Industry: Construction & engineering

A Miami court has confirmed a US$40 million ICC award relating to the upgrade of a Peruvian refinery, rejecting a Spanish contractor’s arguments that the proceedings were tainted because two members of its counsel team joined the opposing side’s law firm while the case was pending.

15 October 2021

A Turkish construction company has launched an ICSID claim against Pakistan, while Costa Rica is facing a new claim at the centre brought by the renewables arm of Italian power company Enel.

14 October 2021

South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has settled a US$600 million ICC arbitration with Japanese oil company Inpex that arose from the late completion of a project to build the world’s largest floating offshore gas processing unit off the Australian coast.

04 October 2021

UPDATED: A US court has confirmed an investment treaty award requiring Libya to pay €84 million to an Austrian engineering company for construction contracts that were disrupted by the country’s 2011 revolution, as details of a separate award against the state worth €280 million emerge.

01 October 2021

The Paris Court of Appeal has upheld a jurisdictional award in a treaty case against Libya, siding with an ICC tribunal that the state’s corruption allegations were a matter for the merits.

29 September 2021

Readers are invited to join us in September for GAR Live Construction Disputes, with contract managers, quantum experts and Belt and Road disputes all under the spotlight.

07 September 2021

An engineering company that was hired to combat gully erosion in Nigeria has asked a US court to enforce an award against the state, which was issued by an arbitral institution in Lagos.

26 August 2021

Kazakhstan’s road authority has largely escaped a more than US$200 million ICC claim brought by Turkish contractors over a motorway project that forms part of China’s Belt and Road initiative.

23 August 2021

Insurance company Chubb has asked a US court to enforce a US$165 million ruling against the University of Ghana in a dispute arising from a failed campus expansion project – as the parties clash over whether the decision is an arbitration award.

09 August 2021

A Peruvian contractor has hit back at allegations that its victory in an ICC dispute over a refinery project was tainted by two lawyers’ move to a different law firm, calling it “nothing more than an eleventh hour tantrum”.

03 August 2021