Industry: Consumer & retail

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

One of Brazil’s largest retail chains says it is pursuing claims against four former executives after entering insolvency following its disclosure of a billion-dollar accounting fraud. 

14 March 2025

A Cayman court has allowed a Chinese conglomerate to pursue an “otherwise unmeritorious” appeal over a US$134 million HKIAC award, finding there was a public interest in dispelling doubt about the regime for service of ex parte orders for enforcement of foreign awards.

02 September 2024

Chinese consumer electronics group Hisense has lost its French court challenge to an ICC award requiring it to pay US$27 million to its former Egyptian distributor.

28 November 2023

A widow who was held liable in a Hong Kong arbitration after personally guaranteeing a bond issuance by her late husband’s company “out of love” has failed to halt enforcement of the award in London by invoking UK consumer law.

08 August 2023

A Cyprus-based company controlled by an online poker entrepreneur has filed an ICC claim against two Spanish real estate developers over a €600 million luxury complex in Madrid. 

07 July 2023

A Swedish construction group says it has won an SCC award worth US$129 million in a dispute with a subsidiary of France’s Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield over one of Scandinavia’s largest shopping malls. 

04 July 2023

A split ICSID committee has upheld an award requiring Madagascar to pay €7 million to two Belgian brothers whose clothes factory was looted and burned down – rejecting arguments that the state didn't have effective legal representation during the arbitration.

20 October 2022

An UNCITRAL tribunal is hearing the first known investment treaty claim against Finland, brought by a Chinese investor who was detained and had his business centre raided and shut down on suspicion it was facilitating illegal immigration.

01 December 2021

Saudi Arabia has secured its first ever ICSID win after defeating a US$570 million claim brought by a French fashion and restaurant chain on jurisdiction.

08 September 2021