Vladimir Khvalei is a partner in the Moscow office of Baker & McKenzie and heads the firm’s CIS Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Mr. Khvalei has wide experience participating in litigation in Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine, as well as in international arbitration cases in accordance with the arbitration rules of the ICAC, UNCITRAL, ICC, SCC, LCIA and other arbitration institutions, both as a party counsel and arbitrator.

Mr. Khvalei is Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and a member of the London Court of International Arbitration. Mr Khvalei is Chairman of the Russian Arbitration Association and Chairman of the Arbitration Commission of the Russian National Committee of the ICC. Vladimir serves as a Member of the Board of the International Arbitration Court at the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Member of the Board of the Ukrainian Arbitration Association, Member of the Polish Arbitration Association and Austrian Arbitration Association. Vladimir is a former Vice-Chair of the IBA Arbitration Committee (2013-2014). Vladimir is included on the lists of arbitrators of arbitration institutions in Austria, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, UAE, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, US and Israel. Mr. Khvalei is included on the list of tutors, examiners and assessors of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Mr. Khvalei graduated with a degree in law from the Belarusian State University in Minsk in 1992.

Mr. Khvalei speaks Russian, English, Belarusian and Polish.