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6 days ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Sebastian Perry |Susannah Moody
Tajikistan (Credit: Shutterstock/saiko3p Tajikistan’s state-owned aluminium company has been revealed as the party resisting enforcement of a US$316 million award in the Singapore courts on sanctions-related grounds – as the award rendered 12 years ago in favour of a Rusal subsidiary comes to light. 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 | Toby Fisher |Sebastian Perry
Shutterstock, Gorodenkoff The Court of Appeal in London has ruled that an investment treaty award requiring the Czech Republic to pay US$750 million to a blood plasma company must be set aside – while rejecting the state’s bid to revive a challenge to the tribunal’s jurisdiction over a co-claimant. 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 | Sebastian Perry
An Argentine-owned energy company has launched an ICSID claim against Ecuador over the state’s failure to release it from US$100 million worth of guarantees issued in connection with the handover of a major oil pipeline. 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 | Tom Jones |Sebastian Perry
Left to right: Funke Adekoya SAN, Charles Poncet and Hamid Gharavi Russia has reportedly asked its own courts to restrain a German oil and gas producer from pursuing an Energy Charter Treaty claim on pain of a €7.5 billion penalty, while seeking to have the arbitrators and the investor’s German law firm held jointly liable if the arbitration proceeds.
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1 month ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Sebastian Perry
A train station in Istanbul (Credit: Shutterstock/Ceyhun Marim) Switzerland’s highest court has rejected two challenges to an ICC award that requires French transport infrastructure group Alstom to pay over €63 million to its Japanese and Turkish partners for terminating a project to upgrade a commuter rail line in Istanbul. 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 months ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Sebastian Perry
Three partners at Ukrainian firm Eterna Law have been acquitted of fraud charges in Switzerland after a former arbitration client withdrew a criminal complaint that they had forged a legal services agreement. 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 months ago | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Jack Ballantyne |Sebastian Perry
Endesa facility near Barcelona, Spain (Credit: Shutterstock/Kauka Jarvi) Spanish electric utility Endesa has instructed counsel to defend it in a US$308 million price review arbitration brought under a long-term contract for supply of liquefied natural gas – months after defeating a US$650 million claim in a separate arbitration. 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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Jan 30, 2025 | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Sebastian Perry
The Heydar Aliyev Airport in Baku, Azerbaijan (Credit: shutterstock.com/hakanyalicn) An ICSID tribunal hearing a claim against Azerbaijan has refused to order the state to lift a travel ban on the claimants’ representative or unfreeze their bank accounts – saying the request was premature. 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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Jan 29, 2025 | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Sebastian Perry
Credit: Shutterstock/ Evgeny_V King & Spalding has taken over as counsel to a mining company in an investment treaty case against India over a gold project, with Spanish arbitrator Juan Fernández-Armesto presiding over the dispute. 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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Jan 28, 2025 | 
globalarbitrationreview.com | Sebastian Perry
The French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana (Credit: shutterstock.com/kavram) A US appeals court has quashed a Louisiana court ruling that said a DIFC-LCIA arbitration clause was unenforceable because the designated forum no longer existed following its abolition by the Dubai government. 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.
