Industry: Infrastructure

A panel at GAR Live Construction Disputes discussed the growing trend of expert reports signed by multiple expert witnesses – and whether they give vital experience to junior experts but also potentially lead to an abuse of process.

17 April 2025

A construction company has been awarded more than US$300 million in an ICDR dispute with a Colombian government agency over a highway project that was halted because of its proximity to freshwater springs.

15 April 2025

CMS has promoted construction disputes lawyer Jay Randhawa to the partnership in Riyadh, while also hiring Bajar Scharaw as counsel in Zurich from Herbert Smith Freehills.

03 April 2025

An Israeli businessman and his imprisoned father have threatened to bring an investment treaty claim against Cyprus over a Nicosia police investigation into their development of property in the Turkish-controlled part of the island. 

02 April 2025

Construction and energy disputes lawyer Eugenie Rogers has left Baker McKenzie after almost 13 years to join the partnership at Reed Smith in Dallas.

26 March 2025

James Bremen is leaving his role as chair of Quinn Emanuel’s construction and engineering practice to join London litigation boutique Joseph Hage Aaronson, bringing two partners with him. 

19 March 2025

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

17 March 2025

A Canadian investment fund manager has filed a ICSID claim worth more than US$2.7 billion against Peru, a new phase of a long-running dispute over a highway concession in Lima. 

14 March 2025

An ICSID annulment committee has upheld an award that threw out a US$235 million damages claim against the Czech Republic over a residential development even though the state was found liable.

11 March 2025

A German investor’s bid to revive a billion-dollar claim against Iraq over a cement plant has come to an end, after annulment proceedings were discontinued for non-payment of the required advances.

11 March 2025