAL arbitration on the price revision;
  •  Represented a leading national gas supplier in an ad hoc UNCITRAL arbitration on the recovery of interest accrued on the debt for delivered gas;
  • Represented one of the world's leading commodities traders in disputes with its suppliers related to the improper quality of the oil supplied under Russian, Singapore and English law;
  • Represented a major Russian natural gas supplier in a price revision arbitration initiated against the client by its customer under the SCC Rules;
  •  Represented a major Russian natural gas supplier in a dispute with its buyer over the alleged under-delivery under supply contracts (proceedings under the SCC Rules);
  • Represented an international traffic management company in a dispute over recovery of advance payments from a counterparty (proceedings under the Arbitration Rules of the ICAC at the CCI of the Russian Federation);
  •  Represented an Italian construction company in a dispute initiated against the client by its subcontractor for debt recovery under the Arbitration Rules of the ICAC at the CCI of the Russian Federation;
  • Advised clients on numerous issues related to arbitration proceedings under the LCIA Rules, the ICC Rules and the Arbitration Rules of the ICAC at the CCI of the Russian Federation;
  • Advised clients on matters relating to enforcement and challenge of arbitral awards.
Corporate Responsibility
  • Member of the senior expert committee of VIII Russian Arbitration Association Arbitration Contest.
  • Represented client on pro bono basis in the dispute with Russian healthcare institutions regarding provision of the client’s daughter with SMA (spinal muscular atrophy).
  • Assisted the non-profit organisation, Global Rights for Women (GRW), with a comprehensive manual that sets out the legal framework on the prevention of domestic violence and the protection of its victims.
  • Coach of the Higher School of Economics team for the Fletcher International Insolvency Law Moot.
  • Coach of the Higher School of Economics team participated in Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court.
  • Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court (Winning team, Award for the best written memorial at the Willem C. Vis East Moot).

Publications

  • Bankruptcy tourism in Russia and China: a comparative legal analysis. Arbitration.ru. 2019. (co-authored)
  • Collection of practical issues important to small practitioners. INSOL International. 2020. (co-authored)
  • Doing Business in Russia (Baker McKenzie). 2018-2022.