Region: Germany

French pharmaceuticals group Sanofi says an ICC tribunal has ruled in its favour in a dispute with Germany’s Boehringer Ingelheim over US litigation liabilities arising from withdrawn heartburn drug Zantac.

20 June 2023

The spring conference of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS) addressed disruption and change in global supply chains, including related to the covid-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and inflation. Yashan Huang, associate at CMS Hasche Sigle in Hong Kong, reports.

16 June 2023

Thailand’s Stark Corporation says it is facing a €608 million claim at the German Arbitration Institute, or DIS, after pulling out of a deal to buy an automotive cable business. 

13 June 2023

The German Arbitration Institute’s under-40 group, DIS40, has appointed three new co-chairs.

07 June 2023

UPDATED WITH AWARD: Croatia says it has defeated a €200 million treaty claim over a stalled real estate development project in Zagreb. 

23 May 2023

A Singapore court has allowed Deutsche Telekom to enforce its US$140 million investment treaty award against India over a cancelled satellite deal, dismissing allegations the German company was complicit in fraud.  

12 May 2023

An ICSID committee has upheld a €22 million Energy Charter Treaty award won by German conglomerate BayWa against Spain over measures that affected the company’s wind power investments.

10 May 2023

A lecture by White & Case partner Paul Friedland on a US-Germany inter-state arbitration triggered by a massive act of sabotage in New York Harbor ahead of US entry into the First World War leads Dorothy Murray of Proskauer Rose to draw parallels with disputes arising from the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

04 May 2023

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Justice has announced plans to reform the country’s arbitration law for the first time in 26 years. 

21 April 2023

Herbert Smith Freehills has promoted Hannah Ambrose and Charlie Morgan in London and Catrice Gayer in Düsseldorf to the partnership.

20 April 2023