Region: Germany

The German Arbitration Institute (DIS) has introduced supplementary rules that allow for the use of notices to contractually bind third parties to awards.

21 May 2024

AstraZeneca has applied to a German court to set aside a US$46.4 million German Arbitration Institute (DIS) award over milestone payments for its purchase of a cancer diagnostics start-up. 

26 April 2024

UPDATED WITH JUDGMENT: A German court has refused to order energy group RWE to halt its efforts to enforce a €28 million ICSID award against Spain, weeks after the award was upheld by an annulment committee. 

25 April 2024

The Svea Court of Appeal has set aside a European renewables investor’s Energy Charter Treaty award against Spain for being incompatible with EU law – a week after the state failed to have another such award annulled at ICSID.

11 April 2024

Linklaters has promoted Guillaume Croisant in Brussels and Kathrin Bauwens in Frankfurt to counsel. 

05 April 2024

A German investment fund has lost its Energy Charter Treaty claim against Italy concerning reforms to the state's solar power sector.

12 March 2024

German state-owned energy group Uniper has put Russia on notice of a potential investment treaty claim over a decree that placed its Russian assets under temporary state control.

29 February 2024

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Justice has published the draft of its long-awaited reforms to the country’s arbitration law – with practitioners welcoming provisions on digitalised proceedings and English documents being permitted in arbitration-related litigation.    

14 February 2024

GAR has identified the practitioners who appeared in two gas price review arbitrations involving German state-owned energy group Uniper, including a previously unreported case against Dutch supplier GasTerra.

08 February 2024

A tribunal at the German Arbitration Institute (DIS) panel has ordered AstraZeneca to make additional payments under its US$150 million deal to purchase a cancer diagnostics start-up. 

08 February 2024