Danylo Volkovetskyi is a Counsel at AMV Law Offices, specialising in dispute resolution. He has substantial experience representing clients in post-M&A and shareholders’ disputes, particularly in complex, high-profile cross-border litigation. Danylo also advises and represents clients in both commercial and investment arbitration proceedings under a variety of institutional rules.
Danylo is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Ukrainian Arbitration Association, and the Ukrainian Bar Association.
Languages
English, Ukrainian, German, Russian
Education
- 2007 – 2013: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of International Relations, Faculty of Law, Master’s Degree in International Law
Recognition
- Leading associate for Dispute Resolution (The Legal 500)
- Associates to Watch for Dispute Resolution: International (Chambers Global)
Selected experience
Danylo’s experience includes advising / representing:
- three defense companies in arbitration proceedings arising out of military procurement contracts, conducted under ICAC, ICC, and LCIA rules.
- THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA in proceedings before the Kyiv Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court related to recognition and enforcement of an arbitral award rendered in the investment arbitration case Energoalians TOB v. Republic of Moldova
- MAJORITY SHAREHOLDERS OF NEMIROFF VODKA LIMITED on the appointment by court of a receiver in the BVI over shares of minority shareholders and conducting the sale of these shares at a public auction to satisfy the debt owed by minority shareholders to majority shareholders and on the LCIA arbitration on a claim initiated by minority shareholders for specific performance of their allegedly violated right of first refusal and transfer of part of majority shareholders’ shares to minority shareholders for the latter to acquire a blocking vote stake in the company
- GROUP OF BVI COMPANIES, as the respondents, in the LCIA arbitration in connection with a post-M&A dispute for alleged breach of obligations under the share purchase agreement in a dispute related to the sale of one of the largest agro holdings in Ukraine. The matter involved a set of criminal proceedings initiated against the client in Cyprus, Switzerland, and Ukraine