A US appeals court has rejected a petition by a Chinese coal-blending company to overturn an ICDR award issued by three-well known New York arbitrators in a dispute over financing.

CIS firm Astapov Lawyers has promoted a former counsel in Kiev, Oleh Beketov, to the firm’s partnership.

Venezuela has formally denounced the ICSID Convention.

Arbitrators Yves Derains, Sophie Nappert and Sophie Lamb have been appointed to hear a dispute in Stockholm between Russia’s Gazprom and Lithuania, over the management of Lithuanian energy company Lietuvos Dujos.

Foley Hoag has added a former senior legal adviser to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, Anna Joubin-Bret, and Belgian professor Pierre d’Argent to its international arbitration and litigation team in Paris.

The Commercial Court in London has held that a witness for a ship technology company deliberately misled an arbitral tribunal, but that the fraud did not justify setting aside the award in the company’s favour.

Alvaro Galindo, former head of international arbitration at Ecuador's attorney general's office, has joined Dechert in Washington, DC.

Lebanese practitioner Karim Nassif has joined French firm Cotty Vivant Marchisio & Lauzeral as partner in the firm’s Dubai office.

One of France's best known arbitrators, Serge Lazareff, has died aged 86 after a short illness.

A claim brought by 60,000 Italian bondholders against Argentina is ready to move forward after the country appointed Spanish arbitrator Santiago Torres Bernárdez to fill the vacancy on the tribunal created by the resignation of Egyptian arbitrator Georges Abi-Saab.

Alison Ross speaks with the former Kenyan attorney general, Amos Wako, about his role in introducing the country’s arbitration legislation and in overseeing the ICSID case of World Duty Free v Kenya.

French arbitrator and former ICJ president Gilbert Guillaume is to chair the panel that will hear a dispute between Slovenia and Croatia over their maritime border in the Adriatic Sea.