Olga Obsekova

Attorney at the Central District Legal Consulting Office No. 2 of the Minsk City Bar Association

Areas of practice:

  • Dispute Resolution
  • Insolvency
  • Real Estate & Construction
Olga Obsekova

IN PRACTICE SINCE 1984

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

  • work experience: public notary, legal advisor and manager of legal departments in large national companies; long-time private practice of law; over 300 court victories; over 100 disputes regulated extrajudicially
  • representing clients in Belarusian courts of all levels, in courts of the Russian Federation, in international commercial courts of arbitration, in enforcement agencies
  • successful litigation with public property agencies on voidance of the outcomes of a bidding procedure for sale of real estate and on land leasehold re-assignment in the interests of a private gas station chain
  • successful litigation with a developer on termination of a co-investment agreement on a property for more than USD 7 mln
  • successful litigation with a realtor on payment for services related to a property valued at more than USD 15 mln
  • successful litigations with the Ministry of Finance on voidance of the latter’s executive documents for more than USD 200,000
  • successful litigation with a Belarusian state-run company on payment for advertising services (television, radio, outdoor advertising) for more than USD 100,000
  • regulating a dispute on subsidiary liability in the course of bankruptcy of a leasing company for USD 270,000
  • extrajudicial regulation of a corporate dispute on share buyback for more than USD 300,000
  • extrajudicial regulation of a dispute on early termination of an agreement on lease of a trading facility with an area of 1,500 sqm

Other experience:

  •  Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the «Jurist Magazine Library. Law and Business», columnist on Legislation, Court Practice in the Jurist magazine, production editor of the Arbitration Practice supplement in Grevtsov Law Information Agency, 2007-2014
  • Mediator, Center for Mediation and Negotiations (Minsk)
  • Producer, «Orange» cartoon about mediation
  • Arbitrator, ICCLEX Mercatoria Contest (Minsk), 2015

EDUCATION:

  • Faculty of Law, Belarusian State University;
  • Center for Mediation and Negotiations, Mediation Courses (basic and advanced);
  • Russian and Ukrainian Center for International Family Mediation (RUCIM), training on Family Mediation in Action;
  • Interregional Social Center for Judicial and Legal Reform, Russian Federation, training program on Rehabilitative Mediation;
  • Training for practicing lawyers «Case Administration in an International Commercial Court of Arbitration», 2012.

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