Organisation: Municipality of Lima

In this year's Roebuck Lecture, Emilia Onyema discussed the "cost of corruption" for local communities and how to provide them with access to arbitration and national courts, with a focus on the infamous case P&ID v Nigeria, which was of particular concern to her as a Nigerian. 

04 October 2024

A Paris-seated tribunal has ordered the Peruvian municipality of Lima to pay US$46 million after dismissing its bid to nullify a contract with a French-owned highway concessionaire on corruption grounds. 

23 April 2024

A US court has upheld UNCITRAL awards totalling US$197 million against the Peruvian municipality of Lima in two arbitrations with an Odebrecht-linked consortium over a highway concession, rejecting allegations of fraud.

13 March 2024

A businessman who was assigned awards worth US$55 million plus interest against the Peruvian municipality of Lima and its transport authority has applied to a US court to enforce them against Peru.

08 January 2024

The Peruvian municipality of Lima has failed to disqualify Luca Radicati di Brozolo and David Arias from hearing an UNCITRAL arbitration over a highway concession, having already filed a criminal complaint against the arbitrators.

29 November 2023

The municipality of Lima has filed a criminal complaint against an UNCITRAL tribunal over an interim ruling prohibiting the termination of a toll-road concession – prompting one of the arbitrators, Peru’s Elvira Martínez Coco, to resign to defend herself.

17 July 2023

The mayor of Lima has said he will proceed with the termination of a concession contract at the centre of a pending case at the Permanent Court of Arbitration – defying a provisional measures order from the tribunal.

14 July 2023

A panel is in place at the Permanent Court of Arbitration to hear the third arbitration filed by an Odebrecht-linked consortium against the Peruvian municipality of Lima in a long-running dispute over the termination of a toll-road concession.

02 June 2023

UPDATED: The Peruvian municipality of Lima has asked a US court to set aside an UNCITRAL award that rejected allegations of corruption against an Odebrecht-linked consortium – as a challenge to an earlier award over the same toll-road concession resumes.

15 March 2023

The Peruvian municipality of Lima has moved to terminate a highway concession after a second UNCITRAL tribunal rejected its allegations that an Odebrecht-linked consortium procured the contract through corruption.

25 January 2023