Volodymyr Yaremko

Education

• FIDIC Certified Adjudicator (included into the President;s List of Approved Dispute Adjudicators), from January 2022;
• Ukrainian School of Political Studies (Council of Europe’s programme), summer-autumn 2021;
• Ukrainian Corporate Governance Academy, autumn 2020 course (joint programme with INSEAD);
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London: Fellow (since 2016) and Trainer under the Approved Faculty List (since 2019);
• Hong Kong International Arbitration Center, Tribunal Secretaries Accreditation Programme, Singapore, 2016;
• Course in German and European Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany), July 2009;
• School of American Law within John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland) and Chicago-Kent College of Law (USA), 2008-2009;
• Master’s Degree in International Law – Ivan Fanko Lviv National University (Ukraine), 2004-2009.

Professional career

• From March 2017 until now – Sayenko Kharenko, Counsel, International Arbitration Practice, Head of Infrastructure Industry Group;
• May 2016 – February 2017 – Spenser & Kauffmann Attorneys at law, Kyiv, Counsel, Head of International Arbitration & Litigation Practice;
• March – May 2013 – Law firm Bristows, London, Secondment at the Commercial Disputes Department;
• October 2009 – April 2016 – Law firm Arzinger, Lviv-Kyiv, Senior Associate, Head of International Litigation & Arbitration Group.

Arbitration experience

• Volodymyr specializes in providing legal support in multi-jurisdictional disputes in national courts and in international commercial and investment arbitration.
• Volodymyr has substantial experience representing clients in arbitration proceedings of various arbitral nstitutions including the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Vienna International Arbitration Center (VIAC), as well as in ad hoc arbitration (e.g. under te UNCITRAL Rules).
• Volodymyr recent experience includes helping Ukraine to win its largest investment arbitration case in the Energy Charter Treaty dispute initiated by the minority shareholders of PJSC Ukrnafta under the SCC Arbitration Rules with amount of claim around USD 6 billion.

Membership in organizations

• American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (Co-Chair of Infrastructure Committee 2021);
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArn, European branch board member in 2016-2017);
• Ukrainian Arbitration Association (board member 2016-2018);
• Ukrainian Bar Association (litigation committee board member 2016-2018, transport committee board member 2018-2019);
• Ukrainian Association of Consulting Engineers (AECU);
• ICC YAF (European Regional Coordinator 2014-2017);
• International Bar Association (IBA);
• European Business Association (EBA).

Publications

1. Green tariff in Ukraine: lessons from Spain and the Czech Republic. Lexology, July 2020
2. Providing Impediments Associated with Performance of the Contractual Obligations during the Spread of COVID-19, Transnational Dispute Management, July 2020
3. Legal Framework for Renewables: Fragile Background or Sound Bedrock?, The Ukrainian Journal of Business Law, December 2016
4. Arbitrability of Corporate and Public Procurement Disputes in Ukraine, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 24 July 2015
5. FIDIC: role of an engineer in constructuin projects, Commercial Property, no. 4 (141-142), May-June 2015 (in Russian)