Andrii Chornous

Andrii Chornous is a New York-based triple-qualified attorney admitted to the Bar in the United States, England and Wales and Ukraine. His work focuses on the legal and strategic needs of investment funds, high-growth technology and AI startups, as well as Web3 and fintech companies. His practice sits at the intersection of emerging technology, financial regulation and cross-border corporate strategy with a clear focus on helping founders and investors build scalable international structures and navigate high-stakes regulatory exposure.

He has spent more than eleven years advising startup founders, blockchain projects, private investors, and VC funds on cross-border corporate structuring and governance, regulatory and securities compliance, litigation and arbitration, privacy matters, and intellectual property protection. His work combines regulatory depth with hands-on experience guiding early and late-stage companies through product expansion, corporate architecture, risk management and complex commercial negotiations across the U.S., UK and global markets.

Andrii acts as lead counsel on multi-jurisdictional growth, Web3 regulatory compliance, digital asset and token matters, venture financing, and dispute resolution. He has represented clients in high-value litigation and arbitration under ICC, LCIA, SCC, ICSID and VIAC rules and manages regulatory and enforcement exposure across multiple jurisdictions. Andrii is Oxford and Stanford trained, holds a PhD in Law and is recognised by leading legal directories for his dispute resolution work.

• Stanford Law School, LL.M., 2024
• University of Oxford, Magister Juris, 2023
• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, PhD, 2021
• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Master of Law, 2016
• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, LL.B., 2014

• English
• Spanish
• Ukrainian
• Russian

• Benchmark Litigation Europe Awards (Central & Eastern Europe Future Stars / 2025)
• Recognized The Legal 500 EMEA (Next Generation Partner in Dispute Resolution / 2025)
• Recognized The Legal 500 EMEA (“Rising Star” in Dispute Resolution / 2022-2024)
• The Legal 500 EMEA (Recommended practitioner, Dispute Resolution & Private Client / 2021)
• Board Member of Oxford Alumni Association of New York
• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) (Fellow membership)
• Cooling-Off Period and Futility in Investment Arbitration (Publication – Ukrainian Law Firms: A Handbook to Foreign Clients / 2022)
• Applicability of the Estoppel Principle by Ukrainian Courts (Publication – CIS Arbitration Forum / 2020)