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High Court (England and Wales) orders Quinn Emanuel to identify consultancy and procurers of forged Deripaska report; privilege does not extend to identities

Published on: 15 October 2024

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London's High Court directed the firm to reveal which consultancy supplied a report tied to a transaction between Deripaska and his erstwhile partner, Vladimir Chernukhin, concluding that a 'legally recognised wrong' had been done to the oligarch by its deployment. Mr Justice Neil Calver explained that the document, later exposed as a fake, was deployed to deliberately mislead the court in their dispute over the deal. He found that the involvement of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, which transmitted the report for litigation purposes, lent the paper a veneer of credibility and an appearance of reliability. Calver J stated he was satisfied there was a properly arguable case that a legally recognised wrong had been committed against the Deripaska parties, namely the use of the report in an attempt to pervert the course of justice, with Quinn Emanuel becoming unwittingly entangled in that wrongdoing in the process as well. Deripaska and Chernukhin have battled for years over ownership of prime property in Moscow in a long‑running feud. In 2017, arbitrators ordered Deripaska to pay his former colleague US$95m for his shares pursuant to an award made that year...

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