Region: Ireland
Venezuela seeks to annul packaging award at ICSID
Venezuela has applied to ICSID to annul a US$470 million award in favour of a Dublin-based paper packaging company, in which a tribunal majority found it had jurisdiction even though the claim was filed after the state withdrew from the ICSID Convention.
10 January 2025
Herlihy named Senior Counsel
A&O Shearman partner David Herlihy has been made a Senior Counsel in his native Ireland.
17 July 2024
UK oil company instructs counsel for claim against Ireland
A London-listed oil and gas company has instructed counsel as it prepares to file the first known investment treaty claim against Ireland, for which it is also seeking third-party funding.
26 February 2024
Dublin’s post-Brexit craic
Ania Farren, partner in Fieldfisher's international arbitration team in the UK, and Killian O'Reilly, head of arbitration in Dublin, discuss the impact of Brexit and the growth of arbitration in the Irish market.
10 January 2024
German courts offer protection to states facing intra-EU ICSID claims
DECISIONS NOW PUBLISHED: The German Federal Court of Justice has held that EU member states can use the German courts to seek legal protection against intra-EU ICSID claims filed under the Energy Charter Treaty.
27 July 2023
Blackberry faces JAMS claim over patent sale
Canadian software company Blackberry is facing a JAMS arbitration over a collapsed US$600 million deal to sell most of its patent portfolio.
14 June 2023
LCIA hears claims over aircraft stranded in Russia
An Irish leasing company has filed a US$600 million LCIA claim against Russian airline Aeroflot – one of several arbitrations the flag carrier is facing over planes left stranded in Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.
01 June 2023
Ireland faces first-ever treaty claim
A London-listed oil and gas company has said it will pursue an Energy Charter Treaty claim against Ireland over an offshore drilling project – the country’s first known investment treaty claim.
22 May 2023
Irish biopharma company reports win against Janssen
A Dublin-based biopharma company says it has won an award against a subsidiary of Janssen Pharmaceuticals over licensing of nanotechnology used to treat schizophrenia and HIV – entitling it to back royalties of US$194 million and further royalties for more than a decade.
26 April 2023
Ireland’s Achmea moment?
The Irish Supreme Court has ruled that ratifying the EU-Canada trade agreement known as CETA would breach the country’s constitution by infringing juridical sovereignty – a move that commentators have called “Ireland’s Achmea moment”.
22 November 2022