Ilya Ischuk
Partner
Ph.D in Law
Attorney at law
Attorney at law, Ph.D., Partner and Co-founder of the Firm. Mr. Ischuk’s speciality is antitrust law and dispute resolution in state courts. He is well known in the market thanks to his work in precedent setting cases representing the interests of companies – leaders in their segments.
Since 2007, he has been defending clients from such industries as trade, construction, and industrial production in antitrust proceedings. He is known as a specialist in the field of antimonopoly regulation of trade activities, particular, for his work on the development of approaches to the regulation of procurement unions. For more than 10 years, he has been advising clients of the Firm on conducting an antimonopoly audit of the company's activities and implementing antimonopoly compliance systems. Since 2013, he has been a member of the Association of Antimonopoly Experts. He is also known in the market due to the successful representation of clients in insurance, construction, rental disputes and disputes in the field of electric power.
Achievements
Personally recommended by Russian and international ratings:
- "Kommersant" in 2025 marked Ilya in the area of Resolution of Corporate Disputes – Band 1; TMT (telecommunications / media / technology) – Band 2.
- Pravo-300 in 2024 personally recommends Ilya in 5 areas: Arbitration (corporate disputes), Arbitration (major commercial disputes: high market), Bankruptcy (mid market disputes), TMT (Telecommunications, Media and Technology), Antitrust Law; and in 2023 is ranked by Pravo-300 in the areas of Antitrust law and Compliance.
- Ilya has been recognised by the international rankings Best Lawyers 2022 (Antitrust, Dispute Resolution, Lawyer of the Year in Government Practice), Legal 500 EMEA 2021, Chambers Europe 2021.
Projects
Antitrust and Competition
- Representing a retail network (a subsidiary of one of the world’s biggest retailers):
- in a dispute against the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation concerning a possible cartel agreement in the field of socially-important foods;
- in Moscow and regional arbitrazh courts - in disputes against the Federal Antimonopoly Service concerning the alleged imposition of discrimination conditions against the food suppliers, including disputes concerning convictions of the commission of other breaches of Russian competition law;
- in Moscow and regional arbitrazh courts - in disputes against the Federal Antimonopoly Service concerning breaches of the Federal trade and competition laws, including cases concerning the alleged failure to provide relevant information about goods;
- in numerous disputes against food suppliers for compensation of damages suffered in connection with alleged breaches of the Federal competition law.
- Representing the interests of a Russian representative of a major international hypermarket chain in terms of the probe by the FAS of Russia Directorate (FASD) for Moscow Oblast into the allegations of client's anti-competitive practices in trade banned by the commerce law.
- Defending one of the leading private operators of airport infrastructure against the convictions of breach of Art. 15 and 16 of the Federal law on protection of competition, which were brought against the Client and the Governor, the Government and specialized ministries of one of the subjects of the Russian Federation.
- Support for a foreign automaker as part of measures undertaken by FAS of Russia to check whether the market players comply with the Distributor and Automaker Guidelines released in the autumn of 2012, in particular, advising, drafting of responses to enquiries, etc.
Litigation
- Representing insurance company Allianz in a dispute with a foreign reinsurer on a reinsurance recovery in the total amount of more than USD 35 million arising out of the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plant (total damage over USD 200 million). The result – the client’s claim was satisfied in full, afterwards the decision was enforced in the territory of Switzerland.
News and Publications
Moscow hosted the conference “Best Antitrust Practices 2021” from Forbes Congress on 22 October 2021. Ilya Ischuk — Partner, Head of Antitrust Practice in KIAP, Attorneys at Law, joined the fourth session “Judicial Practice in Russia: Antitrust Cases and New Court Stories” with a speech “Per se or not per se: How Courts Treat the “Cartel” Clauses of Resolution No. 2 of the Plenum of S...
Президиум Верховного суда (ВС) РФ признал незаконным решение Федеральной антимонопольной службы наказать ПАО "Новороссийский морской торговый порт" (MOEX: NMTP) (НМТП) за установление "монопольно высоких цен" изъятием почти 30% доходов за 2015 год - 9,74 млрд рублей. Эксперты считают, что это решение будет иметь важнейшее значение для антимонопольных дел: ФАС больше не сможет уклоняться от эко...
Success cases
Case description: The Client, together with another major Russian company, invested in the launch of a new plant in one of the regions of Russia. Under the agreement with the partner, the Client became a minority shareholder of the new enterprise. However, three years after the launch of the joint project, the participants diverged in their approaches to business management.
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As part of a complex bankruptcy case of a major entrepreneur, ongoing since 2019, the first-instance commercial court included a claim by a law firm in the creditors’ claims register for over 274 million rubles. In addition, the court recognized this debt as a joint debt of the former spouses.
At the appellate stage, lawyers from KIAP, Attorneys at Law, convinced the court t...
KIAP was contacted by the majority members of a company, who found themselves in a seemingly hopeless situation. Fraud committed by the CEO and, at the same time, minority member resulted in the company's losses amounting to tens of millions of RUB. However, the members could not dismiss the CEO as the Articles of Association provided for a unanimous resolution on early termination of his powe...