Organisation: General Electric

London boutique hires from Clifford Chance

Eraldo d’Atri has left Clifford Chance to join the partnership at London disputes boutique Humphries Kerstetter.

24 September 2024

Russian court enforces Vietnam power plant award 

UPDATED. A Russian court has enforced a US$500 million SIAC award won by a sanctioned Russian engineering group against Vietnam’s national oil and gas company – despite a stay of enforcement issued by the Singapore courts. 

23 September 2024

Singapore court asks panel to revisit Vietnamese power plant award 

A Singapore court has remitted a US$500 million SIAC award won by a sanctioned Russian engineering group against Vietnam’s national oil and gas company to the tribunal to hear further submissions on whether the underlying contract was validly terminated.  

13 August 2024

Sanctioned Russian company wins Vietnamese power plant dispute

UPDATED. A sanctioned Russian engineering company has won more than US$500 million in a SIAC arbitration with Vietnam’s national oil and gas company, after defeating a much larger counterclaim. 

12 February 2024

Yulchon hires boutique co-founder

Eun Nyung (Ian) Lee has left KL Partners, the international disputes boutique he co-founded in 2015, to join Yulchon in Seoul.

05 October 2023

Eric Bergsten 1931-2023

The global arbitration community is mourning the loss of Eric Bergsten, the man behind the Vis Moot, who has died aged 91.

14 July 2023

“Judging Iran”: Brower's memoir and defence of international arbitration

Charles N Brower's gripping new memoir tells of his time on the Iran-US Claims Tribunal and experience of "the intoxicating puzzle box that is international arbitration", as well as mounting an eloquent defence of this form of dispute settlement at a time when it is increasingly under threat. 

20 April 2023

Hogan Lovells hires trio from King & Spalding 

Hogan Lovells has recruited three partners from King & Spalding – Emerson Holmes in London and Patrick McPherson and Randall Walker in Dubai – as the firm looks to strengthen its construction and energy disputes practices.

01 February 2023

GE settles Algerian power plant dispute

General Electric and its Greek partner have settled an ICC arbitration with an Algerian state-owned entity over a US$234 million power plant project that gave rise to interim measures enforced in the New York courts.

25 January 2023

GE pays out after losing corruption challenge in legacy case

A General Electric subsidiary has paid an ICC award over a Lithuanian power plant project after Sweden's Supreme Court refused to hear its final appeal that the contract was tainted by corruption – a case practitioners say shows the Swedish courts are taking a “UK approach” to such allegations.

05 May 2022

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