Diora Ziyaeva

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Job Title: Counsel

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Diora Ziyaeva, counsel in Dentons' New York Office, focuses on international investment arbitration, international commercial arbitration, complex commercial litigation, and public international law. Licensed in New York and Uzbekistan and fluent in seven languages, Diora serves as counsel in a broad range of complex disputes under numerous bilateral/multilateral investment treaties and contracts, successfully handling cases ranging in value from $10 million to $20 billion, with experience in energy, oil and gas, mining, telecommunications, construction, and aerospace disputes in Latin America, Central Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Oceania and Africa. Diora has over a decade of experience representing corporate clients, States and State-owned entities in investor-state and commercial arbitration proceedings, both institutional and ad hoc. Diora also advises parties in international litigations involving proceedings in foreign and domestic courts, and has represented parties before the federal and state courts in the United States, including the United States Supreme Court. Diora is a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member. She is a Certified Mediator by the CEDR. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, where she teaches the Practice of International Arbitration, and at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches investment treaty arbitration.