Award-Creditor Seeks Discovery To Establish If Company Is Chinese Instrumentality

Mealey's (May 3, 2021, 1:48 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A British Virgin Islands entity seeking to confirm a $21.5 million arbitral award against a Chinese oil exploration and production company responded to the Chinese company’s motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction on April 30 by moving for leave to conduct jurisdictional discovery under U.S. law to establish that the Chinese company is an instrumentality of the People’s Republic of China....