Region: Germany

Russia has reportedly asked its own courts to restrain a German oil and gas producer from pursuing an Energy Charter Treaty claim on pain of a €7.5 billion penalty, while seeking to have the arbitrators and the investor’s German law firm held jointly liable if the arbitration proceeds.

17 April 2025

Austrian engineering group Strabag has moved to enforce the first known investment treaty award against Germany, which requires the state to pay €334 million over regulatory changes that affected wind projects in the North Sea.

07 April 2025

Georg Scherpf has left his role as head of Clyde & Co’s arbitration practice in Germany to rejoin Luther in Hamburg. 

01 April 2025

German energy company RWE says it prevailed in its ICC arbitration with Gazprom’s export arm over gas supplies halted following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

20 March 2025

The administrator of a German construction holding company has brought an ICSID claim against Algeria.

17 March 2025

Nadja Harraschain of A&O Shearman in Frankfurt reports on the autumn conference of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS), which focused on drivers of innovation in arbitration.

12 February 2025

India’s state-owned gas company GAIL says that a former Gazprom unit has agreed to pay US$285 million to end their LCIA dispute over disrupted LNG supplies.

16 January 2025

Two German investors in the education sector are pursuing an investment treaty claim against Ethiopia at the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

07 January 2025

A German businessman has lost his bid to revive an ICSID claim against Lebanon over the revocation of his private jet company’s aviation licences. 

10 December 2024

A German defence contractor has reportedly won around €25 million in an ICC arbitration against Greece arising from a two-decade old contract for the supply of tanks.

26 November 2024