GAR Volume 1 - Issue 4
Does ICSID deserve full-time leadship?
Survey: Washington, DC - Latin American roundtable - Global briefing
Features
Barristers in their sets - a gap in the IBA guidelines?
Received wisdom considers the issue of barristers and arbitrators sharing sets of chambers as an ‘old’ one. So why are key guidelines still less than helpful on the point? Melanie Willems, partner, and Robert Blackett, associate, at Howrey LLP explore
The amended ICSID rules - in brief
The ICSID rules were amended, after a slow burning consultation process, earlier this year. Abby Cohen Smutny, partner, and Erika Serran, associate, of White & Case LLP in Washington, DC, summarise the changes
The rise of transparency
Matthew Weiniger, partner, and Matthew Page, associate of Herbert Smith LLP, report on how third parties have gained more opportunities at ICSID
Treaty arbitration compensation - keep your eyes on the prize
Chris Lemar, partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, asks if the question of damages in expropriation cases needs earlier attention
Truncated Tribunals: Pitfalls for the Unwary?
Rita Heinemann and Oliver Rust, Shearman & Sterling LLP in Frankfurt
Washington, DC - The capital's market
Washington, DC is the home of treaty arbitration, thanks in part to the ICSID convention. James Clasper and Dan Walker Smith consider the benefits of footing an arbitration practice in DC and break down the local players by size and reputation
Community News
Beckett moves to New York
Mark Beckett, partner and global co-chair of Latham & Watkins’s international litigation and arbitration practice, is to move from Paris to New York this month.
Fulbright snaps up BIT specialist
Fulbright & Jaworski has boosted its ranks in Washington, DC, by hiring treaty arbitration specialist Ian Laird
Lalonde goes solo
Top arbitration specialist Marc Lalonde has left Canadian firm Stikeman Elliott to start a solo career
NautaDutilh grows in Rotterdam
Dutch firm NautaDutilh has boosted its arbitration practice by hiring partner Gerard Meijer from rivals De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Palacio told to review ICSID
Ana Palacio has been appointed general counsel of the World Bank. One of her first tasks will be to conduct a strategic review of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes
Paulsson accepts Dundee chair
Jan Paulsson has become professor of international investment law at the University of Dundee.
Shanghai aims for top slot
Shanghai’s local arbitration commission has surprised Chinese arbitration watchers by inviting an outspoken critic of CIETAC to give a talk
Sidley Austin sends specialist east
Allen Kim, partner at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, has relocated to the firm’s Hong Kong office. Kim, who is Korean-American, has practised law for more than 15 years in the US
UAE to ratify New York Convention
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to ratify the New York Convention, following a decree signed earlier this month by the country’s president, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Roundtables
Roundtable: Latin America v US - on discovery
Will the increased use of discovery in arbitration repel its users? Global Arbitration Review attended a roundtable in New York, at which Latin American specialists put their view on the ‘americanisation’ of arbitration to specialists from the US. By Sebastian O’Meara
Global Briefing
'Schwebel case' takes a twist
Poland will have another bite at the recusal of Stephen Schwebel, from the Eureko v Poland treaty arbitration panel, later this year.
Argentina liable for BIT breach
US water services company Azurix has won a multi-million dollar arbitration award against Argentina. But the award is a fraction of what the company had claimed, meaning that both sides can claim victory.
China and Hong Kong: New interpretation - one step forward, two steps back?
China’s supreme court has issued a new interpretation on the arbitration law. Peter Thorp and James Kwan, with Huawei Sun, from Allen & Overy, report
Conference Report: Lis Pendens and Res Judicata
At the International Law Association’s biennial conference in Toronto, the international commercial arbitration committee delivered its reports on lis pendens and res judicata and arbitration. Audley Sheppard, partner at Clifford Chance LLP in London and rapporteur of the committee, explains the reports
Czech Republic: Light at the end of the tunnel?
The Czech Republic’s arbitration problems arise from a particular period in its economic history. Mojmir Jezek, attorney at Noerr Stiefenhofer Lutz, reports
ICSID deserves a full-time leader
Global Arbitration Review polled counsel and arbitrators on a variety of issues relating to the ICSID centre – including whether it needs a full-time leader. David Samuels and James Clasper introduce the results
POLAND: New arbitration law and development of arbitration judicature
Tomasz Wardynski of Wardynski & Partners reports on how Poland’s arbitration law has been modernised following the development of arbitration judicature and key changes to Poland’s law
Tanzanian water dispute runs aground
A European-owned water company in contract arbitration with its former partner in Tanzania has missed its deadline for filing a statement of claim. The deadline passed after it failed to instruct legal counsel.
The Money Column: Legal Fees and other costs
Two investment-treaty cases show arbitrators using their power over costs, including the well-earned fees of counsel. By Mark Kantor
United Arab Emirates: a Model law for UAE?
Philip Punwar, barrister and arbitrator with Al Tamimi & Company in Dubai, reports on one ramification of a recent development
Corporate Counsel
CORPORATE COUNSEL, Linda Hoon Siew Kin
Name: Linda Hoon Siew Kin
Age: 44
Company: Marsh
Title: Senior vice president, chief compliance officer and regional counsel, Asia region
Age: 44
Company: Marsh
Title: Senior vice president, chief compliance officer and regional counsel, Asia region
Interviews / Q&A
Q&A with Margrete Stevens
Margrete Stevens is acting lead counsel at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes in Washington, DC. James Clasper put some readers’ questions to her
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