The Law of the Arbitration Agreement Meets Russia-Related Anti-Suit Injunctions: The United Kingdom Supreme Court’s Decision in UniCredit Bank GmbH v. RusChemAlliance LLC

The Law of the Arbitration Agreement Meets Russia-Related Anti-Suit Injunctions: The United Kingdom Supreme Court’s Decision in UniCredit Bank GmbH v. RusChemAlliance LLC

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Counsel Cem Kalelioğlu co-authored an article published in IPRax. The article analyzes the UK Supreme Court’s decision in UniCredit v RusChemAlliance [2024] UKSC 30 and addresses two main themes of the Supreme Court’s decision – (i) anti-suit injunctions against Russian courts’ assumption of jurisdiction despite the existence of a valid arbitration agreement; and (ii) the law governing the arbitration agreement.

See Scherer M, Jensen O and Kalelioğlu C, ‘The Law of the Arbitration Agreement Meets Russia-Related Anti-Suit Injunctions: The United Kingdom Supreme Court’s Decision in UniCredit Bank GmbH v. RusChemAlliance LLC’ [2025] IPRax 200-211

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