Is the legal environment changing for Russia-related transaction? What new challenges will parties face and how should they address them? *

Russia - December 21 2012
Russia is a dynamic, developing growth market, with a constantly changing legal environment. Right now Russia is seeing an upturn of activity in…

Co-authors: Jason Yardley, David Crook, Andrei Dontsov.

Arbitration clause with unilateral option to litigate held to be invalid by Russian court *

Russia - September 25 2012
The Russian Supreme Commercial Court has held that an arbitration clause granting one party a unilateral option to litigate is invalid under Russian law.

Co-authors: Hendrik Puschmann, Pavel Boulatov, Charlie Lightfoot, Jason Yardley.

English court considers public law aspects of enforcing arbitral awards *

United Kingdom - July 14 2012
The Court of Appeal has ruled on preliminary issues in the well-known and complex Yukos v Rosneft case.

Co-authors: Artem Doudko, Julia Zagonek.