Kamal Tserakhau — Head of Arbitration & IT Disputes Practice of REVERA law group | REVERA

Kamal's specific experience includes, inter alia, representing clients in domain disputes based on the UDRP, disputes with major social networks over violation of platform standards and the use of personal data, trademark disputes in the EU, UK and USA, disputes on Apple platforms. App Store and Google Play Store.

Of particular interest is dispute resolution in international commercial arbitration, including complex disputes in several jurisdictions, and has experience in domestic and international investment disputes.

Kamal takes a balanced approach that winning a hundred victories in a hundred lawsuits is not the pinnacle of legal art, but achieving a goal without a trial is an art.
 

Membership in associations

  • Member of the IAC Council at the BelCCI for the Promotion of Arbitration Development
  • Arbitrator of the International Arbitration (Arbitration) Court "Chamber of Arbitrators under the Union of Lawyers"
     

Projects

Dispute on a contract for the sale of gaming equipment and software

Commercial dispute in the Ad-hoc court in London under UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules in which REVERA represented a major eastern-European company in the field of electronic interactive games against a Polish company.

Representing a company from Germany

Represented the defendant, a German manufacturer of galvanic equipment for nickel plating and chrome plating of products, against a claim for recovery of penalties for late delivery of equipment to a Belarusian company. The case was won in the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

UK-based software developer

Representing a custom software development company in Vilnius Commercial Court of Arbitration (VCCA) in a case against a FinTech company from the Netherlands. The defendant evaded settling the debt for software development services, and the plaintiff insisted on the recovery of the principal debt amount and interest for the period of default until the resolution is executed. The arbitral award was granted in favour of the client.

Venture Capital Fund

Representing a venture capital fund in the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) in a case against a major US game developer for non-payment of a loan amount and an agreed share of profits from game sales on the Google Play Market and Apple App Store. The arbitral award was granted in favour of the client.

Gambling brand

Representing the client before the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce in an M&A case involving the acquisition of an international business structure. The REVERA team initiated an SCC emergency arbitration and later managed to get a successful settlement on 100% of all claims.

Domain disputes under UDRP

REVERA worked out and implemented the strategy to combat illegal utilization of the client’s TMs in 20+ domain names, revealed and blocked some of the domains, and initiated UDRP procedures against the rest of the domains. The actions of the perpetrators distracted traffic from the client's websites and involved elements of phishing.