Organisation: Deutsche Telekom
Canadian court says Indian airports authority has immunity
The Superior Court in Quebec has ruled that India’s airports authority enjoys state immunity – a blow to a group of telecoms investors who had been targeting its assets as they try to enforce an investment treaty award.
12 September 2024
“Enough is enough!”: Indian satellite award enforced in US
A US court has enforced a US$140 million investment treaty award won by Deutsche Telekom against India over a cancelled satellite deal, rejecting the state’s immunity arguments and refusing to allow briefing of further merits defences.
02 April 2024
Pinna opens in US with White & Case hire
The Paris boutique set up by Andrea Pinna nearly two years ago has hired former White & Case counsel David Riesenberg to launch its US practice.
13 March 2024
India fails to block assignees from French enforcement battle
Three US entities that were assigned the rights to a US$111 million investment treaty award against India over a cancelled satellite deal have been allowed to intervene in French enforcement proceedings – as an appeal over a related award heads to the US Supreme Court.
21 February 2024
German Supreme Court rejects India’s “extra-EU BIT” objection
The German Supreme Court has partially enforced a US$140 million award won by Deutsche Telekom against India – rejecting the state’s arguments that the Achmea ruling extends to arbitration agreements in treaties made between EU member states and third countries.
09 January 2024
Curtis builds in Geneva with Schellenberg hire
Anna Kozmenko has left Schellenberg Wittmer to rejoin Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle as partner in the Geneva office.
04 January 2024
India loses Singapore appeal over satellite award
Singapore’s Court of Appeal has upheld the enforcement of a US$140 million investment treaty award against India over a cancelled satellite deal, finding the state was precluded from relitigating issues that have already been determined by the courts at the seat of the arbitration.
15 December 2023
Space disputes in the 21st century: what challenges await?
A panel co-sponsored by the Space Arbitration Association and Boies Schiller Flexner during New York Arbitration Week considered the intersection of space law and international arbitration. Lindsay Holcomb of Boies Schiller in New York reports.
23 November 2023
India fails to overturn satellite award in the Netherlands
A Dutch court has refused to set aside an investment treaty award that ordered India to pay US$111 million over a cancelled satellite deal, dismissing the state’s allegations of fraud.
26 October 2023
Australian court rejects India’s sovereign immunity defence
The Federal Court of Australia has ruled that India cannot rely on state immunity as a defence to enforcement of a US$111 million investment treaty award arising from a cancelled satellite deal.
24 October 2023