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Anna Crevon-Tarassova

Partner, Global Co-Head of Dentons’ International Arbitration Group

Anna Crevon-Tarassova

Partner, Global Co-Head of Dentons’ International Arbitration Group

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Anna Crevon-Tarassova is a Partner in Dentons' Paris office and Global Co-Head of Dentons’ International Arbitration Group.

She advises corporate clients, States and State-owned entities on issues of international law, including in investor-State and commercial arbitration proceedings.

For over 20 years, Anna has been acting as counsel in international arbitration proceedings under the auspices of ICSID, LCIA, ICC, and SCC, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations. These matters include some of the landmark cases of the past decade and relate to complex, high-value, multi-jurisdictional disputes involving a wide range of applicable laws and sectors, such as oil & gas, mining, infrastructure, construction, intellectual property and pharmaceuticals.

Her work also includes advising clients on the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, state immunity issues, and the interpretation and implementation of international treaties and customary international law.

Anna also serves as an arbitrator and has been appointed as sole arbitrator or co-arbitrator in ICC, SCC, and ad hoc proceedings.

Experience

European investors: Representing in an ICSID arbitration against Ukraine concerning investments in the gas sector (ICSID Case No. ARB/21/15).
Luxury hotel: Representing the client (Employer) in a construction arbitration filed against the Contractor in relation to delay and defective works.
Energy company: Representing the client (Employer) in an ICC arbitration filed against it by an Italian Contractor in relation to the construction of a multicomplex business center in Eastern Europe.
Arbitrator: Co-arbitrator in an SCC arbitration concerning a shareholders’ agreement.
National oil company of a Latin American State: Advising and representing the client in several arbitration and litigation proceedings pending in multiple jurisdictions.
Government (South America): Advising on a broad range of issues related to the interpretation and implementation of international treaties and customary international law on state responsibility, extraterritorial sanctions, trade disputes, and state immunity.
Government (Asia): Advising on a broad range of issues related to the interpretation and implementation of international treaties and customary international law on state responsibility and immunity.
Government: Advising on the State’s membership before the IMF and obligations under the IMF Articles of Agreement.
Investors: Representing in an ICSID arbitration against Romania brought under a bilateral investment treaty (ICSID Case No. ARB/14/29).
Arbitrator: Sole arbitrator in an ICC arbitration involving a transfer of know-how.
European company and its Ukrainian subsidiary: Representing in an SCC arbitration with a Ukrainian state entity concerning investments in the gas sector in Ukraine.
Korean company: Advising in an ICC arbitration against a Middle Eastern state-owned company regarding a tax dispute in an EPC project for a chemical plant.
Arbitrator: Sole arbitrator in an ICC arbitration involving a construction project in Bulgaria.
PAO Gazprom: Representing in a series of SCC arbitrations with Lithuania concerning gas supply to that State.
Government: Advising in a UNCITRAL arbitration brought by an Asian company under a bilateral investment treaty in a dispute over plain packaging tobacco legislation.
People’s Republic of China: Representing in the first ICSID arbitration of any significance brought against it under a bilateral investment treaty (ICSID Case No. ARB/14/25). The case was dismissed under ICSID Arbitration Rule 41(5), resulting in one of the fastest awards in ICSID history.
Arbitrator: Co-arbitrator appointed on behalf of the Republic of Uzbekistan in a UNCITRAL arbitration brought against one of its ministries.
Italian energy company and its Russian subsidiary: Representing in a series of ICC arbitrations concerning a power plant construction project in Russia.
Japanese pharmaceutical company: Represented in an ICC arbitration concerning royalty payments under a worldwide patent license agreement.
UAE company: Representing in an ICC arbitration against Burkina Faso concerning a mining project.
Les Laboratoires Servier: Representing in a PCA-administered arbitration against Poland brought under a bilateral investment treaty and concerning certain marketing authorizations.
French construction company: Representing in an ICC arbitration relating to a construction project in Russia.
The majority shareholders of Yukos Oil Company: Acting in a series of PCA-administered arbitrations brought under the Energy Charter Treaty against the Russian Federation.
American investor: Representing in an ICSID annulment proceeding resulting from a bilateral investment treaty arbitration against the Democratic Republic of Congo (ICSID Case ARB/99/7).

Recognition

Anna is regularly recommended by independent publications based on client and peer feedback.

Who’s Who Legal 2024 - Arbitration: Anna is “a strategic thinker and has great command of the law”; “she is creative and rigorous in her approach”; “clients can always rely on the quality of her work”.

Insights

“Taxation-Related Investor-State Dispute Settlement,” GAR Guide to Energy Arbitrations, 6th edition, 2024
“VCLT Article 33: Interpretation of Treaties Authenticated in Two or More Languages,” The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in Investor-State Disputes: History, Evolution and Future "(eds. E. Shirlow and K. Gore), 2022
“Taxation-Related Investor-State Dispute Settlement,” GAR Guide to Energy Arbitrations, 5th edition, 2022