Organisation: Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration
Tributes to Ahmed Sadek El-Kosheri
The international arbitration community is mourning Ahmed Sadek El-Kosheri, who died at the weekend. Here is a selection of the tributes.
19 March 2019
Counsel returns to Cairo centre
Mohamed Hafez has rejoined the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration as counsel and legal advisor to its director, more than a decade after he first worked there.
13 March 2019
Reed named as next ICCA president
US arbitrator Lucy Reed has been elected to succeed Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler as president of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, amid other additions to the organisation’s executive body and governing board.
18 February 2019
Egypt seeks to annul award over approach to corruption “red flags”
Egypt has applied to annul an ICSID award ordering it to pay US$2 billion to a joint venture between Spain’s Naturgy and Italy’s Eni – suggesting that by advancing its own explanation of “red flag” indications of corruption by the venture’s local partner, the tribunal denied the state its right to be heard.
11 January 2019
How Egypt “aced the test of the Arab Spring”
Speaking at a conference in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh, Cairo-based arbitration specialist Karim Youssef has called for the elimination of stigma surrounding investment treaty arbitration, arguing that the numerous cases brought against Egypt in the wake of the Arab Spring and the state's reaction to them show the process working well.
17 December 2018
Research into European arbitration kicks off – in Egypt
A £1 million, five-year research project into the social and psychological underpinnings of commercial arbitration in Europe, which researchers believe is the biggest empirical research project yet to be undertaken in the field, has kicked off – unexpectedly with a series of interviews in Egypt.
14 December 2018
Egyptian state entities face enforcement bid despite settlement
An Egyptian company has applied to a US court to enforce an ICC award ordering two Egyptian state entities to pay it US$367 million including interest for terminating a deal to supply gas to Israel – despite a recent settlement agreement involving a number of its shareholders.
03 December 2018
Gas investor seeks to enforce against Egypt
A joint venture between Spain’s Naturgy and Italy’s Eni has applied to a US court to enforce a US$2 billion ICSID award it secured against Egypt earlier this year – with the award and dissent published for the first time.
19 October 2018
Veolia-Gabon pollution dispute moves to next level
Following an unsuccessful attempt at ICSID conciliation, a subsidiary of French environmental services group Veolia has filed for arbitration against Gabon over the government’s seizure of its assets following allegations it had caused severe pollution
18 October 2018