Region: Bahrain

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.

23 April 2025

Amid efforts to modernise ISDS, and with investors and states often settling disputes before an arbitration award, the launch event of the Council of International Dispute Resolution of the Kingdom of Bahrain in Riyadh explored way to promote more amicable resolution of disputes through negotiation or mediation.

12 March 2025

The first nine judges of the new Bahrain International Commercial Court have been announced, with Jan Paulsson as president, Sir Christopher Greenwood as deputy president and many other well-known names in arbitration on the multinational bench.

16 December 2024

Bahrain continues apace in the development of its planned disputes hub, with a new English-speaking international commercial court and enhanced arbitration offering, after issuing a series of edicts and decrees.

17 September 2024

A Paris court has upheld the enforcement of an ICC award favouring Bahrain in a €180 million dispute with a French construction company that is now in liquidation.

25 April 2023

Egypt has defeated a treaty claim worth US$60 million by a Bahraini investor in a five-star hotel project in Cairo.

15 November 2021

A trio of arbitrators is to embark on a third set of deliberations in the first known investment treaty case against Bahrain, following the unexpected deaths of two members of the original tribunal in a single year and as a massive related money-laundering case plays out in court in the Gulf state. 

26 July 2021

The Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution has revealed that in the past 12 months to date, 57 new cases have submitted to it, representing 16% of its total caseload over the past 11 years. 

22 July 2021

Four tribunals are in place at the Permanent Court of Arbitration to hear claims by Qatar against its Middle Eastern neighbours over the suspension of postal services as part of their continuing blockade of the country.

15 September 2020

28 January 2020