Topic: Attachments and freezing orders

A Cypriot court has lifted an ex parte freezing order it granted over assets held by Ukraine's richest oligarch Rinat Akhmetov in light of claims that he and his companies are deliberately evading payment of a US$820 million LCIA award, after concluding that both parties should be heard before any injunction is awarded

12 June 2018

UPDATED. A Dutch court has refused to lift an attachment order in support of an LCIA award that led to the freezing of €764 million in assets owned by companies belonging to Ukraine’s richest oligarch, Rinat Akhmetov.

06 April 2018

A Dutch court has ruled that a Chinese state-owned food company should not have been permitted to levy attachments worth US$1.7 billion in aid of an ICC arbitration, holding that relief granted by an emergency arbitrator should suffice while a dispute over its purchase of a grain trader is pending.

05 April 2018

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