As Paris Arbitration Week kicks off today, the ICC International Court of Arbitration has announced details of its new hearing centre in the French capital.
18 March 2024
The French Court of Cassation is poised to rule on whether an allegedly corrupt “wedding gift” to Libreville’s former mayor justified the annulment of an ICC award against Gabon – a case that practitioners hope will settle controversy over the French courts’ approach to corruption allegations. Kevin Cubeddu of Latham & Watkins, who attended the court hearing last month, reports.
14 March 2024
French utility Engie has brought a contractual arbitration against Belgium, alleging that a cap on market revenues of electricity producers violates agreements relating to two nuclear power stations.
12 March 2024
Laurent Jaeger has left the partnership at King & Spalding in Paris to practise as an independent arbitrator.
05 March 2024
Three US entities that were assigned the rights to a US$111 million investment treaty award against India over a cancelled satellite deal have been allowed to intervene in French enforcement proceedings – as an appeal over a related award heads to the US Supreme Court.
21 February 2024
Céline Greenberg has left the boutique she co-founded with leading arbitrator Pierre Mayer to launch an international arbitration practice at French firm Franklin.
12 February 2024
GAR has identified the practitioners who appeared in two gas price review arbitrations involving German state-owned energy group Uniper, including a previously unreported case against Dutch supplier GasTerra.
08 February 2024
This year's Paris Arbitration Week will take inspiration from the Olympic Games to be held in Paris this summer, with an opening speech on diversity and inclusion from a leading paralympic athlete-turned businesswoman and a "PAW Games" in which teams from arbitration seats worldwide will compete in sporting events.
07 February 2024
A Paris criminal court has found French arbitration lawyer Jean-Georges Betto guilty of sexual and moral harassment of former employees at his firm – four years after he was sanctioned for his conduct by the Paris Bar Council.
24 January 2024
Charles Kaplan has left Orrick after more than a decade to join the partnership at Africa-focused firm Asafo & Co in Paris, bringing Tunde Oyewole with him.
18 January 2024
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