Industry: Agriculture & agrochemicals
Potash miner threatens ICSID claim against Morocco
A London-listed mining company has instructed counsel for a potential ICSID claim against Morocco over the state’s refusal to grant environmental approval for a billion-dollar potash project.
01 November 2024
Belarusian state entity’s claim against Lithuania gets underway
Swiss arbitrator Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler will preside over a sanctioned Belarusian state-owned entity's billion-euro investment treaty claim against Lithuania over a terminated fertiliser transport contract.
18 September 2024
German contractor enforces ICC award in Turkey
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the enforcement of a €24.5 million ICC award won by German engineering group Thyssenkrupp against a fertiliser producer.
25 January 2024
Belarusian state entity files treaty claim against Lithuania
A Belarusian state-owned entity has launched an investment treaty claim against Lithuania over the termination of a contract for the transportation of fertilisers in the wake of international sanctions.
15 November 2023
Sanctioned billionaire’s companies hit with anti-suit injunction
The Commercial Court in London has restrained companies owned by a sanctioned Russian billionaire from bringing litigation in Russia against a Cypriot investment services company in defiance of an LCIA arbitration clause.
13 November 2023
Jailed oligarch fails to freeze assets of Russian “conspirators”
A jailed oligarch who claims he is the victim of a Russian state-led conspiracy to seize nearly US$14 billion worth of his assets has failed to obtain UK injunctions against various parties involved in the alleged scheme – as details emerge of two related LCIA arbitrations.
01 November 2023
Asset finance investor pursues claim against Ethiopia
A US-based investor in leasing of agricultural machinery is pursuing a claim against Ethiopia at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, it has emerged.
10 October 2023
Russian chemicals group threatens claim against Poland
A sanctioned Russian chemicals group says it will pursue international arbitration after Polish authorities seized control of its stake in a local fertiliser producer.
14 July 2023
Anti-suit injunction upheld in Russian ammonia plant dispute
The Court of Appeal in London has affirmed that Italian engineering group Tecnimont breached an anti-suit injunction issued in aid of a billion-euro ICC arbitration over a Russian ammonia plant disrupted by international sanctions.
03 July 2023
Dutch investor turns to Latvian courts over animal fur ban
A Dutch investor says it will bring a €56 million claim against Latvia in the country’s courts over a ban on mink fur farming – deciding against pursuing an intra-EU bilateral investment treaty case.
27 March 2023