Organisation: Block

Peru has reportedly been ordered to pay damages to a Spanish-led consortium in the first of a trio of ICSID claims over a project to build a new metro line in Lima.

02 May 2024

A Houston-based energy company has reportedly threatened to file an arbitration against Equatorial Guinea over the alleged termination of its contract for an offshore gas field.

19 February 2024

US arbitrator Carlos Concepción has launched a new Miami-headquartered boutique, which Munia El Harti Alonso has joined as counsel in Madrid from Ecuadorian firm Robalino.

05 December 2023

A spin-off of US food manufacturer Kellogg has brought a treaty claim against Venezuela over the alleged expropriation of its factory and unauthorised use of its trademarks in the state.

10 November 2023

Charlie Lightfoot has left Jenner & Block in London, where he was global chair of the international arbitration practice, to take up the same role at Cooley in London.

02 October 2023

Houston’s Occidental Petroleum has agreed to pay a net sum to Yemen to settle awards rendered in two ICC arbitrations relating to the same oil block, bringing an end to enforcement proceedings in Delaware.

22 September 2023

Sherina Petit is set to leave Norton Rose Fulbright in London, where she headed the India practice and EMEA arbitration practice, to join Stewarts as head of international arbitration.

20 September 2023

Daniel Allman, who previously represented Naftogaz in its treaty claim against Russia, has been promoted to the partnership at Norton Rose Fulbright in Sydney.

23 July 2023

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer partner Mélida Hodgson has been elected as the next president of the American Society of International Law.

05 April 2023

Jenner & Block has hired two new partners – Kenneth Beale from King & Spalding in Washington, DC, and James Rogers from Norton Rose Fulbright in London.

23 February 2023