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“Galina is an outstanding commercial arbitration specialist”. WWL Thought Leaders 2023
“Ms Zukova is a great arbitration lawyer”. WWL Thought Leaders 2023
“Galina Zukova from ZUKOVA Legal is held in high regard for her impressive practice as arbitrator and co-arbitrator and in emergency arbitration proceedings”. WWL France 2022
“Galina is bright, flexible and a great choice for Russian-speaking disputes in France”. “An excellent lawyer and a pleasure to work with.” WWL Thought Leaders 2021
“An excellent and experienced lawyer with a particular focus on CIS-related cases”. WWL 2019
“She has vast experience in and great knowledge of ICC arbitration proceedings.” WWL 2019
Dually qualified in Paris and Latvia, Dr. Galina Zukova specialises in international arbitrations. As arbitrator and counsel, she has handled commercial and treaty-based arbitrations in a broad range of sectors (construction (FIDIC), infrastructure, corporate law, energy, metallurgical industry, mining, telecommunications, transportation, etc.), under both the laws of civil and common law jurisdictions, and under many of the major arbitration rules (ICC, LCIA, SIAC, DIS, VIAC, SCC, NAI, the Milan Chamber of Arbitration, UNCITRAL Rules and others).
In 2026, Dr. Zukova was nominated by Latvia to the ICSID List of Arbitrators, and in 2022, she was included in the European Commission’s List of Candidates Suitable for Appointment as Arbitrators in EU trade and investment agreements with third states.
Dr. Zukova is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, a Council Member of the Armenian International Arbitration Centre, a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, and a Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. She currently serves as a Scholarship Officer at the IBA Arbitration Committee. She also teaches international arbitration at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin (Paris-Saclay).
A Latvian lawyer by training (LLB, University of Latvia), Galina has a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and an LLM from the University of Exeter (UK). She was also a Visiting Scholar at the Yale University (US).
Dr. Zukova is fluent in English, French, Italian, Latvian, Russian and Spanish. She has a working knowledge of German.
Galina is ranked in: Chambers Global Guide, Chambers Europe Guide, Chambers France (Band 3: International Arbitration: Arbitrators), Legal 500 (Powerlist Arbitration France), Lexology as Thought Leader, Global Leader and Thought Leader for France; The Best Lawyers in France and Best Law Firms – France, and Euromoney’s ExpertGuides Commercial Arbitration. In 2018, ArbitralWomen included Galina in its publication “Women Pioneers in Dispute Resolution”.
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“Galina is an outstanding commercial arbitration specialist”. WWL Thought Leader 2023
“Ms Zukova is a great arbitration lawyer”. WWL Thought Leader 2023
“Galina Zukova from ZUKOVA Legal is held in high regard for her impressive practice as arbitrator and co-arbitrator and in emergency arbitration proceedings”. WWL France 2022
“Galina is bright, flexible and a great choice for Russian-speaking disputes in France”. “An excellent lawyer and a pleasure to work with.” WWL Thought Leader 2023
“An excellent and experienced lawyer with a particular focus on CIS-related cases”. WWL 2019
“She has vast experience in and great knowledge of ICC arbitration proceedings.” WWL 2019
Dually qualified in Paris and Latvia, Dr. Galina Zukova specialises in international arbitrations. As arbitrator and counsel, she has handled commercial and treaty-based arbitrations in a broad range of sectors (construction (FIDIC), infrastructure, corporate law, energy, metallurgical industry, mining, telecommunications, transportation, etc.), under both the laws of civil and common law jurisdictions, and under many of the major arbitration rules (ICC, LCIA, SIAC, DIS, VIAC, SCC, NAI, the Milan Chamber of Arbitration, UNCITRAL Rules and others).
In 2026, Dr. Zukova was nominated by Latvia to the ICSID List of Arbitrators, and in 2022, she was included in the European Commission’s List of Candidates Suitable for Appointment as Arbitrators in EU trade and investment agreements with third states.
Dr. Zukova is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, a Council Member of the Armenian International Arbitration Centre, a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, and a Member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. She currently serves as a Scholarship Officer at the IBA Arbitration Committee. She also teaches international arbitration at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin (Paris-Saclay).
A Latvian lawyer by training (LLB, University of Latvia), Galina has a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and an LLM from the University of Exeter (UK). She was also a Visiting Scholar at the Yale University (US).
Dr. Zukova is fluent in English, French, Italian, Latvian, Russian and Spanish. She has a working knowledge of German.
Galina is ranked in: Chambers Global Guide, Chambers Europe Guide, Chambers France (Band 3: International Arbitration: Arbitrators), Legal 500 (Powerlist Arbitration France), Lexology as Thought Leader, Global Leader and Thought Leader for France; The Best Lawyers in France and Best Law Firms – France, and Euromoney’s ExpertGuides Commercial Arbitration. In 2018, ArbitralWomen included Galina in its publication “Women Pioneers in Dispute Resolution”.