CL-2022-000456 - [2025] EWHC 1614 (Comm)
Commercial Court

CL-2022-000456 - [2025] EWHC 1614 (Comm)

Fecha: 26-Jun-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 1614 (Comm)
Case No: CL-2022-000456
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
KING’S BENCH DIVISION

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

COMMERCIAL COURT

Royal Courts of Justice, Rolls Building

Fetter Lane, London, WC4A 1NL

Date: 26 June 2025

Before :

MR JUSTICE BRIGHT

Between :

(1) LLC EUROCHEM NORTH-WEST-2

(2) EUROCHEM GROUP AG

Claimants

- and -

(1) SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE S.A.

(2) SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE S.A.

(described as SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE PARIS)

(3) SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE – MILANO BRANCH

(described as SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE MILANO)

(4) ING BANK N.V.

(5) ING BANK N.V. – MILAN BRANCH

-and-

TECNIMONT S.P.A.

Defendants

Third Party

Mr Tim Chelmick, Ms Marie-Claire O’Kane, Mr Emile Simpson, Ms Helena Spector (instructed by Vinson & Elkins RLLP) for the Claimants

Mr Richard Handyside KC, Mr James Duffy KC, Ms Natasha Bennett (instructed by Herbert Smith Freehills LLP) for the First, Second and Third Defendants

Mr Neil Kitchener KC, Mr James Weale, Mr Robert Harris (instructed by Clifford Chance LLP) for the Fourth and Fifth Defendants

Mr Alan Maclean KC, Mr Tom Leary (instructed by McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP) for the Third Party

Hearing dates: 25 June 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 3:00pm on 26/06/25 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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Mr Justice Bright: