Region: Moldova, Republic of

A Swedish court has rejected a Cypriot entity’s bid to set aside an SCC award that declined jurisdiction over its €884 million investment treaty claim against Moldova relating to an airport concession.

18 February 2025

Kazakhstan has agreed to settle its long-running dispute with Moldovan investors Anatolie and Gabriel Stati, which led to sprawling efforts to enforce a US$500 million Energy Charter Treaty award that the state claimed was obtained through fraud.

16 July 2024

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

A Moldovan investor has notified Spain of a potential investment treaty claim worth at least €31.5 million over the suspension of permits to fish for snow crabs in Arctic waters – an industry that is already the subject of three ICSID claims against Norway.

04 October 2023

Moldova has launched tenders for counsel to represent the state in three separate pieces of post-award litigation.

28 April 2023

Moldova has defeated an €884 million treaty claim over an airport concession just as it is hit with a new Energy Charter Treaty claim by a gas distributor.

04 August 2022

The European Court of Justice has issued a landmark ruling that the investor-state arbitration clause in the Energy Charter Treaty does not cover intra-EU investment disputes.

02 September 2021

A US appeals court has refused to allow the assignee of an arbitral debt worth more than US$32 million to renew a default enforcement judgment against Moldova issued over 20 years ago.

23 June 2021

An Irish court has lifted a freezing order that led to the grounding of a plane at Dublin Airport, after its Moldovan operator reached an agreement with an LCIA award creditor.

02 March 2021