Devas will pursue its rights in courts around the world: Matthew D McGill

The only urgency is coming from the Indian government, which has taken outrageous actions to evade payment of the award, and expropriate Devas, says McGill

Devas Multimedia is out to enforce a $1.2-billion international arbitration award arising from a failed contract with Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of ISRO, by approaching US courts this week to lay claim on Air India’s assets abroad. Matthew D McGill, partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and lead counsel for a number of Devas’ shareholders, explains what necessitated this latest move in the US courts, via an e-mail interview to Sudipto Dey. Edited excerpts:     

With appeals pending before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) and the Supreme Court, what was the urgency for moving courts in the