UPDATED: The Peruvian municipality of Lima has asked a US court to set aside an UNCITRAL award that rejected allegations of corruption against an Odebrecht-linked consortium – as a challenge to an earlier award over the same toll-road concession resumes.
15 March 2023
Practitioners have welcomed a ruling by Latvia’s Constitutional Court directing the legislature to introduce a mechanism for the setting aside of awards, an omission that had made the Baltic state “a long-time outlier in the international community”.
15 March 2023
A US court has allowed the claimants to be substituted in an action to enforce an Energy Charter Treaty award even as Spain warns their directors could face criminal penalties over the move.
13 March 2023
Eni has won a final anti-suit injunction in the UK against its local partner in a Nigerian oil block following a US$200 million ICC arbitration – as three NGOs are permitted to weigh in on corruption issues in an unrelated ICSID case.
08 March 2023
The Commercial Court in London has upheld the recognition of an UNCITRAL award against Nigeria issued six years ago in a dispute over a US$200 million power privatisation.
06 March 2023
Slovakia has settled with an airport investor that won a human rights claim over the refusal of the state’s courts to enforce an ICC award.
06 March 2023
Kazakhstan has asked a US court to reverse its decision to enforce a US$500 million Energy Charter Treaty award, arguing the Moldovan creditors have turned the court into an “unwitting instrument of a massive fraud”.
03 March 2023
Children of Indian mining tycoon Pramod Agarwal have overturned an award that declined jurisdiction over their US$4 billion investment treaty claim against Uruguay.
01 March 2023
An English court has upheld LCIA awards worth US$88 million in favour of a Pakistani state-owned energy company, ruling the challenge was based on a mutual misunderstanding of the arbitrator’s findings.
20 February 2023
Subsidiaries of a Russian state-owned energy company have applied to a US court to enforce a US$76 million ICSID award against Georgia in a dispute over electricity tariffs – as an SCC award issued by the same arbitrators is challenged in Stockholm.
17 February 2023
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