Sergey Alekhin is Counsel at Willkie Farr & Gallgher LLP’s Paris office and is admitted to practice in France and Russia. His practice focuses on international commercial arbitration and investment arbitration, with a particular focus on the post-Soviet region. He has acted in proceedings conducted under the rules of the major arbitration center worldwide (ICC, ICSID, LCIA, etc.), as well as in ad hoc proceedings, including under the UNCITRAL Rules.     

Aside from counsel work, Sergey accepts arbitrator appointments and has acted as co-arbitrator and sole arbitrator in ad hoc arbitrations and proceedings administered, inter alia, by the Russian Arbitration Centre (RAC) at the Russian Institute of Modern Arbitration and the Arbitration Center at the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).

Sergey obtained a Master double-degree in Law and Economic Globalization from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, a Master Degree in Law from the Russian Academy of State Service, and a Specialist Degree in International Relations from the Voronezh State University (Russia). He frequently publishes and speaks on international arbitration and related issues. In 2018, 2019 and 2021, Sergey was listed in the Top-10 Young Arbitration Practitioners by the Russian Arbitration Association’s under 40 division. Sergey is recognized as a ‘Future Leader’ by the Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration (2023) and (2024) rankings. In 2022, Sergey was appointed by the Kyrgyz Republic to the ICSID panel of arbitrators.