Organisation: Russian Arbitration Association

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

Months after Baker McKenzie announced its Russian operations would be spun off in response to the war in Ukraine, the firm’s head of CIS disputes Vladimir Khvalei has left to join Mansors in Moscow.  

02 August 2022

 The Russian Supreme Court has ruled for the first time that sanctioned Russian parties need not prove that sanctions have actually impeded their access to justice to obtain an injunction restraining a foreign arbitration. Timur Aitkulov and Galina Valentirova of Aitkulov & Partners in Moscow report. 

13 January 2022

Readers are invited to join us next week for GAR Live: Moscow, which will address topics including large-scale disputes in infrastructure projects and whether public policy is a matter of international or national law.

07 October 2021

In a keynote address at GAR Connect: Breaking In, the director of legislation at Cameroon’s ministry of justice, Gaston Kenfack Douajni, criticised the “condescension” with which African arbitrators are treated and the “superiority complex” of some Western practitioners when dealing with arbitral centres in Africa.

08 September 2021

The eight-lawyer disputes team at Clifford Chance in Moscow led by partner Timur Aitkulov has left the firm to launch a new disputes boutique in the Russian capital.

18 January 2021

"2020 will always be remembered as the year the Freshfields Lecture went virtual," said Jacomijn van Haersolte-van Hof,  delivering the lecture last week, while Julian Lew QC and Sylvia Noury also reflected on this departure. 

07 December 2020

GAR has published its shortlist for a special recognition award that will be handed out at its first virtual award ceremony, paying tribute to the response by the international arbitration community to the coronavirus pandemic.

19 June 2020

Rybalkin Gortsunyan & Partners in Moscow has launched a new arbitration practice led by Dmitry Dyakin, the former co-head of litigation and arbitration at Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners.

15 June 2020

27 January 2020