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BIICL takes investment treaty forum to Paris
Archive Article - Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 4 (Vol. 5 Iss. 4)
A panel in the first BIICL Investment Treaty Forum event to take place in Paris considered challenges to arbitrators, provisional measures and the Salini test – with French arbitrator Brigitte Stern chairing
CONFERENCE REPORT: Resolving Energy and Infrastructure Disputes in Nigeria
Archive Article - Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 4 (Vol. 5 Iss. 4)
As the world watched developments in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, arbitration practitioners gathered in Lagos in late July to exchange ideas on the resolution of energy and infrastructure disputes, and the impact of the industry on the economy, environment and development. Céline Lachman of Clifford Chance in Paris reports
Italian conference considers criticism of international arbitration
Archive Article - Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 4 (Vol. 5 Iss. 4)
Lucy Reed of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in New York focused on the “drumbeat of criticism” against arbitration at a recent conference in Milan. Daniele de Carolis of the University of Trento reports.
From emergencies to emerging markets
Archive Article - Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 4 (Vol. 5 Iss. 4)
Emergency arbitration, ethical issues and arbitration in emerging markets were on the bill at this year’s AIJA Annual Arbitration Conference in London. Gisela Knuts and Henrik Fieber of Roschier report.
Arbitrators gather in Spain
Archive Article - Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 4 (Vol. 5 Iss. 4)
The Spanish Arbitration Club (CEA) held its fifth international conference in Madrid on 20-22 June, entitled “Arbitrators: A Global View”. The event was opened by the Spanish minister of justice, Francisco Caamaño Domínguez, who discussed the draft reform bill to the Spanish Arbitration Act recently submitted to the council of ministers for approval; and CEA co-chair Jesús Remón, who spoke of the importance of arbitration as an authentic “infrastructure for investment” and the essential role of arbitrators in that process. Remón highlighted the certainty offered by Spanish cities as a seat of arbitration and the active role of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking arbitration community in promoting international arbitration.
SHANGHAI: China International Arbitration Club - Practical issues in resolving Chinese-foreign business disputes
Archive Article - Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 3 (Vol. 5 Iss. 3)
The second meeting of the China International Arbitration Club in Shanghai gave insights into a new provision that could be interpreted as restricting Chinese arbitrators from appearing as advocates. An attendee reports
NEW YORK: Aggregate Arbitration - Multiple Parties, Issues and Proceedings
Archive Article - Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 3 (Vol. 5 Iss. 3)
Days before the US Supreme Court delivered its important ruling in Stolt-Nielsen SA v AnimalFeeds International, speakers at the first annual Columbia Law School Arbitration Day noted the pros and cons of class arbitration and considered whether the uniquely American phenomenon could ever spread to Europe. Jarred Pinkston of Vienna law firm Graf & Pitkowitz Rechtsanwälte reports.
HOUSTON: Arbitration and National Courts - Conflict and Cooperation
Archive Article - Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 3 (Vol. 5 Iss. 3)
“Judgments are ‘exercises in persuasion’ subject to a potentially polemical style, whereas arbitration awards tend to be written as direct answers to questions posed by the parties.” Lord Leonard Hoffman made this observation in a speech at a symposium on 13 and 14 May examining the way courts can help or hinder arbitration – through injunctions, discovery and the so-called “second look” doctrine. Teresa Cigarroa Keck at Vinson & Elkins LLP in Houston reports
HAMBURG: Biannual DIS Conference - The German approach to settlement in arbitration: pros and cons
Archive Article - Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 3 (Vol. 5 Iss. 3)
Should arbitrators assist parties in reaching settlement in arbitration? The latest biannual conference of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) on 29 April summarised Germany’s positive approach to settlement and examined its benefits and drawbacks. By Dmitry Marenkov of governmental institution Germany Trade and Invest in Cologne
WARSAW: Dispute resolution in M&A transactions - tactics, challenges, defences
Archive Article - Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Featured In: Volume 5 - Issue 3 (Vol. 5 Iss. 3)
Poland’s first ever international arbitration conference looked at arbitrations arising from M&As and was described by one participant as “the best dispute resolution conference of this decade”. Conference co-chairs Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz of Gessel and vice president of the Lewiatan Arbitration Court, and Yulia Andreeva of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, report
WARSAW: Protecting business interests in M&A disputes: conversations with in-house counsel
Archive Article - 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
Archive Article - 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
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