Region: Kenya

A tribunal is in place to hear an US$800 million railway-related claim against Kenya and Uganda after the states rejected a proposal to have the dispute heard by a five-member panel.

10 November 2021

Two Italian construction companies have launched a US$114 million ICC claim against Kenya over the cancellation of two controversial dam projects that have given rise to criminal proceedings implicating a former minister.

26 April 2021

Subsidiaries of a Canadian mining company have lost their bid to revive an ICSID claim against Kenya that was dismissed over a failure to observe local environmental laws.

23 March 2021

A US-Canadian energy company has applied to annul an ICSID award that dismissed its US$340 million claim against Kenya over the revocation of a licence for a geothermal energy project.

16 November 2020

A Kenyan company has obtained a court order in Nairobi requiring the ICC to turn over documents for use in a fraud suit against an arbitrator – and says it has filed related criminal complaints against tribunal members in France and Austria.

02 November 2020

Kenya says it has defeated an ICSID claim worth US$340 million brought by a US-Canadian energy company over the revocation of a licence for a geothermal energy project.

13 July 2020

28 January 2020

Spanish construction group Abengoa says it has won a €38 million UNCITRAL award against a Kenyan state entity in a dispute over a cancelled electricity transmission project.

19 September 2019

A Kenyan state-owned entity has reportedly defeated the bulk of a US$26 million LCIA claim brought by a UK energy company over debts owed for drilling geothermal wells.

14 June 2019

Subsidiaries of a Canadian mining company that lost an ICSID claim against Kenya last year have applied to annul the award, which they call a “black swan” for its finding that an investment treaty implicitly required that investments comply with national law.

21 March 2019