Legal Opinion
Lebedev v. Blavatnik
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 4, 2016No. 650369/14 1612PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Saxe, J.
On this appeal, defendants challenge the denial of their CPLR 3211 motion insofar as it sought to dismiss plaintiff’s first, second and third causes of action as barred by the statute of limitations. Since for purposes of this analysis we must accept as true the allegations of the complaint (see Leon v Martinez, 84 NY2d 83, 87-88 [1994]), the factual assertions that follow are derived from the complaint.
In 1997, Russia privatized a state-owned oil and gas company, Tyumen Oil Company (TNK), and defendants led an investment group that successfully bid on a 40% share…
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