Bahar Charyyeva
Director (Turkmenistan Qualified)
Bahar Charyyeva is a member of the firm’s International Dispute Resolution Practice Group.
Her practice focuses on representing states and state-owned entities in investor-state and commercial arbitration cases under the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) rules. She has been involved in successfully handling disputes in the construction, telecommunications, agriculture, energy and mining industries for more than 13 years.
A native of Turkmenistan, Bahar is fluent in Turkmen, Russian and English, and has an educational and professional background in both civil and common law systems. Her prior experience includes work in the judiciary of Turkmenistan, as well as the oil and gas industry, including implementation of a production sharing agreement and negotiations and execution of a gas sales agreement.
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Representing the government and other state agencies of Turkmenistan in arbitration cases, including:
- US$2 billion ICSID Additional Facility (AF) claim initiated by a Russian telecommunications company arising from mobile network operations.
- US$1.4 billion SCC claim initiated by the Turkmen state agency against a Belarussian company, arising from construction of a mineral mining and chemical production plant.
- €45 million ICSID dispute brought by a German insolvency administrator concerning the construction of grain mill complexes and bakeries.
- Several ICSID cases up to US$570 million, initiated by a number of Turkish companies, involving multiple civil engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for the construction of various facilities, including schools, hotels, residential buildings, industrial plants, etc.
- US$64 million ICSID arbitration brought by a UK company arising out of a highway construction project.
Education
- Queen Mary, University of London, LL.M., 2010
- Turkmen State University, LL.B. (Hons.), 2001
Languages
- English
- Russian
- Turkmen
- Chevening Scholarship funded by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office