Organisation: FIFA

A tribunal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport has found that Asia’s football body discriminated against female candidates during elections for seats on the FIFA council – and its failure to properly investigate alleged third-party interference amounted to a denial of justice.

25 January 2021

A Malaysian federal court judge, Suriyadi Halim Omar, has been appointed director of the Kuala-Lumpur based Asian International Arbitration Centre after Vinayak Pradhan died earlier this year. 

16 November 2020

Nicholas Tse has left his role as Brown Rudnick’s head of international arbitration to lead the practice at Alem and Associates – the Lebanese firm acting alongside him in the closely-watched Kebab-Ji case before the UK Supreme Court.

02 October 2020

Milo Molfa, who helped Brazil’s Vale obtain a US$2 billion award over a mining project in Guinea, has left Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to join the partnership at Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle in London.

21 July 2020

The former director of the Asian International Arbitration Centre, Sundra Rajoo – who has been facing criminal charges in Malaysia for using the centre’s money to publish a book – has seen the charges against him quashed, as a dispute over the appointment of his successor continues.

22 June 2020

Vinayak Pradhan, a leading arbitrator in South East Asia and former president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, has died aged 72.

24 April 2020

UPDATED WITH COUNSEL. French sports marketing agency Lagardère has failed to secure emergency relief in an ICC dispute over the termination of a billion-dollar contract concerning media and marketing rights for Africa’s biggest football competitions.

17 December 2019

Houston-based Occidental Petroleum is reportedly pursuing arbitration against a New York corporate advisory firm over its work for a rival bidder in a recent takeover battle for US oil company Anadarko.

14 June 2019

Swiss authorities have charged Matthew Parish and two other Geneva-based lawyers with fabricating an arbitration as part of an effort to implicate senior Kuwaiti officials in a coup plot and corruption scandal.

03 December 2018

Sundra Rajoo has resigned as director of the Kuala Lumpur-based Asia International Arbitration Centre after being arrested on suspicion of corruption – but it is unclear whether the investigation will continue after a court accepted he is protected by diplomatic immunity.

21 November 2018