Topic: Armed conflict

Politicians in the UK are trying to introduce a law making it easier for the government to confiscate Russian state assets to pay for the damage caused by the country’s war against Ukraine.

18 April 2023

Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov has launched an investment treaty claim against Russia over the seizure of assets in Russian-occupied areas of eastern Ukraine.

11 April 2023

A group of Ukrainian companies have won damages in a treaty claim against Russia over the expropriation of Crimean real estate properties allegedly linked to businessman Igor Kolomoisky.

06 April 2023

A virtual panel hosted by Squire Patton Boggs considered potential energy disputes arising from the war in Ukraine. Olha Martynevych and Kateryna Shokalo, Ukrainian lawyers in the firm’s New York office, report.

24 January 2023

RWE has reportedly launched arbitration against Gazprom over halted gas supplies – a week after another German energy company Uniper brought a multibillion-euro claim against the Russian state entity.

05 December 2022

A panel at GAR Live Energy Disputes in Edinburgh considered the increasingly volatile global energy market resulting from the war in Ukraine, including the resurgence of fossil fuel and potential investment treaty claims.

29 September 2022

A Turkish construction company has threatened Yemen with a US$660 million treaty claim over a road project it says was disrupted by the seizure of equipment and raids and intimidation by paramilitary units.

24 August 2022

Two Egyptian manufacturers have threatened to file a treaty claim against Ethiopia after allegedly sustaining up to US$40 million in losses due to disruption caused by an ongoing civil war in the country.

09 September 2021

A French court has upheld an ICC tribunal’s decision to award US$116 million to a Libyan state entity while ruling it should have agreed to hear a UAE oil company’s claims over the unauthorised use of Libya’s biggest refinery during the country’s 2011 revolution.

03 March 2021

An ICSID tribunal has ordered Libya to pay €74 million in damages to an Austrian construction company over infrastructure projects that were disrupted by the country's civil war.

01 July 2020