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Volterra Fietta promotes fourth partner
Public international law firm Volterra Fietta has promoted Gunjan Sharma to partner in London.
09 May 2022
Shell and Gazprom lose claim over Mexican LNG facility
Sempra Energy says that an ICC tribunal has rejected a bid by Shell and Gazprom to terminate agreements for the use of an LNG storage facility on Mexico’s Pacific coast.
06 May 2022
Tort law holds answers to treaty arbitration problems, argues Douglas
In the first 3VB and Queen Mary lecture, Australian arbitrator Zachary Douglas QC argued that investment treaty arbitration is more akin to a tort claim against a public authority than to public or administrative law – to which it is often compared – and that recognising this provides solutions to some of the controversies preoccupying the field.
06 May 2022
Mayer Brown hires from Kim & Chang
Mayer Brown has hired Kay-Jannes Wegner, who leaves the partnership at Kim & Chang after 11 years at the firm to relocate from Seoul to Singapore.
06 May 2022
Diverse new committee for BVI centre
After publishing new rules last year, the British Virgin Islands' International Arbitration Centre has announced a new 22-member arbitration committee presided over by Caribbean arbitrator and mediator Shan Greer and with members from different regions of the globe.
06 May 2022
GE pays out after losing corruption challenge in legacy case
A General Electric subsidiary has paid an ICC award over a Lithuanian power plant project after Sweden's Supreme Court refused to hear its final appeal that the contract was tainted by corruption – a case practitioners say shows the Swedish courts are taking a “UK approach” to such allegations.
05 May 2022
Albania faces claim over gas turbine power plant
Albania is facing an Energy Charter Treaty claim by an Austrian engineering company over a failed power plant project – as the state sees a Belgian court issue attachments in relation to an ICSID award won by a group of Italian investors.
05 May 2022
New LatAm boutique launches in three countries
Stephan Adell has left the partnership at Squire Patton Boggs to team up with former Dechert special legal consultant Juan Felipe Merizalde and launch a Latin American disputes boutique with offices in Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Panama.
05 May 2022
Clifford Chance promotes in Europe and US
Clifford Chance has promoted Adelina Prokop in Warsaw and José García Cueto in Washington, DC to partner, along with a trio of counsel in Paris and Madrid.
05 May 2022
Romania hit with another renewables claim
Romania is facing yet another Energy Charter Treaty claim at ICSID in the wake of cuts to its renewable energy incentives scheme.
04 May 2022