Region: France

The Paris Court of Appeal has barred three US entities that were assigned the rights to a US$111 million investment treaty award from intervening in French enforcement proceedings – accepting India’s arguments that they were third parties to the arbitration.

19 September 2024

Ketevan Betaneli, who has spent more than 15 years practising international arbitration at law firms and in the Georgian government, has left Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to work as an independent arbitrator in Paris. 

05 September 2024

After a long judicial career specialising in cases relating to international arbitration, Judge Dominique Hascher has retired from France’s Court of Cassation to become a full-time arbitrator.

01 July 2024

A French court has rejected a Cameroonian businessman’s attempt to set aside an ICC award in favour of a Spanish food group based on allegations it terminated their partnership to benefit from corrupt links with Nigerian officials.

25 June 2024

The French Court of Cassation has upheld a decision to annul an ICC award because of a eulogy that the tribunal president Thomas Clay wrote for the counsel to one of the parties, the late Emmanuel Gaillard. 

20 June 2024

A French-owned airport operator has filed a €200 million arbitration against Portugal over restrictions relating to the covid-19 pandemic, as an award against the state arising from a postal services concession is set aside.

14 June 2024

A Maltese company has settled a dispute with Gabon over a €90 million ICC award that was annulled because of a “wedding gift” to a public official – withdrawing an appeal that practitioners hoped would clarify how French courts should handle corruption-related challenges to arbitral awards.

12 June 2024

Romain Dethomas, who previously worked in the arbitration team at Bredin Prat, has joined Derains & Gharavi as counsel in Paris. 

29 May 2024

The ICC International Court of Arbitration has said it will cease to use a “FIDIC observer” to comment on draft awards relating to FIDIC contracts – after the practice was criticised at a recent GAR Live.

28 May 2024

A Paris court has overturned an ICC award that dismissed a private equity group’s US$15 billion claim against Telecom Italia, after it found there were reasonable doubts over the independence of tribunal chair Carole Malinvaud.

08 May 2024