Ivan Kasynyuk

Practice Areas

Arbitration GAFTA, FOSFA, LMAA, LCIA, ICAC, ICC;

Agribusiness & International Trade;

International Commercial Arbitration;

International Investment Arbitration;

Sport Arbitration

Professional Memberships

Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators;

Member of the International Bar Association;

Arbitrator of International Commercial Arbitration Court at Ukrainian CCI;

Arbitrator of the Ukrainian Arbitration Association;

Arbitration Practitioner of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC);

Member of the Board of the Committee on International trade law of the Ukrainian Bar Association;

Member of the Kiev City Bar Association;

Member of the Ukrainian National Bar Association;

Founding member of GAFTA Black Sea Region Trade Committee

Personal

Ivan specializes in consulting in the area of international trade and representing clients’ interests in international commercial arbitrations of GAFTA, FOSFA and LMAA.

Ivan, as a member of the working group, took part in the drafting the new unique GAFTA standard proforma trade contract No.78UA for Ukraine, which entered into force on 1st September 2019 and aimed at facilitating trade in the Black Sea region. It is the first GAFTA contract ever made for Ukraine. Ivan is also a founding member of GAFTA Black Sea Region Trade Committee.

Mr. Kasynyuk is the first Central and Eastern European lawyer, along with other partners, to speak at GAFTA training and educational courses dealing with international trade issues. Moreover, Ivan has delivered more than 30 training sessions to the biggest global and national companies on the issues of international trade and alternative dispute resolution.

Education:

Master of Laws (with honors), 2005. Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

Queen Mary University of London, Great Britain. Comparative International Commercial Arbitration, 2017-2019

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators: Practice and Procedure of International Arbitration Assessment (Kyiv, May-July 2019)

Admitted to the Bar since 2012

Eberhard Karl University (Tuebingen, Germany), training courses 2001, 2002