Organisation: Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration

The International Federation of Commercial Arbitration Institutions has approved a revised constitution and elected a new council as it prepares for the appointment of a new president to replace Stefano Azzali at the end of his term. 

22 June 2022

GAR looks at the ongoing chaos in Dubai caused by a shock decree six months ago that effectively abolished the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre in a bid to make DIAC the principal arbitral provider in the emirate.

19 March 2022

The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce says the coronavirus pandemic has led to a 26% drop in the number of new cases it took on last year, while nearly half of the arbitrators appointed by its board were women.

11 March 2022

The Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration has revealed that it received 67 new cases in 2020 – with construction disputes accounting for 31% of the total – and that in the first half of this year it has already registered 56.

13 July 2021

Ahmed Ibrahim has left Fenwick Elliott, where he was managing partner for the Middle East and Africa, to practise as an independent arbitrator in Dubai. 

15 April 2021

After a previous settlement was sunk by the coronavirus pandemic, Egypt has finally concluded its long-running dispute with Spain’s Naturgy and Italy’s Eni over a gas liquefaction plant, which gave rise to a US$2 billion ICSID award and several high-value commercial arbitrations.

12 March 2021

UPDATED: France’s highest court has upheld the enforcement of an award against an Egyptian state entity that was annulled more than a decade ago by the courts of Cairo, affirming that arguments as to the domestic or international character of the arbitration were irrelevant.

26 January 2021

A court in Cairo has upheld an ICC award requiring an Egyptian state authority to pay US$490 million to a Kuwaiti-led consortium for terminating a contract to build a container terminal facility at the port of Damietta.

14 December 2020

The Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration received its second-highest number of new cases in 2019 according to its latest statistics – and has appointed two new members to its advisory committee.

15 May 2020

The High Court in London has thrown out a lawsuit that accused solicitors of breaching a litigation funding agreement by failing to tell the funder about “pessimistic” views of their barristers as to the prospects of success of the enforcement action being funded.

16 March 2020