A US appeal court has lifted a global injunction blocking enforcement of a US$17 billion Ecuadorean court judgment against Chevron - the day after an arbitral tribunal in The Hague reasserted its authority to decide on the company's liability under an investment treaty.

The vice president of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Alex Baykitch, is leaving Holman Fenwick Willan’s Sydney office to join Mallesons Stephen Jaques as it prepares to combine with China’s King & Wood.

An Argentine lawyer who has played a part in the defence of Argentina in investor-state arbitrations, Diego Gosis, has joined Miami boutique Smith International Legal, where he will advise on commercial and investment arbitration.

A US court has unfrozen US$300 million in attached funds to pay part of an ICC award in favour of Exxon subsidiary Mobil Cerro Negro against Venezuela's PDVSA.

A US company that operates a pulp mill in British Columbia is bringing a C$250 million NAFTA claim against Canada on the grounds that provincial energy regulations are unfairly restricting it from selling power.

A court in California has ordered a Swiss/French software group to cease a number of claims in an AAA-ICDR arbitration that it had previously found to be non-arbitrable.

A Nigerian hotel company has lost a challenge to an ICC award in the English Commercial Court, having unsuccessfully argued that arbitration conflicted with the Nigerian constitution.

Spain's method of choosing external arbitration counsel is in the spotlight, after a law firm was accused of receiving preferential treatment when it won a bid to represent the state in a multimillion-euro treaty claim brought by solar power investors.

English barrister Jacob Grierson has joined McDermott Will & Emery's recently opened Paris office as partner, giving the firm an arbitration presence in the French capital for the first time.

Today marked the start of the second part of a bifurcated hearing in one of the largest arbitrations to come out of Korea last year, which has already seen a railway consortium awarded nearly US$500 million and a city left with a hefty bill.

After nine years as partner at Korean firm Kim & Chang, Jun Hee Kim has left to join Hyundai Heavy Industries, as its in-house counsel.

Philippe Pinsolle, a partner at Shearman & Sterling in Paris, has been awarded the Swiss Arbitration Association’s annual prize for advocacy in international commercial arbitration.