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SOAS University of London has launched a research and knowledge exchange centre focused on arbitration, with professor Emilia Onyema serving as its director and WilmerHale partner Steven Finizio as deputy director.

15 August 2023

A Hong Kong court has stayed a six-year-old petition to wind up a Chinese paper company over an unpaid HKIAC award because the debtor is pursuing a larger cross-claim in a second arbitration.

15 August 2023

Russia’s largest cargo airline has threatened to file an investment treaty claim against Canada over the seizure of one of its aircraft at Toronto airport.

15 August 2023

An ICSID tribunal has found Peru liable in a dispute with an Argentine-led consortium over a concession for an airport near Machu Picchu, with damages still to be finalised.

15 August 2023

Swiss energy company Alpiq has failed to revive its US$450 million Energy Charter Treaty claim against Romania over cancelled supply contracts.

15 August 2023

Rick Gal has left Allen & Overy to join Addleshaw Goddard as a legal director in its London office.

15 August 2023

A Hong Kong court has refused a request that an arbitrator in mainland China be compelled to give evidence in an enforcement proceeding, saying arbitrators should have the “same immunity available to judges”.

14 August 2023

A pair of US investment funds involved in a legal battle to recover debt from Mexico’s second-largest mass media company have brought a NAFTA legacy claim against the state at ICSID.

14 August 2023

A UK court has awarded more than US$850 million to the exiled founder of a Thai wind energy group after upholding his claims that various executives and a prominent lawyer engaged in “dishonest asset-stripping” to frustrate payment of ICC awards.

14 August 2023

A French waste management company that withdrew some of its services from Morocco has lodged an ICSID claim against the North African state.

14 August 2023