Nigeria is fighting to set aside an arbitral award requiring it to pay US$11 billion to an offshore company with arguments that the award and underlying contract were secured through “industrial scale” bribery of Nigerian government officials and lawyers representing the state in the arbitration.
A French court has ruled that Libya is not too late to appeal the enforcement of a €280 million award, after finding that delivery of documents to the state’s foreign ministry was not sufficient to prove service had been completed.
The Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (CEPANI) has included an express requirement in its new arbitration rules to consider diversity and inclusion when appointing arbitrators.
A Hungarian oil and gas group that won a US$237 million ICSID award against Croatia after defeating the state’s bribery defence has moved to enforce it in a US court, putting the …
Foley Hoag partners Christina Hioureas and Diana Paraguacuto-Mahéo have been named global co-chairs of the firm’s international litigation and arbitration practice – forming a new leadership team alongside current co-chair Constantinos Salonidis.
The Swiss Arbitration Centre has appointed new members to its arbitration court, which now has gender parity, as “game-changing” new rules for corporate law disputes come into effect.
An ICC award has been set aside after the Paris Court of Appeal concluded that a eulogy written for Emmanuel Gaillard following his sudden and unexpected death gave rise to doubt about the independence and impartiality of the tribunal president.
Aliaksandr Danilevich, the Belarusian arbitration practitioner arrested for co-signing a petition denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has been charged with supporting sanctions and extremism and faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted.
The Singapore Court of Appeal has ruled that the arbitrability of a dispute at the pre-award stage will be determined by the governing law of the arbitration agreement – even where it is the law of a foreign jurisdiction.
In a key decision arising from an insurance dispute, the English Commercial Court has set aside a partial award issued by a majority ICC tribunal following a challenge by French aerospace company Dassault Aviation based on the circumvention of no-transfer provisions of the main contract for the sale of aircraft.
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