In LLC Agronefteprodukt v Ameropa AG [2021] EWHC 3474, Sir William Blair (sitting as a judge of the High Court in the Commercial Court) refused the Russian claimant company’s substantive jurisdiction challenge, made under section 67 of the Arbitration Act 1996, to an award issued in favour of the defendant Swiss company by a Gafta First Tier Tribunal and upheld by a Gafta Board of Appeal. Albert Badia, solicitor and partner in AACNI (UK) Ltd., acted successfully in this case.
21/12/2021