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First Quantum halts claims against Panama
Canada’s First Quantum Minerals says it is withdrawing a US$20 billion ICC claim against Panama and suspending a potential treaty case against the state, as the parties try to settle their dispute over the closure of one the world’s largest copper mines.
01 April 2025
Estonia beats claim over alleged port corruption
An UNCITRAL tribunal has dismissed a Florida-based commodities trader’s US$206 million treaty claim against Estonia over a seaport, rejecting allegations that state agents had tried to extort corrupt payments from the claimant.
01 April 2025
Covington partner goes solo in Dubai
Joseph Chedrawe KC has left Covington & Burling in Dubai, where he was a partner and vice chair of EMEA disputes, to practise as an independent arbitrator.
01 April 2025
Clyde & Co’s German practice head returns to Luther
Georg Scherpf has left his role as head of Clyde & Co’s arbitration practice in Germany to rejoin Luther in Hamburg.
01 April 2025
Trafigura brings LCIA claim against Zambian state entity
Commodities trader Trafigura has filed an LCIA claim against a Zambian state-owned entity over a US$100 million investment in a copper mining project.
31 March 2025
Working group proposes French arbitration code
Ahead of Paris Arbitration Week, a working group set up by France’s Ministry of Justice to reform the country’s arbitration law has delivered its proposals, which include the creation of a single arbitration code.
31 March 2025
WilmerHale and Jenner & Block challenge Trump executive orders
A US court has temporarily restrained President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing measures targeting WilmerHale and Jenner & Block while the law firms challenge their legality.
31 March 2025
Israeli lawyer switches firms in Tel Aviv
Shai Sharvit, the first Israeli practitioner appointed to the LCIA Court, has left the partnership at Gornitzky & Co to join another Tel Aviv-based firm, Herzog Fox & Neeman.
31 March 2025
Russia’s Lugovoy Law faces constitutional challenge
Russian bank VTB’s German subsidiary has filed a complaint with Russia’s Constitutional Court over a law allowing the country’s courts to assert exclusive jurisdiction over commercial disputes involving sanctioned Russian parties, which has been used to bar it from pursuing HKIAC arbitration against its parent.
28 March 2025
PCA looks to the future with strategy group
Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler and Sir Daniel Bethlehem KC are leading a new 17-member expert group advising the Permanent Court of Arbitration on its future development and strategy.
28 March 2025