Organisation: Eliane

A Swiss court has rejected a bid by two Singaporean mining investors to revive a US$170 million arbitration against China, affirming that the underlying investment treaty requires that their claims be heard in the Chinese courts.

31 January 2024

The Swiss Arbitration Centre has named Christopher Boog as the new president of its arbitration court, which has also gained four new members.

05 December 2023

Slovakia has settled with an airport investor that won a human rights claim over the refusal of the state’s courts to enforce an ICC award.

06 March 2023

The Swiss Arbitration Centre has appointed new members to its arbitration court, which now has gender parity, as “game-changing” new rules for corporate law disputes come into effect.

26 January 2023

The European Court of Human Rights has held Slovakia liable for the refusal of its courts to enforce an ICC award won against a state agency in a Paris-seated arbitration.

01 July 2022

Carl Salans, who founded the law firm Salans and was a leading specialist in international law and arbitration, has died aged 88. 

26 November 2021

General Electric has reached an agreement worth €261 million to settle an ICC claim brought by a Slovenian state-owned energy company over the construction of a lignite power plant that was plagued by corruption allegations.

16 March 2021

The Supreme Court of Luxembourg has overturned the enforcement of a US$543 million Energy Charter Treaty award won by Moldovan investors Anatolie and Gabriel Stati against Kazakhstan, ruling that a lower court had violated due process when it refused to admit evidence of the state's fresh fraud allegations. 

16 February 2021

Nathalie Voser has left Schellenberg Wittmer to team up with former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Rolf Trittmann and launch a new German-Swiss disputes boutique with four of their former colleagues.

02 November 2020

A panel at GAR Live Vienna considered the impact of economic sanctions on international arbitration, including whether arbitrators have a duty to enforce sanctions, defences based on force majeure and the difficulties faced by institutions in taking payment of fees.

02 December 2019