( May 24, 2024, 11:02 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on May 24 granted a Colombian oil company’s petition to confirm in part an arbitral award resolving its dispute with an American company over a stock purchase agreement but refused the Colombian petitioner’s request to vacate the portion of the award imposing on it the burden for value-added tax (VAT) payments due from an asset exchanged in the original agreement, which it later sold to a nonparty....