The Dutch Supreme Court has refused to reinstate a technology developer’s US$116 million award against an affiliate of Chinese social media platform Weibo that was set aside because of the lack of a valid arbitration agreement.
15 March 2024
A UK court has approved a restructuring plan for a subsidiary of Houston-based construction group McDermott that will effectively extinguish a US$1.3 billion ICC award debt owed to a Colombian state-owned entity.
28 February 2024
A Dutch appeal court has rejected Russia’s arguments that awards worth US$60 billion in favour of the former majority shareholders of Yukos were tainted by procedural fraud, finding that the allegations were time-barred and unlikely to have changed the outcome of the arbitration.
20 February 2024
Shell and ExxonMobil have filed a contractual arbitration against the Netherlands over arrangements for the closure of the largest natural gas field in Europe.
14 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
Peru has hired external counsel to resist an attempt by a media company to revive a US$627 million investment treaty claim through set-aside proceedings in the Dutch courts.
15 December 2023
An ICSID tribunal has declined to throw out a claim brought by Dutch investors against Croatia, rejecting the state’s arguments that its bilateral investment treaty with the Netherlands was effectively terminated under EU law.
09 November 2023
German energy company RWE is withdrawing its Energy Charter Treaty claim against the Netherlands over coal phase-out legislation – months after a German court ruled it was inadmissible.
03 November 2023
The trustees of a bankrupt Dutch insurer have asked a federal court in North Carolina to enforce a Netherlands Arbitration Institute award ordering its US-based former owner to pay €150 million.
19 October 2023
Moldovan investors engaged in a decade-long campaign to enforce a US$500 million Energy Charter Treaty award against Kazakhstan have failed to reinstate a Dutch attachment against a sovereign wealth fund – after reporting favourable rulings in Sweden, the US and Gibraltar.
13 October 2023
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