Topic: Russia-Ukraine conflict

The 9th annual conference of the European Federation for Investment Law and Arbitration (EFILA) highlighted how investment arbitration is needed more than ever as society deals with geopolitical tension, climate change and the energy transition. Leah Thomas of Clifford Chance reports.

14 May 2024

German state-owned energy group Uniper has appealed a Russian court ruling that ordered it to terminate a Stockholm-seated arbitration against Gazprom’s export arm or pay a €14.3 billion penalty. 

07 May 2024

David Goldberg has left White & Case, where he was co-head of investment arbitration in London, to join the arbitration boutique set up by Andrea Pinna and launch its new office in the UK capital. 

02 May 2024

A Russian court has restrained an HKIAC arbitration against a Gazprom affiliate while refusing to impose a €1.8 billion penalty on the German claimant – as another Gazprom subsidiary asks it to block an arbitration brought by a Dutch gas pipeline operator.

19 April 2024

A Luxembourg company part-owned by sanctioned Russian nationals has applied to disqualify US academic Sean Murphy from hearing its billion-dollar ICSID claim against Ukraine over a bank nationalisation. 

11 April 2024

The European Commission has proposed that the EU should invoke the Energy Charter Treaty’s denial of benefits clause to withdraw protections for Russian and Belarusian investors.

10 April 2024

Gazprom has asked a Russian court to restrain Austria’s OMV from pursuing ICC arbitration following the seizure of the group’s billion-euro stake in a gas extraction project. 

02 April 2024

Greece’s state-owned gas company Depa has reportedly filed a price review arbitration against Russia’s Gazprom under a long-term gas supply contract. 

28 March 2024

Vitaly Morozov, who has advised Ukrainian investors in treaty cases against Russia, has joined the partnership at FisherBroyles spin-off firm Pierson Ferdinand in Washington, DC – while disputes lawyer Kristin Drecktrah Paz has also joined the firm as a partner in Miami. 

25 March 2024

Russia has successfully challenged arbitrators Donald McRae and Rüdiger Wolfrum in an inter-state dispute based on their support for a declaration that criticised Russian aggression in Ukraine, weeks after failing to disqualify two other arbitrators in a pair of investment treaty cases based on similar grounds.

21 March 2024