First Ukrainian-born female lawyer of English qualification is elected to Bryan Cave partnership in City of London

The international law firm Bryan Cave LLP has announced that Irina Tymczyszyn has been elected to partnership in the firm, effective 1 January 2012.

Ms. Tymczyszyn practises with the International Arbitration Team and Commercial Litigation Client Service Group. She chairs the firm’s CIS Group, which provides services to former Soviet Union clients, particularly those in Ukraine and Russia. Ms. Tymczyszyn has considerable experience in cross-border disputes for major international clients with a main focus on disputes relating to shareholders' and investment agreements, disputes in the telecoms, oil and gas industries, and fraud. Ms. Tymczyszyn has acted in numerous international arbitrations as counsel and has sat on international arbitration tribunals under the ICC Rules as an arbitrator. “Irina brings to our partnership an extraordinary breadth of experience and initiative, complementing our international dispute resolution capacity in London and elsewhere,” said Rodney F. Page, London office managing partner.

Born in Ukraine, Ms. Tymczyszyn holds degrees from leading Ukrainian and British universities. She was one of a select group of students from the former Soviet Union to obtain a training contract with a top ten City law firm in 1997. Upon successful completion of her training contract in 2001, Ms. Tymczyszyn qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales specialising in International Arbitration and Commercial Litigation and practiced at leading UK and international law firms in London prior to joining the London office of Bryan Cave LLP in 2007. Ms. Tymczyszyn is the first Ukrainian-born female lawyer of English qualification to be elected to partnership in the City of London.