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Shortly we will be happy to share with you Stepan Sultanov's publication, dedicated to the Lugovoy Law, anti-anti-suit injunctions and the latest foreign sanctions. The paper will analyze the correlation between the proceedings in Russian courts under the Lugovoy Law and the countermeasures of foreign states. Stay tuned. ...
 189 04.09.2024 Stepan Sultanov
Russian teams withdrew from the 29th Willem C. Vis Moot that is taking place in Vienna, Austria, these days. This step was taken in support of the Vis Moot, a competition which coaches of the withdrawn teams, being almost every one a Vis Moot alumnus, admire and highlight as one of the brightest moments of their lives. I am one of those coaches and a participant of the 22nd Vis Moot....
 7474 13.04.2022 Stepan Sultanov
Stepan Sultanov (KIAP) and Piotr Gajek (WKB) / February 13, 2022 A party to arbitration proceedings may incur ancillary litigation costs, such as those associated with interim measures. Most academic commentary considering whether such expenditures actually constitute arbitration costs refers to professor Hanotiau, who states that costs related to litigat...
Moscow hosted the conference “Best Antitrust Practices 2021” from Forbes Congress on 22 October 2021. Ilya Ischuk — Partner, Head of Antitrust Practice in KIAP, Attorneys at Law, joined the fourth session “Judicial Practice in Russia: Antitrust Cases and New Court Stories” with a speech “Per se or not per se: How Courts Treat the “Cartel” Clauses of Resolution No. 2 of the Plenum of S...
 2667 22.10.2021 Ilya Ischuk
The 2015 Queen Mary and White & Case International Arbitration Survey1 revealed that a lack of effective sanctions during the arbitral process was the second worst characteristic of international arbitration. Within the same survey, 52% of respondents picked sanctions for dilatory conduct by parties or their counsel as effective innovation that could be included in arbitral rules and proce...
Published by Natalia Kisliakova, Peter Stewart. The Russian doping scandal has been in the headlines since 2014 when German television channel, RTL, broadcast a documentary (the RTL Documentary) concerning the alleged existence of a doping regime within the All-Russia Athletics Federation. Over the last few years, details of the sophisticated nature of the scheme have emerged following ...
 6784 31.10.2019 LawInSport
If I were asked to select three top tips for advocacy in Russia and eastern Europe, I would choose the following:    using storytelling; dering the influence of the first impression; and remembering the ‘IKEA’ effect. In short, these can be used – albeit with some modifications – in arbitration in any jurisdiction. I begin by commenting on each of these tips in ...
 6082 24.10.2019 Global Arbitration Review
Professional responsibility of Russian lawyers is a long-standing matter. Recently, in addition to domestic ethics the legal community has been maintaining debates on ethical challenges in international commercial arbitration (“ICA”). For Russia, it looks as a discussion of particulars of creating a bicycle, when we are out of wheels. It is wrong to say that most unethical activity ...
Authors: Jane Colston, Brown Rudnick, London Olga Bischof, Brown Rudnick, London Cameron Moxley, Brown Rudnick, New York Anna Grishchenkova, KIAP, Moscow In the United Kingdom, the governing Conservative Party has promised not to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) while the process of Brexit is underway, but the Part...
When asked what the buzz is in Russia — what lawyers are talking about at the moment — KIAP Partner Anna Grishchenkova laughs. “Of course lawyers always talk about money,” she says. Turning serious, Grishchenkova reports that, at least for her and her fellow litigators, “the top news is the new Arbitration Law.” Grishchenkova describes herself as being “very hopeful” about t...
 8479 31.10.2016 CEE Legal Matters
Anna Grishchenkova, partner at KIAP attorneys at law, interviewed Sarah Grimmer, new Secretary General of HKIAC, during IBA annual conference in Washington Sarah Grimmer was appointed Secretary General of HKIAC on 1 September 2016. Sarah has more than 14 years of experience in the field of international arbitration, spanning inter-State, investor-State and interna...
 11027 18.10.2016 RAA
The Russian Supreme Court recently rendered a decision declaring disputes on challenging agreements with banks in a special financial situation, called by lawyers – “troubled” banks, as non-arbitrable [Bank Trust v. Fosint Ltd., decision dated 16 August 2016 number 305-ЭС16-4051] (“Trust case”). In this case, a “troubled” bank, meaning a bank in which a temporary administratio...
 6583 12.09.2016 Kluwer Arbitration Blog