Valikhan Shaikenov, with over 20 years of legal experience, focuses on civil law, civil litigation, and international arbitration. He has handled cases in sectors such as construction, international trade, energy, oil and gas, shareholder disputes, debt restructuring, professional negligence, insolvency, tax litigation, and sovereign immunity.
He has represented clients in arbitrations under SCC, LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL, GAFTA, and Kazakhstan rules, and served as arbitrator in disputes seated in London, Geneva, Stockholm, Washington, D.C., and Astana.
These disputes involved English, Swiss, New York, Russian, Uzbek, and Kazakh laws as contract governing law. He regularly appears as expert in foreign courts and before international arbitration tribunals.
His practice primarily involves representing foreign investors, contractors, and international development banks.
