Ivan Ishchenko
Associate
Since his student years, Ivan has built his career at law firms ranked in the top bands of the leading Russian legal directory, Pravo-300. He currently has expertise across several areas of law: civil, international private, administrative, and maritime law. In maritime law, Ivan’s practice focuses on disputes relating to the adjustment and allocation of general average losses, securing the release of vessels from arrest, and recovering damages in tort arising from ship collisions.
Tel+7 (812) 640 07 98
Emailivan.ishchenko@navicus.law
Key Practice Areas
Civil Law
Compliance, debt recovery, claims for specific performance, transaction challenges, proprietary recovery claims, damages claims, disputes arising from contracts for work, legal due diligence and counterparty assessments, and corporate governance support.
Maritime Law
Arresting vessels, providing legal support for matters involving sunken property and other maritime incidents, pursuing demurrage claims.
Private International Law
Representing clients in cross-border disputes involving assets located abroad, torts committed in foreign jurisdictions, and disputes governed by foreign law (including English, Norwegian and Greek law), as well as advising on sanctions compliance.
Representative Experience
- Acted for a client in a works and services contract performance dispute valued at over ₽1.5 billion.
- Acted as part of the NAVICUS.LAW team that successfully established the exclusive jurisdiction of Russian commercial courts over a dispute involving a foreign client and a Russian company, notwithstanding an arbitration agreement and the Russian company’s insistence that the dispute be resolved abroad.
- Assisted in handling a DIAC arbitration involving claims exceeding $13 million.
- Participated in negotiations with the owners of a terminal damaged by a vessel’s allision, successfully preventing the vessel’s arrest.
- Secured the lifting of an arrest on a vessel in proceedings against the shipowner involving a $10 million claim.
- Repeatedly represented shipowners before customs authorities in cases involving the non-declaration of goods imported into the EAEU single economic space.
- Developed the structure and documentation, and advised on a transaction to increase a company’s share capital by more than ₽200 million.
- Represented individuals and legal entities before the civil and economic judicial chambers of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
Additional Information
- Graduated from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University.
- Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Civil and Commercial Law at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) in St. Petersburg.
NAVICUS.LAW
1-A Orlovskaya street, office 31-H,
St. Petersburg, 191124, Russia
Tel.: +7 (495) 640 07 98 (Moscow)
Tel.: +7 (812) 640 07 98 (St. Petersburg)
Email: navicus@navicus.law
