In 2012 the Supreme Commercial Courts famously voided a dispute resolution clause, which entitled only one of the parties to choose between arbitration and litigation. Now the Russian courts have to decide whether to enforce a clause, which provides that the buyer should submit all its claims to arbitration, while the supplier should litigate any […]
Last Thursday RAA40 held its seminar on exclusion agreements. Two speakers – Anne-Marie Whitesell (of Counsel at Dechert LLP and former Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration) and one of RAA40’s co-chairs Olesya Petrol –addressed recent developments in the area. By entering into an exclusion agreement, which usually forms part of an arbitration clause, parties waive […]
This summer ICSID tribunals resolved jurisdictional challenges in two cases arising out of construction projects in Turkmenistan. In Kilic Insaat Ithalat Ihracat Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi v Turkmenistan (ICSID Case No. ARB/10/1) the tribunal decided that it does not have jurisdiction. It held that the investor failed to litigate its claims in the Turkmen courts […]
Earlier this week, the Presidium of the Supreme Commercial Court released the full text of its resolution in Bosch v. Avtosped (a case we covered earlier). Unsurprisingly, the court dismissed Bosch’s claims and referred them to arbitration. However, the Supreme Commercial Court used the case to go over some basic rules that the Russian courts […]
One of the pervasive issues in Russian-German business relationships is whether court decisions rendered in one of the two countries will be recognised and enforced in the other country. While the answer to this question appeared to be a rather clear “no” in the recent past, it is now a “yes, in some cases” and […]
21 октября 2013 г. с 11:00 до 12:30 по московскому времени будет проводиться вебинар, посвященный особенностям рассмотрения в российских государственных судах споров по международным контрактам: необходимость учета национального права, новые тенденции в связи с присоединением к ВТО, «подводные камни» и типичные проблемы. Вебинар проводится в партнерстве с коллегией адвокатов «Муранов, Черняков и партнеры». CIS Arbitration Forum […]
RAA40 invites you to its inaugural RAA40 meeting, which will take place on 17 October 2013 from 9 am to 10:30 am at 22 Tverskaya Street, Summit Business Centre, 9th Floor. Hogan Lovells (CIS) has agreed to host the meeting and CIS Arbitration Forum will act as information sponsor of the event. The organisers invite discussion of the following topic that […]
The ABA’s Fifth Annual Conference on the Resolution of the CIS-Related Business Dispute took place on 27 September 2013 in Moscow. More than 140 delegates from around the globe attended the conference, which featured six panels and a set of mock hearings in a complex cross-border dispute. The conference’s panels covered a broad spectrum of […]
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