Region: Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan says it has defeated an UNCITRAL claim by Kazakhstan’s national gas company over an ill-fated joint venture to renovate a pipeline.

31 January 2024

Independent arbitrator Anna Guillard Sazhko and Kamalia Mehtiyeva of Barbier Mehtiyeva Law have founded an association for Turkic arbitration practitioners.

12 December 2023

Moldovan investors engaged in a decade-long campaign to enforce a US$500 million Energy Charter Treaty award against Kazakhstan have failed to reinstate a Dutch attachment against a sovereign wealth fund – after reporting favourable rulings in Sweden, the US and Gibraltar.

13 October 2023

Kyrgyzstan says it has defeated a US$50 million investment treaty claim brought by a Kazakh state-owned entity over construction of a ferroalloys plant.

29 September 2023

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is facing a new ICSID case from a Swiss banking group, as ICC claims by a Kazakh-owned mining group and a South African law firm also come to light.

29 August 2023

Curtis Mallet-Provost Colt & Mosle has promoted energy disputes specialist Susan Maples to partner in New York, while also promoting four new counsel in its Almaty and Astana offices.

18 April 2023

Kazakhstan has reportedly launched claims against several major energy companies over allegations they deducted US$16.5 billion in revenue from two oil and gas fields without obtaining approval.

06 April 2023

Kazakhstan has asked a US court to reverse its decision to enforce a US$500 million Energy Charter Treaty award, arguing the Moldovan creditors have turned the court into an “unwitting instrument of a massive fraud”.

03 March 2023

A Jersey oil and gas company says it has won an ICC arbitration against its Kazakh state-owned former partner in an onshore exploration block in Romania.

24 February 2023

An ICDR panel has terminated a claim against Kazakhstan brought by a controversial businessman who has been accused of helping to launder US$440 million in stolen funds from the country.  

29 July 2022