A Dutch court has upheld an investment treaty award ordering Bahrain to pay €214 million to two Iranian state-owned banks for the “politically motivated” expropriation of their local banking venture in the wake of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Brigitte Stern was celebrated in a film screened at the GAR Awards in Paris, with colleagues highlighting her accomplishments as an arbitrator, international law professor and artist.
GAR’s lifetime achievement award winner Brigitte Stern looked back on her life and career, and shared insights into how she made the transition from university professor to leading investor-state arbitrator, at the GAR Awards.
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 …
An Australian mining company that left Myanmar in the wake of its 2021 military coup has launched an ICSID claim against the southeast Asian state, invoking a regional free trade agreement.
Freshfields has promoted Rohit Bhat in Singapore, Joshua Kelly in London and Katharina Shingler in Frankfurt to the partnership.
This year’s GAR 30 table saw “total hearings” – ie, the number of hearings captured by the table – hit a seven-year low, while some of our more forward-looking metrics gather pace.
After US president Donald Trump’s unprecedented tariff policy put the world on the brink of a global trade war, Mark Mangan and Gillian Lee of boutique firm Lindsay Francis & Mangan consider the types of disputes that could arise – and whether that includes investment treaty cases.
The Singapore Court of Appeal has upheld a decision to annul an ICC award in an Indian railway dispute because large portions of it were “copied and pasted” from awards in related cases – while taking the unusual step of naming the arbitrators.
The French Court of Cassation has quashed a set-aside decision that had allowed the children of Indian mining tycoon Pramod Agarwal to revive a US$4 billion investment treaty claim against Uruguay.
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