Premium article - December 16, 2011
A seminar organised by CMS Cameron McKenna in Romania a day after a major investment arbitration victory for the state highlighted ways to protect foreign investment in central and eastern Europe, with an emphasis on pre-investment planning and managing the process of dispute resolution once an investment is underway. Horia Draghici, a senior associate at CMS Cameron McKenna in Romania, reports.
Premium article - December 12, 2011
English and Chinese perspectives on international arbitration was the theme of a recent event co-hosted in Beijing by the China Britain Law Institute, or CBLI, and the Bar Council of England and Wales. CBLI co-founder Matthew Townsend and his colleague James Rogers, both of Fulbright & Jaworski's Beijing and Hong Kong offices, report.
Premium article - December 01, 2011
A conference in London this month considered how specific attributes of the ICSID regime - including its summary disposal procedure and the annulment mechanism - are shaping the current climate of investment treaty arbitration. David Earnest, an associate at host firm Hogan Lovells, reports.
Premium article - November 30, 2011
Eleonore Treu of ICC Austria reports on the first PIDA seminar on international commercial arbitration to be held outside Paris.
Premium article - November 24, 2011
More than 200 arbitration practitioners from 14 countries attended a seminar in Copenhagen on the taking of evidence and witness conferencing to mark the 30th anniversary of the Danish Institute of Arbitration. Danish lawyer Tania Saigol Roth reports.
Premium article - November 22, 2011
The latest Taipei Arbitration and Mediation Conference covered a range of fundamental issues in international arbitration as well as cross-Straits arbitration (between Mainland China and Taiwan). David Kreider, an experienced arbitrator in Asia-related disputes and general counsel of Vodafone in New Zealand, reports.
Premium article - November 22, 2011
The successful growth of arbitration in parts of South-East Asia is being held back by a lack of government and court support and a critical shortage of homegrown arbitrators, a Herbert Smith partner told an audience in Washington, DC last week.
Premium article - November 16, 2011
Arbitration of Russian disputes - in London and in Russia - was the theme of a recent event co-hosted by Hogan Lovells and The CityUK. Hogan Lovells senior associate Nathan Searle reports.
Premium article - November 16, 2011
A conference organised by Wöss & Partners SC and the Institute of Juridical Investigations at the National Autonomous University of Mexico considered approaches to damages and loss of income claims. Adriana San Román, partner and financial analyst at the Mexican firm, reports.
Premium article - October 28, 2011
The ICC Court came to Vienna on 3 and 4 October to market its revised arbitration rules. Jarred Pinkston, of counsel at Dorda Brugger Jordis in Vienna, reports.