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Disputes arising from finance arrangements: post-crisis phenomenon in Ukraine – read more!

The 2008 financial crisis peak had hardly faded away, when another breaking news was brought to the surface in CIS countries: a significant part of the funds advanced during the pre-crisis period by banks and other financial institutions to support various businesses and commercial initiatives, flew beyond national frontiers to be found in Panama, BVI, […]

Is the Door to England Still That Wide Open for CIS Disputes?

6 February has marked lawyers’ calendars with an important message from the UK Supreme Court: English courts will not accept the jurisdiction over a dispute having the “centre of gravity” in another country. In particular, the Court found that in a tort claim, where the key issues in the litigation would on the face of […]

WFO против Сергея Максимова

В свежем номере ЮП от 5 февраля опубликована статья Александра Геревича «Взять на арбитраж», в которой обсуждается недавний приказ Высокого суда в Лондоне (High Court of Justice) о всемирном замораживании активов бывшего мажоритарного акционера украинского VAB Банка Сергея Максимова (так называемый, worldwide freezing order или кратко WFO). Учитывая некоторые неточности, допущенные автором статьи, хотелось бы обратить […]