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  • August 28, 2025

    Litigation Financer Seeks To Attach $13M In Albanian Oilfield Dispute

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — After previously securing a default judgment confirming an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitral award worth nearly $13 million against Albanian government agencies and an Albanian company for a dispute over oilfield taxation, an Australian litigation finance firm filed a motion in District of Columbia federal court to authorize attachment of the non-appearing respondents’ assets.

  • August 27, 2025

    German-Chinese Chemical Engineering Dispute Remanded To Idaho State Court

    BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho federal judge granted a German chemical engineering company’s motion to remand its suit seeking enforcement of a United Kingdom judgment enforcing an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) award against two Chinese corporations and two Chinese nationals, finding that the suit was brought under Idaho state law and is not removable under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA).

  • August 26, 2025

    9th Circuit Orders New Briefing In $1.3B Indian Arbitration Dispute

    SAN FRANCISCO — On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 25 ordered more briefing on three issues after the high court vacated the en banc Ninth Circuit’s finding of no jurisdiction over litigation to enforce an arbitral worth more than $1.3 billion against an Indian state-owned company.

  • August 25, 2025

    Mining Company Must Pay Mexico’s Attorney Fees After Consolidation Denied

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published a split consolidation tribunal’s order rejecting the United Mexican States’ request to consolidate two arbitration claims brought against it by a Canadian mining investor and ordering the investor to pay Mexico more than $632,000 in attorney fees, citing the fact that it seeks to withdraw its second claim after more than a year of consolidation proceedings.

  • August 01, 2025

    COMMENTARY: Forward Looking Dispute Resolution Through Dispute Resolution Boards

    By Lisa Richman, Jessica Sabbath and Johnathan Terry

  • July 28, 2025

    COMMENTARY: From Promise To Practice: Resolving The Mediation Paradox In Europe

    By Giuseppe De Palo, Peter Grajzl, Agnė Tvaronavičienė and Bryan Clark

  • August 19, 2025

    Tribunal Improperly Awarded $46M, Including $20M In Attorney Fees, Company Says

    NEW YORK — In a fiery petition to vacate an International Chamber Commerce (ICC) award filed in New York federal court on Aug. 18, a Mexican construction company says the tribunal’s $46 million award against it and in favor of Honeywell International Inc. and its subsidiary was improper on numerous grounds, including that the tribunal failed to properly explain an “offensive” $20.9 million award of attorney fees and costs.

  • August 19, 2025

    Chilean Contractor Defends Jurisdiction Over Petition To Enforce $140M Award

    HARTFORD, Conn. — A Chilean contractor filed a brief in Connecticut federal court opposing an Italian construction company’s motion to dismiss its petition to confirm an arbitral award in its favor worth more than $140 million for lack of jurisdiction in an action commenced months after the contractor’s attempt to enforce the same award in another district was dismissed for failure to establish quasi in rem jurisdiction.

  • August 18, 2025

    Judge Confirms More Than $406K Award In Petcoke Shipping Dispute

    WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware federal judge on Aug. 15 granted a Bahamian vessel-owner’s motion for default judgment confirming an arbitral award worth more than $90,000 with interest against a Chicago-based charterer that was contracted to deliver petroleum coke (referred to as petcoke) from a port on the Black Sea to China for disputes including the charterer’s failure to pay for fuel, which led to threats of arrest being made against the vessel.

  • August 18, 2025

    Ukrainian Investors Say Russia’s Challenge To $34M Award Barred By Precedent

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of Ukrainian companies that won arbitral awards worth more than $34 million after the Russian Federation was found liable by an arbitral tribunal for the seizure of their assets in Crimea filed an appellee brief on Aug. 15 in the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals arguing that Russia is improperly seeking to “conflate . . . jurisdictional and merits-based questions” in its interlocutory appeal challenging a lower court’s finding of jurisdiction.

  • August 15, 2025

    Peru Must Pay $44M For Expropriating Gold Mining Investment, Tribunal Says

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published a tribunal’s award ordering the Republic of Peru to pay a Canadian gold mining investor more than $44 million after finding it liable for expropriation due to its failure to prevent an indigenous community from invading and seizing a gold mine, killing a security guard and exploiting the mine.

  • August 15, 2025

    35M Euro Award Against Spain For Renewable Energy Dispute Confirmed By Judge

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge on Aug. 14 ordered the entry of final judgment in favor of Luxembourgish and French investors who in 2020 petitioned to confirm an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) award in their favor worth more than 35 million euros against the Kingdom of Spain, adopting a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation in full after reviewing supplemental briefing on new precedent.

  • August 15, 2025

    Investors Tell High Court EU Law Doesn’t Affect ICSID Awards Against Spain

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three entities on Aug. 14 filed briefs urging the U.S. Supreme Court to deny review of whether federal courts have jurisdiction over petitions to confirm intra-EU awards against the Kingdom of Spain that are unenforceable in the European Union, arguing that the arbitral awards against it were properly issued under Spain’s pre-existing Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) obligations.

  • August 14, 2025

    More Than 28M Euro ICSID Award Against Spain Confirmed By Federal Judge

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge on Aug. 13 granted summary judgment against the Kingdom of Spain and confirmed an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) arbitral award against it worth more than 28 million euros plus interest issued in 2019 for regulatory changes that harmed several U.K. entities’ renewable energy investments.

  • August 14, 2025

    Singapore Court Maintains Freeze Of Bioscience Company Assets Pending Arbitration

    SINGAPORE — A judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court granted an ex parte application by a Danish company brought against a Singaporean bioscience company and its founder for a worldwide asset freeze pending arbitration in New York regarding an $830 million dispute over a drug for hypertension and kidney disease.

  • August 13, 2025

    Judge Confirms $1.2M Arbitral Award For Electronics Purchase Dispute

    MIAMI — A Florida federal judge on Aug. 12 granted a Panamanian entity’s petition to confirm an arbitral award issued by a Panamanian Chamber of Commerce (PCC) tribunal against a Panamanian and Costa Rican company for a dispute over an electronics purchase.

  • August 13, 2025

    Spain Loses Bids To Dismiss 2 ICSID Award Petitions

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two District of Columbia federal judges on Aug. 12 issued separate rulings denying the Kingdom of Spain’s motions to dismiss petitions to confirm two International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) awards against it and in favor of EU-based renewable energy investors, with one judge also confirming an award worth more than 60 million euros.

  • August 12, 2025

    Tribunal Says Records Of Qatari Death Sentence Against Investor Not Confidential

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) published a tribunal’s order in response to the state of Qatar’s request to treat as confidential an arbitration claim brought against it by a French-Algerian investor, writing that it will maintain confidentiality of certain pleadings and memorials but not of any records relating to a death sentence issued in Qatar against the investor.

  • August 12, 2025

    Judge Compels Arbitration Of Dispute Over German Litigation Funding

    WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware federal judge on Aug. 11 granted a third-party litigation and arbitration funder’s motion to compel arbitration of a German entity’s complaint seeking declaratory relief that an arbitration agreement entered into between the parties as part of an agreement to fund litigation against German truck makers is not enforceable.

  • August 12, 2025

    $325M Award Confirmed In Dispute Over Control Of Telecommunications Company

    NEW YORK — A New York federal judge granted a petition to confirm an arbitral award worth more than $325 million against majority shareholders of a Latin American telecommunications company in a dispute over control of the company, finding that the arbitration tribunal was permitted to fashion relief not sought by the parties under the applicable arbitration rules.

  • August 11, 2025

    Tribunal Issues New Findings On Requirements Of India-Pakistan Water Treaty

    THE HAGUE, The Netherlands — A Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) tribunal on Aug. 8 issued an award explaining the interpretation, application and binding effect of a water treaty between the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Republic of India, writing that the treaty imposes enforceable obligations on India’s design and construction of dams and hydroelectric plants on western rivers despite India’s nonparticipation in the arbitration.

  • August 08, 2025

    U.S. Energy Investor Asks Court To Enforce $732M Award Against Argentina

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — A U.S. company filed a petition in District of Columbia federal court seeking to enforce an International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) tribunal’s award worth more than $732 million in damages, attorney fees and costs against the Argentine Republic for harming its investments in Argentine electricity generation.

  • August 07, 2025

    Arbitration Agreement In Unsigned Aluminum Contract Is Enforceable, Judge Says

    NEW YORK — A New York federal judge granted a U.S. company’s petition to compel arbitration of an aluminum pricing dispute with a Swiss company and denied the Swiss company’s cross-petition to enjoin arbitration, finding that the parties “objectively manifested their mutual assent” to the terms of a draft contract requiring arbitration of such disputes despite not signing the draft or finalizing certain other terms contained in it.

  • August 06, 2025

    D.C. Circuit Remands $57B Petition Against Russia Over Jurisdictional Issue

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 5 vacated and remanded a judge’s denial of the Russian Federation’s motion to dismiss a petition to confirm arbitral awards against it worth more than $57 billion, writing that the court wrongly deferred to the tribunal on a jurisdictional fact that requires independent evaluation by the court.

  • July 30, 2025

    COMMENTARY: AI In Construction Arbitration – A Fast-Evolving Landscape

    By Peter Rosher, Alison Eslick and Alice Jones