JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshlenniy Bank & Anr v Pugachev [2015] EWCA Civ 139

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | July/August 2015 #151

In the early 1990s, Mr Pugachev founded the JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshlenniy Bank (the bank) in Russia. It became one of Russia’s largest privately owned commercial banking groups. On 4 October 2010, the Russian Central Bank revoked its banking licence and appointed a ‘temporary administration’ and on 30 November 2010 it was declared insolvent by the Russian court and placed into temporary administration. The state corporation ‘Deposit Insurance Agency’ (the DIA) was appointed as liquidator. Mr Pugachev left Russia for London in 2011. The Russian liquidation of the bank was recognised by...

Injunctions: A test of strength

Geraldine Elliott and Sarah Bishop discuss a recent decision looking at the fortification of a cross-undertaking in damages ‘The court must make an intelligent estimate of the likely amount of loss which might be suffered as a consequence of an injunction.’ In Energy Venture Partners Ltd v Malabu Oil and Gas Ltd [2014] the Court …
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