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How Russia could use bankruptcy law to punish foreign companies

Ukrainian servicemen carry a body at the site of a military strike on a shopping center in the Podilskyi district of Kyiv, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 21, 2022. [Reuters]

As foreign companies seek to exit Russia over the war in Ukraine, they face the prospect that Russian bankruptcy law could be used to seize assets and even lead to criminal penalties. Here is how that could work: 

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