Extract from 2010 International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration Lawyers

Stanimir A Alexandrov is a partner in Sidley's Washington, DC, office and co-chair of the firm's international arbitration practice. Mr Alexandrov focuses his practice in the areas of international dispute resolution, including investor-state arbitration and international commercial arbitration, and resolution of trade disputes before the World Trade Organization (WTO).

He has represented private parties and governments in arbitration before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), as well as in ICC, UNCITRAL, and AAA international arbitrations. He has also represented governments in WTO disputes. Mr Alexandrov has been appointed to the ICSID's panel of arbitrators and panel of conciliators and serves as an arbitrator in a number of cases under the arbitration rules of ICSID, the ICC, the London Court of International Arbitration and UNCITRAL. He has appeared as an expert witness in international arbitration on investment treaty interpretation. Mr Alexandrov's current and recent international arbitration cases include representations of global investors, such as Vivendi, Tate & Lyle, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co, GE, Bechtel, Impregilo SpA, and Cargill, and of sovereigns including Costa Rica, Turkey and Peru.

Mr Alexandrov was vice minister of foreign affairs of Bulgaria, where he managed Bulgaria's relations with the European Union, the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and NATO and was responsible for all legal work of the Foreign Service. Prior to that, he served as deputy chief of mission of the embassy of Bulgaria in Washington, DC, where he negotiated trade and investment agreements and worked with the World Bank and the IMF.

He is a professor at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, where he teaches courses on international law and dispute settlement. Mr Alexandrov's publications have been cited by parties to disputes before the International Court of Justice and by judges of the Court.

Mr Alexandrov, a Bulgarian national, holds both Russian and US law degrees and is well versed in the economic and legal issues of Russia and the countries of eastern Europe. In addition to English and Bulgarian, he is fluent in French, Russian and Spanish.

He received his SJD (1994) and LLM (1992) from the George Washington University Law School and his JD from the Moscow Institute of International Relations in 1981. He is admitted to the District of Columbia and New York bars.