Delyan Dimitrov is Of Counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn.
His practice focuses on transnational litigation, foreign judgment and arbitral award enforcement, international arbitration, complex commercial disputes, as well as FCPA matters.
Delyan has played a leading role in a wide range of cross-border disputes. He recently represented Chevron Corporation and Chevron USA, Inc. in defeating a petition to confirm an $18 billion sham arbitration award issued in Egypt. He also advised Pearl Petroleum in its U.S. enforcement of several multi-billion LCIA awards against the Kurdistan Regional Government, resulting in a successful global settlement. Delyan acted for Madden International in its licensing and distribution dispute with Lew Footwear regarding the sale of Steve Madden products in Australia and Çukurova Holding A.Ş. in its successful Second Circuit appeal reversing a S.D.N.Y. decision that had confirmed a $932 million arbitral award against Çukurova. Additionally, he represented Yukos Capital in enforcing four Russian arbitral awards that had been annulled at the seat of the arbitration, helping obtain an attachment order worth hundreds of millions of dollars in aid of enforcement.
Domestically, he is representing Chevron Corporation in more than a dozen lawsuits filed against it and other energy companies by states, counties, and municipalities for alleged climate change-related damages. Delyan has also represented RMBS trustees and activist investors in putback actions seeking the repurchase of mortgage loans securitized by certain RMBS sponsors.
A native of Bulgaria, he has extensive experience with international arbitrations. Delyan has played a leading role in representing clients in LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL and JAMS arbitrations. He regularly contributes to leading international arbitration treatises and journals.
Delyan was recently “Recommended” by The Legal 500 for his work in Transnational Litigation.
Delyan is also a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches an advocacy course for all first-year students competing in international moot courts, including the Vis international arbitration moot, the Phillip Jessup international law moot, and the EU law moot.
His pro bono efforts have included coordinating assistance to Holocaust survivors for payments under Germany’s ZRBG law, which provides for remuneration to those who worked in Nazi ghettos during their internment, and various immigration matters.
Prior to re-joining Gibson Dunn, Delyan was a senior associate at the litigation boutique Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP and an in-house counsel at Amherst Advisory & Management LLC.
He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Publications
- “Electronic Discovery in International Arbitration,” International Arbitration in The United States (Kluwer Law Int’l 2018) (with Dorit Black)
- “The ‘Manifest Disregard of Law’ Doctrine and International Arbitration in New York,” New York City Bar Report (2012) (Contributor)
- “The Public Interest in Private Dispute Resolution,” Austrian Arbitration Yearbook (Vienna, 2009) (with L. Shore)
Capabilities
- Transnational Litigation
- ESG: Risk, Litigation, and Reporting
- Energy Regulation and Litigation
- Energy and Infrastructure
- International Arbitration
- Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement
- Litigation
- Product Liability
Credentials
Education:
- Columbia University - 2008 Juris Doctor
- Shippensburg University - 2005 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- New York Bar