JSC NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine on December 30, without bidding, ordered legal services for $7 million from the international law firm Covington & Burling LLP (USA). Previously, they were also ordered without bidding, due to negotiations. This is reported in theProzorro“, they write Our money.
In 2023, the company will represent the interests of Naftogaz in settling disputes related to the loss or inability of Naftogaz to use its property and its non-receipt of income in the occupied Crimea. Surely, talking about arbitration before the tribunal established under the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on the promotion and mutual protection of investments dated November 27, 1998 (“SMI Ukraine-Russia”). The order volume and hourly rates are unknown because the contract has not been made public.
Since 2017 Naftogaz concluded agreements with this company on representation in a dispute with Russia over property in the occupied Crimea for $48 million. Back in 2021, he ordered to her legal services for a possible arbitration with Slovakia for the arrested gas for 3 million euros.
Also the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine since 2015 concluded with this company of agreements on protection from Russia for $17 million. In addition, this company recently represents the interests of Rinat Akhmetov in the European Court of Human Rights. In the summer of 2022, it became known that he filed a lawsuit against Russia with the ECHR regarding compensation for gross violations of his property rights during Russia’s unprovoked military aggression against Ukraine.
Recall that until 2009 the senior partner of Covington & Burling was Eric Holderwho later became U.S. Attorney General and held this post until April 2015.
In 2012, the firm helped seven Spanish Yukos investor funds recover $2 million they lost from Russia, but in 2016 this decision canceled Court of Appeal. In 2011 Yulia Tymoshenko and BYuT ordered the company audited cases on the purchase of Opel cars as an ambulance and the use of money under the Kyoto Protocol.
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