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White & Case to act for Russian government in $12bn Pugachev arbitration

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Sarah Downey
1 November 2016
CIS and Russia

White & Case has won a lucrative instruction to defend the Russian government on the $12bn arbitration case taken against it by Sergei Pugachev, a tycoon once dubbed ‘Putin’s banker.’

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