Region: Armenia

Armenia gets ICJ measures against Azerbaijan

The International Court of Justice has issued further provisional measures in a pair of cases between Armenia and Azerbaijan arising from the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

23 February 2023

Armenia defeats ICSID claim over transport corridor

An ICSID tribunal has rejected a US$326 million claim against Armenia over concessions to build road and rail links to transport commodities from Iran.

24 January 2023

Azerbaijan launches landmark biodiversity case against Armenia

Azerbaijan has started the first known inter-state arbitration under the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, accusing Armenia of destroying the environment and biodiversity during nearly 30 years of "illegal occupation" of its territories.

19 January 2023

Armenian boutique merges with Moscow firm

Armenian practitioner Sargis Grigoryan has merged his disputes boutique with Rybalkin Gortsunyan Dyakin & Partners, becoming the first international office for the Moscow-based firm.

04 August 2022

Armenia defeats ICSID claim over real estate venture

An ICSID tribunal has thrown out a claim against Armenia over a real estate venture after finding that one of the claimants had dual Armenian-US nationality and that his company had not made a valid investment. 

16 December 2021

Real estate investors threaten claim against Armenia

A group of Russian and German investors have warned they will bring a US$38 million investment treaty claim against Armenia over the “theft and raid” of their investments in a real estate development in the country’s capital, Yerevan.

06 October 2021

English court restrains Armenian suit over mining venture

A Russian state-owned bank has obtained an English anti-suit injunction to restrain an Armenian businessman from pursuing litigation in his home country in a US$320 million dispute over a mining project.

25 May 2021

Lebanese waste investor takes Armenia to ICSID

A Lebanese waste management company has made good on its threat to file an investment treaty claim against Armenia after its contracts for garbage collection in the capital city of Yerevan were allegedly handed to a state-owned entity.

30 March 2021

Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Armenia (ARMCCI)

27 January 2020

Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Armenia (ARMCCI)

04 January 2019

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