GAR Volume 1 - Issue 1
Leading Lights: 45 Under 45
News - ICSID at a crossroads - Updates - Do's and dont's for counsel
Features
Avoiding the 3am syndrome
Michael Lee, barrister and arbitrator at 20 Essex Street, makes the case for institutional, over ad-hoc, arbitration
Clauses for Courses & Choosing Between Forum Selection Clauses and Arbitration Agreements
Gary Born, partner and head of the international arbitration group at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr LLP, and Duncan Speller, an associate at the firm, discuss when an arbitration clause is preferable to a forum-selection clause, and vice versa
Dos and don'ts for counsel
Stephen Jagusch, partner at Allen & Overy LLP, explains how to shine as counsel during international proceedings
ICSID at a crossroads
William Rowley QC of 20 Essex Street and McMillan Binch Mendelsohn LLP says ICSID is too important to be run part time by the World Bank’s general counsel
Community News
Allen & Overy develops French practice
UK-based Allen & Overy LLP plans to have an arbitration specialist in Paris from mid-2006. It will move new recruit Laurent Gouiffès there in June.
CIETAC official launches advocacy body
A senior CIETAC official and Michael Moser of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have founded a body to advocate international arbitration to Chinese businesses.
Community news: Elsewhere
Adrian Yip (partner) moved to Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in Hong Kong; Simon Cockshutt (partner) and Maria Frangeskides (partner) and Mike Pimm (of counsel) moved to the same firm in London; and Larisa Afanasyeva (partner) and Olga Anisimova (partner) moved to Orrick in Moscow.
Hogan & Hartson forms Geneva team
Hogan & Hartson LLP has launched a European arbitration team, by poaching two arbitration specialists from Winston & Strawn LLP.
Lovells loses two
Howrey LLP has poached Melanie Willems from Lovells, in the UK. Willems, 38, was announced as Howrey’s new face of arbitration in London in late 2005.
Mantilla-Serrano gains cup role
Fernando has been made substitute president for the next America’s Cup race.
Shearman loses London specialists
Shearman & Sterling LLP’s London arbitration group is proving vulnerable to rivals, it seems. Two members have now accepted jobs at rival, US-originated firms.
Steyn now available
Lord Steyn, who retired from the UK’s highest court last year, is back in private practice and available for work.
Thacher Proffitt grows in Mexico
Thacher Proffitt & Wood has added a Mexican based team to its Latin American arbitration practice. The New York firm recently recruited Enrique Graham, plus colleagues, from Jáuregui Navarrete Nader y Rojas SC.
Von Wobeser is vice chair of ICC
Claus von Wobeser became vice chairman of the ICC’s International Court of Arbitration on 1 January. He will have a three-year tenure.
Where are they now?
Coudert Brothers arbitration team was one of its crown jewels. What became of it when the 150-year old firm dissolved? Global Arbitration Review found out.
World Bank job vacant
Roberto Dañino has resigned as general counsel of the World Bank. It means ICSID has no secretary general.
Global Briefing
AUSTRIA: New arbitration law
A new law will cover all proceedings started after 30 June this year. Nikolaus Pitkowitz of Graf, Maxl & Pitkowitz, Vienna
CASE of the MONTH: Is Methanex the future of investor-state arbitration? By James Clasper
Corruption allegations, high-profile resignations, and private eyes rummaging in dumpsters: if Hollywood ever makes a movie about investor-state arbitration, it could steal its plot from the ‘Methanex’ case.
If you specialise in international arbitration, you’ve might have been fascinated by Methanex too. But for other reasons.
If you specialise in international arbitration, you’ve might have been fascinated by Methanex too. But for other reasons.
Claim filed against Yemen
Two US oil companies have filed a claim against the Yemeni government for expropriation.
MIDDLE EAST: Dubai prepares code of ethics
Dubai’s international arbitration centre is instituting a code of ethics. Philip Punwar, barrister and chartered arbitrator, Al Tamimi & Company, Dubai
MONEY COLUMN: The key valuation decisions in CMS v Argentina
Our special correspondent on damages looks at how the tribunal tackled assessing loss in CMS v Argentina. Mark Kantor, Washington DC-based attorney and GAR editorial board member
Nokia loses in New York
Mobile-phone manufacturer Nokia has failed to overturn a large ICC-derived arbitral award.
NORDIC REGION: Uncertainty created about the place' of arbitration
A recent case – Titan Corporation v Alcatel CIT SA – has taken Swedish law in an unwarranted direction. Robin Oldenstam, partner, and Fredrik Andersson, associate, at Mannheimer Swartling in Stockholm
TREATY ARBITRATION/INVESTMENT DISPUTES: Treaty claims versus contract claims
Bayindir v Pakistan has shed more light on the interface between treaty claims and contract claims. Matthew Weiniger, partner, and Matthew Page, associate, at Herbert Smith LLP
Corporate Counsel
CORPORATE COUNSEL, Charles A Beach
Charles A Beach
Company: Exxon Mobil Corporation
Title: Coordinator, corporate litigation
Age: 60
Company: Exxon Mobil Corporation
Title: Coordinator, corporate litigation
Age: 60
45 Under 45
45 under 45
Global Arbitration Review has identified 45 leaders in the field who are under 45.
David Samuels explains how those included were chosen
David Samuels explains how those included were chosen
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