Valikhan SHAIKENOV

Valikhan Shaikenov is a co-founding partner at ADL Disputes LLP. With 20 years of legal practice, he has worked across various areas as a transactional lawyer, arbitration and litigation counsel, international arbitrator, and law expert.

Valikhan’s expertise lies in civil law, civil procedure, and international commercialand investment arbitration. He has handled cases in diverse sectors such as construction, international trade, energy projects, oil and gas, shareholder disputes, debt restructuring, professional negligence, derivative transactions, insolvency, rehabilitation, tax litigation,and sovereign immunity.

Valikhan serves as a delegate to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, appointedby ICC Ukraine. Additionally, he holds the role of co-chair of the KazBar Arbitrationand Litigation Committee. Valikhan has also been appointed as an arbitrator under the LCIA, SCC, UNCITRAL, and TIAC Rules, serving as a co-arbitrator or sole arbitrator in cases seated in diverse locations such as London, Geneva, Stockholm, Washington, D.C.,and Astana. These cases involved different governing laws, including English, Swiss,New York, Russian, and Uzbek laws, with parties originating from the UK, Switzerland, Spain, the US, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Kazakhstan.

Valikhan is a graduate of the ICC Advanced Arbitration Academy for Eastern Europe.

He has studied and researched in Almaty, Washington, D.C., London, Halle (Germany), and Berlin.

His practice primarily involves representing foreign investors, contractors, and international development banks.

He is dividing his working time between Germany and Kazakhstan.