Reply To: Russia will ban Western companies from exiting investments as BP and others dash

Typically when countries go to war, the seize each other’s assets (and round up each others citizens). In the past, the Swiss arranged for transportation home for the people, and after the war the lawyers take care of the assets (note that the litigation from World War II is not over). So if you are stuck on the wrong side of the line when you become an “enemy alien”, it is hardly the end of the world, if you are a lawyer for someone whose property is in the wrong country there is light at the end of the tunnel, and if your property is on the wrong side you might get something back after the war if your team wins and your lawyers are clever.