Yukos Capital v Russian Federation: A Practical Lesson in Treaty Interpretation

Yukos Capital v Russian Federation: A Practical Lesson in Treaty Interpretation, a talk by Cyrus Benson. 

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Cy Benson, an alumnus of NYU School of Law (JD ’91) and member of the Board of Trustees, is a New York and English qualified specialist in international arbitration. He is currently an independent arbitrator and barrister at 4 New Square Chambers in London. Prior to joining Chambers last year, Cy served as the founding member, Chair and more recently Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s International Arbitration Practice Group, a practice consistently ranked in Global Arbitration Review’s top 20 practices worldwide. He started his legal career with White & Case here in New York.

During his more than 35 years of practice, Cy has been involved in over 100 international arbitration disputes. His experience encompasses a wide variety of industry sectors and geographic regions, commercial disputes under both common and civil law and investment treaty disputes governed by public international law. He has particular experience in oil & gas, construction, telecoms, energy, mining, financial services, hospitality and infrastructure.

Cy has long been ranked as a leading lawyer for International Arbitration, including being placed in The Legal 500 UK 2024’s Hall of Fame (inclusive of Public International Law). He has been described as “superb [with] an excellent grasp of strategy”, “a formidable advocate”, “a class act” and “an exceptional lawyer and a first-rate advocate among the best-regarded practitioners in the market.”

Cy has written and lectured on a wide variety of arbitration issues, was a member of the IBA Arbitration Committee Task Force that drafted the IBA Guidelines on Party Representation and served as one of the UK members to the ICC Rules Revision Task Force. He also spearheaded a USAID-backed joint legal reform initiative (with the Mongolian Ministry of Justice) to design and teach a course on international arbitration law and practice (covering both commercial and investment treaty arbitration) to Mongolian lawyers and judges.