Practical Law has published an article by Maxim Kulkov and Sergey Lysov

The Russian Supreme Court has ruled that the invalidity of an underlying contract does not lead to the invalidity of an arbitration agreement contained within it. In doing so, the Supreme Court reversed the commercial and cassation court’s decisions which had both found that where the underlying contract was invalid, the arbitration agreement was also invalid.

Although before the Supreme Commercial Court was abolished in 2014, it clearly supported the principle of separability of arbitration agreements, it was unclear until this decision whether the Supreme Court would share the same approach. (Ruling N 306-ES16-4741.).

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