Aleksei Korochkin

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Professional activity:

From 01.07.2005 to 15.10.2006 - Bailiff of the Economic Court of Vitebsk Region
From 16.10.2006 to 10.01.2009 – Assistant to the Chairman of the Economic Court of Vitebsk Region;
From 12.01.2009 to 27.04.2011 – Chief Specialist of the Main Legal Directorate of the Supreme Economic Court of the Republic of Belarus;
From 28.04.2011 to 31.01.2102 – Assistant to the Chairman of the Supreme Commercial Court of the Republic of Belarus;
From 01.02.2012 to 26.02.2016 – Chief Advisor and Assistant to the Chairman of the Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States;
From 01.11.2021 – up to present – the Chairman of Minsk Regional Specialized Legal Advice Office on Juridical Support to Business.

Admitted:

Minsk Regional Bar Association (2018)

Participation in alternative dispute resolution agencies:

Chairman of the International Arbitration Court “The Chamber of Arbitrators at the Union of Lawyers”
Chairman of the Sports Arbitration Court at the Belarusian Republican Union of Lawyers;
Arbitrator at the LCIA database of arbitrators;
Arbitrator at the VIAC list of practitioners in the field of international arbitration of lawyers and

also included in the Lists of Arbitrators of

the Energy Dispute Resolution Centre;
the Guangzhou Arbitration Commission;
the Shanghai Arbitration Commission;
the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration;
the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation;
the Russian Arbitration Center;
Arbitrator at the AITC (Association of Information Technology Companies) Court of Arbitration;
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Mediation and Law training institution;
Mediator; Certificate of Mediator No. 211, issued by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus, dated 22 December 2015.

Social activities:

Belarus National Correspondent at UNCITRAL, member of the CLOUT Steering Committee;
Member of the Group of experts in the field of law under the Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus;
Member of the Central Council of the Belarusian Republican Union of Lawyers;
Member of the Academic Council of the Belarusian Association of International Law and Arbitration (BILA);
Member of the working groups for the development of draft amendments and additions to the Commercial Procedure Code of the Republic of Belarus, the draft Sports Code of the Republic of Belarus, the draft Law on the Arbitration Courts, the Law on Commercial Secrets, and the Law on Physical Culture and Sports.
In 2015, awarded a Themis (the highest legal award) in the Arbitration and Mediation nomination.

Expert activity:

Prepared expert opinions on the application of Belarusian law for submission in cases considered in:

the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus;

the High Court of Justice Business and Property Courts of England and Wales (London, UK);

the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (Washington, USA);

the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (Austria);

the Tribunal Arbitral de Barcelona (Spain).

Working languages:

Russian, Belarusian – native speaker;

English – C1;

Français – B1.

Representative legal matters:

Education, scientific and academic activities:

Representative legal matters:

- Represented the interests of a Belarusian company in a case concerning the protection of assets from unlawful foreclosure worth more than 7 million US dollars;
- Represented the interests of a large manufacturer of alcoholic beverages in a case of appealing an administrative fine in the amount of the equivalent of more than 10 million US dollars;
- Represented the interests of a Russian company in the case of recognition and enforcement in the territory of the Republic of Belarus of a foreign court decision in the amount of more than 130 million Russian rubles;
- Represented the interests of a Belarusian construction company in the case of collecting more than 1 million US dollars;
- Represented the interests of one of the leaders of the Belarusian IT sector in the case of recovering $ 1.3 million;
- Represented the interests of a Baltic investor in the case of recovering non-returning investments;
- Represented the interests of a major Swiss carrier in a case of loss of goods worth about 1 million US dollars;
- Represented Baltic investor in the procedure of recognition and enforcement of Danish state court decision;
- Represented Belarusian company in VIAC in the case of recovering debts and losses;
- Represented a large manufacturing enterprise in the preparation of objections to claim filed in the Swiss Arbitration Center (SAC);
- Represented Belarussian sportsman in the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS);
- Acted as an arbitrator in cases considered by the International Center for Dispute Resolution at the Economic Court of the CIS, the Sports Arbitration Court at the Belarusian Republican Union of Lawyers, the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation;
- Advised Belarusian business entities on issues of circumventing sanctions measures, exclusion from sanctions lists, participation in anti-dumping investigations;
- Advised and represented clients in courts on disputes related to violations of the procedure for public procurement, procurement in construction and procurement at their own expense. Has extensive experience in conducting legal due diligence of completed procurement procedures;
- Represented foreign company in relations with the antimonopoly and other competent authorities on issues of exclusion from the list of legal entities whose participants are prohibited from alienating their shares (shares) in the authorized funds of such legal entities.

Education, scientific and academic activities:

In 2005, graduated with honors from the Department of Law of the Polotsk State University.
In 2007, defended the Master's thesis on the topic of “Public roots of economic legal proceedings in international private law relations” and was awarded the academic degree of Master of Law.
- 2007 – completed advanced training courses at the Institute of Retraining and Advanced Training of Judges, Prosecutors, Courts and Judicial Agencies of the Belarusian State University (2007);
- 2010 – completed courses in "Administrative Discretion and the Rule of Law" (MIB School of Management (Trieste, Italy, 2010);
In 2012, defended the PhD thesis on the topic of “The application of the provisions of private international law in economic proceedings: certain aspects” and was awarded the PhD degree.
In 2015, was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor under the specialty of Law.
Authored more than 150 applied science works on the issues of commercial law and its procedures, international private law, the law concerning the World Trade Organization, and sports law, which were published in Belarusian and foreign publications.
From 2007 to 2009 – Lecturer of the Department of Civil Law and Civil Procedure of the Law Division of the educational institution Vitebsk State University named after P. M. Masherov;
From 2010 to 2022 – Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Associate Professor of the Belarusian State University. Courses taught: Basics of Alternative Dispute Resolution; Sports Law; World Trade Organization Law; Mediation Procedures; Theory and Practice of Liaising and Mediation in the Economic Sphere, International Commercial Arbitration, International Investment Law.
- From 2021 up to 2023 - Comparative and International Dispute Resolution, LLM, Queen Mary University of London (LL.M with Merits, defended thesis «Overcoming the Host State’s lack of consent by application of MFN clause in ICSID arbitration: what Belarus shall take into account by drafting and applying their BITs» ).