Today the UK Supreme Court has handed down its judgment to send for a full public trial the legal proceedings initiated on behalf of Russia relating to the US$3 billion Eurobonds issued by Ukraine in December 2013. This landmark ruling permits Ukraine to defend the claim in the English courts on the ground of duress exercised by Russia against Ukraine through threats of aggression back in 2013 and Russia's subsequent behaviour could not realistically be ignored. The full disclosure will adduce another evidence that Ukraine has truth and right on its side.
The Supreme Court judgment is available via the link.
Asters acts as a Ukrainian legal advisor to the State together with the lead counsel Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP. The team includes Co-Managing Partner Oleksiy Didkovskiy, Senior Partner Armen Khachaturyan, Counsels Oksana Legka and Anna Tkachova, Associate Anna Lalaiants.
Asters is the largest law firm in Ukraine with offices in Kyiv, Washington D.C., London, and Brussels. Chambers Europe 2022 recognizes 21 lawyers of Asters – the largest number of the renowned practitioners in a single Ukrainian law firm.
