Work Area: Arbitration

Subsidiaries of two US hedge funds have brought the first known investment treaty arbitration against Portugal, which relates to the collapse of one of the country’s largest banks.

17 November 2022

A company owned by Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos has lost a final appeal in the French courts relating to a US$646 million award, failing on arguments that the ICC was wrong to appoint all five members of the tribunal itself or that an arbitrator failed to disclose potential conflicts.

15 November 2022

Ukrainian disputes lawyer Olga Hamama, co-founder of an NGO that helps refugees from Russia's war in Ukraine, is joining Clifford Chance's Frankfurt office as special counsel.

14 November 2022

UPDATED: A US investor has formally notified Honduras of its intent to bring a treaty claim potentially worth nearly US$11 billion over plans to repeal special economic zones, while the central American state has also been threatened by several energy companies.

11 November 2022

Featured in The European Arbitration Review 2023

11 November 2022

Featured in The European Arbitration Review 2023

11 November 2022

Featured in The European Arbitration Review 2023

11 November 2022

Featured in The European Arbitration Review 2023

11 November 2022

As oral hearings take place in a €400 million snow-crab fishing dispute under the Latvia-Norway bilateral investment treaty, the two states have moved to terminate the BIT and its ten-year sunset clause.

10 November 2022

An ICC tribunal chaired by Foley Hoag partner Christina Hioureas has held the owner of a hotel on Manhattan’s Lower East Side liable for converting the property into a homeless shelter during the pandemic without the consent of its manager.

09 November 2022