Katerina Palkovska

Associate, Three Crowns

Katerina is an associate at Three Crowns in Paris. She has experience advising and representing companies and individuals in complex international commercial and investment arbitrations across a wide range of sectors, including energy, oil and gas, and financial services. She also has experience in energy law, advising on regulatory frameworks and cross-border energy contracts.

Katerina holds an LL.M. in Transnational Arbitration and Dispute Settlement from Sciences Po Paris (summa cum laude), where she was awarded a merit-based scholarship. She also holds a Doctor of Law (JUDr) degree in Private International Law from Charles University and a Master’s degree in law from Masaryk University, both in the Czech Republic. As part of her academic training, she spent semesters abroad at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Bergen in Norway.

Katerina is admitted to practice in the Czech Republic and France.

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Sanctions in arbitration—from contracting to enforcement—checklist

Practice Notes

Sanctions must be considered throughout the life of a transaction and any resulting dispute. The 50 questions in this Checklist identify practical issues to consider from initial risk assessment and contract drafting through to the commencement and conduct of arbitral proceedings, recognition, enforcement and ultimate recovery.Sanctions issues are rarely neatly labelled as such. A designation or new sanctions measure arising midway through a contract can raise a series of practical questions: Can the contract still be performed? Can payments be made? Can counsel act? Can the institution and tribunal be paid? Can documents be transferred and witnesses heard? And, ultimately, can an award actually be enforced and the proceeds recovered?The existence of sanctions does not, however, necessarily prevent an arbitration from proceeding. Depending on the applicable sanctions regime and the circumstances, the issue may instead be whether particular acts, services or payments are permitted or require an exemption, licence or other authorisation. Sanctions may affect contractual performance, payment, participation in the arbitration, the

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