Aliaksandr Struzhko

Senior Associate
Aliaksandr Struzhko

Aliaksandr specializes in supporting projects in international arbitration, dispute resolution and intellectual property.

He has been involved in supporting projects in arbitrations under the rules of the leading arbitration institutions such as ICC, SIAC, CIETAC, ICAC at the RF CCI, SCC, UNCITRAL, VIAC, VCCA and IAC at the BelCCI. Aliaksandr has gained his main arbitration and litigation experience in contractual disputes of the sale of goods, IT technologies and services, construction, real estate and M&A transactions. 

He also participates in projects on foreign IP matters, including trademarks, copyright and domain names under foreign law such as EU, US and UK. He also provides legal support on the matters of DMCA complaints and responses, domain disputes under UDRP (WIPO) rules and platform disputes (Google Play, App Store, Meta, YouTube, etc.).

Main facts about the lawyer

  • 15+ major projects in international arbitration (including arbitration under ICC, SIAC, SCC, CIETAC, ICAC at the RF CCI, UNCITRAL, VIAC, VCCA and IAC at the BelCCI) for a total amount of over 200 million EUR.
  • 20+ high profile projects in the field of intellectual property and protection of rights to domain names, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets and business reputation under national and international laws of such jurisdictions as EU, USA, UK and CIS countries.
  • Participant of 4 most prestigious international competitions in arbitration, international sale of goods and intellectual property.

Education & training

  • Belarusian State University, Department of Law 
  • World Intellectual Property Organization, copyright course
  • Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Master’s Degree: Digital Law

Membership in associations and unions

  • MAA (Moot Alumni Association)
  • DIS-40
  • Young ICCA
  • РАА-25
  • Elsa

Hobbies

  • Alexander is fond of traveling, reading (especially detective stories, history and biography books), sports

Projects

Enforcement of ICC Arbitration Award in the High Court of Ireland
Representing a Belarusian legal entity (creditor) in proceedings before the High Court of Ireland for recognition and enforcement of an ICC arbitration award against an Irish counterparty concerning debt recovery of EUR 1 million. The complexity of the case was related to sanctions risks that could lead to freezing of funds on European accounts, as well as the limited efficiency of alternative recovery mechanisms such as the 21-day letter or bankruptcy proceedings.
Supporting a dispute involving commodity trade in CIETAC
Consulting for a CIETAC international arbitration proceeding involving trading transactions by a large dealer/manufacturer of industrial machinery.
Supporting a dispute involving supply of goods in the IAC at the BelCCI
Consulting for an international arbitration proceeding in the IAC at the BelCCI under a product supply contract between a Lithuanian and a Belarusian entities.
Supporting a platform dispute in the IAC under the Belarusian CCI
Consulting for an international arbitration proceeding in the IAC under the Belarusian CCI involving a dispute under a SaaS contract regulated by English law.
Supporting a domain dispute in WIPO
Monitoring a proceeding involving protection of rights to a domain name from claims lodged by trademark owner in the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center.
Consulting a major pharmaceutical company on protecting a trademark
Preparing a legal opinion on the violation of exclusive rights to trademark and possibility of similarity of trademarks in the sphere of pharmaceutical products.
Consulting on protecting a trademark of a mobile app developer company
Consulting on protecting a brand trademark used in the sphere of mobile apps and online games.
AI legal compliance: webinars for the employees
REVERA Arbitration & IT Disputes team assisted group with offices across the EU, CIS, and other jurisdictions approached REVERA to establish compliant internal processes with the use of AI. The client required guidance on regulatory requirements across various territories for AI content creation and implementation in HR, PR, and other departments, as well REVERA law group also to provide the company with a comprehensive overview of current AI regulation across multiple jurisdictions, conduct detailed analysis of regulatory requirements for various business activities within the group, and separately examine copyright issues for AI-generated content including code, graphics, characters, text materials, promotional videos, and other outputs.

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