Region: Ukraine
Russia fails to stop enforcement of Crimea award
A US court has refused to dismiss a bid by Ukraine’s largest private energy company to enforce a US$267 million treaty award against Russia over the expropriation of its Crimean assets.
22 April 2025
Iron ore miner threatens treaty claim against Ukraine
A Swiss-headquartered iron ore mining and trading company has threatened to bring an investment treaty claim against Ukraine in response to the targeting of its assets by anticorruption authorities prosecuting a “fugitive oligarch”.
19 March 2025
Ukrainian lawyers acquitted of fraud in Switzerland
Three partners at Ukrainian firm Eterna Law have been acquitted of fraud charges in Switzerland after a former arbitration client withdrew a criminal complaint that they had forged a legal services agreement.
05 March 2025
Dutch lender makes good on threat against Ukraine
A Dutch lender has launched an ICSID claim against Ukraine over the state’s takeover of one of the country’s biggest banks.
18 February 2025
Ukrainian law firm recruits new practice co-head
Markiyan Malskky has left Poland’s Kochański & Partners and returned to his former firm Arzinger in Ukraine as partner and co-head of the international dispute resolution and arbitration practice.
30 January 2025
Ukrainian grain loan award surfaces in New York
A Hong Kong corporate trustee has asked a US court to enforce a US$153 million LCIA award against two Ukrainian businessmen who defaulted on a loan for their grain terminal operator at the port of Odesa.
24 January 2025
Ukraine wins treaty claim over chocolate factory
Ukraine has defeated a US$100 million investment treaty claim brought by a Russian-US businessman who accused the state of expropriating his interest in a chocolate factory.
22 November 2024
Swedish court affirms Russian state corporation can pursue BIT claim
A Swedish court has rejected Ukraine’s challenge to a jurisdictional award that found a Russian state development corporation qualifies as an “investor” under a bilateral investment treaty.
04 November 2024
ICSID rejects “speculative” challenge to Ukraine’s arbitrator
An American academic’s vote in favour of criticism of Russian “aggression” in Ukraine and comments about sanctions made during a webinar weren’t sufficient at this stage to disqualify him from hearing an ICSID case relating to Ukrainian sanctions on Russian nationals, a newly published challenge decision confirms.
29 October 2024
Ukrainian state miner defeats claims by Austrian company
A Ukrainian state-owned mining company has reportedly defeated claims worth US$22 million brought by an Austrian company over supply of raw materials – as another state entity pauses its search for external counsel for a prospective investment treaty claim against Russia.
16 October 2024