Yana Polskaya works on the questions that determine whether a commercial dispute is won or lost before the hearing begins — the questions of evidence, procedure, and burden of proof that the Russian arbitrazh courts apply with increasing specificity and that foreign clients, accustomed to common-law procedural frameworks, rarely expect. As an associate in the firm's litigation and corporate governance practices, she handles contractual disputes, shareholder conflicts, and JV governance matters — with a particular focus on the procedural architecture of each case.
Her contributions to the Insights publication reflect the same procedural discipline. Yana writes about Russian civil procedure as it is practised — the evidentiary standards that the commercial courts actually apply, the interim measures that are actually granted, the enforcement mechanisms that actually produce results. The audience for her analysis is the foreign practitioner or in-house lawyer who is preparing for Russian court proceedings or evaluating the prospects of a Russian-seated dispute, and who needs to understand not the theory of Russian civil procedure but the procedural reality. Her publications address the practical dimensions of burden of proof, the standards for interim relief, and the treatment of foreign documentary evidence in the Russian commercial courts.