
ENGLISH COURT UPHOLDS SCC AWARD DESPITE RESPONDENT’S ARGUMENT THAT ARBITRATION AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED BY DEFUNCT PREDECESSOR
In Carpatsky Petroleum Corp v PJSC Ukrnafta [2020] EWHC 769 (Comm), the Commercial Court has upheld the enforcement of a US$147 million Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (the “SCC”) award issued in 2010 in favour of Carpatsky Petroleum Corporation, incorporated in Delaware (“Carpatsky”), against PJSC Ukrnafta (“Ukrnafta”), Ukraine’s oil and gas producer (the “Award”). Enforcement was allowed despite an argument from... Read more