Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Ina C. Popova is a partner in the firm’s International Dispute Resolution Group, and her practice focuses on international arbitration, international litigation and public international law. 

Over the course of her career, Ms. Popova has represented individuals, corporations and states in disputes under the rules of all of the major arbitral institutions, as well as several regional institutions. She advises parties in international litigations involving proceedings in foreign and domestic courts and has represented parties before the federal and state courts in the United States, including the United States Supreme Court.  Ms. Popova also advises investment firms and asset managers in evaluating investments in international claims or arbitration awards. She sits as arbitrator and serves as counsel in a broad range of international matters.

Ms. Popova speaks French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Bulgarian.

In addition to her work as counsel, Ms. Popova is active in a variety of leadership positions and committees, including as a member of the ICC Court of Arbitration, a member of the Court of the Casablanca International Mediation and Arbitration Center (CIMAC), as Chair of the Corporate Counsel Task Force of the Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center (SVAMC), and as a member of the IBA International Commercial Arbitration Case Law Subcommittee. She also served on the ICCA Task Force on Standards of Practice and the IBA Working Group on the UNIDROIT Principles, and has been Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law (ASIL)’s Annual Meeting and Midyear Meeting.  She has taught law at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and is a Fellow of the Société de Législation Comparée.  She speaks and writes regularly on arbitration-related issues.

In addition to graduate degrees from Harvard Law School and from the University of Cambridge, Ms. Popova received her B.A. (Hons.)(Cantab.) with First Class Honours in Law (Double Maîtrise) from the University of Cambridge, Trinity College, and her Maîtrise en droit comparé, mention droits anglais et français with high honors from the Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas. She is a Senior Scholar of Trinity College and was a Hollond Fund Scholar at Harvard Law School.

Ms. Popova is a member of the bar in Paris and in New York and is admitted to appear before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.