WARSAW: Protecting business interests in M&A disputes: conversations with in-house counsel
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 3 (Vol. 5 Iss. 3)
The financial crisis is changing litigation culture in the banking and financial industry and this change will have a significant impact on the way disputes are settled in the future said Melanie Poepping , a lawyer at Deutsche Bank AG, in a conversation between in-house counsel during a conference in Poland on how to protect business interests in M&A disputes.
IBA Arbitration Day: Leading arbitrators reveal desert island choices
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 2 (Vol. 5 Iss. 2)
What would Jan Paulsson , Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler , and Yves Fortier take if sent to arbitrate on a desert island? Fortunately, someone decided to find out. It wasn’t quite The Jay Leno Show , but Hilary Heilbron QC did her best to lighten the mood at the International Bar Association arbitration day in London in March
Vienna Arbitration days focus on "guerrilla tactics"
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 2 (Vol. 5 Iss. 2)
This year’s Vienna Arbitration Days considered “guerrilla tactics in arbitration” along with how to reconcile contract and treaty arbitration and the special considerations that arise in cases featuring state entities or insolvent companies. Alfred Siwy , an associate at Schönherr Rechtsanwälte in Vienna, reports
LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA: Washington & Lee and UNCTAD Joint Symposium - International Investment and ADR
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 2 (Vol. 5 Iss. 2)
Washington & Lee School of Law and UNCTAD have held the first international investment conference to offer pre-conference blogging, a live virtual stream of the event, and real-time integration of comments from Twitter and Facebook into panel discussions. Jacob Stoehr and William Li , Washington & Lee student liaisons, report
NEW YORK: PLI International Arbitration
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 2 (Vol. 5 Iss. 2)
The Practising Law Institute’s latest conference on International Arbitration compared four leading arbitration venues, noted some positive developments in Russia as regards enforcement of awards and saw a panel of arbitrators share practical tips for smooth and speedy operation at every step of the arbitral proceedings. Samaa Haridi of Crowell & Moring and Hagit Elul of Hughes Hubbard & Reed report.
WASHINGTON, DC: ITA-ASIL Conference - "Arbitration: The End of the Golden Age"
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 2 (Vol. 5 Iss. 2)
Has the Golden Age of arbitration in the US come to an end? Delegates at a recent ITA-ASIL event in Washington, DC considered this question in the light of the fraying relationship between domestic and international arbitration law and calls for changes to the US Model BIT. Caroline S Richard , an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Washington, DC, reports
VIENNA: UNCITRAL/VIAC conference
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 2 (Vol. 5 Iss. 2)
A two-day conference organised by UNCITRAL and the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (VIAC) brought delegates up to speed on the revision of the UNCITRAL arbitration rules. Jarred Pinkston of Graf & Pitkowitz Rechtsanwälte and Manfred Heider , secretary general of VIAC, report
50 Years of BITs: positive effects to come?
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 1 (Vol. 5 Iss. 1)
An event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first bilateral investment treaty appears to have kickstarted discussion on the future of BITs in policy circles – especially within the EU. David Samuels reports
HONG KONG: Goff lecture: The experience of UNCITRAL in revising its rules
Monday, 15 February 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 1 (Vol. 5 Iss. 1)
For its annual Goff lecture in December 2009, City University of Hong Kong School of Law invited David Caron , a professor of international law at UC Berkeley, to speak. Caron, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, spoke on the quandaries faced by those seeking to update them. Report by Jun Bautista , an associate at Baker Botts in Hong Kong
HONG KONG: International Arbitration Users? Council Symposium
Monday, 15 February 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 1 (Vol. 5 Iss. 1)
On 11 December 2009, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre Users’ Council held its first symposium, a well-attended event that attracted not just lawyers but engineers, accountants, physicians and other professionals. Jun Bautista of Baker Botts in Hong Kong reports on the symposium’s success in agreeing “best practices”
HONG KONG: Australasian Forum of International Arbitration Symposium
Monday, 15 February 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 1 (Vol. 5 Iss. 1)
One of the first events to be hosted in the magnificent new Maxwell Chambers in Singapore raised interesting questions about whether the writing requirement of article II(2) of the New York Convention should remain. James Kwan , a partner at Simmons & Simmons in Hong Kong and a co-chair of the AFIA executive committee for 2010, reports.
BERNE: ASA - general assembly and conference on Federal Tribunal rulings
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Featured In: Volume 4 - Issue 6 (Vol. 4 Iss. 6)
Switzerland’s arbitration association bade a warm farewell to its president – and celebrated its court’s principled stances – at this year’s annual general assembly. Andrea Meier and Christopher Boog of Schellenberg Wittmer in Zurich report 25 September 65 attendees
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