Russian oligarch Potanin's ex-wife can pursue massive divorce claim, UK court rules


FILE PHOTO: Vladimir Potanin, CEO and largest shareholder of Nornickel, speaks to journalists during the Congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow, Russia March 18, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) -Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin's ex-wife can pursue a multi-billion dollar share of his stake in Nornickel, London's Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday allowing potentially one of the highest-value divorce cases ever brought to continue.

Potanin, the chief executive of Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest palladium producer and a major producer of refined nickel – is facing a mammoth divorce claim from his ex-wife Natalia Potanina.

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