A partner in the Litigation Department, Delyan Dimitrov focuses on complex commercial litigation and cross-border disputes. He has extensive experience in international arbitration, energy and climate litigation, foreign judgment and arbitral award enforcement, and FCPA-related matters.
Delyan represents clients in high-stakes proceedings in U.S. courts and arbitral forums, including those under LCIA, ICC, UNCITRAL and JAMS rules. He is recommended by Legal 500 for his work in the “Dispute Resolution: International Litigation (U.S.)” (2025) category.
Delyan publishes regularly on international arbitration and dispute resolution including “Chasing Shadows: Enforcement of International Commercial Arbitral Awards Against Non-Signatories at the Post-Judgment Stage” in Pro-Arbitration Revisited: A Tribute to Professor George Bermann from his Students Over the Years (2023), co-authoring “Electronic Discovery in International Arbitration” in International Arbitration in the United States (2018) and “The Public Interest in Private Dispute Resolution” in Austrian Arbitration Yearbook (2009), and contributing to the New York City Bar Association report “The ‘Manifest Disregard of Law’ Doctrine and International Arbitration in New York” (2012).
Delyan is a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches oral advocacy to first-year students participating in the Jessup, Vis arbitration, and EU law moot court competitions.
Experience
Delyan’s representations include:
- 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.
- Chevron Corporation and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. in defeating a petition to confirm an approximately $18 billion arbitral award issued in Egypt, preventing enforcement of the award in U.S. courts.*
- Pearl Petroleum on the U.S. enforcement of multiple multibillion-dollar London Court of International Arbitration awards against the Kurdistan Regional Government, contributing to a successful global settlement.*
- Madden International in a licensing and distribution dispute with Lew Footwear concerning the sale of Steve Madden products in Australia.*
- Çukurova Holding A.Ş. in an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversing a Southern District of New York decision confirming a $932 million arbitral award.*
- Yukos Capital in enforcing four Russian arbitral awards that had been annulled at the seat, obtaining an attachment order worth hundreds of millions of dollars in aid of enforcement.*
- Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities trustees and activist investors in putback litigation seeking the repurchase of mortgage loans securitized by RMBS sponsors.*
* Matters handled prior to joining Paul, Weiss.
