Region: Europe
After Brexit: the new landscape for English arbitration
While Brexit’s effect on the popularity of England-seated arbitration is still unclear, it poses significant practical difficulties for practitioners seeking to travel to participate in arbitrations in the EU. Stuart Dutson, Jonathan Schuman, William Dunning and Eliza Jones of Simmons & Simmons in London report.
24 September 2021
Unconscious bias and party appointments
A panel at Paris Arbitration Week including US arbitrator Charles Brower debated whether the party appointment process inevitably produces tribunals that are affected by unconscious bias – and what can be done about it.
24 September 2021
London boutique recruits from Linklaters
Mikhail Vishnyakov has joined London disputes boutique Cooke Young & Keidan as counsel after seven years at Linklaters.
24 September 2021
US discovery question may be resolved after all
Hopes that the US Supreme Court might soon rule on the availability of discovery for foreign commercial arbitration have been revived thanks to a petition by a German-owned car parts company in a dispute over a billion-dollar M&A.
23 September 2021
Dos Santos company enters bankruptcy after Dutch award
A Dutch energy company owned by embattled Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos has been placed into bankruptcy by a court in the Netherlands, in the wake of an arbitral tribunal’s finding that it acquired assets worth €650 million through “grand corruption”.
23 September 2021
Turkey defeats claim over takeover of media distributor
An ICSID tribunal has thrown out a €126 million claim against Turkey over the alleged expropriation of a real estate and media distribution group linked to exiled Islamic cleric Fetullah Gülen.
22 September 2021
Spain marks 50th renewables claim as new reforms roil investors
Spain has been hit with its 50th treaty claim from renewable energy investors and a fresh US enforcement action, as surprise reforms to the sector announced last week raise the prospect of yet more claims.
21 September 2021
Albanian farming claim moves to merits phase
An UNCITRAL tribunal has said it can hear an Italian company’s BIT claim against Albania over an ill-fated agricultural joint venture, while excluding claims over the revocation of a land concession that occurred before the treaty entered into force.
21 September 2021
Edison declares win in LNG price review
Italian energy company Edison says it has defeated a price review claim worth several hundred million euros relating to a long-term contract for the purchase of liquefied natural gas from Qatar.
20 September 2021
ICSID panel splits representation of insolvent claimant
An ICSID tribunal has ruled that an insolvency administrator can represent a Latvian bank in an arbitration against the Baltic state – but that an ancillary claim over whether his appointment was itself a treaty breach should be argued by the bank’s former directors.
20 September 2021
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