Organisation: Columbia University

Prominent Singaporean disputes lawyer Davinder Singh SC is leaving Drew & Napier after almost four decades to set up a new practice, taking two colleagues with him.

24 January 2019

The Commercial Court in London has set aside an order to enforce a US$56 million UNCITRAL award against Laos – marking the end of an 11-year dispute that also gave rise to proceedings in New York, Paris, Singapore and Malaysia.

23 November 2018

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has promoted an associate who has worked on ICSID cases involving Greece, Egypt and Peru to senior attorney in Paris.

23 November 2018

Seoul-based boutique KL Partners has hired former Kim & Chang partner Young-Suk Park from a Korean investment and venture capital firm.

05 November 2018

Sending the question of arbitrability to an arbitrator when the demand for arbitration is “wholly groundless” seems “counterintuitive”, commented US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during oral arguments on who should decide the arbitrability of an antitrust dispute involving dental products distributors.

30 October 2018

After 10 years at Homburger, the former co-chair of the Swiss Arbitration Association’s under-40 group and winner of a prestigious advocacy award Melissa Magliana has moved to Lalive in Zurich.

11 September 2018

Baker McKenzie has promoted five new arbitration practitioners to partner in its Geneva, Bogotá, Singapore, Riyadh and Toronto offices.

13 July 2018

The American Society of International Law has established a fund in memory of its former president, the late US arbitrator David Caron, which will pay for an annual prize and fellowships for students and support the activities of the research forum he founded.

04 June 2018

Somali judge and arbitrator Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf – who has been a strong spokesman for the “Africanisation” of arbitration – has been elected president of the International Court of Justice, with Xue Hanqin of China as vice-president.

07 February 2018

Sidley Austin has promoted two Hong Kong-based lawyers who joined the firm together in 2016 to the partnership.

11 January 2018