Topic: Anti-arbitration injunction

Russia has reportedly asked its own courts to restrain a German oil and gas producer from pursuing an Energy Charter Treaty claim on pain of a €7.5 billion penalty, while seeking to have the arbitrators and the investor’s German law firm held jointly liable if the arbitration proceeds.

17 April 2025

Ukraine’s Naftogaz says it has taken a “first step” towards seizing Russian state-owned assets in France to satisfy a US$5 billion investment treaty award – while in a separate dispute it is hit with a billion-dollar penalty by a Russian court over its failure to halt an ICC arbitration. 

17 April 2025

A Russian court has upheld injunctions obtained by a Gazprom affiliate in a long-running dispute with UniCredit over unpaid bonds that has led to conflicting decisions between the Russian and UK courts.

10 April 2025

The Court of Appeal in London has granted UniCredit’s request to lift an anti-suit injunction it won against a Gazprom joint venture after the bank said it wanted to avoid an “eye-watering” fine from the Russian courts.

11 February 2025

Italy’s UniCredit has asked a UK court to lift an anti-suit injunction it won against a Gazprom joint venture because it faces “potentially draconian financial consequences” in parallel proceedings in Russia – and says two other European banks have made similar applications. 

06 February 2025

A Russian court has ordered Germany’s Commerzbank to withdraw a €95 million ICC case against a Gazprom affiliate over a guarantee for a gas plant project and seek to overturn an English anti-suit injunction issued in support of the arbitration. 

11 December 2024

A Russian court has ordered industrial gases conglomerate Linde to pay around €1 billion to a Gazprom affiliate for halting work on an LNG plant – refusing to enforce an HKIAC arbitration clause in the project contract. 

04 November 2024

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance has restrained a Russian state-owned bank from pursuing litigation in St Petersburg against its German subsidiary in defiance of an HKIAC arbitration clause. 

15 October 2024

A Russian court has allowed a Gazprom affiliate to freeze US$1.15 billion in assets owned by Germany’s Linde in a dispute over a stalled gas processing project – months after ordering the engineering group to discontinue a parallel HKIAC arbitration. 

15 August 2024

A Russian court has issued injunctions restraining Czech, French and Swiss gas buyers from pursuing international arbitration against Gazprom’s export arm. 

19 June 2024