Region: United Kingdom

UK supermarket chain Tesco says it has paid a £119 million award after it was held liable in a dispute over the multibillion-dollar sale of its Korean retail business.

11 October 2021

Saudi Arabia is lifting its ban on Qatari state-backed broadcaster beIN Sport, paving the way for the potential settlement of a billion-dollar investment treaty dispute and a UK arbitration over the purchase of an English football club.

07 October 2021

Two sets of ICSID creditors have applied to a US court to enforce overlapping ICSID awards against Zimbabwe over land expropriations as they sue each other in London.

27 September 2021

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

Mikhail Vishnyakov has joined London disputes boutique Cooke Young & Keidan as counsel after seven years at Linklaters.

24 September 2021

A court in London has convicted ex-Cooley lawyer Joshua Brien of defrauding the Commonwealth Secretariat and his former law firm out of over £600,000, including by misdirecting fees paid by an arbitration client and the government of the Maldives.

13 September 2021

Baker Botts has named partners Johannes Koepp in London and Andrew Behrman in New York as co-chairs of its rebranded international disputes group, also appointing Alejandro Escobar as chair of the public international law practice within the group.

13 September 2021

Genevieve Poirier has joined Swiss firm Lalive as partner in London from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.

01 September 2021

Football club Manchester City has failed to block publication of arbitration-related court rulings shedding light on the English Premier League’s still-pending investigation of its financial dealings.

22 July 2021

A UK court has ruled that a claim against France’s Suez over delays in the construction of a £103 million “eco park” for waste processing in southeast England should be heard in LCIA arbitration.

19 July 2021