Executive Summary

This case comment explores interactions between sanctions and arbitration through the lens of recent clashes between anti-sanction laws and anti-suit injunctions ("ASIs") arising out of sanctions against Russia. English courts have long been a popular venue for obtaining an ASI to restrain the pursuit of court proceedings brought in breach of an arbitration agreement. The effect of a Russian anti-sanctions law recently tested English ASI jurisprudence in a trilogy of disputes over a related set of English law-governed performance bonds providing for ICC arbitration in ...