International Arbitration

  • March 27, 2025

    IBA Arbitration Committee Co-Chair Joins ArbBoutique

    ArbBoutique has added a chartered arbitrator and Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution-accredited mediator as a partner, the arbitration-specialized firm announced Wednesday.

  • March 27, 2025

    Eletson, Levona Ask 2nd Circ. To Not Delay Atty Removal

    The new owners of reorganized international shipping group Eletson and a creditor-turned-affiliate have urged the Second Circuit to nix Reed Smith LLP's emergency motion for a stay in a lawsuit seeking to enforce a $102 million arbitral award, as the law firm fights to continue representing the shipping company's pre-bankruptcy shareholders.

  • March 26, 2025

    Sotomayor Urges Caution On Nondelegation Doctrine Revamp

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor cautioned her colleagues during oral arguments Wednesday against using a challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's administration of a broadband subsidy program as a way to resurrect the long-dormant nondelegation doctrine. Several conservative justices, however, seemed willing to disregard that admonition.

  • March 26, 2025

    Crypto Expert Seeks OK Of $28M Bitcoin Arbitration Award

    A Malta-based cryptocurrency expert and his two companies have asked a Manhattan federal judge to enforce a more than $28 million arbitral award against a bitcoin mining server supplier they claim sent them faulty machinery.

  • March 26, 2025

    Sysco Can't Tap Out Of $50M Price-Fix Deal With JBS

    Sysco can't back out of a $50 million agreement it made with JBS for the meat producer to exit sprawling litigation accusing it of working to fix the price of poultry, beef and pork, even though Sysco has since signed away its interest in the antitrust claims, a federal court has ruled.

  • March 26, 2025

    French Co. Fails To Win Arbitration Bid In Payment Dispute

    French engineering company Saipem SA has lost its bid for a stay in a London court as it looks to arbitrate claims asserted by Panamanian logistics provider Destin Trading Inc. related to an alleged $7 million shortfall in payment for a Congo River project.

  • March 26, 2025

    Ex-GE Exec Gets 7 Years For Fraud In $1B Angola Energy Deal

    A Manhattan federal judge hit a former GE Power executive with seven years in prison Wednesday, after a jury convicted him of forgery and taking a $5 million kickback while working on a $1.1 billion deal in his native Angola.

  • March 25, 2025

    Nigeria Drops Supreme Court Challenge On $70M Award

    Nigeria has agreed to abandon its effort to overturn a D.C. Circuit ruling nixing its sovereign immunity defense in litigation to enforce a $70 million arbitration award to a Chinese company that was forcibly booted from a free trade zone it had developed near the city of Lagos.

  • March 25, 2025

    Venezuelan Law Invalidates $2B Bonds, PDVSA Argues

    Venezuela's state-owned oil company is fighting back against efforts by creditors to enforce some $2 billion in defaulted bonds, dismissing as "illogical" the creditors' argument that the underlying bond documents were exempt from a requirement for National Assembly approval.

  • March 25, 2025

    Canadian Miner Faces Deadline Over $10M Romania Award

    A cash-strapped Canadian mining company is nearing a deadline to put up security for an approximately $10 million costs award issued to Romania after the country prevailed in the company's $4.4 billion arbitration over a blocked gold and silver mining project.

  • March 25, 2025

    Ship Co. Targets Vessel Seizure In $12M Arbitration Dispute

    A U.S. shipping charter firm that specializes in the offshore wind market has urged a Mississippi federal court to let it seize a deep-sea motor vessel as it looks to enforce more than $12 million of arbitral awards against a Mexican maritime company.

  • March 25, 2025

    FINRA President Hints At Offloading Arbitration Oversight

    The president of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said Tuesday that he's considering whether another entity should take up the brokerage regulator's arbitration oversight, questioning whether it's an appropriate function for FINRA to continue running.

  • March 24, 2025

    Contrarian Unit's $3.7B Bid For Citgo Faces Opposition

    The special master overseeing the sale of Citgo's parent company to satisfy billions of dollars of Venezuelan debt is recommending a federal judge proceed with a floor-setting bid of $3.699 billion submitted by an affiliate of Contrarian Capital Management, with the recommendation already meeting resistance.

  • March 24, 2025

    Canadian Miner Now Seeks $1B From Mexico Over Project

    A Canadian mining company has quintupled the amount it's seeking in damages from Mexico in arbitration over the loss of its precious metals project, saying it now wants $1 billion due to the country's breach of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.

  • March 24, 2025

    Ex-Pioneer CEO's Federal Case Against FTC Paused

    A Texas federal court agreed Monday to pause a lawsuit from the former CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources accusing the Federal Trade Commission of violating his constitutional rights by barring him from serving on Exxon's board until there's a decision in the administrative case.

  • March 24, 2025

    Reed Smith Accused Of Interference In $102M Award Fight

    The purported new owners of Eletson Holdings Inc., a reorganized international shipping group, have urged the Second Circuit to nix Reed Smith's appeal challenging the law firm's removal as counsel for the company's prebankruptcy shareholders in an enforcement action, saying the former owners declined the opportunity to intervene and that their counsel cannot intervene on their behalf.

  • March 24, 2025

    Reed Smith Adds Baker McKenzie Arbitration Pro In Dallas

    Reed Smith LLP announced Monday that it has added a Dallas-based partner to its global commercial disputes group and international arbitration team who has come aboard from Baker McKenzie.

  • March 21, 2025

    Iraq Urges Supreme Court To Uphold $120M Immunity Ruling

    Iraq has urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up a petition asking it to clarify parts of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's commercial activity exception, as it looks to avoid a $120 million judgment issued to a Pennsylvania defense contractor following a dispute over a two-decade-old contract.

  • March 21, 2025

    Jenner & Block Fights Sierra Leone's Fraud Claims In $8M Suit

    Jenner & Block LLP on Thursday urged a D.C. federal judge to nix Sierra Leone's counterclaim accusing the firm of fraud as it looks to collect some $8 million from the country in unpaid legal fees, saying the claim is improper in a breach of contract suit.

  • March 21, 2025

    La. Town Tells 5th Circ. No Arbitration For Hurricane Claims

    A Louisiana town seeking hurricane damage coverage urged the Fifth Circuit to uphold a Louisiana district court's decision finding an arbitration clause unenforceable, noting the Louisiana Supreme Court explicitly said it disagreed with a recent Fifth Circuit ruling that had ordered arbitration under similar circumstances.

  • March 20, 2025

    India Wins Bondless Stay Of $156M Award Enforcement

    At least while it's appealing, India won't have to start paying Deutsche Telekom AG the $155 million an arbitrator and a D.C. federal court has said the country owes the telecom after a massive satellite licensing deal went sour, that court has ruled.

  • March 20, 2025

    11th Circ. Allows Remand Of EB-5 Suit To Fla. State Court

    The Eleventh Circuit has dismissed the appeal of a Canadian citizen trying to compel arbitration and keep in federal court the suit accusing him of defrauding foreign investors, saying it doesn't have jurisdiction to review the order sending the case back to Florida state court.

  • March 20, 2025

    Judge Won't Let Meijer Appeal Takeda's Arbitration Mandate

    A Massachusetts federal judge refused Thursday to let Meijer immediately appeal his order letting Takeda Pharmaceutical force the grocery chain into arbitration and out of its role as a representative of a proposed class of direct purchasers suing over delayed generics to a constipation drug.

  • March 20, 2025

    South Korea Can't Nix $32M Award To US Hedge Fund

    South Korea on Thursday lost its bid to set aside an arbitral award ordering it to pay some $32 million to a U.S. hedge fund following a dispute over a government bribery scandal that allegedly underpinned the $8 billion merger of two Samsung affiliates in 2015.

  • March 27, 2025

    Vedder Price Hires A&O Pro To Launch UK Litigation Team

    Vedder Price has recruited an experienced litigator from A&O Shearman to head up its new U.K. litigation practice as the firm expands its dispute resolution and arbitration offerings in London and beyond.

Expert Analysis

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    Teaching Scuba Diving Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    As a master scuba instructor, I’ve learned how to prepare for the unexpected, overcome fears and practice patience, and each of these skills – among the many others I’ve developed – has profoundly enhanced my work as a lawyer, says Ron Raether at Troutman Pepper.

  • Lawyers Can Take Action To Honor The Voting Rights Act

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    As the Voting Rights Act reaches its 59th anniversary Tuesday, it must urgently be reinforced against recent efforts to dismantle voter protections, and lawyers can pitch in immediately by volunteering and taking on pro bono work to directly help safeguard the right to vote, says Anna Chu at We The Action.

  • Should Arbitrators Do More To Encourage Settlements?

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    In light of discussions on settlement in arbitration, there is a consensus that arbitrators in English-seated proceedings should play a greater role, but determining the extent of that involvement is difficult, as arbitrators can inadvertently place themselves in a position of potential conflict, say lawyers at Dentons.

  • 2nd Circ. Ruling May Limit Discovery In Int'l Arbitration

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    The Second Circuit's recent Webuild v. WSP decision, affirming a discovery order's nullification in arbitration between Webuild and the government of Panama, demonstrates courts' unwillingness to find that arbitral tribunals in investor-state cases fall within the scope of the discovery statute, say attorneys at Cleary.

  • How To Grow Marketing, Biz Dev Teams In A Tight Market

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    Faced with fierce competition and rising operating costs, firms are feeling the pressure to build a well-oiled marketing and business development team that supports strategic priorities, but they’ll need to be flexible and creative given a tight talent market, says Ben Curle at Ambition.

  • Indian Top Court Arb. Ruling May Be Anomaly, Not New Path

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    While the Indian Supreme Court's recent Delhi Metro decision invalidating an arbitral award could be viewed as a troubling departure from the country's efforts to position itself as an attractive arbitral seat, it may also be nothing more than an unexpected detour due to the underlying facts, say J.P. Duffy and Niyati Ahuja at Reed Smith.

  • Series

    Rock Climbing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Rock climbing requires problem-solving, focus, risk management and resilience, skills that are also invaluable assets in my role as a finance lawyer, says Mei Zhang at Haynes and Boone.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: Dance The Legal Standard Two-Step

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    From rookie brief writers to Chief Justice John Roberts, lawyers should master the legal standard two-step — framing the governing standard at the outset, and clarifying why they meet that standard — which has benefits for both the drafter and reader, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

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    Being A Luthier Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    When I’m not working as an appellate lawyer, I spend my spare time building guitars — a craft known as luthiery — which has helped to enhance the discipline, patience and resilience needed to write better briefs, says Rob Carty at Nichols Brar.

  • Lead Like 'Ted Lasso' By Embracing Cognitive Diversity

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    The Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso” aptly illustrates how embracing cognitive diversity can be a winning strategy for teams, providing a useful lesson for law firms, which can benefit significantly from fresh, diverse perspectives and collaborative problem-solving, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.

  • Ambiguity Ruling Highlights Deference To Arbitral Process

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    A New York federal court’s recent ruling in Eletson v. Levona, which remanded an arbitral award for clarification, reflects that the ambiguity exception’s analysis is not static and may be applied even in cases where the award, when issued, was unambiguous, says arbitrator Myrna Barakat Friedman.

  • EU Investor-State Dispute Transparency Rules: Key Points

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    The European Union's recent vote to embrace greater transparency for investor-state arbitration will make managing newly public information more complex for all parties in a dispute — so it is important for stakeholders to understand the risks and opportunities involved, say Philip Hall, Tara Flores and Charles McKeon at Thorndon Partners.

  • 25 Years Of OECD's Anti-Bribery Convention

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    Marking its 25th anniversary this year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's anti-bribery convention has advanced legislative reforms and reshaped corporate conduct in dozens of countries amid the persistent challenges of uneven enforcement and political pressure, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Decoding Arbitral Disputes: Intra-EU Enforcement Trends

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    Hungary recently declared a distinct stance on the European Court of Justice's 2021 ruling in Moldavia v. Komstroy on intra-EU arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty, highlighting a critical divergence in the bloc on enforcing investment awards and the complexities of balancing regional uniformity with international obligations, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

  • Opinion

    Now More Than Ever, Lawyers Must Exhibit Professionalism

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    As society becomes increasingly fractured and workplace incivility is on the rise, attorneys must champion professionalism and lead by example, demonstrating how lawyers can respectfully disagree without being disagreeable, says Edward Casmere at Norton Rose.

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