Argentina’s former ICSID liaison officer, Ignacio Torterola, has joined Foley Hoag as of counsel in Washington, DC.

A new arbitration centre focused on dealing with disputes in the Latin American construction industry has opened in Mexico.

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Arbitrator and law professor Miguel Ángel Fernández-Ballesteros has been appointed president of the Madrid Court of Arbitration – taking over from Miguel Temboury, who is to become Spain’s deputy secretary of state for the economy.

Some 190 delegates have descended on the home city of Coca Cola, CNN, Martin Luther King and President Jimmy Carter to attend the inaugural conference of the Atlanta International Arbitration Society, or Atlas.

Correspondence GAR has seen indicates that the Shanghai branch of China’s leading arbitral provider, CIETAC, has elected to split from the centre of operations in Beijing and become an independent institution with its own rules and panel of arbitrators.

The English Commercial Court has rejected an Australian contractor’s claim against an Indonesian coal mine operator over security payable in relation to a connected UNCITRAL arbitration in Singapore.

David Delman, the former chief legal officer of Dutch design, engineering and construction company Chicago Bridge & Iron, has joined Hogan Lovells as a partner in Houston.

Egypt's Orascom Telecom has brought an investment treaty claim against Algeria – the latest twist in an acrimonious tussle for control of the company's local mobile phone unit, Djezzy.

Allen & Overy has promoted Christopher Mainwaring-Taylor, part of the team that obtained a “hat-trick” for the Dubai government in arbitrations brought by a port investor.

Two senior arbitration associates have swapped private practice for the international institutions of The Hague.

In a reversal of the usual pattern of behaviour expected of investors in China, a US maker of wind turbine components has appealed to the Supreme People’s Court to keep a IP dispute with a Chinese buyer out of arbitration and in the local courts.