Lilia Klochenko Education: holds a law and PhD jur. degrees from International Law Faculty of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations cum laude, is a Fellow at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London), is certified for international arbitration from the ICC Advanced Arbitration Academy; qualified for international mediation advocacy at Regent University (London); certified for Intercultural Mediation and Emotional Intelligence from BRDGES Academy (USA); certified by the International Islamic Center for Conciliation and Arbitration (IICRA) as arbitrator and expert in Islamic law and arbitration (2021); member of the mediation advocacy list at the International Mediation Institute (London). Certified under the UNCTAD Digital Identity for Trade and Development Program (2021), the UNCTAD International Merchandise Trade Statistics 2023 (IMTS) (2023) and under the CIETAC Program for the Application of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Trade of Goods (CISG) (2022). Lilia is Russian qualified attorney at law.
Professional experience: Lilia has unique practical experience in Russian and international
companies since 1991 until 2000; and since 2000 has been leading her private practice as legal
advisor and attorney at law.
Lilia participated as an advisor in projects to enter the Russian market for the biggest insurers
from Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, the USA, the largest specialized insurers for export
credit insurance of France, the Netherlands, Belgium, the largest reinsurers of France and
Germany; in complex legal support of Russian subsidiaries of foreign investors; in international
share sale and purchase transactions of insurance companies, construction industrial enterprises,
IT technology and communication companies, restaurant, industrial and financial holdings,
transport and communication; NPF restructuring; in the reorganization and foundation of
international holdings and(or) structures with the participation of companies in the jurisdictions of
Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Great Britain, the
Netherlands, Cyprus and others; acted as a legal advisor in the settlement of losses of varying
degrees of complexity and scope in the electricity industry, metallurgy, operation of sea vessels,
aviation and aircraft industry, foreign trade operations in various industries; she is a day-to-day
attorney on a wide range of competencies for companies in various fields of activity and industries.
Lilia represented private clients in state arbitrazh courts of all instances, including the Supreme
Court of the Russian Federation, including in corporate disputes, tax disputes, antitrust disputes,
appeal of transactions concluded under the foreign law, loss and(or) damage compensations,
cross-border family disputes with an international element, recognition and enforcement of
international arbitral awards, legal consulting on the arbitral awards enforcement procedure in
Russia, Austria, Germany, France and other jurisdictions.
Lilia is a certified international arbitrator, included into the lists of recommended arbitrators, in
particular, of the Maritime Arbitration Commission at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of
the Russian Federation (also member of the Nomination Committee), Vienna International
Arbitration Centre (VIAC), Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage (ASA), China International Economic
and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), German Institution for Arbitration (DIS);
International Arbitration court “Chamber of Arbitrators at the Union of Lawyers” (Belarus),
International Islamic Centre for Reconciliation and Arbitration (IICRA), Representative Neutral to
serve as Arbitrator, Mediator, Negotiator, Ombudsman at the Federation of Integrated Conflict
Management (FICM), as well as listed mediation advocate at International Institute of Mediators
(IMI).
Lilia strongly focuses her practice on dispute resolution, including international and domestic
arbitrations. Lilia acted both as a party representative (counsel) or arbitrator, as an expert to the
case in dispute resolution conducted under DIS, ICC, LCIA, VIAC, SCC, ICAC, MAC, SIAC,
HKIAC, UNCITRAL and other Rules; and is currently mainly focusing on serving as an arbitrator
in dispute resolution proceedings conducted under the Rules of various arbitral institutions and
pure ad-hoc proceedings as well as a mediator. Lilia has experience in successful mediation
procedures in corporate, labor, family disputes, including in multi-cultural and multi-jurisdictional
cases (in particular, between parties of Russian, German, Austrian, French, Hong Kong,
Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Georgian, Tajik, Uzbek, and other origin).
Lilia is a member of the following professional associations: Chartered Institute of Arbitrators,
Fellow; Russian Arbitration Association (Member of the Board since 2015), American Bar
Association (ABA, member of the Construction Law and Dispute Resolution Sections, Ethic
Committee, IT Technology Committee); International Bar Association (IBA, member of the
Arbitration Committee, Insurance Law Committee, Banking Law Committee, Professional Ethics
Committee); International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), Austrian Arbitration
Association (AUAA), Swiss Chinese Law Association (SCLA), Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage
(ASA), Federation of Integrated Conflict Management (FICM); ArbitralWomen; signatory of the
Equal Representation In Arbitration Initiative ERA Pledge.
Since 2017, as a member of independent NGO observers, Lilia participates in the work of Working
Group II “Arbitration and Conciliation” and Working Group III “Settlement of Disputes between
Investors and States” of UNCITRAL.
Lilia is a native Russian and Ukrainian speaker, and speaks English, German, French and Polish.
Learns Arabic and Chinese (Mandarin).
Research and teaching: Lilia authored and co-authored several monographs, textbooks and
study guides, the author of about 120 scientific and scientific-practical articles, a frequent speaker
at national and international conferences, seminars and roundtables.
Editorial Board Member of Arbitration.ru since its foundation until 2022.
Areas of interest: the origins and development of intercultural communications, history of diplomacy, chess.