Organisation: Enron

Andrew Rogers KC, who survived the Nazi regime as a child and became a reforming Australian judge and international arbitrator on cases like World Duty Free v Kenya, has died aged 92.

09 April 2024

A Delhi court has rejected India’s demand for US$2.3 billion from Reliance Industries and BG Group based on a partial award from their long-running UNCITRAL dispute over oil and gas fields.

05 June 2023

The English Commercial Court has dismissed India’s challenge to a previously undisclosed US$111 million UNCITRAL award issued in its 11-year and still-pending dispute with Reliance Industries and BG Group over oil and gas fields. 

09 June 2022

Martin Gusy has left his role as co-head of the international arbitration practice at K&L Gates to chair the practice at US firm Bracewell – bringing with him a US$1 billion ICSID claim against Iraq.

18 June 2021

India has challenged a partial award permitting Reliance and a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary to recover further development costs for an offshore oilfield - in a US$5 billion arbitration that has lasted more than a decade

08 June 2021

The Commercial Court in London has rejected India’s challenge to a further award rendered in a multibillion-dollar UNCITRAL dispute with Reliance Industries and BG Group – ruling that the tribunal was entitled to “change its mind” on matters remitted to it by the court two years ago.

20 February 2020

Ashish Chugh, whose experience includes defending Indian state entities against a US$4 billion UNCITRAL claim, has left the partnership at K&L Gates to join Baker McKenzie in Singapore.

15 April 2019

Silvia Marchili has joined the partnership at White & Case after 13 years with King & Spalding in Houston, where she acted for investors in a number of successful treaty claims against Latin American states.

22 January 2019

Prominent Argentine arbitrator Guido Santiago Tawil is leaving Buenos Aires firm M&M Bomchil after a quarter of a century to focus on his work as an arbitrator.

09 November 2018

The English Commercial Court has partly upheld a challenge by India’s Reliance Industries and its partner BG Group to an UNCITRAL award issued in favour of the Indian government in a US$1 billion dispute over oil and gas fields, ruling that the tribunal’s failure to consider an issue relating to cost recovery had given rise to a “substantial injustice.”

18 April 2018