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October 26, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a summons to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (EG) directing it to answer or file a responsive pleading to a petition filed against it by a Moroccan company that won an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitral award worth more than 110 million euros against EG for disputes that arose over a real estate construction contract.
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October 26, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Kingdom of Spain on Oct. 23 filed notice in District of Columbia federal court that it will appeal a judge’s denial of a motion to dismiss two consolidated petitions seeking enforcement of arbitral awards against it that were collectively worth more than 100 million euros with costs and interest but were later annulled by Swedish courts, which the judge said did not deprive the court of jurisdiction.
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September 24, 2026
By Jens Petry and Ariane Sproedt
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October 26, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Republic of Zimbabwe filed a brief opposing a motion for summary affirmance in the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals filed by the Swiss and German owners of Zimbabwean plantations and two plantation companies who previously won two International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) awards against Zimbabwe worth more than $356 million for expropriating and harming their investments, with Zimbabwe asserting that its appeal involves “issues of first impression.”
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October 22, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on Oct. 21 published a split tribunal’s award deeming the Republic of Peru’s request for interpretation of a previously issued award admissible, with the majority explaining which claims it found jurisdiction over and which claims were excluded in its 2024 award denying an American mining investor’s $900 million claim against Peru, while the dissenting arbitrator said the tribunal should not have addressed the issue after the investor’s annulment application was briefed.
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October 22, 2026
HAMBURG, Germany — The president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) scheduled a hearing in November on Argentina’s request for provisional measures against the United Kingdom in which it “urgently” asks ITLOS to order the United Kingdom to prevent a planned seabed oil exploration and drilling project near the disputed territory of the Falkland Islands.
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October 22, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a petition for a writ of certiorari pertaining to the arbitrability under Louisiana law of a claim made by the owner of a hotel in Louisiana for hurricane damages and bad faith against its domestic insurer after the parties filed a joint stipulation informing the court that the matter was “resolved by the parties,” leaving two other petitions for certiorari on the same topic pending.
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October 21, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on Oct. 20 published a divided tribunal’s partly redacted award in which it awarded a Dutch mining investor $141.2 million in compensation and $7.6 million in attorney fees and legal expenses plus interest for harming its investment and refusing to waive penalties on tax and royalty assessments, thereby depriving it of dividends, with the claimant’s arbitrator dissenting in part on the grounds the investor should have been awarded more compensation.
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October 21, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on Oct. 20 published a split tribunal’s award dismissing for lack of jurisdiction a claim brought by three Mauritian investors against the Portuguese Republic for harming their investment in a bank loan after finding that the investors are pursuing contradictory claims in Portuguese courts, while the dissenting arbitrator said the award was procedurally improper.
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October 20, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two Chicago-based trading entities and two of their executives filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals deepened two circuit splits pertaining to arbitrability and urging it to review a ruling barring them as nonsignatories from enforcing an arbitration agreement related to a cryptocurrency dispute in Singapore.
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October 20, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied an Indian state-owned company’s petitions for rehearing en banc of a panel’s rulings finding jurisdiction and confirming an arbitral award against it worth more than $1.29 billion in favor of an Indian satellite company that has been dissolved in India, following a reversal and remand by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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September 24, 2026
By Michael A. Jacobs
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October 19, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) on Oct. 16 published an ad hoc committee’s decision annulling the entirety of a split tribunal’s award in which the majority ordered the Republic of The Gambia to pay more than 11.9 million pounds sterling in compensation, attorney fees and expenses to shrimp farm investors who claimed their investment was unfairly nationalized, with the committee stating that the tribunal failed to state its reasons for finding jurisdiction.
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October 19, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 19 granted a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by three litigation funders seeking review of their attempt to arbitrate a discovery dispute with a German claims aggregator, vacated the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling finding no jurisdiction over the funders’ attempt to compel arbitration of a discovery application, and remanded the case “for further consideration” in light of recent precedent regarding arbitrability.
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October 16, 2026
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — A judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Northern Mariana Islands on Oct. 15 issued two orders denying two investment entities’ motions to dismiss a petition filed against them by the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (GOL), which is seeking to enforce arbitral awards against the entities and affiliated individuals and companies worth more than $5 million in attorney fees and arbitration costs, ruling that the court has general jurisdiction over the entities under GOL’s alter ego theory.
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October 15, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge granted a California company’s petition to recognize and enforce a split International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) tribunal’s award worth $17.8 million for attorney fees and costs that the company incurred arbitrating a pharmaceutical licensing dispute brought against it by a Swiss company, which the Swiss company has already paid, and adopted specific findings regarding the dispute, which the Swiss company had opposed.
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October 13, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Swiss and German owners of Zimbabwean plantations and the plantation companies filed a joint motion in the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for summary affirmance of a ruling granting summary judgment in their favor regarding two International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) awards worth more than $320 million against the Republic of Zimbabwe for expropriating and harming their investments, writing that Zimbabwe has presented “no substantial questions warranting further briefing or plenary review.”
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October 13, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On remand from the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, three former oil company shareholders seeking to confirm arbitral awards worth more than $68 billion against the Russian Federation on Oct. 12 filed a response in D.C. federal court to an order to show cause why their case should not be stayed pending a similar appeal, arguing that they would be prejudiced by a stay and that if the court orders a stay, it should require Russia to post security of $10.6 billion.
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October 12, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania federal judge on Oct. 9 granted a Dubai-based joint venture’s motion, first filed in 2021, for reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred compelling discovery during proceedings related to its enforcement of an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) award in its favor worth more than $1.8 billion against telecommunications companies and an Iraqi businessman that was confirmed in 2024 but denied the venture’s request for sanctions.
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October 09, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three litigation funders on Oct. 8 filed a supplemental brief telling the U.S. Supreme Court that their petition for a writ of certiorari is not moot, despite a tribunal’s new award declining to exercise jurisdiction over an application for discovery brought against them by a German claims aggregator, and arguing that the court should still grant their petition based on the underlying jurisdictional issue, vacate the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling and remand the case.
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October 09, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — Creditors of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela seeking to collect on debts collectively worth billions of dollars filed briefs in the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 8 opposing Venezuela’s motion to hold in abeyance its appeal challenging the court-ordered sale of CITGO Petroleum Corp., which Venezuela indirectly owns, for $5.8 billion to satisfy its debts, based on changes in its government and in U.S. foreign policy, while unsuccessful bidders for Venezuela’s assets support a pause.
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October 08, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Kingdom of Spain on Oct. 7 filed an appellant brief with the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in consolidated appeals in which it is challenging the confirmation of six arbitral awards against it, writing that D.C. Circuit precedent regarding its agreement to arbitrate disputes under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) with European Union investors is wrong and urging the court to overrule that precedent.
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October 07, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge denied the Kingdom of Spain’s motion to dismiss two consolidated petitions filed against it seeking enforcement of two arbitral awards against Spain issued by the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) collectively worth more than 100 million euros with costs and interest and later annulled by Swedish courts, writing that annulment does not deprive the court of jurisdiction.
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October 05, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals clerk on Oct. 2 requested a response to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’s motion to hold its appeal in abeyance, in which Venezuela argues that changes in its government have created a “new reality” in which Venezuela can attempt to “pay creditors” without requiring it to comply with the court-ordered sale of CITGO Petroleum Corp., which Venezuela indirectly owns, for $5.8 billion to satisfy its debts.
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October 02, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on Oct. 1 granted Honeywell International Inc. and its subsidiary’s cross-motion to confirm an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) award worth approximately to $43 million, including more than $20 million in attorney fees and arbitration costs, against a Mexican company for breach of a contract to fabricate gas processing units and denied the Mexican company’s petition to vacate, finding that the tribunal did not engage in misconduct, disregard the parties’ contract or exceed its powers.