Organisation: Fujitsu

English barrister James Kitching has left Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, where he was chair of the firm’s global arbitration practice, to join the partnership at Proskauer Rose in London.

06 September 2024

Arbitration practitioners have been reacting to the news that the UK government is planning legislation to reverse the Supreme Court’s PACCAR decision last summer, after the lead claimant in a high-profile lawsuit against the UK Post Office highlighted the need for litigation funding.

16 January 2024

A court in California has ruled that a dispute between Japan’s Fujitsu and a Delaware entity over semiconductor manufacturing should go to arbitration at the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association.

08 June 2023

Steptoe & Johnson has hired Diamond McCarthy’s international disputes head Juliya Arbisman and partner Robby Mockler, who have a focus on natural resources and energy, while recruiting Leigh Mallon from Fried Frank.

07 June 2021

Japan’s Fujitsu has settled a £350 million LCIA arbitration with a subcontractor on a cancelled project to upgrade an IT system for the UK’s National Health Service.

22 February 2021

Nick Cherryman, a barrister who has acted in a number of high-profile Russia-related disputes, has left King & Spalding in London to join the partnership at Kobre & Kim.

17 June 2019

Amid Brexit turmoil, the UK government has reportedly found time to negotiate the settlement of a £700 million dispute with Japan’s Fujitsu over a cancelled contract to upgrade an IT system for the National Health Service, after it led to questions in parliament about the use of arbitration to resolve disputes affecting the country’s taxpayers.

17 January 2019

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