Organisation: Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

In a speech at London International Disputes Week, the former UK Supreme Court president and arbitrator Lord Neuberger considered “forced changes and discretionary improvements” to London’s arbitration offering, covering its approach to artificial intelligence, reforming the 1996 Act and cutting the time and cost of the process.

16 May 2023

Herbert Smith Freehills has promoted Bajar Scharaw in Frankfurt, Francis Greenway in Singapore and Fiorella Noriega Del Valle in Johannesburg to counsel.

04 May 2023

Singapore firm Rajah & Tann has hired Vanina Sucharitkul, an academic and former Herbert Smith Freehills lawyer, as partner in its international arbitration practice.

16 March 2023

Yarik Kryvoi, the director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law’s Investment Treaty Forum, has joined London disputes and insolvency boutique Keidan Harrison as of counsel.

10 March 2023

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Young Members Group has elected new members to its steering committee for the 2023 term.

09 March 2023

Kelvin Poon, head of international arbitration at Rajah & Tann, is one of two new Senior Counsel appointed in Singapore.

10 January 2023

A webinar organised by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Young Members Group looked at how to successfully juggle a career in international arbitration with family and children.

08 December 2022

Three partners at Ukrainian firm Eterna Law have been charged with fraud in Switzerland after a former arbitration client accused them of forging a legal services agreement.

02 December 2022

Rainbow Willard, a former counsel at New York disputes boutique Chaffetz Lindsay, has launched a sole arbitrator and counsel practice in Washington, DC. 

30 November 2022

Canada’s insolvency legislation empowers courts to declare arbitration clauses inoperative if enforcing them would compromise a receivership and hurt creditors, the country's Supreme Court has ruled.

29 November 2022