Region: Italy
UniCredit fails to overturn Gazprom’s Russian injunctions
A Russian court has upheld injunctions obtained by a Gazprom affiliate in a long-running dispute with UniCredit over unpaid bonds that has led to conflicting decisions between the Russian and UK courts.
10 April 2025
Albania faces treaty claim over refusal to pay ICSID award
Italian investors who won a €110 million ICSID award against Albania five years ago have launched a fresh investment treaty claim over the state’s refusal to pay and “continuing campaign of persecution” against them.
09 December 2024
Belgian court throws out Albania’s appeal over asset freeze
A Belgian court has rejected Albania’s latest bid to unfreeze air traffic control revenues that were attached by ICSID creditors including prominent Italian businessman Francesco Becchetti – also fining the state for abusive conduct.
05 November 2024
Derains removed from Italian solar case over alleged issue conflict
Leading French arbitrator Yves Derains has been disqualified from hearing a Chinese solar panel producer’s ICSID claim against Italy over an alleged issue conflict stemming from his role as arbitrator in an earlier case against the state.
21 August 2024
UK oil company monetises Energy Charter Treaty award
London-listed oil company Rockhopper Exploration says it has received an initial payment from a deal to monetise an Energy Charter Treaty award against Italy, resulting in a €26 million payout to the funder that backed the arbitration.
04 July 2024
Italy sees another intra-EU award overturned in Sweden
A Swedish court has overturned a second Energy Charter Treaty award in favour of renewables investors against Italy on the basis it is incompatible with EU law.
17 June 2024
BonelliErede names new practice co-heads
Italian firm BonelliErede has named partners Andrea Carlevaris in Rome and Paolo Di Giovanni in Milan as the new co-heads of its international arbitration practice,
14 June 2024
Italy overturns intra-EU award in Sweden
A Swedish court has invalidated an Energy Charter Treaty award that required Italy to pay €11 million to a Dutch renewable energy investor, finding it was incompatible with EU law.
31 May 2024
Private equity group revives US$15 billion claim against Telecom Italia
A Paris court has overturned an ICC award that dismissed a private equity group’s US$15 billion claim against Telecom Italia, after it found there were reasonable doubts over the independence of tribunal chair Carole Malinvaud.
08 May 2024