Big Law Firms Withdraw From Sberbank as VTB Finds New Attorneys

Two Big Law firms are formally stepping away from sanctioned Russian bank Sberbank in a lawsuit over a 2014 attack on a civilian jetliner in Ukraine.

White & Case and Debevoise & Plimpton asked a federal judge Thursday in Manhattan to grant their release from the case, formalizing a request to withdraw they had telegraphed for weeks following Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The parents of Quinn Schansman, a U.S. man who died in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, are suing Sberbank and others in a federal court in Manhattan. They allege that Sberbank and other Russian banks provided ...