July 17, 2019
Kazakhstan has urged a D.C. federal court to halt two Moldovan energy investors from seeking information they say is needed to collect a half-billion-dollar arbitral award against the country, arguing their efforts are "burdensome" and irrelevant because it has no attachable U.S. assets.
November 14, 2018
A D.C. federal judge has allowed two Moldovan oil and gas investors to begin pinning down assets to enforce an approximately $500 million arbitral award issued against Kazakhstan despite a pending appeal, denying the Central Asian nation's bid to pause the proceeding without posting a bond first.
August 22, 2018
Two Moldovan oil and gas investors have urged a D.C. federal judge to allow them to try to collect on a $506 million arbitral award issued against Kazakhstan even as the country challenges the judgment, arguing that Kazakhstan is trying to evade paying up by stalling and hiding its assets.
August 07, 2018
Kazakhstan asked a D.C. federal judge not to force it to put up security while it challenges enforcement of a more than $506 million arbitral award issued to two Moldovan oil and gas investors, arguing that the investors have already frozen enough of its assets abroad.
May 16, 2018
Kazakhstan has urged a D.C. federal court not to allow two Moldovan oil and gas investors to begin seizing the country's U.S. assets to enforce a confirmed arbitral award worth more than $506 million, arguing that they've already attached more than $22 billion in Kazakh assets elsewhere.
March 26, 2018
A D.C. federal judge on Friday confirmed a $506 million arbitral award issued against Kazakhstan for forcing two Moldovan businessmen into selling a liquefied petroleum gas plant and other assets below market value, finding that arbitrators did not violate their own rules and that the country's new legal defenses arrived too late.
October 25, 2017
Two Moldovan oil and gas investors trying to collect a $506 million arbitral award against Kazakhstan told a D.C. federal court on Tuesday that the country has lost its latest appeal challenging the award after a Swedish court denied a review request.
September 25, 2017
Two Moldovan oil and gas investors trying to collect a more than $506 million arbitral award against Kazakhstan urged a D.C. federal court on Monday to follow the lead of Sweden's highest court, which last week refused to pause enforcement of the award even as proceedings continue there.
August 15, 2017
A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday declined to unpause a suit filed by two Moldovan oil and gas investors who are trying to collect a $506 million arbitral award against Kazakhstan, saying while she recognizes their "frustration," the country's related case in a Swedish court must play out first.
February 23, 2017
Kazakhstan has asked a D.C. federal court to keep holding off on enforcing a $506 million arbitral award to two Moldovan energy investors while the country is abroad fighting claims it harassed their companies then confiscated oil and gas investments from them for a pittance.