In the second-largest award ever from a World Bank arbitration tribunal, litigators from Debevoise & Plimpton won nearly $6 billion for mining company Tethyan Copper Co. in a dispute with the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

The fight involves the Reko Diq mine—a vast and undeveloped deposit of copper and gold in Pakistan’s remote province of Balochistan.

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