Work Area: Enforcement and set-aside

A Burford Capital subsidiary has won default judgment in its bid to enforce a US$25 million investment treaty award against Kyrgyzstan after the state failed to show up for the US proceedings.

15 June 2022

A Paris court has upheld a US$44 million ICC award against Albania over a mountain highway project – issuing an apparent first-of-its-kind decision that the failure to raise a claim in a prior dispute board proceeding is a matter of admissibility, not jurisdiction.

15 June 2022

UPDATED: A Singaporean private equity firm has persuaded an ICC tribunal that it may force the chairman of one of South Korea’s largest insurance providers to purchase US$340 million in shares – while failing to secure an order for the sale as the correct valuation had not been put forward.

14 June 2022

An ICSID annulment committee has upheld a €28 million Energy Charter Treaty award won by a group of UK renewables investors against Spain, dismissing arguments the claimants fraudulently lied about the capacity of their solar facilities to access subsidies.

14 June 2022

A Guatemalan construction company has asked a US court to enforce three awards together worth at least US$60 million including interest that it won against Guatemala over its work on road rehabilitation projects.

13 June 2022

The Paris Court of Appeal has at the second time of asking upheld a Canadian gold mining company’s US$1.7 billion investment treaty award against Venezuela, ruling a limitation period for bringing claims did not curtail the tribunal’s jurisdiction.

10 June 2022

The English Commercial Court has dismissed India’s challenge to a previously undisclosed US$111 million UNCITRAL award issued in its 11-year and still-pending dispute with Reliance Industries and BG Group over oil and gas fields.

09 June 2022

A Spanish court has frozen assets of Chile’s national copper company after ruling that the state should pay US$552 million to satisfy a 14-year old ICSID award relating to the seizure of a newspaper during the Pinochet era.

09 June 2022

A US appeals court has reluctantly dismissed a bid to annul a US$7 million ICC award concerning a Guatemalan hydroelectric project, finding it is bound by previous rulings in which it has “gotten it wrong” on the key issue, despite them clashing with Supreme Court precedent.

08 June 2022

A Greek contractor has applied to enforce a US$105 million ICC award against an Iraqi state ports company over a record-breaking sea wall whose construction was allegedly delayed by an ISIS offensive and other issues.

07 June 2022