ABA’s 9th Annual Conference on the Resolution of CIS-Related Business Disputes

The annual ABA conference in Moscow, when East meets West and the hardest topics get discussed. In the time of high political tensions, the conference has a particular importance for the international legal community.

Topics discussed:

• Navigating business disputes between Russian and US-EU companies in an era of heightened tensions;
• Resolving shareholder disputes:  Strategic considerations for counsel and clients under the new Russian arbitration law;
• Investor-state arbitrations involving Russian/CIS investors and states:  What’s new and what’s next?
• The intersection of criminal proceedings and cross-border business disputes;
• Enforcement of Russian arbitral awards and judgments abroad:  Dissecting the lessons of Maximov v. OJSC NLMK;
• Lessons from the Transneft v. Sberbank, Tizpribor v. Vympelcom, and Rosneft v. Systema cases;
• Property of the state? Enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards against states and state-owned entities;
• Tips for foreign litigants in Russian courts;