Region: Europe
NautaDutilh practice head moves to Loyens & Loeff
Mirjam van de Hel-Koedoot has left her role as head of arbitration at NautaDutilh in Amsterdam to join the partnership at Loyens & Loeff.
15 April 2025
Australian miner seeks to stay claim against Greenland
An Australian miner has sought to stay an arbitration it launched against Greenland and Denmark over a uranium mining ban while it challenges the measures in local courts.
15 April 2025
Hopes dim for Russia in Yukos appeal
An advocate-general at the Dutch Supreme Court has recommended the dismissal of Russia’s bid to revive allegations that awards now worth US$63 billion in favour of the former majority shareholders of Yukos were tainted by procedural fraud.
14 April 2025
Venezuela fails to annul agribusiness investor’s multibillion award
An ICSID committee has upheld an award requiring Venezuela to pay US$3 billion to a Spanish investor for expropriating an agribusiness group.
14 April 2025
SIAC hears claim over Russian covid vaccine partnership
A Singapore biopharmaceutical company is pursuing a US$150 million SIAC claim against its Indian-owned partner over a collaboration to manufacture Russia’s Sputnik covid-19 vaccine.
14 April 2025
UniCredit fails to overturn Gazprom’s Russian injunctions
A Russian court has upheld injunctions obtained by a Gazprom affiliate in a long-running dispute with UniCredit over unpaid bonds that has led to conflicting decisions between the Russian and UK courts.
10 April 2025
Renaissance Capital loses bid to restrain Russian suits
The Court of Appeal in London has refused to restrain Russian litigation against entities linked to the Renaissance Capital group to enforce an LCIA arbitration clause, saying it had been “deliberately kept in the dark” about the relationship between the party seeking the injunction and the defendants in Russia.
10 April 2025
Fieldfisher promotes three
Fieldfisher has promoted Mehmet Baysan, Rebecca McKee and Elora Mukherjee to the partnership in London.
08 April 2025
Mexico faces ICSID claim over hydrogen project
A French industrial gases company has brought an ICSID claim against Mexico following the expropriation of a hydrogen plant.
08 April 2025
Germany liable over wind energy reforms
Austrian engineering group Strabag has moved to enforce the first known investment treaty award against Germany, which requires the state to pay €334 million over regulatory changes that affected wind projects in the North Sea.
07 April 2025