Work Area: Commercial arbitration

A Spanish contractor is facing a bid to enforce an ICC award issued in a US$158 million arbitration over a Chilean refinery upgrade – as it settles a dispute with an Algerian state entity over a power plant project.

22 April 2025

A panel at GAR Live Construction Disputes discussed the growing trend of expert reports signed by multiple expert witnesses – and whether they give vital experience to junior experts but also potentially lead to an abuse of process.

17 April 2025

The third edition of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration’s conference on international arbitration in the mining sector took place in Toronto last month, focusing on critical minerals, regulatory frameworks and the increasingly debated concept of the “social licence to operate”. Tom Villalón of Three Crowns in Washington DC reports.

17 April 2025

The Court of Appeal in London has upheld an UNCITRAL award requiring a Nigerian affiliate of Shell to indemnify a trader for hundreds of millions of dollars in arbitral debts caused by its failure to deliver supplies of liquified natural gas.

16 April 2025

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, or Ciarb, has published guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence in arbitration – the latest effort to provide practical guidance on ethical use of the technology.

16 April 2025

A construction company has been awarded more than US$300 million in an ICDR dispute with a Colombian government agency over a highway project that was halted because of its proximity to freshwater springs.

15 April 2025

A Singapore biopharmaceutical company is pursuing a US$150 million SIAC claim against its Indian-owned partner over a collaboration to manufacture Russia’s Sputnik covid-19 vaccine. 

14 April 2025

A Russian court has upheld injunctions obtained by a Gazprom affiliate in a long-running dispute with UniCredit over unpaid bonds that has led to conflicting decisions between the Russian and UK courts.

10 April 2025

After US president Donald Trump’s unprecedented tariff policy put the world on the brink of a global trade war, Mark Mangan and Gillian Lee of boutique firm Lindsay Francis & Mangan consider the types of disputes that could arise – and whether that includes investment treaty cases. 

10 April 2025

The Court of Appeal in London has refused to restrain Russian litigation against entities linked to the Renaissance Capital group to enforce an LCIA arbitration clause, saying it had been “deliberately kept in the dark” about the relationship between the party seeking the injunction and the defendants in Russia. 

10 April 2025