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• Revealed: In Russian proceedings pertaining to anti-arbitration injunction directed against Geneva-seated arbitration, OMV challenges Gazprom’s arguments on requirements for exclusive jurisdiction of Russian court and effect of EU and Swiss sanctions against Russian nationals

  Apr 26, 2024

• Revealed: OMV seeks damages from Gazprom in relation to Yuzhno-Russkoye field; ICC tribunal is already in place

  Apr 26, 2024

• Gas compression plant award against Venezuela’s PdVSA surfaces, as claimant files for enforcement

  Apr 25, 2024

• Jordan’s state electricity company reportedly prevails in ICC arbitration

  Apr 17, 2024

• Revealed: ICC tribunal found that aircraft contract with Greece’s Ministry of Defence was in breach of EU law

  Apr 12, 2024

• Analysis: UK High Court finds that Libya waived sovereign immunity and orders enforcement against London property held by state

  Apr 10, 2024

• Canadian court finds that Greek Ministry committed fraud when disregarding its own undertaking and an interim order from ICC arbitrators

  Apr 09, 2024

• Pakistan reportedly prevails in arbitration dispute with oil concession holder

  Apr 08, 2024

• West Africa Round-Up: Tribunals in place for tax dispute with Ghana, enforcement measures taken against Gabon and the Republic of Congo, and developments in cases involving the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo

  Apr 03, 2024

• US Supreme Court declines to examine evident partiality standard in Panama Canal dispute

  Mar 26, 2024

• Revealed: Three are in place to hear ICC arbitration stemming from cancellation of Cobre Panamá mining concession

  Mar 25, 2024

• Spanish construction company discloses partial ICC award finding Qatari state-owned entity liable for wrongfully terminating contract with international joint venture

  Mar 20, 2024

• French Cour de cassation rejects Democratic Republic of Congo’s challenge to judgment that upheld exequatur of pair of contract awards

  Mar 05, 2024

• [Updated] Dutch and UK bankruptcy courts adopt restructuring plan of CB&I that extinguishes debt owed to Colombia’s Reficar under 1.3 billion ICC award

  Feb 29, 2024

• ICC tribunal issues Partial Award in long-running shipyard dispute with Greece

  Feb 21, 2024

• Devas affiliates plan to take minimum contacts question to US Supreme Court

  Feb 14, 2024

• US court finds that Zimbabwe’s Mining Development Corporation is an alter ego of the state, allowing enforcement to proceed

  Feb 12, 2024

• US court denies en banc rehearing of Devas v. Antrix appeal, upholding minimum contacts requirement under FSIA; dissenters criticize circuit for perpetuating outlier position

  Feb 07, 2024

• Analysis: UK Court of Appeal overturns High Court’s decision and grants anti-suit injunction, finding that choice of Paris as arbitration seat did not negate choice of English law as the governing law

  Feb 02, 2024

• Paris Court of Appeal upholds ICC award stemming from contract dispute with Eni/Libya joint-venture

  Feb 02, 2024

• Paris Court of Appeal upholds jurisdictional award in ICC arbitration between Libya and Turkish builder

  Jan 30, 2024

• Analysis: Paris court declines request to set aside awards in contract dispute with Ethiopia’s roads agency

  Jan 16, 2024

• Turkish investor fails to set aside award that found Libya in breach of BIT but granted no damages

  Jan 10, 2024

• Analysis: Parties in Argentinian highway dispute face off in emergency arbitration, court proceedings, and ICC case

  Dec 29, 2023

• Venezuela’s PdVSA settles arbitrations over Curaçao refinery

  Dec 21, 2023

• Tainted mega-awards against Nigeria will be set aside instead of being remanded to tribunal; claimant is refused permission to appeal

  Dec 21, 2023

• Arbitrators are selected to hear ICC arbitration between Australian miner and DRC’s state-owned mining outfit

  Dec 18, 2023

• Investors withdraw claims over amendments of Romanian tax regime for offshore energy producers

  Dec 13, 2023

• Commercial court of Montenegro clears way for enforcement of ICC award against municipality of Tivat, ruling on domestic nature of award

  Dec 12, 2023

• Canadian oil and gas company lodges third arbitration over Tunisian operations

  Dec 06, 2023

• Canadian-owned miner lodges ICC arbitration against Panama under recently invalidated concession agreement

  Dec 04, 2023

• Charles Poncet is disqualified from ICC tribunal hearing gas supply dispute

  Nov 30, 2023

• ICC tribunal declines request to include Tunisia as co-defendant

  Nov 29, 2023

• European energy facilities are hit with 500+ million EUR awards in LNG disputes involving state-owned entities

  Nov 27, 2023

• Analysis: In duo of orders, ICC emergency arbitrator enjoins Congo’s state-owned mining company from proceeding with termination of lithium joint-venture

  Nov 20, 2023

• Emergency arbitrator declines to retract order against Congo’s state-owned mining company, but finds that further measures should wait for imminent constitution of main tribunal

  Nov 17, 2023

• Analysis: Revision tribunal dismisses Congo’s allegations that previous tribunal chair was involved in corrupt scheme

  Nov 08, 2023

• Malta announces another win in ICC arbitration regarding healthcare concession

  Nov 08, 2023

• French Cour de cassation discontinues appeal in Nurol v. Libya set-aside proceedings

  Nov 07, 2023

• Zenith announces initiation of ICC arbitration, following its recent ICSID claim against Tunisia

  Nov 01, 2023

• Australian miner files second emergency arbitration in relation to lithium project in the DRC

  Oct 30, 2023

• Analysis: UK High Court finds that mega-award against Nigeria should not be allowed to stand, in view of claimant’s dishonesty during the proceedings; judge muses that transparency may help avoid similar cases

  Oct 25, 2023

• Analysis: ICC tribunal in Eurofinsa v. Gabon awards over 12 million EUR to Spanish construction company, rejecting most counterclaims in dispute over renovation of stadium in Libreville

  Oct 17, 2023

• Offshore gas production companies initiate ICC arbitration against Romania; Blanch-chaired tribunal is already in place

  Oct 13, 2023

• UK Court of Appeal overturns SQD v. QYP High Court decision, granting anti-suit and anti-enforcement injunctions against Russian court proceedings and in favour of Paris-seated arbitration, based on evidence from French law experts

  Oct 11, 2023

• Award in Eurofinsa v. Gabon surfaces; ICC tribunal finds breaches on both sides, but decision ultimately favours the Spanish constructor

  Oct 11, 2023

• Analysis: UK High Court grants anti-suit injunction against Russian domestic court proceedings lodged in violation of ICC arbitration clause, distinguishing SQD v. QYP

  Oct 11, 2023

• Cameroon fails to annul ICC award, as Paris Court of Appeal sees no pro-investor bias by chair due to repeat appointment by claimants in ISDS cases

  Oct 09, 2023

• [Updated] Paris Court of Appeal declines to suspend set-aside proceedings in shareholder dispute between Algerian nationals and Chinese state-owned builder

  Oct 09, 2023

• French Cour de cassation declines to discontinue appeals against set-aside judgments that favoured Cyprus and Gabon

  Oct 09, 2023

• [Updated] ICC tribunal orders Kosovo to pay 20 million EUR to coal power plant investor

  Oct 06, 2023

• Italian builder obtains stay of enforcement of award in favour of Georgia’s Road Department

  Oct 05, 2023

• Canadian court enforces two ICC awards in telecoms dispute with Peruvian Ministry

  Oct 04, 2023

• Paris Court of Appeal finds that “sparse and dated” links between arbitrator and appointing party do not suffice to consider that tribunal was improperly constituted

  Oct 04, 2023

• [Updated] 400 million USD ICC arbitration lodged by Algerian state-owned company over desalination plant dispute concludes with award

  Oct 02, 2023

• UK High Court reverts to rejecting anti-suit injunction against sanctioned Russian party, this time in inter-partes proceedings – distinguishing recent Court of Appeal decision

  Sep 29, 2023

• [Updated] Reficar seeks §1782 U.S. Code discovery to fight corporate restructuring that would allegedly annihilate billion-dollar ICC award in favor of the state entity

  Sep 26, 2023

• Bangladeshi state-owned entity mounts successful defence in ICC arbitration, with tribunal awarding close to 1 million USD in costs

  Sep 25, 2023

• Second arbitration between Yemen and international oil consortium concludes with an award, leading to agreed set-off in enforcement proceedings

  Sep 25, 2023

• US court opens the way for execution of award against Libyan assets, despite pending set-aside proceedings in France

  Sep 22, 2023

• UK Supreme Court allows claims of bribery and conspiracy against Privinvest and Credit Suisse to proceed in local courts, refusing request for stay in favour of arbitrations

  Sep 20, 2023

• US court grants freezing order pending resolution of arbitration with Chad over ownership of Cameroonian pipeline company

  Sep 18, 2023

• Uncovered: In ICC award issued in dispute between Chinese and Venezuelan state-owned companies, tribunal decides to hear claims stemming from 26 contracts in one single arbitration and sees no evidence of corruption, awarding damages for unpaid purchase orders

  Sep 14, 2023

• Dutch courts enforce award against St Maarten’s state-owned telecoms company

  Sep 14, 2023

• Analysis: UK High Court grants anti-suit injunction against Russian domestic court proceedings, disagreeing with days-old decision

  Sep 11, 2023

• In uncommon move, Turkey welcomes enforcement of ICC award obtained by Iraq, arguing that interest owed on upheld counterclaims ultimately makes Turkey the award’s creditor

  Sep 08, 2023

• US court freezes real estate assets allegedly purchased with embezzled state funds, upon request from creditor of ICC awards against the DRC

  Sep 07, 2023

• Uncovered: ICC tribunal finds Algerian party at fault for failure of cement joint-venture, awarding 60+ million USD to Egyptian investor; parallel treaty arbitration remains ongoing

  Sep 06, 2023

• Algeria Round-Up: New awards, new cases, and an update on other arbitration-related developments

  Sep 05, 2023

• Oil investor seeks emergency measures from US courts, revealing ICC emergency order in clash with Chad over ownership of pipeline and oil assets

  Sep 01, 2023

• Swiss Federal Tribunal dismisses South Sudan’s application for set-aside of telecoms award

  Aug 30, 2023

• Moscow district commercial court confirms anti-arbitration injunction against ICC case lodged by Airbus against Russian state-owned company

  Aug 22, 2023

• Analysis: US appeals court upholds ICC award between Panama Canal consortium and Panamanian state entity, finding that mere indications of professional familiarity are insufficient to establish arbitrators’ partiality

  Aug 21, 2023

• Asset recovery counsel lodges ICC claim against the DRC over alleged contractual breach

  Aug 21, 2023

• US Court of Appeals reverses enforcement of Devas v. Antrix ICC award

  Aug 02, 2023

• UK High Court declines bid to set aside award adverse to Kosovo’s state-owned telecoms operator

  Jul 24, 2023

• Dutch court declares request for enforcement of Devas-Antrix ICC award inadmissible

  Jul 20, 2023

• Long-running Libyan construction arbitration is settled

  Jul 20, 2023

• Uncovered: In previously unseen treaty award, panel of Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, William Rowley and Gary Born unanimously decides to hear customary international law claims, but majority finds no breach on the merits

  Jul 20, 2023

• US appeals court confirms enforcement of Olin v. Libya award, seeing no grounds for de novo review of state’s jurisdictional objections

  Jul 13, 2023

• Cameroon fails to set aside adverse construction award, as Paris court finds no fraud in substitution of claimants

  Jul 11, 2023

• French Cour de cassation refuses to discontinue appeal against award that favours Yemen

  Jul 11, 2023

• Argentine court issues anti-arbitration injunction; details about underlying ICC arbitration stemming from agreement to settle previous ICSID case come to light

  Jul 10, 2023

• Analysis: Tribunal majority in Trasta v. NOC (2) sides with the respondent, holding that Libya’s National Oil Corporation could validly force its partner to sell its shares in a local refinery; Charles Poncet dissents, opining that the majority breached the claimant’s due process rights

  Jul 07, 2023

• Analysis: Russian court grants anti-suit injunction against arbitration lodged by Airbus over supply of airplanes to Russian state-owned entity

  Jul 04, 2023

• Analysis: ICC tribunal in Reficar v. CB&I case finds contractual liability of over 1 billion USD, while addressing issues of admissibility of evidence and applicable law

  Jun 29, 2023

• Romania faces two new contract-based arbitrations brought by OMV

  Jun 22, 2023

• Paris court declines to set aside partial ICC award that upheld jurisdiction over desalination plant dispute with Algerian state-owned entities

  Jun 19, 2023

• Equatorial Guinea involved in ICC investment arbitration with repeat claimant; state’s appointee has recently been disqualified

  Jun 16, 2023

• Tunisia Round-up: Italian sand miner threatens Tunisia with ICSID proceedings, a trio of oil-related commercial arbitrations surface, and an end in sight for ABCI case

  Jun 15, 2023

• Iraq’s Central Bank loses commercial arbitration over unpaid invoices, in dispute that gave rise to human rights violations

  Jun 09, 2023

• [Updated with a copy of the Award] Colombian state-owned subsidiary wins billion-dollar ICC arbitration against service provider

  Jun 08, 2023

• Airbus is involved in ICC arbitration with Russian state-owned company

  May 31, 2023

• Paris Court of Appeal declines to set aside ICC award in refinery dispute with Libya’s national oil company

  May 29, 2023

• Revealed: ICC tribunal in Blerim Devolli v. Kosovo declines jurisdiction under foreign investment law, seeing insufficient evidence of a foreign contribution of value and finding that the claimant does not qualify as a foreign national

  May 23, 2023

• ICC tribunal issues award in multi-layered Panama Canal dispute

  May 17, 2023

• DRC’s state-owned mining company lodges arbitration claim against Australian miner over lithium venture

  May 15, 2023

• Analysis: ICC tribunal majority dismisses 1.8 billion EUR construction claim against Venezuela and its national railway institute, finding no consent to arbitrate under the 2001 Cooperation Framework Agreement between Italy and Venezuela

  May 12, 2023

• Australian miner claims that it obtained favourable ICC emergency award in dispute with Democratic Republic of Congo’s state-owned mining company

  May 08, 2023

• Paris court confirms enforcement of costs award won by Bahrain in dispute over failed waste-to-energy plant project

  Apr 25, 2023