Organisation: Microsoft

New York-based software developer ConsumerSoft is pursuing an ICDR claim against Indian outsourcing provider Quatrro over alleged data theft that led to the end of its relationship with Microsoft and Google.

13 December 2019

The International Bar Association’s arbitration committee has announced its new line-up for 2020, with Philippe Pinsolle of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Gaëtan Verhoosel of Three Crowns to serve as co-chairs and Samaa Haridi of Hogan Lovells as senior vice chair.

27 September 2019

Raid Abu-Manneh, global co-head of the international arbitration group at Mayer Brown in London, considers a recent English court ruling against a Zambian state entity that addressed the principles by which an arbitral decision can be considered an “award” and therefore capable of being enforced or challenged.

12 September 2019

Last year’s GAR Live Istanbul closed with a mock cross-examination session intended to contrast the common law and civil law approaches to witness questioning.

13 June 2019

02 January 2019

The latest Dutch Arbitration Day considered the use of technology in international arbitration and whether practitioners in the field are too conservative to embrace innovations such as artificial intelligence – with a “heat map” to track audience reactions as the day progressed.

09 November 2018

In a paper first presented at the ICCA Congress in Sydney, Constantine Partasides QC has noted the “tidal wave” of transparency sweeping through investor state arbitration and suggested it would be no bad thing if it swept through commercial arbitration too.

25 June 2018

A former practitioner at WilmerHale and Dechert in London has set up a specialist arbitration firm in Auckland a year after his return to New Zealand.

27 October 2017

A Paris-seated ICC tribunal has issued an award determining the royalties due to Nokia under a smartphone patent licence with LG.

18 September 2017

An English court has said a tortious damages claim brought by Microsoft against Sony for allegedly participating in a battery-selling cartel must be submitted to arbitration.

01 March 2017