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May 14, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge granted an award-creditor’s motion for relief allowing it to begin enforcing an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) arbitral award against the Kingdom of Spain worth more than $47.6 million and to register the judgment in other districts, and deferred ruling on Spain’s motion to quash or modify the creditor’s postjudgment subpoenas.
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May 14, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three litigation funders filed a petition for a writ of certiorari urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a split Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel’s ruling finding no jurisdiction over their attempt to arbitrate a discovery application, writing that the ruling contradicts high court precedent and that their petition should be held pending resolution of a similar issue in another high court case.
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May 13, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on May 12 published an ad hoc committee’s decisions granting the Republic of Peru’s request to suspend an annulment proceeding pending a decision on interpretation of the award, as well as a follow-up decision denying an American mining investor’s request for reconsideration, which said the pause will delay review of the award denying its $900 million claim.
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May 13, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on May 12 published a tribunal’s supplementary decision finding that it “omitted” an award of interest on historic losses to which a French investor was entitled and added 9.2 million euros to the previous award of 85 million euros against the Italian Republic and ordered Italy to pay 74,000 euros in attorney fees for raising “unmeritorious” arguments that made the proceeding more costly.
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May 12, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Republic of Poland in an appellee brief filed in the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals urges the court to affirm a federal judge’s dismissal of a Cypriot investor’s petition to enforce an arbitral award worth more than $40 million for violation of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) that was annulled by a Swedish court, writing that the investor chose arbitration in Sweden and its courts properly rendered the award “defunct.”
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May 08, 2026
NEW YORK — A reinsurer filed a notice of supplemental authority urging a New York federal court to confirm two arbitration awards and reject an intergovernmental risk pool’s Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) vacatur challenge, arguing that recent reinsurance arbitration rulings involving comparable arbitration provisions held that arbitral reliance on insurance and reinsurance custom and practice, rather than rules of law, does not establish a basis for vacatur.
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May 08, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published a tribunal’s order denying as unnecessary and untimely a request by experts in climate change and decarbonization policy to participate in an arbitration brought by a Swiss investor against the Federal Republic of Germany for violating the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) by implementing a phase-out of coal plants.
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May 05, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge on May 5 entered judgment confirming a JAMS award worth more than $36 million against the Hong Kong entity that owns the distribution rights for a popular pop culture and lifestyle brand and in favor of a distributor, also based in Hong Kong, that was accused of violating the parties’ licensing agreement, after dismissing the rights owner’s petition to vacate as untimely and rejecting its arguments opposing confirmation.
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May 04, 2026
PHOENIX — In an action brought by an Austrian bank to enforce an arbitral award worth more than 3 million euros against a Mexican company that “disappeared” after receiving a loan from the bank, an Arizona federal judge dismissed one co-owner but allowed claims for racketeering to proceed against another co-owner and the company after finding that the bank sufficiently alleged that the two are alter egos that engaged in a “shell game” to conceal assets.
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April 30, 2026
SEATTLE — A Washington federal magistrate judge on April 29 denied a motion to disqualify the U.S. law firm representing a Chinese law firm in its bid to enforce a confirmed arbitral award worth more than $765,000 in unpaid attorney fees against the Chinese firm’s former client, finding that an attorney who transitioned from the defendant’s firm to the plaintiff’s firm was not involved in the plaintiff’s case; the judge also declined to award fees incurred litigating the motion.
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March 24, 2026
By Robert Bolgar-Smith and Keir Baker
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April 27, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge entered final judgment confirming an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) award against the Dominican Republic and in favor of a Jamaican landfill investor, ordering that the investor be paid more than $43.5 million in damages and $133,000 in attorney fees awarded by the tribunal, plus several years of compound interest accrued on the damages.
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April 27, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 12 years after an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) tribunal issued an award worth more than $41 million in damages, interest and fees against the Republic of Argentina, a French water treatment company filed a petition in District of Columbia federal court seeking to enforce the arbitral award for the abrupt termination of its contract precipitated by the Argentine financial crisis.
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April 27, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on April 27 denied two Mauritian mining investors’ petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of an alleged split between the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and another circuit court over the “implied waiver” exception to sovereign immunity, in a case in which the D.C. Circuit found no jurisdiction over the investors’ attempt to enforce a $50 million award against Zimbabwe and its mining regulators.
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April 24, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge granted Saudi Arabia’s cross-motion to stay a petition to confirm an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) award against it in favor of a Qatari pharmaceutical company and its founder until Saudi Arabia’s set-aside application in English courts is resolved, writing that a stay will not prejudice the petitioners.
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April 23, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 22 affirmed a lower federal court’s ruling that compelled arbitration as to the foreign insurers but denied it as to the domestic insurers in a Hurricane Ida coverage dispute but concluded that the court abused its discretion by denying the insurers’ motion to stay the lawsuit pending arbitration of the Louisiana hospital insured’s claims against the foreign insurers.
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April 21, 2026
MIAMI — A Florida federal judge adopted a magistrate’s report and recommendation and confirmed an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) award resolving a dispute between shareholders in a Venezuelan airline, ordering the respondent to pay more than $119,000 in attorney fees awarded by the tribunal plus interest and declining to award additional fees incurred litigating the matter in federal court.
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April 21, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on April 20 published a procedural order in a claim brought against the Republic of Panama by U.S. real estate investors in which it granted a request by Panama to exclude one member of the claimants’ counsel from participating in the arbitration until the president arbitrator’s engagement as expert by her firm in a separate arbitration ends.
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April 15, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on April 14 published a tribunal’s decision denying the Republic of Honduras’ request to bifurcate an arbitration brought against it by several U.S. companies that invested in a chartered island city in a Honduran special economic zone and now seek $1.6 billion for the republic’s purported termination of their land-use rights, finding that the objections are too intertwined with the merits for separate adjudication.
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April 14, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge denied motions by the Kingdom of Spain to stay discovery and quash subpoenas filed by an investment entity seeking to enforce a previously confirmed International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) award against Spain worth more than 79.5 million euros and granted the investor’s motion for relief allowing it to execute on the award.
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April 09, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of foreign and domestic insurers filed an application asking the U.S. Supreme Court for an extension of the deadline for filing their petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling barring arbitration of a hurricane damage policy dispute and denying the applicability of equitable estoppel under state law based on a new Louisiana Supreme Court ruling barring arbitration of such disputes.
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April 09, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel issued a per curiam order denying the Russian Federation’s motion to stay its mandate affirming the confirmation of awards collectively worth more than $252 million in favor of Ukrainian investors pending a decision on Russia’s petition for a writ of certiorari.
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April 08, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on April 7 granted three Exxon Mobil entities’ motion for summary affirmance of the confirmation of an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) award worth roughly $1 billion against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for expropriating oil investments, writing that identical issues to those in the appeal were addressed and resolved by existing precedent.
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April 08, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 7 affirmed a federal judge’s ruling granting confirmation of an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) award against the United Mexican States and in favor of a Canadian real estate investor worth $47 million for breaches of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), writing that the tribunal properly found that NAFTA applied to the investor’s real estate investments.
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April 07, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge adopted a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation in full and denied the Dominican Republic’s petition to vacate an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) award worth more than $43.5 million against it, granted a Jamaican landfill investor’s cross-petition to confirm and denied the investor’s request for attorney fees.