Topic: M&A disputes

A California renewables company says it has agreed to pay €45 million to settle a dispute over Greek solar power assets that gave rise to arbitration and litigation in Malta, Greece and the US.

14 January 2025

A Singaporean conglomerate says it has won a US$26 million SIAC award against a real estate investment trust manager that called off a proposed US$2.8 billion takeover two years ago.

16 October 2024

Boeing has agreed to pay US$150 million to Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer to settle an arbitration after pulling out of a US$4.2 billion merger four years ago during the covid-19 pandemic.

17 September 2024

A Cayman court has allowed a Chinese conglomerate to pursue an “otherwise unmeritorious” appeal over a US$134 million HKIAC award, finding there was a public interest in dispelling doubt about the regime for service of ex parte orders for enforcement of foreign awards.

02 September 2024

The former owners of a Dutch agricultural commodities trader have failed to overturn an ICC award that required them to pay US$125 million in damages to a Chinese multinational for committing fraud during a billion-dollar M&A transaction.

30 August 2024

The Malaysian government says a SIAC tribunal has ruled in favour of one of its agencies in a US$678 million dispute over the controversial purchase of a stake in an oil palm plantations business in Indonesia.

28 June 2024

A London-listed mining company has filed two arbitrations over missed payments relating to its troubled US$300 million sale of two gold projects in Burkina Faso. 

15 April 2024

A US digital health services provider has won an ICC award worth over US$110 million against the sellers of an Indian healthcare business over their refusal to relinquish control of the company after the sale.

26 March 2024

A tribunal at the German Arbitration Institute (DIS) panel has ordered AstraZeneca to make additional payments under its US$150 million deal to purchase a cancer diagnostics start-up. 

08 February 2024

An Indian entertainment conglomerate says that Japan’s Sony is planning to pursue arbitration following the collapse of a US$10 billion merger that would have created one of India’s largest media companies.  

22 January 2024