Автор: Alexander Shmagin

Arbitration Maritime Industry Shipping Industry

BGH confirms: An application for confirmation of the scope of an arbitral clause can be filed even if proceedings on the merits are already pending in a state court: BGH, 6 November 2025, I ZB 33/25

Case Summary and Background The dispute decided by BGH on 6 November 2025 (case ref: I ZB 33/25) arose from a complex international supply relationship involving ship engines. In 2007, a German manufacturer sold four ship engines to an Australian company, I. Ltd., which installed them in the vessel “E.”. Over time, the ship changed […]

EU Sanctions

Indirect Transactions Involving Frozen Assets under Regulation (EU) No 269/2014

Comment on General Court judgment in Case T-102/23 Introduction In a noteworthy judgment, the General Court (First Chamber) addressed the issue of indirect transactions involving frozen assets under Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 (OJ 2022, L 193, p. 133). The case (T-102/23) provides important guidance on the scope of the prohibition on disposal and the concept […]

Arbitration Recognition of foreign judgments Sanctions

Is there a successful path for enforcement of an arbitral award in Russia?

In one of our recent articles (see here), we discussed a case in which the Russian commercial court refused to recognise an arbitral award because it was requested by a foreign company from a so-called unfriendly country without a domestic bank account. Enforcement would result in a violation of the provisional public order. Now, the […]

Maritime Industry Recognition of foreign judgments Sanctions

Cyprus court decision not recognised in Russia

Since 1984, Cyprus was one of the few EU countries to have concluded a mutual legal assistance agreement with Russia in civil and criminal matters, under which the two countries undertook to recognise the decisions of each other’s courts (Art. 23). However, current practice is such that this provision is no longer applied. Decisions by […]