Organisation: Ad hoc arbitration

The US Supreme Court has issued a landmark ruling that parties cannot seek discovery for foreign commercial and investor-state arbitration in federal courts – bringing an end to a long-standing circuit split.

13 June 2022

A Moscow court has ruled that foreign arbitral institutions without a licence to administer cases in Russia can nonetheless perform certain functions in relation to ad hoc arbitrations in the country, including appointing arbitrators.

18 February 2022

TRANSLATION ADDED: On 30 July, China's Ministry of Justice published a consultation draft of revisions to the Chinese Arbitration Law that would considerably liberalise its arbitration infrastructure. Fangda Partners’ Lin Yanhua and Matthew Townsend identify some key takeaways for international parties from the recently circulated draft amendments.

09 August 2021

Football club Manchester City has failed to block publication of arbitration-related court rulings shedding light on the English Premier League’s still-pending investigation of its financial dealings.

22 July 2021

A French court has refused to enforce a US$26 million award against a prominent Qatari businessman that resulted in criminal convictions for the arbitrators – finding that their decision to move the arbitral seat and transform the case into an ad hoc proceeding was in breach of due process.

05 February 2021

A Spanish court has confirmed that an arbitrator must pay damages after he continued to act as legal adviser to two funeral service companies at the same time as he was arbitrating disputes between their shareholders.  

04 December 2020

Russia’s Gazprom has agreed to repay US$1.5 billion to Poland’s state gas utility PGNiG to comply with an award in a gas price review arbitration but says it will continue with efforts to challenge the outcome in the Swedish courts as well as pursuing further price renegotiations.

15 June 2020

Russia’s Gazprom has applied to a Swedish court to set aside an award in favour of Poland’s state gas utility PGNiG that fixed a new gas price formula reportedly worth US$1.5 billion.

03 June 2020

Polish state gas utility PGNiG has reported winning an award worth around US$1.5 billion in a price review arbitration with Russia’s Gazprom – and says it will immediately take steps to enforce payment.

31 March 2020

Gazprom has applied to a Swedish court to overturn the award of a Stockholm-seated ad hoc tribunal finding that Polish state gas utility PGNiG was entitled to seek a gas price revision.

05 October 2018