On May 16, 2024, AGA Partners and ICC Ukraine held a business breakfast: “Act or wait? The main dilemma of damages compensation caused by the war” for Ukrainian companies that suffered and lost assets as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

The event was moderated by Aminat Suleymanova, Managing Partner at AGA Partners and Ivan Kasynyuk, Partner at AGA Partners

Among the speakers of the business breakfast were:
Iryna Moroz, Partner at AGA Partners
Pavlo Lebediev, Counsel at AGA Partners
Dariia Zyma, lawyer at AGA Partners
Maria Kostytska, Partner at Winston & Strawn LLP
Olesya Prantyuk, Director at HKA's London office
Alexander Milner KC, barrister and arbitrator at Fountain Court Chambers in London
Andrew W., partner at Raedas
Dmytro Shemelin, Investment Manager, Senior Legal Counsel at Omni Bridgeway in Amsterdam office

We discussed available mechanisms of compensation for losses for Ukrainian businesses,
how losses and damages caused by military actions are recorded,
expert assessment of losses,
prospects for recovering damages under the decisions of Ukrainian courts,
investment arbitration against Russia,
enforcement of arbitral awards and judgments in foreign jurisdictions,
search for assets in the Russian Federation,
financing of arbitration and litigation against the Russian Federation and Russian companies.

We are grateful to the speakers and participants for the interesting and informative event and also appreciate the assistance in organization ICC Ukraine.