Region: Panama - Global Arbitration Review

Trump in ICC fight over Panama hotel

Hotel management companies owned by US president Donald Trump have been accused of attempting to “bully, intimidate and harass” their way out of an ICC arbitration with the owner of the Trump International Hotel & Tower Panama.

17 January 2018

UK Supreme Court allows maritime claim to resume

A Spanish tourism company that breached a charterparty for a cruise ship cannot get credit for inadvertently helping the shipowner sell the vessel before it lost over two-thirds of its value, the UK’s highest court has ruled.

29 June 2017

Panama corruption scandal prompts ICSID claim

A US engineering company and its CEO have filed an ICSID claim against Panama for, among other things, launching criminal proceedings against them as part of an investigation into alleged corruption by the former president Ricardo Martinelli led by his successor Juan Carlos Varela.

04 January 2017