Organisation: Copper

In this year's Roebuck Lecture, Emilia Onyema discussed the "cost of corruption" for local communities and how to provide them with access to arbitration and national courts, with a focus on the infamous case P&ID v Nigeria, which was of particular concern to her as a Nigerian. 

04 October 2024

Ignacio Torterola, who has defended several Latin American states in ICSID and ICC cases, has left US boutique GST to become head of international arbitration at Clark Hill in Washington, DC. 

09 July 2024

A Cypriot entity has brought a US$1.2 billion ICSID claim against Armenia for allegedly interfering with its rights as a shareholder in the country’s largest mining company.

27 June 2024

In his GAR Award-winning Alexander Lecture at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Toby Landau KC considered the "scars" left by investor-state arbitration as cases become more political and tribunals rule on "ever more sensitive areas of sovereign discretion".

12 April 2024

Following Toby Landau KCʼs Alexander Lecture, members of the audience debated his idea about the need to re-politicise investor-state arbitration in light of the expanding nature of disputes, allowing more consideration of context and input from stakeholders. 

12 April 2024

The documentary film which inspired Toby Landau KC’s Alexander Lecture provides “a rare look” at the human impact of arbitration and has been declared “essential viewing” for arbitrators and arbitration practitioners by critics of investor-state dispute settlement.

12 April 2024

Mayer Brown has promoted Jawad Ahmad in London, Gerard Moore in Dubai, Bryan Tan in Singapore and João Luiz Cople in Rio de Janeiro to the partnership, also naming Joy Kreidi and Isabela Lacreta as counsel in the Paris office.

20 November 2023

Mining group Vedanta Resources has agreed a billion-dollar settlement with a Zambian state-owned entity to regain control of a copper-mining venture and bring an end to an UNCITRAL arbitration seated in South Africa.

06 September 2023

In a biblically-inspired keynote speech in Basel, Nadia Darwazeh has outlined seven commandments for arbitrators to tackle corruption and explained how she applied them in a case she arbitrated. 

12 May 2023

Canada’s Barrick Gold has finalised its agreement with Pakistan to revive a stalled mining project and settle an ICSID award worth more than US$6 billion.

22 December 2022