Work Area: Construction

Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes has announced the election of three new partners who all trained under the late Emmanuel Gaillard: Youssef Daoud, Anders Junker-Nilsson and André Marini.

17 December 2024

An affiliate of DP World has dropped its effort to enforce LCIA awards worth US$485 million against Djibouti in the US – months after an appeals court said the east African state was entitled to question Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s authority to represent the company.

05 December 2024

Panama has agreed to satisfy a US$26.7 million ICSID award obtained by a US company over a cancelled mining concession, while settlement negotiations continue with another investor in a dispute over a construction project.

05 December 2024

Turkish engineering group Enka has won a US$383 million ICC award against Georgia after terminating a contract to build a hydropower plant. 

04 December 2024

The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a Polish roadbuilder’s complaint against North Macedonia over its courts’ refusal to enforce an ICC award – while declining to grant pecuniary damages.  

29 November 2024

An Algerian state-owned utility has filed a €413 million claim against Spanish construction group Duro Felguera over the suspension of work on a thermal power plant project.

25 November 2024

As Lima continues to challenge awards worth US$200 million in favour of a highway concessionaire, the Peruvian municipality has asked a US court to order discovery from the award creditor’s investors to support allegations of bribery in Peruvian criminal proceedings. 

19 November 2024

A sanctioned Belgian businessman has made good on his threat to file a US$50 million ICSID claim against Rwanda over the seizure of a gold refinery, while Côte d’Ivoire is defending a contractual claim at the centre over an abattoir project. 

04 November 2024

An Indian-owned engineering company has won an injunction from a court in Sri Lanka in aid of an arbitration with two ministries over a stalled project to develop a pharmaceutical production zone. 

31 October 2024

UPDATED: White & Case and Willkie Farr & Gallagher have been instructed to defend Pakistan in a multibillion-dollar arbitration recently launched by Iran over a gas pipeline project disrupted by US sanctions. 

30 October 2024