FRANCE: The importance of SOERNI
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Featured In: Volume 4 - Issue 6 (Vol. 4 Iss. 6)
France’s highest court recently said it is acceptable to evaluate the validity of an arbitration clause – and an employee’s authority to sign one – without resorting to conflicts of law rules. Isabelle Michou (partner) of Herbert Smith explains how the case arose
MONEY: The implicit reasoning in Azurix
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Featured In: Volume 4 - Issue 6 (Vol. 4 Iss. 6)
The annulment committee hearing Azurix chose to avoid several – plausible – arguments about double counting in the investor’s $165 million award. Or did it? Mark Kantor, DC attorney and member of Global Arbitration Review’s editorial board, reports
RUSSIA: Stena RoRo case can be momentous for public policy argument
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Featured In: Volume 4 - Issue 6 (Vol. 4 Iss. 6)
Russia’s highest court has been making noteworthy statements about foreign arbitral awards By Alexander Muranov* (partner) and Dmitry Davydenko* (lawyer) of Muranov Chernyakov & Partners in Moscow
TREATY: Wrongful interference in an arbitration can itself be expropriation
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Featured In: Volume 4 - Issue 6 (Vol. 4 Iss. 6)
The Saipem decision shows treaty arbitration’s scope for providing relief at the hands of domestic courts, where investors have suffered injustice but at the same time might not make a good precedent. By Matthew Weiniger (partner) and Promod Nair (associate) of Herbert Smith in London
Seeing how the other half lives - Allen & Overy and McDermott lawyers take the stand in ICSID case
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Featured In: Volume 4 - Issue 5 (Vol. 4 Iss. 5)
Demonstrating that the law of karma knows few bounds, lawyers from Allen & Overy and McDermott Will & Emery were recently forced to swap the counsel table for the witness stand, when one side of an ICSID case attempted to back out of a settlement apparently brokered just before Christmas last year.
Asia -- how sustainable are the new international arbitration practices there?
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Featured In: Volume 4 - Issue 5 (Vol. 4 Iss. 5)
This month, arbitration specialist Alex Baykitch started a new job – in Sydney. Had things panned out slightly differently, it might have been Singapore. According to an arbitrator who’s familiar with who’s-talking-to-whom in the region, Baylkitch was being courted by a number of international firms keen to expand their arbitration networks in Asia. He would have had to relocate, though, most likely to Hong Kong or Singapore – the “hot” seats for cases. If true, he wouldn’t have been the first. More international arbitration lawyers are treading the path out to Asia, at the request of their firms, while a fair few other firms have poached talent from the local legal community (see sidebar below).
Erratum
Monday, 12 October 2009
Featured In: Volume 3 - Issue 1 (Vol. 3 Iss. 1)
In our recently published GAR 100 - the guide to specialist arbitration firms , an error occurred on page 52.
Dates for the diary
Friday, 01 May 2009
Featured In: Volume 4 - Issue 2 (Vol. 4 Iss. 2)
"50 years of BITs" Frankfurt, 1 to 3 December
Dates for the diary
Friday, 01 May 2009
Featured In: Volume 4 - Issue 2 (Vol. 4 Iss. 2)
"The Future of Transnational Litigation" Vienna, 4 to 5 June
Spanish Arbitration Club announces new officers
Friday, 01 May 2009
Featured In: Volume 4 - Issue 2 (Vol. 4 Iss. 2)
Antonio Hierro (Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira) and Jesús Remón (Uría Menéndez Abogados) are the next chairs of the Spanish Arbitration Club. They're replacing the organisations first chair José María Alonso (Garrigues).
SCC launches new website
Friday, 01 May 2009
Featured In: Volume 4 - Issue 2 (Vol. 4 Iss. 2)
The SCC has revamped its website, adding a fully stocked arbitration e-library.
Lebanon appoints El-Ahdab to ICSID panel
Friday, 01 May 2009
Featured In: Volume 4 - Issue 2 (Vol. 4 Iss. 2)
Lebanon has appointed Abdel Hamid El-Ahdab, the chair of the Arab Association for International Arbitration, as its second appointee to the ICSID panel of arbitrators.
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