September 16, 2014, CDR

Covington partners Marney Cheek and Jonathan Gimblett are featured in this article regarding their representation of Yukos minority shareholders: “The writing is on the wall. Once again, Russia has been held accountable for its actions,” Marney Cheek, a Covington & Burling partner who represented the Spanish investors, tells CDR.  Indeed, Jonathan Gimblett, ...

September 12, 2014, Global Arbitration Review

The articles above reference the Stockholm District Court dismissing the Russian Federation’s jurisdictional challenge to a previous arbitration ruling that ordered Russia to compensate a group of Spanish investors for the losses they suffered when the government expropriated the Yukos Oil Company, one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. The ...

4/8/2009

WASHINGTON, DC, April 8, 2009 — Covington & Burling LLP has secured a major victory in an international arbitration against Russia on behalf of Spanish holders of Yukos American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). The decision on jurisdiction, under the rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, is expected to have important implications ...