Kamal Tserakhau

Head of Arbitration & IT Disputes Practice
Kamal Tserakhau

Kamal’s specific experience includes, inter alia, representing clients in domain disputes based on the UDRP, disputes with major social networks over violation of platform standards and the use of personal data, trademark disputes in the EU, UK and USA, disputes on Apple platforms. App Store and Google Play Store.

Of particular interest is dispute resolution in international commercial arbitration, including complex disputes in several jurisdictions, and has experience in domestic and international investment disputes.

Kamal takes a balanced approach that winning a hundred victories in a hundred lawsuits is not the pinnacle of legal art, but achieving a goal without a trial is an art.

Membership in associations

  • Member of the IAC Council at the BelCCI for the Promotion of Arbitration Development
  • Arbitrator of the International Arbitration (Arbitration) Court “Chamber of Arbitrators under the Union of Lawyers”

Education & training

  • Jagiellonian University, program “Intellectual Property and New Technologies” (Master’s programme)
  • Belarusian State University, Law Department 
  • Belarusian State University, Law Department, program “Legal regulation of foreign economic activity” (Master of Law)
  • Belarusian State University, Law Department (postgraduate studies)
  • BELHARD Academy («Business Analysis in Software Development»)
  • Business and Management Institute under the Belarusian State University, “Competition-Based Management of Bulk Purchases” course 
  • “Mediation and Law” centre under the Union of Lawyers of the Republic of Belarus, “Mediation” courses (basic and advanced)
  • World Intellectual Property Organization, Belarus Summer School on intellectual property

Hobby

  • Kamal plays airsoft, billiards, board games. He is interested in literature, archery and classical dancing.

Projects

Advising an international industrial group of companies in the resolution of cross-border disputes exceeding EUR 3 million
Case: support in cross-border commercial disputes in the field of industrial equipment supply. REVERA’s lawyers advised the Russian subsidiary of an international industrial group whose parent company is headquartered in Sweden in connection with complex cross-border commercial disputes.
Recognition and Enforcement of a Foreign Court Judgment for a Leading Uzbek Bank
REVERA successfully secured the recognition and enforcement of the foreign court judgment in Belarus. The client’s rights were effectively protected, and cross-border risks were minimised.
International Construction Arbitration: Protecting the Client’s Interests in an Amount Exceeding EUR 30 Million
REVERA provided comprehensive legal support to a major company implementing turnkey projects in the mining and metallurgical as well as mining industries in the CIS and beyond, within the framework of a dispute before the International Arbitration Court at the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IAC at the BCCI) against a major customer, a resident of Uzbekistan. A project with an implementation value exceeding EUR 300 million became the subject of a dispute in an amount exceeding EUR 30 million. The case was considered under Uzbek law, while the seat of arbitration was Minsk, which immediately created a number of cross-border and conflict-of-laws challenges.
Cross-Border Debt Collection: Enforcing an ICC Award in Ireland for a Belarusian Creditor
The REVERA team successfully assisted a Belarusian legal entity in recovering a debt from a counterparty registered in Ireland, notwithstanding the restrictions imposed under the current sanctions regime against Belarus.
Domain dispute in WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center under UDRP Policy
Сonsulting foreign IT company in its dispute in WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center under the UDRP Policy procedure involving transfer of a domain name on the motion of foreign owners of trademarks.
Defending the interests of a client at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre
REVERA defended the interests of a Belarusian company at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) in a litigation with the major Malaysian supplier. To save the client's time and budget the dispute was resolved under the accelerated procedure with one arbitrator instead of three. Despite the absence of an applicable law clause in the contract between the parties, it was proved that the dispute should be considered under the law of the Republic of Belarus and the Vienna Convention.
Winning a case in the IAC at the BelCCI for USD 4.5 million
We successfully assisted in a dispute on the side of a Belarusian company for recovery of an advance payment from a Russian counterparty under an agricultural products supply contract in the equivalent of USD 4.5 million. REVERA team justified the competence of the IAC at the BelCCI to handle the dispute and applied the rules of interpretation of contractual clauses under Belarusian law.
Protecting client’s interests in ICAC
Advocacy for client in the ICAC at the Russian CCI against lawsuit from a Russian company seeking to collect monetary assets under the Guarantee governed by English law.
Investment arbitration dispute (treaty of the EAEU)
Consulting and representing as a local counsel in an investment arbitration dispute under ICSID Additional facility rules and connected disputes.
Protecting client in a Californian court
We were involved in two disputes in the District Court of the Northern District of California, protecting a Belarusian computer games developer from motions by a French and a Turkish companies claiming violation of copyright on a mobile phone game, unlawful use of means of individualisation and unfair competition.
Arbitration proceeding in the Chinese International Economic and Commercial Arbitration Committee
Legal support of a dispute of a Belarusian company with a Russian counterparty under an international sales contract in an arbitration proceeding under the Chinese International Economic and Trade Arbitration Committee (CIETAC).
UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules
Consulting as a local counsel in an investment arbitration dispute under UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.
Defending a client in IAC under the BelCCI
Representation of a major Uzbek manufacturer in the IAC under the Belarusian CCI in a dispute with a Belarusian state company resulting from an international purchase agreement.
Stopping the Deregistration of a Polish Company from the National Court Register (KRS)
REVERA was approached by a Cyprus-based company with what initially appeared to be a standard request: to recover a debt from a Polish counterparty. The client stated that the debtor remained in regular contact, assuring that payment would be made “any day now” and repeatedly asking for more time. Before initiating dispute proceedings, we conducted […]
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