Organisation: General Motors
IBA committee releases updated conflict guidelines
The International Bar Association arbitration committee has proposed updates to its guidelines on conflicts of interest in international arbitration for the first time in a decade, expanding the definition of relationships between arbitrators and parties and providing new examples of when disclosure is required.
05 March 2024
IBA task force to review conflict guidelines
The International Bar Association has formed a new task force to review its guidelines on conflicts of interest in international arbitration, with amendments expected to be finalised next year.
13 April 2023
New members for CPR youth committee
The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution has added twenty new members to its youth committee.
11 November 2021
DIS to hear billion-dollar M&A dispute
A Hong Kong electronics company is seeking US discovery ahead of a claim at the German Institution of Arbitration, or DIS, over an alleged fraud in connection with its billion-dollar purchase of two car technology businesses.
26 February 2021
Decentralised justice: reinventing arbitration for the digital age?
Independent arbitrator Sophie Nappert and Federico Ast, the founder and CEO of peer-to-peer blockchain dispute resolution provider Kleros, ask whether a form of online “decentralised justice” is emerging to change the face of arbitration as we know it.
01 May 2020
Montenegro sees off claim over marina sale
Montenegro has seen off an UNCITRAL claim over the termination of a deal to sell its stake in a marina, brought by a Latvian company that has been declared a front for fugitive Russian banker Vladimir Antonov.
14 February 2018
CPR welcomes new board members
The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution in New York has added Columbia law professor George Bermann, Richard Krumholz of Norton Rose Fulbright and Janet Langford Carrig of ConocoPhillips to its board of directors.
17 July 2017
Venezuela appeals confirmation of ICSID award
The Venezuelan government has appealed a ruling by a US district court last month that confirmed a US$1.39 billion award in favour of distressed Canadian mining company Crystallex.
25 April 2017
New CPR leaders have “powerhouse – and in house – credentials”
The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution has named the Dallas-based chief legal officer at Fluor Corporation as the new chair of its board of directors, after its latest annual meeting explored “pathways to partnership” between in-house counsel, external lawyers and arbitrators.
17 March 2017
Debevoise defends Daewoo award in Paris
07 February 2014