KK&P Trial Lawyers took part in Legal Run 2025, the 12th International Lawyers’ Charity Race

On 17 May, KK&P advocates and employees participated in the event in aid of the Podari Zhizn (Gift of Life) charity. Maxim Kulkov, Alexandr Karlovskiy, Nikita Chernyshenko, Ekaterina Tumanova, Petr Radzishevskiy, Ekaterina Belashova, Tatiana Zaitseva, Ivan Kupriyanov, Anastasiya Loshchenina, Valeriya Shaykina and Anna Veretilo ran their Legal Run 2025 in support of children who are […]
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The KK&P team convinced the ICAC to apply the lis pendens principle and suspend proceedings until a parallel dispute is considered in Chinese arbitration

Russian and Chinese companies concluded a supply and distribution agreement that contained an arbitration clause in favour of the arbitration court at the chamber of commerce and industry or its equivalent at the location of the claimant. The Russian company committed a number of significant violations of the contract, and our client, a Chinese company, […]
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Commercial Court of Moscow grants interim anti-arbitration injunctions against German investor, arbitrators, counsel and PCA in ECT arbitration

In Case No А40-92702/2025, the Commercial Court of Moscow issued a series of unprecedented interim anti­arbitration injunctions, restraining a German investor – Wintershall Dea GmbH (Wintershall), its counsel, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) and the arbitrators (CP, HG and OA) from continuing an Energy Charter Treaty arbitration against the Russian Federation. The court held […]
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Russian Supreme Court tries to adjust the approach to recovery from foreign companies and their local subsidiaries

On 13 May 2025, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (the SC RF) published a Ruling in Case No. A40-167352/2023 (the Citi Case) motivating the cancellation of judgments of the lower courts that had previously admitted bringing Russian subsidiaries (Subsidiaries) to tort liability for their failure to fulfil contractual obligations of foreign parent companies (Foreign […]
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Maxim Kulkov to speak at the Russian International Arbitration Congress (RIAC)

The concept of inherent powers allows arbitrators to act flexibly and make necessary decisions to ensure a fair and efficient arbitration, even if such powers are not provided under applicable law or the parties’ agreement. On 14 May, KK&P Managing Partner Maxim Kulkov will lead a session entitled From Implicit to Explicit: Understanding Arbitrators’ Inherent […]
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Specific features of subsidiary liability of foreign parent companies: Nikolay Pokryshkin’s talk at the Forbes insolvency conference

On 24 April, Partner and Head of Insolvency at KK&P Nikolay Pokryshkin spoke at the Plenary Session of a Forbes conference entitled Insolvencies, Restructurings, Corporate Conflicts: Landmark Cases and Trials in Modern Russia. In recent years, the practice of imposing tort liability on Russian subsidiaries for failure to fulfil contractual obligations of parent companies that […]
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KK&P’s Partners and Senior Associates – arbitrators of the 32nd Vis Moot

During the four days of the international student competition in Vienna, the KK&P Partners Maxim Kulkov, Oleg Kolotilov and Nikolay Pokryshkin, as well as Senior Associates Alexandr Karlovskiy, Luiza Movsisyan and Nikita Chernyshenko, arbitrated 14 rounds. Along with co-arbitrators from 15 countries, the firm’s partners and senior associates arbitrated the teams of 21 countries, including […]
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Russian Supreme Court overturns lower courts’ refusal to enforce arbitral award in Rosseti case

In Case No А67-3423/2024, the Russian Supreme Court ruled that the lower courts had improperly refused to enforce an RSPP-administered arbitral award in favour of PJSC Federal Grid Company-Rosseti (Rosseti) against LLC Siblesstroy. The Supreme Court held that the lower courts had overstepped their authority by reassessing the merits of the award, violating the limited […]
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Nikolay Pokryshkin speaks to the Global Arbitration Review regarding Russian bank VTB’s German subsidiary’s challenge of a Russian anti-suit injunction law

In 2022, VTB was blocked from exercising control over its German subsidiary OWH (formerly known as VTB Bank Europe), and the Russian bank launched Russian court proceedings to collect €112 million it says is owed by OWH as a settlement payment under an agreement terminating their relationship. Saying it could not pay due to EU sanctions, […]
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KK&P’s Partners and Senior Associates to participate as arbitrators in the 32nd Vis Moot

KK&P Partners Maxim Kulkov, Oleg Kolotilov and Nikolay Pokryshkin, as well as Senior Associates Alexandr Karlovskiy, Luiza Movsisyan and Nikita Chernyshenko, will arbitrate oral rounds of the international student competition, which is held in Vienna from April 11 to 17. More than 390 teams, 2,500 students and 1,200 arbitrators from all over the world will […]
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