Elgun Ganizade

Elgun has broad experience representing and counselling sovereign states, state-owned enterprises, private companies and high-net-worth individuals in contentious and non-contentious matters of international arbitration, as well as public international law and global financial crimes compliance and defence. He has acted in proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as well as international investor-state and commercial arbitral tribunals constituted under major institutional and ad hoc rules, and has advised on cases involving the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and a number of the UN human rights treaty bodies, such as the Human Rights Committee (CCPR), the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and the Committee Against Torture (CAT). Elgun has also assisted clients with multijurisdictional, multi-agency litigation and enforcement actions, economic and trade sanctions, export controls, strategic investments, internal and regulatory investigations into allegations of money laundering, corruption, bribery, fraud and other types of misconduct, as well as asset recovery, reputation protection, risk and crisis management and various due diligence matters.

Of note, Elgun previously spent time at the Permanent Mission of a sovereign state to the UN Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, working on aspects of international law, including human rights implications of multilateral and unilateral sanctions.

Prior to joining the firm, Elgun worked at a leading UK law firm in London.