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1 week ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Jack Ballantyne
Russia's Vladivostock port where Zvezda is assembling the icebreaker tankers (Credit: Shutterstock/Alexander Khitrov) South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries says it will proceed with a SIAC claim against a sanctioned Russian shipyard owner that cancelled supply contracts worth US$3.5 billion for icebreaker vessels. To read more Subscribe to Global Arbitration Review Register for limited access Register for free to receive GAR’s daily briefing and access to GAR 100.
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1 week ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Jack Ballantyne
Lexi Menish, Viren Mascarenhas and Margaret Artz Viren Mascarenhas has left the partnership at Milbank to launch a New York disputes boutique with his former Freshfields colleagues Lexi Menish and Margaret Artz. To read more Subscribe to Global Arbitration Review Register for limited access Register for free to receive GAR’s daily briefing and access to GAR 100.
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1 week ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Jack Ballantyne
Coronovac was used in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe before being discontinued last year (Credit: Shutterstock) A minority investor in the China-based developer of a covid-19 vaccine has asked a US court to grant injunctive relief in aid of an HKIAC arbitration over alleged attempts to oust it as a shareholder and deprive it of hundreds of millions of dollars in dividends.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Jack Ballantyne
Kampala, Uganda (Credit: Shutterstock/George_TheGiwi) A foreign-owned utility has confirmed it will proceed with a London arbitration against Uganda over its buyout from an electricity distribution concession valued at more than US$400 million. To read more Subscribe to Global Arbitration Review Register for limited access Register for free to receive GAR’s daily briefing and access to GAR 100.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Jack Ballantyne
The EU says it should be sole respondent in each of the three ICSID cases (Credit: Shutterstock/Rokas Tenys) A divided ICSID tribunal has refused to bifurcate parallel cases against Denmark, Germany and the European Union to separately deal with the respondents’ preliminary objections, finding they raised novel issues that would benefit from a full merits hearing.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Jack Ballantyne
Saddy Sevingi, Ianis Girgenson, Saadia Bhatty, Francisco Abriani, Tanishtha Vaid and Naomi Briercliffe during the LIDW session A panel at London International Disputes Week considered African and Middle Eastern state perspectives on the investor-state dispute settlement system and how governments from those regions are taking a “reformist” approach in new treaties.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Jack Ballantyne
South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein (Credit: Shutterstock/Arnold.Petersen) South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has stayed a bid by a local mining company to compel two African development banks to accept a debt restructuring arrangement – finding their US$787 million dispute over outstanding loans must be determined in ICC arbitration.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Jack Ballantyne
The dispute followed Blue Star attempting to launch its business in Oman (Credit: Shutterstock/John Grummitt) Nicholas Dennys KC of Atkin Chambers in London is hearing a US$55 million ICC dispute between an Omani conglomerate and an Indian home appliances company over a failed joint venture, GAR has learned. To read more Subscribe to Global Arbitration Review Register for limited access Register for free to receive GAR’s daily briefing and access to GAR 100.
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3 weeks ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Jack Ballantyne
A Russian-Armenian billionaire has launched an ICSID claim against France after his assets were seized as part of a money laundering investigation. To read more Subscribe to Global Arbitration Review Register for limited access Register for free to receive GAR’s daily briefing and access to GAR 100. Register now Subscribe to unlock unlimited access Get news, unique commentary, expert analysis and essential resources from the Global Arbitration Review experts.
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3 weeks ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Jack Ballantyne
The investor's claims were denied on the basis it was controlled by a Russian national and lacked operations in Switzerland (Credit: Shutterstock/Rokas Tenys) An UNCITRAL tribunal has declined to hear a Swiss renewables investor’s Energy Charter Treaty claim against Latvia, finding the claimant had no genuine business activities in its home state and was ultimately owned by a Russian citizen.
