Organisation: Leonardo

A majority ICC tribunal has ruled that Franco-Italian eyewear group EssilorLuxottica can back out of a €5.5 billion takeover in the wake of a dispute over actions the target company took to mitigate the impact of covid-19.

22 June 2021

A Dutch appeal court has refused to allow French-Italian eyewear maker EssilorLuxottica to obtain discovery in a dispute over a €5.5 billion takeover disrupted by the covid-19 pandemic.

08 April 2021

Practitioners discussed arbitrator liability, disclosure and diversity at the first-ever virtual Americas Workshop hosted by the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and Latin American Association of Arbitration. María Paz Lestido of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Washington, DC reports.

21 January 2021

A subsidiary of Italian defence contractor Leonardo has prevailed in a US$225 million ICDR dispute concerning a halted project to use laser technology to combat nasal superbugs.

23 September 2020

Franco-Italian eyewear group EssilorLuxottica is facing a pair of arbitrations over its planned €5.5 billion purchase of a rival Dutch brand, after raising concerns about measures taken by the target company to mitigate the impact of covid-19.

30 July 2020

Three lawyers including a former partner at a Mayer Brown associate firm have opened a new Brazil-focused disputes boutique in London.

24 July 2020

A French court has refused to allow Iraq to revive a US$1.3 billion ICC claim filed almost 30 years ago against two Italian defence contractors, which failed because of sanctions imposed after the country's invasion of Kuwait.

04 June 2020

The Italian and French partners in a €50 billion merger that created the world’s largest eyewear maker, EssilorLuxottica, have settled an ICC dispute over the company’s governance.

13 May 2019

Following a €50 billion merger that created the world’s largest eyewear maker, EssilorLuxottica, the Italian partner in the merged company has launched an ICC case to resolve a dispute over its governance.

01 April 2019