Region: France
Turner to join 39 Essex
Peter Turner KC is retiring from the partnership at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer after 27 years to join 39 Essex Chambers in London.
03 May 2024
Eversheds team head to HFW in Paris
Julien Fouret and Gaëlle Le Quillec have left the partnership at Eversheds Sutherland to join the international arbitration team at Holman Fenwick Willan in Paris.
26 April 2024
Lima’s corruption claim fails in highway dispute
A Paris-seated tribunal has ordered the Peruvian municipality of Lima to pay US$46 million after dismissing its bid to nullify a contract with a French-owned highway concessionaire on corruption grounds.
23 April 2024
Canadian Supreme Court affirms Greece committed fraud in ICC dispute
Canada’s Supreme Court has affirmed that a Canadian bank was justified in refusing to pay out on a letter of credit because the beneficiary was participating in a fraud by the Greek government to circumvent the orders of an ICC tribunal.
08 April 2024
Gaillard's "gateway" gets a revamp as IAI website relaunched
Twenty-two years after its website was first launched by leading French arbitrator Emmanuel Gaillard, the International Arbitration Institute has unveiled a redesigned version with an enhanced and more searchable directory of its arbitrator members.
21 March 2024
ICC to open new hearing centre in Paris
As Paris Arbitration Week kicks off today, the ICC International Court of Arbitration has announced details of its new hearing centre in the French capital.
18 March 2024
French Court of Cassation to rule on Gabon “wedding gift” case
The French Court of Cassation is poised to rule on whether an allegedly corrupt “wedding gift” to Libreville’s former mayor justified the annulment of an ICC award against Gabon – a case that practitioners hope will settle controversy over the French courts’ approach to corruption allegations. Kevin Cubeddu of Latham & Watkins, who attended the court hearing last month, reports.
14 March 2024
Engie brings claim against Belgium over cap on nuclear revenues
French utility Engie has brought a contractual arbitration against Belgium, alleging that a cap on market revenues of electricity producers violates agreements relating to two nuclear power stations.
12 March 2024
Jaeger goes solo in Paris
Laurent Jaeger has left the partnership at King & Spalding in Paris to practise as an independent arbitrator.
05 March 2024
India fails to block assignees from French enforcement battle
Three US entities that were assigned the rights to a US$111 million investment treaty award against India over a cancelled satellite deal have been allowed to intervene in French enforcement proceedings – as an appeal over a related award heads to the US Supreme Court.
21 February 2024