Work Area: Arbitration
UK court rules India’s immunity not precluded by New York Convention
The Commercial Court in London has ruled that India’s ratification of the New York Convention is not in itself a waiver of sovereign immunity from the jurisdiction of the English courts in an action to enforce a US$194 million investment treaty award.
22 April 2025
Russia fails to stop enforcement of Crimea award
A US court has refused to dismiss a bid by Ukraine’s largest private energy company to enforce a US$267 million treaty award against Russia over the expropriation of its Crimean assets.
22 April 2025
Croatia loses immunity challenge to intra-EU ECT award
A US court has refused to dismiss a Hungarian investor’s action to enforce a US$261 million Energy Charter Treaty award against Croatia – finding the state’s sovereign immunity defence was “foreclosed” as a result of an appellate ruling on other intra-EU ECT awards.
17 April 2025
Co-authored expert reports: a cause for concern?
A panel at GAR Live Construction Disputes discussed the growing trend of expert reports signed by multiple expert witnesses – and whether they give vital experience to junior experts but also potentially lead to an abuse of process.
17 April 2025
Nigerian LNG producer loses appeal over indemnity order
The Court of Appeal in London has upheld an UNCITRAL award requiring a Nigerian affiliate of Shell to indemnify a trader for hundreds of millions of dollars in arbitral debts caused by its failure to deliver supplies of liquified natural gas.
16 April 2025
Nigeria settles dispute with Chinese investor over treaty award
Nigeria has settled its dispute with a Chinese investor in a free trade zone over a US$70 million treaty award, meaning the state has dropped its bid to have the US Supreme Court rule on the scope of sovereign immunity under the New York Convention.
16 April 2025
Colombian state agency liable in highway dispute
A construction company has been awarded more than US$300 million in an ICDR dispute with a Colombian government agency over a highway project that was halted because of its proximity to freshwater springs.
15 April 2025
Venezuela fails to annul agribusiness investor’s multibillion award
An ICSID committee has upheld an award requiring Venezuela to pay US$3 billion to a Spanish investor for expropriating an agribusiness group.
14 April 2025
GAR Awards 2025 - in pictures
Photos are now available from the 15th edition of the GAR Awards.
14 April 2025
UniCredit fails to overturn Gazprom’s Russian injunctions
A Russian court has upheld injunctions obtained by a Gazprom affiliate in a long-running dispute with UniCredit over unpaid bonds that has led to conflicting decisions between the Russian and UK courts.
10 April 2025