Diora Ziyaeva is a partner at Dentons LLP in New York. Her practice focuses on investor-state arbitration, international commercial arbitration, complex commercial litigation and public international law. An experienced international arbitration specialist, Diora has been involved in over 30 significant international arbitration proceedings, both institutional (ICSID, LCIA, ICC, ICDR, SIAC, HKAIC and SCC) and ad hoc, as well as post-arbitral disputes (annulment and enforcement) for both private and public operators. Dual qualified in Uzbekistan and New York, she has 14 years of experience successfully representing sovereign states and corporate clients in arbitration proceedings, successfully handling cases ranging in value from US$10 million to US$20 billion, with experience in energy, oil and gas, mining, telecommunications, construction and aerospace disputes in Latin America, Central Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Oceania and Africa.
Diora also advises parties in international litigation involving proceedings in foreign and domestic courts and has represented parties before the federal and state courts in the United States, including the Supreme Court.
Diora has been recognised as a Rising Star by Law360, as a Future Leader in arbitration by Who’s Who Legal, and as one of the American Bar Association’s On the Rise – Top 40 Young Lawyers. Diora is a Council on Foreign Relations Term member, a certified mediator and arbitrator, and serves as an adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School and at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches investor-state arbitration.
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