Region: Côte d'Ivoire

Relatives of an Ivorian insurance tycoon have lost a final appeal in Paris over a €24 million ICC award arising from an ill-fated partnership with Zurich-based reinsurer Swiss Re. 

08 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

Ivory Coast’s national energy company has applied to a US court to enforce an ICC award against a Nigerian oil trader relating to a joint venture to operate former Chevron assets. 

22 April 2024

The Paris Court of Appeal has refused to set aside an ICC award won by Ivory Coast’s national energy company against a Nigerian oil trader over former Chevron assets.

25 April 2023

A Nigerian oil trader has sought to block Ivory Coast’s national energy company from enforcing a Paris-seated ICC award in a US$380 million dispute over former Chevron assets.

27 August 2021

Ivory Coast’s main domestic arbitral institution – the Cour d'Arbitrage de Côte d'Ivoire, or CACI – has suspended all its cases following the departure of its secretary general and the firing of its case administration team, GAR has learned.

13 January 2021

In a trio of ICSID developments this week, claims against Hungary, Cȏte d'Ivoire, and Turkish state entity Botaş have respectively begun, proceeded to the merits, and ended in an award.

03 August 2017