English Court Rejects Appeal Of Order Enforcing $72M London Award

(December 20, 2016, 12:03 PM EST) -- LONDON — An England and Wales court on Dec. 19 rejected the appeal of an investor in a Moscow real estate project of a judgment enforcing a $72,243,000 arbitral award issued in favor of another investor by the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), finding that the judge did not err in his interpretation that an underlying arbitration clause existed (Ashot Yegiazaryan v. Vitaly Ivonovich Smagin, No. [2016] EWCA Civ 1290, England and Wales App.)....