Work Area: Commercial arbitration

The Singapore Court of Appeal has upheld a decision to annul an ICC award in an Indian railway dispute because large portions of it were “copied and pasted” from awards in related cases – while taking the unusual step of naming the arbitrators. 

08 April 2025

In a first, the Supreme Court of Mauritius has relied on the New York Convention to order an award debtor to post security in the full amount of the award pending set-aside proceedings. 

07 April 2025

China’s Lenovo and Sweden’s Ericsson have agreed to drop litigation over licensing of cellular patents in various countries and resolve their remaining disputes through arbitration. 

04 April 2025

Mr Justice Foxton of the English Commercial Court used a speech at the IBA Arbitration Day in London to suggest ways the arbitration community and the courts can work together to reduce the fragmentation of commercial disputes across courts and arbitral tribunals.  

04 April 2025

Commodities trader Trafigura has filed an LCIA claim against a Zambian state-owned entity over a US$100 million investment in a copper mining project.

31 March 2025

Russian bank VTB’s German subsidiary has filed a complaint with Russia’s Constitutional Court over a law allowing the country’s courts to assert exclusive jurisdiction over commercial disputes involving sanctioned Russian parties, which has been used to bar it from pursuing HKIAC arbitration against its parent. 

28 March 2025

An ICDR tribunal has awarded US$354 million to US private equity investors in a “deeply troubling” dispute with the majority shareholders of a Guatemala-based telecoms company, who were found to be responsible for a campaign of intimidation against the claimants and arbitrators. 

27 March 2025

Samsung’s engineering arm and Saipem have filed SIAC proceedings against a Thai state-owned oil company over its enforcement of security for a US$4 billion refinery expansion project.

26 March 2025

Switzerland’s highest court has rejected two challenges to an ICC award that requires French transport infrastructure group Alstom to pay over €63 million to its Japanese and Turkish partners for terminating a project to upgrade a commuter rail line in Istanbul.

26 March 2025

A Moscow court has enforced a US$99 million award won by a sanctioned Russian television company in a Swiss arbitration against Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash’s Group DF. 

25 March 2025