Organisation: MBH Bank

The UK Supreme Court has provided its reasons for upholding an anti-suit injunction restraining a Gazprom affiliate from pursuing litigation in Russia in breach of a Paris-seated ICC arbitration agreement. 

18 September 2024

Kuwaiti logistics group Agility says it has won an ICC award worth over US$1.17 billion in another arbitration against Iraqi mobile operator Korek Telecom.

16 September 2024

Invited to discuss a "provocative" idea in the field of international dispute resolution for the latest 3 Verulam Buildings and National University of Singapore Arbitration Lecture, Philippa Webb chose to speak about double waiver of immunity and its "ripple effects". 

10 September 2024

A Dutch court has enforced an ICC award ordering the Central Bank of Iraq to pay damages to an Emirati group over the construction of the bank’s headquarters, dismissing allegations of fraud. 

09 September 2024

After Toby Landau KC told delegates at GAR Live Singapore that the current system of investor-state arbitration was “inherently problematic”, a subsequent panel considered the alternatives – after which not a single member of the audience said they believed the world would be better off without investor-state dispute resolution.

05 September 2024

A Philippine billionaire-owned port operator has launched a pair of ICSID claims against Honduras, after alleging that its concession was jeapordised by breaches including plans for a rival container terminal.

19 August 2024

A Russian court has allowed a Gazprom affiliate to freeze US$1.15 billion in assets owned by Germany’s Linde in a dispute over a stalled gas processing project – months after ordering the engineering group to discontinue a parallel HKIAC arbitration. 

15 August 2024

Russian-Israeli businessman Mikhail Fridman has made good on his threat to file an investment treaty claim worth at least US$16 billion against Luxembourg over the state’s decision to freeze his assets after he was placed on the EU sanctions list. 

13 August 2024

A court in North Carolina has enforced a Netherlands Arbitration Institute summary award that ordered the US-based former owner of a bankrupt Dutch insurer to pay US$166 million to its trustees. 

12 August 2024

Shivani Sanghi has left Fieldfisher to join the partnership at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner in London. 

08 August 2024