Region: United States of America

A US court has granted Russia a stay of enforcement on the US$50 billion Yukos awards while the state pursues its set aside bid in the Netherlands.

23 November 2020

The Delaware Supreme Court has barred an affiliate of Eni from pursuing a second arbitration against the operator of an LNG terminal in Mississippi on the basis that all its claims were a “collateral attack” on a prior ICDR award worth US$371 million.

18 November 2020

After defeating a US$917 million claim under a Soviet investment treaty and winning costs, Kazakhstan has applied for discovery from various US banks to track down the claimant's assets and sources of funding.

06 November 2020

A JAMS arbitrator has reportedly rejected a California biotech company’s claim that one of its co-founders misappropriated trade secrets relating to developing treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.

03 November 2020

A subsidiary of Italian defence contractor Leonardo has prevailed in a US$225 million ICDR dispute concerning a halted project to use laser technology to combat nasal superbugs.

23 September 2020

A Texas state appeal court has affirmed that Brazil’s Petrobras is barred from pursuing bribery claims in an ICDR arbitration over the purchase of a US oil refinery because of a settlement agreed eight years ago.

25 August 2020

Over seven years after originally filing their claims, it has emerged that victims of a Ponzi scheme devised by convicted fraudster Allen Stanford are moving ahead with investment treaty arbitrations against the US – collectively seeking over US$511 million in damages.

21 August 2020

The Iran-US Claims Tribunal in The Hague has ruled in a long-running dispute over Iranian physical assets that were frozen during the 1979 hostage crisis – ordering the US to pay over US$29 million in damages to Iran and return several antique musical instruments including a Stradivarius.

16 March 2020

28 January 2020

28 January 2020