Organisation: BNP Paribas

Charles Nairac has been named global co-head of international arbitration at White & Case. 

02 July 2024

The Paris Court of Appeal has allowed a Dutch supplier of night vision goggles to seize funds belonging to Iraq’s second-largest bank to satisfy a pair of ICC awards issued against Iraqi ministries two decades ago.

07 August 2023

The US operator of a liquified natural gas storage facility in Mexico has halted efforts to enforce an ICC award in a US$1.3 billion dispute with subsidiaries of Shell and Gazprom, saying the Shell unit is now in “full compliance” with the award.

30 September 2022

The operator of an LNG storage facility in Mexico has asked a US court for leave to subpoena affiliates of Shell and Gazprom in aid of efforts to enforce a now-public ICC award worth more than US$600 million.

31 August 2022

AWARD NOW PUBLIC: An affiliate of Spanish electric utility Iberdrola has won a US$273 million ICDR award after its contract to build a power plant in Massachusetts was terminated when the project was reportedly 98% complete.

20 October 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

French department store chain Galeries Lafayette has failed to revive a €680 million ICC claim against BNP Paribas based on allegations that the arbitrators were biased.

22 April 2021

Franco-Italian eyewear group EssilorLuxottica is facing a pair of arbitrations over its planned €5.5 billion purchase of a rival Dutch brand, after raising concerns about measures taken by the target company to mitigate the impact of covid-19.

30 July 2020

The liquidators of a French transport and logistics group have applied to a US court to enforce an ICSID award against Guinea – three years after the bulk of its €110 million claim over a terminated port concession was dismissed.

13 August 2019

A panel at GAR Live New York examined the impact of sanctions on international arbitration, enforcement proceedings and settlement negotiations, considering whether they can have force majeure effect, the need for government licences to represent sanctioned parties and the complications in getting paid when sanctions are in the way.

02 October 2018