Dispute resolution

consulting and representing:

• one of the leading Russian companies in international commercial arbitration (LCIA) in a multi-billion USD dispute in connection with the financing of a major infrastructure project;

• a large metallurgical holding in arbitration under the ICAC Rules and in the Russian commercial courts in a dispute relating to the refusal of a foreign supplier to supply products to Russia;

• a large industrial and investment holding in relation to a corporate dispute against another shareholder;

• a Russian telecommunications company in the Russian courts in a dispute over representations and indemnities arising from an M&A transaction for the acquisition a network of data centers; 

• the employer in connection with the termination of a complex construction contract worth over 50 billion roubles and claims invoking bank guarantees;

• a large industrial group in connection with possible litigation and arbitration proceedings in Sweden, Austria, Germany, China and Turkey with a number of foreign counterparties in relation to refusal to perform obligations in connection with sanctions;

• a Russian-Chinese joint venture as employer in connection with the termination of a number of contracts, including an EPSS contract, with a consortium of Russian and foreign contractors;

• a major Russian energy company in an SCC arbitration seated in Stockholm in a dispute regarding a joint venture in Western Siberia;

• a major mining company in parallel arbitration proceedings under the LCIA Rules and ICAC Rules as well as before Russian commercial courts in a joint venture dispute;

• an international organisation in arbitration proceedings under the UNCITRAL Rules as well as in the Russian commercial courts in a joint-venture dispute;

• a Russian manufacturing company in the Russian commercial courts it is defence of claims brought by a public authority for alleged violation of subsidy conditions;

• a Russian company seeking damages and interim measures in Russia and other jurisdictions in a dispute arising out of a joint venture agreement;

• a Russian client in multiple defamation proceedings across a number of jurisdictions.

Banking and finance

advising and representing:

• VEB RF and a Russian state-owned bank in relation to project, equity and bridge financing under Russian law for the construction of a copper-nickel ore mining and processing complex in the Krasnoyarsk Region with a processing capacity of 7 million tons of ore per year;

• VEB RF and Gazprombank on syndicated project financing of producers of nitric acid and ammonium nitrate solution;

• VEB RF and Gazprombank on syndicated project financing of producers of sulfuric acid and oleum.